It’s a pleasure to welcome Ziyaad Samsodien back onto the blog. After a year and a half of being Duck Duck Goose’s Visual Communication Lead and most decorated Store Manager, Ziyaad left the store in December of 2023 to pursue his career as a freelance graphic designer, under the name of Flying Duck Design. While …

The T-shirt is Good Good Good’s core item and the product that the brand’s founder and creative director, Daniel Sher, has been producing, refining and selling since 2012. In 2023, Courier Magazine referred to the T-shirt as Daniel’s “life’s work”, and while Daniel himself would prefer to reserve this title for his efforts to be …

“I always say that when Good Good Good is quiet, that is when we are the busiest”, said Daniel Sher, founder and director of the Cape Town-based fashion label, about the two-year silence that their customers have endured since the brand’s last collection in 2022. With the imminent online launch of Good Good Good’s new …

For the store’s third birthday in December 2023, we decided to collaborate with two legendary forces in the South African fashion retail space, in Shelflife and Baseline Skate Shop. These collaborations symbolise a point of reflection and a change in outlook for our three-year-old store, turning our heads away from matters of survival and towards …

For Duck Duck Goose’s third birthday, we’ve decided to collaborate with two titans of the South African fashion and culture retail industry in Shelflife and Baseline. For us, turning three means that we can avert our attention from matters of survival as a new business, leave the nest and spread our wings towards longevity. Our …

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 …

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 …

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 …