These double page spread advertisements were designed for Escape and Smart Holiday magazines. The map and members list remained on the left page, but we changed text colour and some photographs on the right page to show the different seasons in the Swartland region. The Swartland is now not only known for excellent wines, but delicious olives too - and well worth a visit!

As mentioned below it’s often quicker and cheaper to produce an e-mail invitation for various events. These were designed for Swartland Wine Route for the Young Wine Show and Worker of the Year events. In some cases they are in english and afrikaans, which I differentiated with blue and brown text. The top of the design was also a separate jpeg file so that the recipient’s name could be inserted in the top centre (where the border fades to white on left and right).

The jpegs are inserted into the e-mails so that they don’t appear as attachments.

Quite a few of my clients are opting for e-mail invitations these days as they’re fairly quick and cost-effective to do. This one for Secretary’s Day, which was designed for M4 Events & Promotions, also appeared as an advertisement in the Burger newspaper.

This flyer was created for the Swartland Municipality Junior Town Council for this year’s Youth Symposium happening at the end of September. I kept the colours simple and bright.

These flyers have been designed for each of the 10 Ward Committees in the Swartland Municipality. They are A4, full colour, gate-folded to A4 on 135gsm gloss. The previous design was mostly black and white with a bit of blue so I added some more colour, especially in the pie charts and tables.

This brochure for the Greater Cederberg Biodiversity Corridor has just been completed for CapeNature. This is my second brochure in the series. It is 690 x 210mm gate-folded to 230 x 210mm and is a handy and colourful source of information about the area. It was litho printed on 250gsm gloss stock.

This diary has just gone to print and is a 44 page self-cover booklet, A5, printed on 150gsm matt. I had two whole days to complete the design so I hope it was a good fit for the content, which includes a 12 month diary for farmers to fill in incidents occuring on their farms with damage causing animals such as jakkals and leopards. The booklet, which is in Afrikaans, also features preventative measures; and data collected from farmers’ participation will help to formulate management and prevention techniques in the Greater Cederberg Biodiversity area.

The new West Coast Decoded brochure has doubled in size since it’s inception in 2008. It was created for West Coast Tourism by the West Coast District Municipality and features self-drive routes through the West Coast of South Africa. Featured routes include a Whale Route, Bird Route, Flower Route, Cultural Route, Adventure Route and Wine Route. It will be available soon.

www.westcoastwineroute.co.za

This website for the West Coast Wine Route is about to be completed. There are quite a few pages to be filled, but the info already there gives you an insight into the wine estates, cellars and award-winning wines on offer in the Olifants River Valley area and beyond. There are 16 wine estates in the West Coast Wine Route and all seem to have an interesting tale to tell - some are further inland, as far as Piekenierskloof near Citrusdal, but most are found nearby the Atlantic Ocean and benefit from its sea breezes and rich soils.

The site will include contact details, tasting and opening times for all 16 vineyards and will have a map of the area which includes cellars like Namaqua Wines, Lutzville (with their Cape Diamond Wines), Stellar Organic Wines and Klawer Cellars amongst others. There are also a few accommodation spots and conference facilities to check out along the way and many fine seafood eateries - sure to be included on the site soon…

Keep watching…

Meerhof Private Cellar is a member of the Swartland Wine Route and lies just outside of Malmesbury on the way to Riebeek Kasteel. This flyer has just been printed. It was created using supplied photographs and text from the client so the beautiful illustration of the book on the inside pages comes from their original website, which was created by someone else. I did the type-setting and layout though, and I think the result is professional and pleasing to the eye.