March 2013
1 post
Tote bags
We made these tote bags recently. They are totally hand made and we screen printed the designs ourselves. We had loads of fun creating these and plan on making more real soon.
December 2012
2 posts
Oh Snap! Crackers
To celebrate Christmas this year we decided to make some Christmas crackers.
These will be for sale at Market on Main, or if you’re interested you can order some from us by sending us a mail.
The most awesome lucky packets ever!
We just finished these lucky packets for The Cape Town Creative Academy. A bunch of lucky student competition winners will receive these when classes resume next year.
We had so much fun making these, so we decided to make our own version! We’ll be selling them at Market on Main.
Spoiler alert! here’s what’s inside these lucky packets.
November 2012
5 posts
Citymob sale!
A bunch of our favourite products are on sale on citymob.co.za over the next few days!
Click here to go directly to our sale. You might need to register if you haven’t already got an account. Be quick the sale ends soon!!
Please note, the journals are not part of our product range.
Seattle Coffee Cup Sleeves
Check out our sleeve design for Seattle Coffee Company. The brief was for us to create something for summer and we thought our cute illustration did the job.
2013 Calendar
Next year’s calendar is made up of a series of tiny notebooks for each month of the year. You can write down all your important dates on the pages and tear them off as you progress through the year.
If you’re interested in owning one of these, send us an email.
Our space
Our humble studio. This is where we spend a lot of our time!
Park Cafe's menu
Here’s a look at Park Cafe’s very friendly looking menu. We designed this a few months ago and we’re really happy with the end result.
October 2012
6 posts
The Parks ❤ Market
There’s a Christmas market coming up on the 25th of October hosted by the Parks shopping centre in Jo’burg, we’re really excited to be a part of it!
Tags for Park Cafe
A pretty bunch of tags we created for Park Cafe using stamps.
Business card for Justin Dingwall
Our good friend Justin asked us to create a business card for him. Here’s what we came up with.
Take a look at his photo blog here.
Antalis Art of Design awards
We’re very proud that our Monster’s Day off colouring book won a merit award at this years Art of Design.
You can read more about the awards here.
Your Beard is Growing on me
Yay! You can now buy our cool beardy t-shirt on the Yellow Bird Project site. Check it out here.
Logo design for Catalographer
Here’s a logo we designed for an online service called Catalographer. The site isn’t live yet, but keep checking here for updates.
June 2012
5 posts
Fridge Magnets
A fun set of fridge magnets to liven up your kitchen. We hope to add more characters soon!
A rugged looking lumberjack guy.
A birdie and a doggie.
A timid looking girl.
This family of fridge magnets have been featured on the Handsome Things blog.
A Paper Jet Stamp
We recently got our very own stamp. It’s efficient to use for packaging, and also tons of fun.
New Handbound A5 notebooks
New additions to our notebook collection.
The pages in the one on the left and the one on the right are printed with grids on them, while the notebook in the middle has blank pages, the cover is a scene from Amsterdam.
They come packaged like this.
A6 Notebooks
A few pocket sized notebooks.
The come packaged like this.
Park Café website
Park Café’s revamped website is up, check it out here. They wanted something fresh and clean and we were very excited to design and develop it for them.
Below is an illustration of their coffee machine.
April 2012
2 posts
Your Beard is Growing on Me
A t-shirt illustration we just completed for the Yellow Bird Project as part of their “Gold” collection. It will soon be available online.
Park Café
Paper Jet had the pleasure of redesigning Park Café’s logo. We came up with a little pink acorn design with hand drawn type. Business and loyalty cards (with a little acorn stamp) followed and now we are busy with their new website design. We also had a stamp made for them, to use on paper or packaging. Go have a coffee or delicious snack at Park Café in Parkwood and check out their new...
March 2012
1 post
Design Indaba as Emerging Creatives
What a week we had! Design Indaba 2012 was amazing! Thank you to the organisers of the Emerging Creatives section. Here is some pics of our stand. Thank you for all the positive feedback and even wanting to buy our display goodies.
Thank you to Maike and Travis for their beautiful shelf! http://welovepictures.blogspot.com/
February 2012
4 posts
Paper Jet goodies at Remedy*
Remedy* now stock some Paper Jet products! The store is located at 70 Juta, on the corner of Juta and De Beer streets in Braamfontein.
We absolutely love the store. It’s filled with clean and beautiful resurrected furniture, prints and amazing decor. Jessica and Jean, who own and run the Remedy* are the friendliest people you’ll ever meet.
We thought we’d do something special...
Green Elephant Collective
The Green Elephant Collective online store has launched.
The Green Elephant Collective was founded in 2011 as an online resource and shopping platform for South African made green designs and lifestyle products.
Paper Jet products are available to purchase through the site. We have to give credit to our good friends Justin & Candice, who took some of the beautiful product shots for us....
Paper Jet Designs and Illustrations at The Green...
We stopped by The Green Grass Shop on 4th Ave in Parkhurst today to take a few snapshots of some of the products that were designed by Paper Jet and that feature illustrations by us too. Here are the pics.
