Javier Lourenco is the Buenos Aires-based creative director of visual studio Flamboyant Paradise and founder of TheUncoolHunter, a website throwing a cheeky middle finger to the trendoids of the world by insisting on filling in the often-ignored aspects of popular culture Wallpaper and Visi decide to give a miss.
Category archives: Media
Vision for Visi
Visi is one of a handful of truly iconic South African magazines. It has always prided itself in superior design and production values, as well as a quirkiness that resonated with many South Africans. For a while now, though, the public seems to have been less enamoured with the magazine as seen in its declining circulation in recent years.
Where fashion goes…
…The rest will follow. That is the assumption trend forecast analyst Dion Chang works on with his analysis of the fast-paced change the fashion industry is grappling with. He recently shared his findings at the Freeworld Design Centre in Cape Town as a guest of New Media Publishing.
SABC News “unprofessional”, “reckless” and “duplicitous” – BCCSA
SABC News has been shown to have sunk to a new low. The Broadcast Complaints Commission (BCCSA) has found that the SABC was “unprofessional and actually reckless”, as well as “duplicitous” and deceptive, in its broadcast of allegations by controversial businessman Robert Gumede that investigative journalist Sam Sole was ‘bribed’ with a R900 air ticket by John Sterenborg, a former business partner of Gumede, to investigate him.
[Design Indaba 2011] Glittering er design lights
by Herman Manson. Fear not, glitter pork and cupcakes are not on the menu at this year’s Design Indaba Conference. Instead, delegates will be treated to a range of fascinating characters from the design world, sharing global design best practice in areas as diverse as architecture, service delivery and advertising.
Bafana Bafana belongs to the people
The South African Football Association (SAFA) is investigating a name change for Bafana Bafana. While a lot of talk and opinion is being bandied about regarding the colloquial context of the name, SAFA is on record as to why it is planning to throw out the name three Sowetan sports writers coined in the early 1990s and adopted by the nation. It’s about money, plain and simple.
The trio tasked with bulging SAFA’s pockets even further investigating a name change to the benefit of the team and the country consists of SAFA president Kirsten Nematandani, vice-president Danny Jordaan and chairman of the referees committee Alpha Mchunu.
The world’s best-designed newspaper looks like a magazine
Portugal, that other country that used to sell itself as “more than you can imagine” (today it’s “Europe’s West Coast”), is home to the world’s best designed newspaper, i. Short for informação, i launched in 2009 to critical acclaim, and the newspaper has just been judged the World’s Best-Designed Newspaper by the Society for News Design.
MSN SA tries to regain traction with upgrade as Nielsen restates stats
MSN has always been the biggest invisible brand in South Africa’s digital content space. The default home page for millions of Internet Explorer users, local Hotmail and Window Live Messenger users have also received significant exposure to the content portal. It had become, according to MSN senior editor Justin Zehmke, little more than a compulsory stop on the way to another online property.
Clickthinking bought by international network
South African Internet and SEO agency Clickthinking has been purchased by Aegis Media, one of the world’s leading media communications and market research groups, for an undisclosed amount. Clickthinking is set to become the wholly owned South African office of the Aegis Media’s international iProspect network.
City Press defends journo as ANCYL responds to ombudsman’s findings
City Press editor Ferial Haffajee says her reporter, Piet Rampedi, has been subject to a general campaign of defamation by the ANC Youth League and its leader Julius Malema. This follows a media statement by the ANCYL (published here on Politicsweb) calling on City Press to take action against the journalist, following a judgement by the press ombudsman.