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Cellphone Card Sellers

This is a cover design for Huru magazine 2003, designed by Michael Danes. Michael Danes started Danes Design in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1992. His work is focused on branding, packaging, publication, corporate identity, interior retail and website design. An ongoing objective of the studio is purposefully to challenge the perception of African design and to brand African products innovatively for every market - Zimbabwean, regional and international.

An important influence on his design is a Zimbabwean designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies, whose works on human rights issues has described a new culture in African graphic design. He is also influenced by the natural landscape of Zimbabwe, which is a wild country with vast national parks. The aim of this publication (Huru) is to try to uplift Zimbabweans' perception of their country in the midst of all the current political hardship.

I like the concept of using photography to get their point across. It's a typical daily event that the Zimbabwean would see and they should embrace their own country and people.

posted by Kristy Kusuma @ 10:08 PM