by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) This week on Design Annotator we’re highlighting: AfrikaBurn, photographer Brett Rubin, Bheki Dube’s Curiocity Backpackers, Motherland Coffee Co, art curator Zach Nossel, 10 botanical spaces and projects, and MACHINE’s Unite Joburg for adidas Originals.
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Heroes & Zeros: Nando’s & NSPCA — Andy Rice’s best & other best ads of the week
Andy Rice (@ricecommaandy) talks about his best (Nando’s) and other best (NSPCA) adverts of the week with Jenny Crwys-Williams during The Ad Feature on Talk Radio 702.
Ad of the Week: Rescue me
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) Most ad agencies adopt causes, but I’d like to single out Ogilvy Cape Town for its support of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) and the stellar print campaign that not only publicises what the NSRI does but makes a very clear call to action.
Heroes & Zeros: Andy Rice’s best & worst ads of the week
Andy Rice (@ricecommaandy) talks about his best (Barclays Premier League) and worst (Cruz Vintage Black Vodka & Hennessy) adverts of the week with Jenny Crwys-Williams (@jcwLIFE) during The Ad Feature on Talk Radio 702 (@Radio702).
Brand View: What’s in a beer bottle? Hansa Pilsener
Hansa Pilsener, produced by South African Breweries, recently celebrated 40 years in the South African market. Khensani Nobanda, general manager of Hansa Pilsener, provides a visual case study of the brand’s evolution over several decades.
Ad of the Week: Celebrate the Rainbow Nation with a…
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) It’s not the first time I’ve found a Coca-Cola campaign by FCB Johannesburg that’s stood out as my ‘best of the week’ — after all, it’s a brand that is made or broken by its image and brand identity. This time, it was the Coca-Cola Rainbow Nation experience in Jozi, part of the buildup to the Freedom Day celebrations, marking 20 years of democracy in South Africa, on 27 April 2014.
Ad of the Week: Meet your match — a matter of taste
by Oresti Patricios. This very classy campaign from Johnny Walker caught my eye. It’s a brand that has a lot of traction, and we’ve looked at the “Keep Walking” campaign before, but this felt like a case of getting back to basics and really getting customers to look at the product in a new way.
Ad of the Week: Imagine if banking were fun
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) Banking is hardly something I get excited about, let alone consider ‘fun’. The latest campaign from Standard Bank starts out feeling a little like those ‘Maths is Fun’ or ‘Reading is Fun’ books we used to get at primary school. Except it actually works.
Design Annotator: Cloudy with a Chance of Pixels
by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) The inaugural Cloudy with a Chance of Pixels creative symposium was held in Johannesburg on Thursday, 10 April. Touching on everything from the ‘third industrial revolution’ to a timeline of design’s influence on nation building; 12 dynamic speakers shared their stories, insights, lessons and observations throughout the course of the day.
Ad of the Week: Pranking the Audience
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) Sometimes being a junior creative in an ad agency can be less about being creative and more about being, well, junior — learning the ropes, and doing useful but boring stuff. Like fetching coffee for the Art Director. So it’s really cool when junior ad people can get an opportunity to spread their creative wings. The Cannes Young Lions does this by pitting young creatives (under 28 years of age) against each other with an annual competition that gives contestants just 48 hours to conceive and produce an ad for a mystery topic.