Magazine covers looking at you kid
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. By media blogger MediaSlut. INTERNATIONAL MulttiClique A simple concept and one that makes you look twice (and maybe three times). To have a look at the digital version... Read More
Carling Black Label ‘Be the Coach’ case study
A quick snapshot of the Carling Black Label ‘Be the Coach’ case study presented by Lynne Gordon (@lynne_gordon), General Manager – Brandtone South Africa, at Mobile Entertainment Africa. Download the PDF version of the full presentation here (1.6MB)! South Africans are crazy about soccer – 63% are avid soccer fans, and 80% of these are fanatics, spending time weekly supporting their teams. Every man believes that he can do a better job than the coach.... Read More
SA agency helps reverse milk category decline in Nigeria
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Here is a South African ad agency with just about its entire business sitting in Nigeria. Leftfield has some bragging rights for bagging (several times) the advertising account of Nigerian dairy giant FrieslandCampina WAMCO – worth R100 million. FrieslandCampina WAMCO (with its Peak and Three Crowns milk brands) is the Nigerian affiliate of dairy cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina of The Netherlands (annual turnover of 9 Billion Euro). Leftfield... Read More
High cost of cheap tablets
This story was reprinted from online magazine Gadget with which MarkLives has a content partnership. As copyright holder Gadget has requested the story be withdrawn pending resolution of factual discrepancies. We will keep readers updated on the resolution of these discrepancies as they become available. Tweet Share/Bookmark Read More
Looking for your creative break? Look no further than the Emerging Creatives programme at Design Indaba Expo 2013.
Forty young designers, five days of pure inspiration, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. That’s the Emerging Creatives programme at Design Indaba 2013. We’re inviting aspiring local designers to apply for a place in this sought-after programme, which launched the careers of rising stars such as Daniel Ting Chong, Andile Dyalvane and Laduma Ngxokolo. Applications are open to students in a creative faculty at a tertiary institution in South Africa and young designers in... Read More
