Brandt Botes sharing advice from local and international designers on starting your own business

A stop frame animation from Brandt Botes at Studio Botes with advice from local and international designers on starting your own business Going Solo. from Studio Botes on Vimeo. A stop frame animation created for the Toffie Festival 2011. It shares advice from local (South African) and international designers on starting your own business. Tweet Share/Bookmark  Read More

Renee Silverstone leaves Jupiter

Renee Silverstone has resigned as CEO of The Jupiter Drawing Room (Johannesburg) after 22 years with the company. Silverstone had co-founded the company with Graham Warsop in 1989. Alison Deeb, MD and COO at Jupiter, takes over the running of the group, but it is understood no appointment has been made to the CEO position Silverstone just vacated. Deeb joined Jupiter in 2004 and become MD of The Jupiter Drawing Room (Johannesburg) in March 2005. She was previously MD of Ogilvy... Read More

Groupon South Africa promises you a good deal

In January 2011, they were two guys working hard to keep their group media buying site Twangoo running with a handful of freelance sales staff. Less than three months later, they have 40 staffers, a new office in Loop Street, Cape Town, and possibly the hottest thing since Facebook as their backers. That’s because Groupon acquired Twangoo in January 2011 and tasked its co-founders, Wayne Gosling and Dan Guasco, with establishing the Groupon brand in South Africa. The duo’s... Read More

SABC News (again) found guilty of broadcasting ‘untruths’

The SABC News department has had more shame heaped upon it by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) in a judgement that found it had been unfair to and broadcast ‘untruths’ about investigative journalist Sam Sole. The allegations against Sole, who currently works for the Mail & Guardian newspaper and on which the SABC based its story, was made by controversial businessman Robert Gumede. He alleged that Sole had been bribed with a R900 air... Read More

@work: AM I Collective on the Art South Africa cover

The making of Art South Africa Cover from Am I Collective on Vimeo. Am I Collective were commissioned to create the Art South Africa’s December 2010 cover. The issue’s theme: art and public spaces. This video shows how it all came together. Have a video of you created your latest campaign? Send it to MarkLives! Tweet Share/Bookmark Read More