I came across Cleo Droomer’s work for the first time when I walked into our factory one morning, greeted by a rail carrying ten-or-so artisanal-looking jackets: sewn-together bundles of organic hues, arranged into panels and held together by meticulous stitching, evidence that these garments were once under the care of thoughtful hands. Then I was …
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Listening with Cleo Droomer
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15 Questions with: David Brits
Next to put pen (or brush, haha) to our 15 Questions questionnaire is multi-disciplinary artist and good friend of the business, David Brits. Since graduating from Michaelis Art School in 2010, David’s CV evidences that he’s stayed very busy in the local and global art world, most recently indicated by his contribution to Fede Arthouse and Under …
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A Profile of the Duck Duck Goose T-Shirt Design Competition Prize Winners: Mas-Ud Hartley and Harry Zeederberg
When I spoke to illustrator Shaun Hill about Bat Butt for the blog two months ago, he said something about collaborating with other artists on his zines that stuck with me. Shaun told me that “Out of every three people that you ask for work, two will say yes and only one will send you …
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The Bat Butt Code: Introducing Bat Butt to 120 Bree Street
After walking out of a previous graphic design position and receiving a fiery post-resignation voice message from his newly exed boss, visual artist Shaun Hill came up with the illustrated “nobody cares” gif that now signs off all his emails, almost like a reminder to be careful about who to work with. I wondered as …
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Duck Duck Goose and Bat Butt at One Park
When Duck Duck Goose founder Daniel Sher first started communicating with One Park’s Matt Hichens about hosting an event at Cape Town’s favourite listening bar, he started scrambling for a reasonable justification for people to come together in celebration. Having recently reached the completely unremarkable 36-and-a-half-year milestone in his life, Daniel started fishing around for …
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The Biggest Mystery on Bree Street: Where has Duck Duck Goose been?
Sometime in the middle of May this year, we released the innocent announcement that our flagship store at 120 Bree Street would be “temporarily closed for 2 weeks” for reasons pertaining to “repairs and maintenance”. Two weeks went by, and we hadn’t returned. A lingering silence began to settle over the cobbles in front of …
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Making and Creating Opportunities: A Panel Discussion hosted by Daniel Sher, featuring Chloe Andrea Welgemoed, Kgabo Mametja, and Seth Pimentel
In the wake of The Duck Duck Goose T-Shirt Competition’s announcement, store founder Daniel Sher contemplated the most appropriate way to respond to the queries around the intention, purpose and inner-workings of the competition that started to populate the Instagram comment section. Seeking to open a bigger conversation about taking opportunities in the creative industry, …
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15 Questions with Erin Hooper of Duck Duck Goose
They grow up so fast. After a year and a half, our hallmark questionnaire has graduated from 11 to 15 questions. With more questions about Cape Town favourites and other recent obsessions, we’ll be challenging the honourable recipients of our questions to give away more recommendations and city secrets, otherwise kept hush for the sake …
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Duck Duck Goose at Decorex Cape Town
On the 20th of July, I worked my last shift at the Watershed before leaving on an Eastern Cape vacation the next day. Towards closing time, I picked up the phone to a desperate last-minute request from Operations Manager Erin to work at least a portion of the Watershed’s shift on the 21st while the …
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