Netnames and Envisonal are showing off fake brands spotted in China during this past Olympics. Check out Miokel (Mickey) Mouse, AEIPPIE (Apple) and the (oddly appropriate?) Pearlboy (Playboy).
Author archives: Herman Manson
Front pages from some Sunday newspapers
The Sunday Newspapers says Mbeki is history.
The end of the digital devide
The digital devide is no more. Rudy-Nadler Nir argues that with 74% of the world’s population using cellphones there can be no digital divide.
But has Zapiro gone far enough?
Zapiro asks how far will Zuma and his allies go in undermining our legal system for self gain and then suggests the answer. It is a legitimate if shocking comment on the current state of power politics in the country.
The Sunday Times smack down
The Sunday Times smack down has begun with all and sundry having something to say after the paper retracted its front page story on Transnet supposedly selling most off Table Bay to “foreigners” (‘Transnet sold our sea to foreigners’- August 24, 2008).
The multi-channel book of the future (today)
Lauren Beukes is a much admired journalist who has just released her futuristic debut novel, Moxyland, that plays out in Cape Town and is in her own words a hi-tech fable of the day that “corporate apartheid separates the haves from the have-nots.” But the really interesting aspect of this publishing venture is the multi-channel approach Beukes took in marketing the book.
The unreal world of House & Garden magazine
. With their own long term viability in mind business is finally starting to talk about social justice. Then there is Condé Nast House & Garden who sees it fit to plug “Green-painted wooden LOGS from R3262.58.
Garbage bins become urban art
Five Cape Town agencies worked together on urban design project that saw five black garbage bins turned into works of art.
Open source Chrome vs. No advertising IE 8
Microsoft has already won the desktop battle, but a new war is looming and in a connected world the ultimate end point is the browser, the most intimate interface that people use to surf the web. Whoever wins this round of what is popularly referred to as the browser wars wins the most valuable real estate of the connected economy.
Moonwalking parents into buying a kids mag
“Moonwalk” is the latest in a series of award winning ads for National Geographic Kids magazine by FoxP2. Hats off to Andrew Whitehouse and Justin Gomes for another charming winner.