Jupiter Cape Town’s year for living dangerously
Claire Cobbledick by Herman Manson (@marklives) At the end of last year, the bad news just kept coming for The Jupiter Drawing Room (Cape Town). At the start of December 2011, the agency was informed that a two-month termination clause had kicked in on its biggest account – that of Woolworths – which it had held for five years. No lengthy transition period, just boom,... Read More
Mike Barnwell says agency language should change
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Mike Barnwell, the recently appointed ECD at Draftfcb Cape Town, wants agency language focused on compartmentalising the communications trade to go. Instead of below-, above- or even through-the-line thinking, he wants his agency to talk about strategically sound solutions instead. Barnwell aims to take ideas and extrapolate them across relevant channels,... Read More
Global skill, cultural exchange Toffie Pop Festival’s aim
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Starting on Friday 30 March and ending Sunday 1 April 2012, the annual Toffie Pop Festival, a festival/conference hybrid that celebrates contemporary popular culture, publishing, design and art, is once again taking place at the Cape Town City Hall. Speakers range from Penny Martin, editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman magazine from the UK, and Omar Sosa,... Read More
Marketing insight: Why no number for the “new iPad”
by Arthur Goldstuck The new iPad has two remarkable features: a dazzling Retina Display, and a complete lack of version number. We explores what this means. The announcement of the new iPad on last week Wednesday was the most anticipated gadget event of the year, and will probably be overshadowed only by the new iPhone when it is announced later this year. Curiously, for a device... Read More
Pasting for BOZZA
by Samora Chapman Shani Judes, a Cape Town based art agent/curator has recently been slipping through borders. Traversing the entire country, pasting portraits all over Azania’s most renowned townships. If Shani were a street artist, I reckon she’d be king. But the nationwide campaign wasn’t a quest to get her name up. It was a guerrilla ad campaign for a new creative platform... Read More
