as a person dabbling in design ideas one must develop a never say die attitude and a rhino hide. even if the ideas you wrap around are totally OTT. so as a designer from muizenberg, cape town. i sometimes feel like the bugler in that peter sellers movie. pfffft - bang. - pf - BANG! - because as we all know every ones a great creative design critic and everyone is a uber frank l wright.
because all the ventures i dabble in are more an experiment and not really where i make my daily bread. it does take a very long, long while for an idea to start getting thrashed into place. the erxell concept I've been nursing and fiddling around for 4 years and now finally, eventually i have managed to get the website done properly. the erxell concept is about bridging gaps between the socio destitute informal settlement dweller and the advertising fat cats. please check it out - let me know what you think. http://www.erxell.com/ it finally and very proudly went live yesterday.
the wildetect concept has a home as well http://www.wildetecture.com/ this is a dynamic group of designers who specialise in creating African continent inspired design ideas. it showcases some really wild, gaudy never before seen African inspired designs from furniture to architecture. as wildetects we aim to do less creative talky talky and more creative walky walky. the work is for passion and just plane creativity sake - most of the wildetect executive are recently graduated students and the direction of the designs is fresh African and very different. yes definetly not to everyones taste - but fresh none the less. wildetecture is the punk rock of design ideas - its design to passionately love or vehemently hate. because the advertising giants are not easily contactable - we hope to use the site to showcase our design ideas for industry - which are unsolicited - hopefully this way we can attract attention to our wildetect design ideals thus.
newsflash. wildetects design coke head office unsolicited. using wildetect earth branded architectural techniques and african fauvistic ideas , architectural trompe-l'oeil, disintegration of perspective as well as deception of vista - and all the african fauvistic ideals - african wildetect style. the wildetects would want to invite david butler the head of coke to look at what a possible future coke HQ could look like - wildetect african style. the design is a radical departure from the normal architectural ideal. - go check out the site.
the products on the erxell site are 3 phase on the site - hopefully its not still beyond MAYA in nature and is starting to come into perspective. the products are -
1 is a painted sign on the informal settlement roof space ,
2 is a greened agricultural crop circle type signage on informal settlement roof space - worth more as its actually addressing global greening without it just being a sexy buzz word.
3 is a simple erxellated photo of bob mugabe's zim mansion - buy an erxell of ol bobs mansion (a square on the page) and have a link to your site and get a titledeed of said erxell. a piece of africanism for you to own.
so now these 2 portfolios have been pushed a little further - its always great to see the development of radical design ideas from conception to implementation to sustainability. an experiment all designers dabble in , an experiment all designers are trying to perfect - if not for themselves for their clients.
http://www.erxell.com/
http://www.wildetecture.com/
