The creative and vibrant artwork that features on our cover is the work of young, Graphic Designer, Buhle Qabaka an extended curriculum student in the Design Foundation at CPUT. This artwork started in the ECP classroom as a Drawing/Illustration project. Students were required to take ‘funny and expressive’ selfies and then create a pencil drawing. They were then asked to ‘deconstruct’ this drawing and using mixed media give full expression to their creative-self. The end result was this striking, spirited, complex and multilayered creation which so aptly captures the main themes of our book.
Buhle, describes himself as a dedicated student able to harness his creativity in abstract ways, while edging towards the periphery of what is ‘acceptable’ in design. His illustration work also gives expression to his creative and ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking, where he strives to give the viewer ample opportunities to reinterpret and find their own meaning in his artworks. A humble, calm but persistent person he finds his design and artistic work provides a welcome way for him to give expression of the multiple founts of creativity in his being.
