by MediaSlut (@mediaslut) The best international and local magazine covers this week: Dear., Oxford American, ELLE Singapore (Special Collector’s Edition: The Birthday Issue), The Look Book, ELLE LUXE Italy, Eat Out and DESTINY
Monthly archives: November 2013
Media Future: Wi-Fi rides in to save mobile
by Arthur Goldstuck (@art2gee) The next big thing in mobile data growth is good old Wi-Fi, but in a new guise called “Wi-Fi offload.”
Shelf Life: Window shopping by touch
Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland)’s pick of new product, packaging and design launches this week: iGlass is a new product that turns shop windows into touchscreens; more luxury festive season gifts for your favourite clients (and media); sweet window branding for Marc Jacobs’ new launch; and a report back on KFC’s Hope campaign.
Tech Law: Free is the death of the open web
by Paul Jacobson (@pauljacobson) Our insistence on having access to free services such as Facebook or Twitter both heralds the death of the open web and, at the same time, has given rise to most of the online privacy-related controversies in recent years.
Putting a library in every agency in South Africa!
Putting a library in every agency in South Africa!
Green Sky Thinking: What brands can learn from street art
by Colwyn Elder (@colwynelder) In street art, the blurring of context and content, media and message, makes for an exciting and constantly evolving media landscape, with numerous opportunities for sustainability-oriented messaging.
Ad of the Week: Airbrushed into nothingness
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) The Mail & Guardian weekly newspaper is well known for its oppositional stance in South African politics, and once again has made its position clear with its latest print campaign, “Freedom is Knowing”, prepared by TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg.
Design Annotator: Untamed creatives and Braamfontein furniture
by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) For our weekly wrap-up, we’ve collected: student-animated short film Big Game; Nothing Else Comes Close with Nokia Lumia 1020 invitation; photographer Warren van Rensburg; Mercedes Benz Untamed Creatives Lauren Joffe, Nomili, Kate Davies, Thinkking and Soma Confection; ELLE Rising Star Design Award 2013; Knights Whisky’s ‘Authentic’ campaign #FollowYourself; illustrator and graphic designer Robyn Mitchell; and design studio Dokter and Misses.
The Sell: How a cupcake can change your shopping habits
by Mimi Nicklin (@MimiNicklin) Every three months or so, I use this column as a review of existing shopper work ‘on the ground’to summarise the current state of the nation. This time, I was reminded how much I love doing this by something as simple as a cupcake painted in blue and white…
It was game day, the Currie Cup final, and the Cape was proud, excited and nervous all mixed into one. From as early as 8am, the men were dressed in Western Province shirts and the traffic lights were alive with hawkers selling, well, anything that allowed for a stripe. I, being the non-rugby-fan shopping addict that I am, chose thatmorning to grocery shop.
It is estimated that, at any one time, there are 600+ live activations (promotions, sampling, activations, offers) in most large grocery stores in South Africa and,that Saturday, Checkers Hyper was buzzing. I could barely walk for a sample, prize or tasting heading my way.
MojoMotherRussia denies “dubious tender” allegation
by Herman Manson (@marklives) MojoMotherRussia MD Thando Dingaan says his agency followed normal tender processes and did nothing wrong after allegations in Business Day of 17 November 2013 named one of the agencies that merged to form MojoMotherRussia as having received a “dubious advertising tender awarded by Africa’s largest pension fund, the Government Employees Pension Fund”.