Really cute owl necklaces.
Oh Snap! cameras.
Full figure window display puppets, named Ben and Emilie. They are currently holding hands in the spirit of Valentines Day.
The Green...
Valentines day cards
These sweet little valentines day cards come with little badges.
December 2011
2 posts
Yellow Bird cards
We were thrilled when The Yellow Bird Project emailed us to ask if we’d like to design and create cards for them to send to all their clients.
We stuck closely to their brand guidelines and also added a bit of our own flair. The cards double up as a decoration that can be hung up.
Here’s how it turned out.
Check out The Yellow Bird Project’s story. They are a real...
Hello Harbour logo
Hello Harbour asked us to design them a new logo. They wanted something that looked handmade and gave us loads of creative freedom. Here’s what we came up with:
They were very delighted with the different options we gave them and eventually settled for this one:
Hello Harbour is an awesome creative duo from Jo’burg. Go check out their photography and fun stop frame animations...
November 2011
3 posts
Abby & Ross
Abby & Ross were at this year’s Food Wine Design fair. Their stand featured a great variety of amazing children’s products including our Paper And Pencil Challenge and Monster’s Day Off books as well as our mobile and a few more items.
We designed this cool stand to display our products. The stand was laser cut by Green Grass Design.
Christmas gift tags
These little guys have something cute to say.
Printed on beautiful paper, they come in packs of 5. Available at Abby & Ross at this year’s Food Wine Design fair
Monster colouring book
Ever wonder what monsters get up to when they aren’t creeping under your bed or going bump in the night? Monster’s Day Off is a colouring book that features a gang of not-so-scary monsters enjoying their favourite leisure time activities.
Contact us via email if you’d like any more info on this colouring book.
October 2011
4 posts
Pencil paper mobile
Our first attempt at a paper mobile.
A book full of games
Our latest product is a book filled with games for children to fight boredom with. Perfect for long road trips trapped in the back seat of a car on the way to Durban this December.
The games in this “PENCIL AND PAPER CHALLENGE” include: naughts and crosses, word searches, mazes, lines and dots and spot the difference. You can challenge your bestie and whoever wins gets a cut-out...
Colourful Pencil Tags
Pencil tags to add as a finishing touch to any cute gift. They come in packs of three and a variety of colour combinations. They cost R15 a packet.
Voila Magazine Style Fix
Check us out in the new edition of Voila, we’re on page 8. Voila is a totally free instant style fix, you can find the magazine at trendy spots like Abby & Ross, Wolves and a whole bunch of equally awesome stores around Jo’burg, Cape Town and Pretoria.
Voila’s other whereabouts: Twitter and Facebook
August 2011
4 posts
Custom Items
Paper Jet recently completed a bunch of personalized projects. We transformed our recipe books into a 90 page A4 sized book, which we hand bound, we also lovingly created a new one-of-a-kind note book featuring a hand-drawn alphabet. And lastly we designed a new gift card that includes a tiny envelope to put cash or a voucher in.
These were fun projects, Email us any special requests,...
Latest news
Good news, some of our latest products are available at Nonna, located at the Valley Centre in Craighall Park. Nonna is a little boutique filled with beautiful eye candy including: collectables, stationary, furniture and even clothing. We’re delighted that Paper Jet goods are now included on their shelves.
Record buttons
Record buttons featuring the names of made up bands.
Impress all your hipster friends by wearing these and claiming the bands really do exist and they are so underground that nobody has heard of them.
Stationary sets
Stationary sets that include 4 handmade envelopes and 4 letters, perfect for sending granny letters.
July 2011
4 posts
Recipe books
Little hand-bound books for jotting down your favourite recipes. There are magnets attached to the back so they will stick on your fridge.
Wrapping paper
Paper Jet teamed up with a talented up and coming illustrator who goes by the name of Kingdom to create this wrapping paper.
Paper Jet at the Market
Paper Jet are off to the Market on Main this Sunday the 10th of July. We’ll be selling a whole bunch of our favourite products, so if you’re in town please come support us, we’d love to see you there!
Dino & blocky letters notebooks
Latest batch of hand-bound notebooks! Aren’t they cute?
June 2011
6 posts
Watches
A Paper Jet homage to watches from our youth. After sketching these watches we thought they’d make great bookmarks.
Notebooks at Wolves
These notebooks are on their way to Wolves Cafe but you can also buy them online from Wolves’ online shoppe!
Drop us a mail if you’re not in Jo’burg and would like one. The notebooks are…
Spookasem Cards
You are not allowed to eat me! Card
A cute comic book frame style card.
Triangle heart card
'ioweu' Card
For when you forgot to get a birthday present, this card will do.
May 2011
1 post
Roadtrip mixes
Doktrine Ontwerp are hosting a really cool event called “Die Skim Grot Saterdag”, there will be all sorts of rad goodies on sale as well as music and drinks. Paper Jet will be there too, and due to the nice response from our valentines day love mixes we decided to create another CD package, this time with road tripping as the theme.
We only made 5 of these for the Skim Grot...
