We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer about their original and creative design work. is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original works.
("") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work . Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
: I wanted too show how the music can help a person transcend into a more spiritual dimension.
: I always try to make my work seem "believable". I want the viewer too actually think that what they are seeing is real.
: The client has just started their tour of South Africa and will be touring Europe later in 2015. I would just like too get the album in as much people's hands as possible. Its always rewarding when your art work get distributed across the world.
: All in all it took around a month from start to finish.
: It was a mutual decision between me and the client.
: The work is being produced by the client (We Set Sail) and will be distributed world wide.
: After hearing the music for the first time I knew I wanted too make use of a dancer as a main subject. At the same time I wanted to reinvent the concept since it has been done many times before thus adding the spirit animals.
: I found a few shots of dancers and powder paint online, but they were mostly for reference when it came to lighting for the studio shoot. I had a clear vision of what I wanted to achieve.
: Since the music is very universal I'd say that anyone who enjoys rock, classical, electronic and experimental music.
: All the other references similar to this were all just the plain photographs of dancers being thrown with powder paint. I took it that step further of actually bringing the cloud of paint to life by giving it its own animal persona.
: The name is the Album title called Animal. So I had to interpret the music into the name.
: I made use of a photography studio along with photographer Dirk Steenkamp. Afterwards all the post editing was done using Adobe Photoshop.
: I think since the music is instrumental, the artwork actually completes the listener's experience. While he/she listens to the music they can loose themselves within the artwork.
: I collaborated with photographer Dirk Steenkamp.
: I played a huge role. Without it none of this would've been possible.
: The research was very much based on emotional research. I had to experiment with a few possible execution methods in order to find the one that would best translate the music into visual form.
: With the photo shoot we had to leave a lot to chance. Once the model threw the paint we had no control, so we never knew what we were getting. The in the post process I had to find the animal faces in the paint clouds before I could bring them forward.
: After winning platinum in 2014 I had such an amazing time visiting the gala evening. I met so many amazing people and learned so much, I figured it can't hurt to go for it again in 2015.
: As always after an intense project I learned that there is always a creative solution.
: I'll be back...
