Live SA is a new youth publication published out of Cape Town. There’s the usual stuff on love, YouTube, being brave and following your heart, should you get that body piercing, music, freedom and fashion – and then maybe the less usual stuff, about falling out of the closet aged 16, what to do when your countrymen’s infamous xenophobia breaks down the lives of friends, of falling in love with gangster boys and having Miss Khayelitsha pose in front of the backend of a construction truck…
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Creative director running (between meetings)
by Sammy-Jane Thom. Despite incredulous looks from colleagues, I’ve realised that there are, surprisingly, a lot of parallels between running and a day at the office.
Jupiter Cape Town’s year for living dangerously
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.
In SA Samsung tablet sales figures are closing in on iPad numbers
by Arthur Goldstuck The days of the iPad’s dominance of the tablet market are numbered. Until recently, more than two thirds of tablets sold across the world have been made by Apple. That has afforded the manufacturer the luxury of dictating the direction of the market, from size to functionality to case studies of ideal …
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Tracking #DesignIndaba
The annual Design Indaba conference remains a calendar highlight for the local design community. In a bid to gauge its impact and popularity MarkLives.com teamed up with reputation management firm BrandsEye to track social media discussions around the event right prior to, during and immediately after the conference and expo, which took place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in early March 2012.
Magazine covers we love (this week)!
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 bloggerMediaSlutZA.
Mike Barnwell says agency language should change
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.
Letter from NY: How ad schools are losing our industry’s talented thinkers
by Matthew Bull (@StixBull) Our industry is losing talented thinkers. An open letter.
Global skill, cultural exchange Toffie Pop Festival’s aim
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.
Magazine covers we love (this week)!
Magazine covers we love