Design | Duncan Van der Schyff

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[DUPA] 2021

A face-lift rebrand of Wellingtons vibrant festival: Cubadupa. The vision was to create a visual identity that was just as wild, spontaneous and diverse as the festival itself, yet still being easily communicated as a singular, easily readable brand.

Branding. User journey.
Animation. Ilustration

[DOWNPOUR] 2020

A young woman struggles with the weight of climate change affecting her day to day life at every turn and decision. How will she make it through this crisis? Will she overcome her cycle of inaction or will she sink further into apathy and despair?

Through the medium of film, Downpour seeks to explain and help facilitate empathy with climate anxiety and how that affects someone's agency in making conscious decisions towards climate change even at the mundane level.

Animation. Shortflim.

User Journey. Design

[APOPHENIA] 2021

An editorial document presenting research into latent spaces of motion design and animation made using Accessible AI and machine learning techniques.

Editorial. Research.

Animation. Machine Learning

[COG IN THE MACHINE] 2020

An informational dossier targeting the qualms of conveying existential issues such as climate change in a way that is human-centered and understandable.

Motion design. Editorial.

Typography. Informational

[OUROBOROS] 2019

Animated promotion for a series of plays inspired by the works of Warren Maxwell. Ouroboros brings to life visually the themes of the emotions and societal critiques running through Maxwell's songs.

Animation. Advertising.

Graphic Design. User Journey.