Skylab Design

02/12/2022

Cape Town it's your turn-Zapiro will be signing his latest annual It's Not How It Looks! at Exclusive Books V & A Waterfront and Somerset West this Sunday 4 Dec! See you there!

08/03/2020

Just love this...

29/02/2020

Brand development for Dimple Gear clothing.

12/02/2020

I recently completed UI design for Pilot Systems' point of sale unit. The brief was to simplify the current POS system, make it more user friendly and bring it inline with current UI/App design and functionality. This was achieved by simplifying the buttons/icons, bringing the colour palette down to 3 colours and configuring the elements to fit a grid system. The result is a UI system that is easier to navigate thus allowing staff to spend less time at the POS station.

27/01/2020

An interesting read by Sean Thompson.

A Personal Branding Lesson from Dad

There are thousands of articles, books and lectures on personal branding - I learned the best lesson from my Dad.

Decades ago, while I was in high school, a photographer swam out at Dairy Beach in Durban, South Africa and captured an image of me surfing.

The local paper the Daily News published my first shot ever taken from the water. At 15 I was stoked!

Surfboards back then had not become branding billboards - generally each board had a single, small logo identifying the manufacturer which in my town were Safari, Holmes and Wetteland.

Derek Berry, an artist friend of my Dad’s created a graphic from the picture and my Dad thought it would look great on my next surfboard.

I was a shy kid. “O No Dad, it’s too big.”

“This is the deal son. If you are not having the logo, I am not buying the board.” A little tough love from my Dad. He understood the value of a powerful, simple and most of all authentic logo.

That logo went on to appear on every one of my boards throughout my career. I also used it when I founded the surfwear company Instinct and ultimately millions of units were sold bearing the image. The logo became a part of my DNA and I have to thank my Dad for his vision - every time I see the logo, I see my Dad.

10/12/2019

Banksy has painted a new mural near a bench used by the homeless community of Birmingham, and its seasonal theme makes it more poignant.

04/12/2019

It's rare that an architect is a household name, but Frank Gehry has achieved legendary status. Learn about what it means to be a Frank Gehry building.