Design Indaba 2013: Masashi Kawamura on merging storytelling with technology

By Herman Manson (@marklives) Design Indaba 2013 Masashi Kawamura (@masakawa), one of Fast Company’s “100 most creative people in business 2012,” is visiting Cape Town as a guest speaker at the annual Design Indaba conference. The nod from Fast Company is just one of many – Kawamura seem to have won a near endless stream …

Zeitz MOCAA — how branding & architecture reinforce culture

by Shane de Lange. As a sanctuary for contemporary art from across the continent of Africa and its diaspora, the approach to design in Zeitz MOCAA is as poetic as its purpose and message.

Design Annotator: 10 Inspiration Tumblrs by South African Creatives

by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) Today’s Design Annotator includes:

– An interview with photographer Jody Brand, whose work is a raw glimpse into South African youth culture
– The British Council’s Connect/ZA programme of creative events, projects and initiatives
– Sculptures by Jonothan van der Walt that blur the lines between kitsch and fine art
– Disorienting photographs of ordinary things by Kent Andreasen
– Turning data into art with NumberPicture
– Two South Africans traversing the US in a campervan dubbed ‘Dora’
– 10 Inspiration tumblrs by some of our favourite local creatives
– Nokia Lumia at the InAWE Residency
– A final wrap up of Cannes 2014

Major TV shake-up great for consumers

by Gill Moodie (@GrubstreetSA) There’s a real shake-up of TV coming South Africa’s away – especially of television news – and none of it bodes well for our newspapers.

The SABC launched its 24-hour news operation on the DStv satellite network (on channel 404) last week while the Gupta family – owners of TNA Media, parent company of The New Age newspaper – is getting ready to take their 24/7 news operation live (on channel 405) very soon.

The Guptas’ Africa News Network 7 – or “ANN7” – already has a rather slick-looking beta website up and Atul Gupta has been tweeting recruitment ads

Directory of independent creative agencies in South Africa 2021

We’ve created a table of independent creative agencies in South Africa. Listings are voluntary and made directly by the agencies involved.

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