Category: Moonlander One Portfolio
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The Inspiration and Branding Behind Moonlander One
I’ve been a freelance graphic designer and UX specialist for over a decade. As the business grew over the years, I thought it the right time to register a company and do some proper branding for myself. The branding needed to reflect my design sensibilities, but also my interests. I like sci-fi a lot, but…
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Looking back: Business Card Design
Hardly anyone uses business cards anymore, but between 2007 and 2009 I designed around 500 business cards for small mom-and-pop businesses. Most of these were done for new businesses that were capitalizing on the business boom we were experiencing in the little river-town of Parys. Being an hour’s drive away from the greater Johannesburg area…
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Daft Punk: Reimagined sleeve art
I was never fond of Daft Punk. As someone who likes rock music and 80s synth I thought their work was just okay. This changed though when I watched Tron: Legacy at the cinema in 2010. Their soundtrack for the film remains to this day one of my favourite albums of all time. Copyright Daft…
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80s Branding: The Neon Laser Basement
As a child of the 1980s I have a great appreciation of media and artefacts created during the so-called decade of greed. This coupled with my love for research led me to my first blog in 2018, The Neon Laser Basement. The website and logo needed to reflect the period so I set out to…
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Libris Ignis: A logo design brief
Libris Ignis is an online publisher whose focus is to bring the latest in scientific research to the everyday user. I needed a logo for this startup before developing the website. I wanted something simple: Books, libraries and something Latin or Greek. It must speak to the new generation of academics, while also not alienating…