For the South African launch of the Nike Dunk Mick & Nick asked six graffiti artists each to spray-paint a taxi using the Nike Dunk colours.
Author archives: Herman Manson
A kids book for grown ups
Wie is Dit? is a quirky picture book of Bible stories launched earlier this year by Vuvu, an imprint of Electric Book Works. Its PR blurb says the book is being marketed to kids “and inquisitive grown-ups
of all religious persuasions.” But Mark predicts another audience for this book,
“Do no evil” Google fails own mantra
Google’s famous company mantra “Do No Evil” is being called into question in a complaint filed at the Competition Commission by a South African digital marketing agency called Entelligence.
Galleries of SA vanity plates
Wired ran a cool little story on a gallery of nerdy vanity plates. The gallery was put together by Royal Pingdom and ranged from OPN SRC (Open Source) to GEEK AFK (Geek Away From Keyboard). A quick Google found several SA sites tracking South African vanity plates.
The Beijing anti-brand logos
With the Beijing Olympics at an end I thought it would be interesting to look at some of the anti-logos floating around cyberspace. Mostly they commented on the repressive nature of China’s government.
The quest for real: Anti-Restaurants
‘Anti-restaurants’ or ‘pirate restaurants,’ as explored by The New York Times (registration required), are underground communal food experiences that is popping up all over the United Sates and the world in a backlash against the desocialisation of eating (and everything else).
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra says feel something real
This poster campaign done pro bono by Lowe Bull art director Juliet Honey urges people to one again ‘feel something’ in a world of pop and plastic. “The symphony however, is very real – real music played by real people, in real time,” says Honey.
Middle of the road Sasol risks arty ire*
Does Sasol want to position itself as a patron of the arts as long as it is art it likes or does nothing that challenges or comments on society? One wonders, are we culturally richer for this type of patronage, or poorer?
The Xenocentric Range from Love Jozi
The Xenocentric Range from Love Jozi is on exhibit at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris until Friday 29 August featuring foreigners who have made Jozi their home. It explores why forigners become Joburgers by choice, like Abe from Honululu, who answers “In Jozi strangers say hi” and Mwala who said “Jozi is my classroom.”
South Africans try to gauge their leaders
An interesting story on the Mail & Guardian Online by Nosimilo Ndlovu titled ‘Political books go pop.’ Ndlovu reveals books about the state of the nation and local politicos are turning into surprised bestsellers.