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 called BOZZA, a cellphone app that enables artists to create a profile, showcase their work and network with other creatives.
Category archives: Media
Angry Birds and the battle for consumer hearts
Most of the 67 000 delegates to the recently held Mobile World Congress in Barcelona were there to make business decisions about their future investments in smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices and applications.
Nashua Mobile, Nokia, take on BlackBerry Internet
Nashua Mobile has introduced a near-unlimited data package for selected Nokia phones that directly challenges the R59/month BlackBerry internet Service.
Shit is trending at Design Indaba
“Do shit that matters,” declared Bielenberg in the second presentation of Design Indaba 2012. His sentiments echoing the closing refrain of last year’s penultimate speaker, Robert Wong from Google, who beseeched: “Do epic shit.”
How South Africans would re-imagine banking for the better
How South Africans would re-imagine banking for the better
Magazine covers we love (with cyclists on them)!
I’m one of those people who dreads the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour more and more as it gets closer and closer. Not because I’m participating, but because every morning on my way to work, more cyclist end up on the roads, and forces me to swirve out for them into on coming traffic. I much prefer them in print.
Andrew Shoben on how a ‘design capital’ should view public art
Andrew Shoben makes art in public spaces. His artists’collective, greyworld, has become known for creating artwork in mostly urban spaces that resonates with many rather than an ‘arty’ few.
Interaction design with Hellicar & Lewis
Hellicar & Lewis is the interaction design partnership between Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis.
Magazine covers we love (this week)!
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week.
A collaborative approach to architecture
The 1965 exhibition Architecture Without Architects, shown at the Museum of Modern Art, and the accompanying book Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed Architecture by Bernard Rudofsky, provided a unique view into what Rudofsky defined as “communal vernacular,” “anonymous,” “spontaneous,” “indigenous,” “rural,” “non-formal,” “non-classified,” or “non-pedigreed” architecture.