Ama’Tekkie is a South African Nguni slang for “sneakers & Plakkie is a Afrikaans term for “flip flops”.
Ama’Tekkie is a South African brand that’s been creating authentic, stylish, casual footwear and accessories using African-inspired print.
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Ama’Tekkie has collaborated with Plakkie for a new range of the Ama’Plakkie Flip Flops.
BRIEF
To design a African Print-inspired flip flop range which will be sold on the Ama’Tekkie online store and designated stores.
DESIGN 1
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INSPIRATION
For this design, I wanted to shy away from getting inspiration from the normal and famous West African prints and local South African prints (i.e shweshwe fabrics). I decided to create my own inspired African print from scratch.
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I’ve blended and fused a few shapes and lines, to give my print a kaleidoscopic look/feel. All the colour in the print (except for the brown colour) were inspired by the South African flag colour palette.
DESIGN 2
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INSPIRATION
This design was inspired by the Ndebele culture style/geometric shapes. Although Even though my intention was to create my own geometric shape style, I did however borrow some inspiration from some of their geometric shapes to their colour palette. I wanted my print to have abit of a gigantic, bold and colourful look. All 6 colours from this print were inspired by the South African flag colour palette.
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