The Grammy Awards 2010 have come and gone…all that is left is the dull thud of its memory, not unlike the feeling after a heavy night of drinking. The glitz and sparkly nature of these events is probably what I like the least. However I do enjoy the Grammies for a handful of awards that interest me personally. Yup, I’m only interested in probably 5% of what ever goes on at the Grammy Awards, which is why I never watch the awards and rather wait until the results are placed neatly on a web page.
Here are the Grammy rock winners.
First off a mention must go out to Beyonce for her record setting 6 award haul. This is the most awards ever given to a female artist in one ceremony. Very impressive indeed!
I’m not a fan of her music, well besides for the South African Vodacom advert that used one of her songs, but I think we can all recognize the achievement. Congrats!
Ok, now onto the awards that I actually enjoy *drum roll* it’s the Grammy rock winners!
As I mentioned in a previous posting our Faces of Africa Springleap.com theme competition is now underway and is set to summon up some really awesome local design power.
However I was reading through the description on the Springleap.com site as well as mine and thought that I may just be a tad more specific in regards to what constitutes African design content.
Obviously when you read the Springleap.com Faces of Africa page you get the impression that all of the examples provided are indeed South African…which it seems they are.
The problem for me here is that this is not Faces of South Africa, its Africa as a whole.
Even when I wrote my original blog I focussed on South African heroes and spoke of the struggle….yep, those themes are very SA, but not African. I’m hoping that designers will look beyond the typical Apartheid struggle icons and instead look beyond the borders of Southern Africa to find inspiration.
