Like Colour | Striped Outfits on Hatfield Str - Cape Town, South Africa

Just spotted these guys outside the Engen on Orange in Cape Town.

Love these outfits, pretty fresh -could almost be a new South African dress-type! slash Missoni Meets Africa

(image: Renee Rossouw Cape Town 2012)

DWELL May 2012 - Pattern Diary Feature - Renee Rossouw

My ceramic project , Pattern Diary, made a feature in last month's DWELL magazine

in an article called 'The New Guard'. Thank you for the selection DWELL

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Like Graphic | Landscapes - Swartbergpas by Anton Kannemeyer at Stevenson, JHB

 " For me, the portrait is less abstract than the landscape. In landscape you can find any number of different forms: rocks, trees, plants, stones, sand, grass, boulders, manmade objects such as roads and walls. As far as line is concerned you resolve everything differently. I think this is what gives the image its potency: an unpredictable line.  "  (source)

Swartbergpas (Winter 2008)2012
Pencil and acrylic on paper
21 x 29.5cm

Swartbergpas II2012
Acrylic hand-coloured etching (1st state)
Edition of 5
32.5 x 42.5cm

ALL IMAGES VIA STEVENSON

Like Cover | Elle Decoration South Africa N84 - The Winter Issue

Out Today. Looks beautiful

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Old Cape Town Station - from the CapeTowner free newspaper

scanned in from The Cape Towner, March 29 2012

Like Image | South African Bucks

via Laura Rossouw's Pinterest

MyCiTi MAPS - CAPE TOWN

maps scanned in from the Cape Towner

for the MYCITY bus routes.

Some of these routes are still in planning/construction phase

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Like Graphic | Cover of Architecture South Africa March|Apr Issue 54

Like Idea | Newspaper Wrapped Display Area Flower Shoot

Really cheap way way to make a small display... I also

wrapped the plastic-half-cut-coke bottle to tie in. 

Pink Flower looks nice on the grey.

( photos : Renee Rossouw Cape Town )

Like Nature | Plettenberg Baai Swamp - South Africa H+L Magazine #154

Inside a Shack in Langa - Cape Town

Took these photos in 2008 on a site visit to Langa

in Cape Town. 

( photos : renee rossouw 2008 )

Like Idea in The Times

A huge surprise was finding out that Like Idea was featured

in an article in the Times Newspaper recently about local design blogs - Thank you !

 Other South African Blogs featured was, Lar Leslie, Miss Moss, Elle Decoration, I Want That and

the Gardening Blog. 

Like Idea | Wood Shutters as Ceiling Boards

I saw this pizzeria on Dezeen yesterday, done in Athens by Greek

Architects K-Studio. Immediately quite fascinated by the wood-shutters

that bend around to form a ceiling

I also think, it reminds me of South African Cape Dutch Architecture, so

even though its Greek design, for me its Afrikaans. I like me some Afrikaans anything

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(images via Dezeen)

Like Magazine | ELLE DECORATION SOUTH AFRICA - #81 - THE OUTDOOR ISSUE

OUT now, this issue #81 is so full of colours and

incredible outdoor spaces and ideas.  awesomesies.

i would advise you to not look at it during working office hours
due to the desire to smash your computer and go on holiday.

( images scanned in from Elle Decoration South Africa #81)

also check out their blog!

Like Idea + Spaces | Around the World - Elle Decoration South Africa

One of my favourite shoots this year by Elle Decoration South Africa, is the Deco-Idea

Article, World Wide Walls. Freckin love the African Doll infront of the China Wall

or the Books on the Argentina Wall. Pretty much cooler than Amelie's Knome. That

thing is just freaky.

Like Place | Paarman Manor in Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa, #Visi32

We all know Ina Paarman spices, but when I found this

article in the Visi #32 (longago issue), i was quite wide-eyed

with the beauty of the gardens. ( 8200 SQM)

 (images scanned in from visi magazine #32)

" The site is located on the north facing slope of Constantia on sandy clay soils.  The topograghy consisted of grass terraces and stone retaining structures.  The site included numerous distinctive mature trees which imparted a great influence towards the design process.  These included Cork Oaks, Outeniquq Yellowoods , wild Peach trees, ancient fruit Olives and exotic, smaller indigenous trees " 

( web)

Like Photo | Birds Eye Johannesburg + Telkom Tower - Getaway October 2011

Cool foto in this Month's Getaway Magazine of the Telkom Tower

(formerly Hillbrow Tower ) in JHB. 

It is the Tallest Structure in South Africa at 270 metres High.