Local talent is surely not hard to find! Every year, the promotional posters for the Oppikoppi music festival held on a farm in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, just shows that SA has great talent. Fanakalo Visual Communication Studio, based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, designed these fantastic posters for Oppikoppi 2011.
Oppikoppi is a colloquial abbreviation of the Afrikaans phrase "op die koppie" wich litterally means "on the hill". Music lovers from all over the country pack their tents and sleeping bags to go camping in the bush, and to enjoy music ranging from rock, jazz, world music, accoustic and house at the various stages.
Click here to read more about Fanakalo, and for more on Oppikoppi, click here.
Paul Vizarri is one of our favourite illustrators and designers. Based in London, UK, he creates the most intricate and sensitive drawings of birds, bears and envious beards. Here are some of his illustrations. For more, hop over to his site by clicking here.
It's so exciting to every now and then stumble upon inspiring illustration work such as that by Matthew Forsythe. Some illustrators and story tellers have great success in making us forget about our grown up lives. This guy is surely one of them. These images are from his new book called Jinchalo.
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Click here to go and have a look at more of his fantastic work.
This photograph is of an entrance to a beer distribution office, taken in Xai Xai, Mozambique, while on holiday there. It was quite intriguing to see the black and yellow beer crates stacked on top of each other, creating a pixelated wall in front of the main building.
