VISUAL 8 vs THE FIVERR’S OF THE WORLD
Freelancing platforms like Fiverr bring together freelancers from countries across the world – but sadly they’re not attractive enough for professional, experienced designers to take up opportunities. This is a short story and a lesson in Marketing, Advertising and Design by Claudia Folgore-McLellan creative consultant at Visual 8 on what I call ‘sausage factory design’.
Place of peace
The village of Irene south of Pretoria is where an aircraft mysteriously crashed on a farm in September 1922. Once owned by a flamboyant entrepreneur who named his farming estate after a daughter, Irene – meaning peace – it was home to the respected statesman Jan Smuts, a man of high intelligence but seemingly also one of immense contradictions.
Spiders: Fearsome creatures or something to marvel at?
Arachnophobes have been having a field day in literature since… before the Ancient Greeks. Why have spiders have been getting a (mostly) bad press