David Krut Publishing Forthcoming April 2008.
SKILL SET: Knowledge Resource and Educational Series is a new multi-volume series for specialised design disciplines. Using a practicable, outcomes-based approach, Skill Set will provide instruction in various fields of design, including graphic design, stage design, fashion design and industrial design.

Skill Set will feature locally relevant content, as well as commentary and work by leading local design professionals. The series is aimed at a broad audience that includes learners at secondary schools and tertiary institutions, as well as emerging and experienced professionals.

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Justin Fox is a travel writer and photographer for Getaway magazine. He was a Rhodes Scholar and received a doctorate in English literature from Oxford University (1995) after which he was a research fellow at the University of Cape Town, where he now teaches part time.

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Ncedeka, who hails from Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape is living with the HIV virus but is not letting it stand in the way of her living her life and enjoying being alive. Ncedeka is one of the thirteen women and men who were part of the Body Map initiative that drew its members from Medical Sans Frontiers (MSF).

When she arrived at David Krut Arts Resource to sign her canvases of the body map she created at the time of the project there was an immediate air of festivity. She charmed the DK team with her beautiful smile, open face and peaceful personality.

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In Febraury 2007 David Krut Projects in New York will be holding an exhibition of the works of Colbert Mashile a young South African artist with whom David has been working since he established a print workshop in Johannesburg. Colbert’s paintings were included in the 2006 Dakar Biennale and he has had varies solo exhibitions [...]

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We are pleased to welcome Jacki Mc Innes to the David Krut writing page. Mc Innes is an artist and freelance writer, here follows a biography in her own words:
“After five years of training in the fields of radiography and radiotherapy, the only thing I had really learnt was that I had made a particularly [...]

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Prominent South African sculptor Wilma Cruise is well known for her life-size ceramic sculptures of the human form. In the past year however she has embarked on an experimental foray into the medium of print under the tutelage of Jill Ross at the David Krut Arts Resource in Johannesburg. The results of her venture were [...]

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Young South African sculptor Sean Slemon completed a Fine Arts degree at the Michaelis School of Art, UCT a few years ago and is currently in New York where he is completing a Masters Degree at the Pratt Institute. Whilst on a short mid-year visit in June, he took time out to present the exhibition [...]

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2 December 2002
John, Themba and I camp on the Masokasapan Airstrip near Punda Maria in the Kruger National Park. We share our camp site with 600 others. We are here, like our fellow travelers, to observe the total eclipse of the sun on 4th. It is a hot and desolate place. The runway is in [...]

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Amy Miller developed her love for art and its history under the guidance of a particularly influential high school teacher and later in her personal pilgrimage to the galleries of London, Paris and Florence. A third year student at the University of Cape Town, she is majoring in English, Visual & Art History, and Classics. [...]

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I am currently a lecturer in Classics (Greek, Latin and Classical Civilization) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg.
I am interested in the relevance of the study of ancient European cultures to South African students and explore the similarities and differences between aspects of ancient Greek and Roman and traditional African cultures (e.g. Zulu culture). [...]

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