by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) This week’s Design Annotator includes: World Design Capital 2014 via Instagram, Yenza — Make It, 365 Postcards for Ants, Better Living Challenge, Plascon Design Awards, Guild Design Fair, Anthony Bila, Daniel Ting Chong, Machine’s second birthday, MTN’s “We’re Guilty” and Tuffy’s sweet makeover.
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Hilarious response from Cell C to MTN’s “We’re Guilty”
Cell C has responded to MTN’s open letter that was published in the Sunday Times this past weekend.
Ad of the Week: The great banking switcheroo
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) This week I want to focus on the innovative use of a screen we’re all familiar with — but that has largely been ignored by advertisers. Yup, I’m talking about automatic teller machine (ATM) screens.
Design Annotator: #designindaba expo product highlights, new Polo Vivo ad a hit
by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) Today’s Design Annotator features the best from 10and5 in the form of: Design Indaba Expo highlights and brand activations; the new Volkswagen Polo Vivo TVC “The Hit”; Native VML’s e-reader app, bookly; a TV licence ad; SA-born comic book artist Willem Samuel; Mirage magazine’s Henrik Purienne; more on Absa’s L’Atelier competition; and visual development artist Lorraine Alvarez Posen.
Ad of the Week: KFC crosses cultural barriers
by Oresti Patricios. There’s nothing that makes South Africans more patriotic than being away from home. That’s the archetype that Kentucky Fried Chicken, the brand now known as KFC, has leaned heavily upon to promote its ‘finger licking’ fast food in its new South African TVC, “Tastes Like Home”, from Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg.
Design Annotator: Design Indaba wrap-ups, hackathons & floral installations
by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) This week on Design Annotator we’ve rounded up: Design Indaba field notes; Absa’s Make Think Become Did initiative; MTN’s Seed It campaign; XooXity hackathon; last year’s Absa L’Atelier competition winners; Marissa Pretorius of Cape Town-based florist, OPUS; illustrator Jaco Haasbroek; Stefanus Nel’s Blink Project; and multi-talented artist Nardstar*.
Ije Nwokorie and the messy truth #designindaba
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Design Indaba 2014 speaker Ije Nwokorie believes in making a mess — especially when it comes to brands and branding. His unconventional but highly successful approach to marketing is traced, by Nwokorie himself, to his upbringing in rural Nigeria, and the creativity he had to display in dodging bullies and buses.
Nandipha Mntambo’s Ode to the Silence #designindaba
Nandipha Mntambo won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art in 2011 and is a speaker at Design Indaba 2014. She has had four solo shows at Stevenson in Cape Town (2007, 2009, 2012) and Johannesburg (2009); and held her first European solo exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, in 2013.
The many faces of Zanele Muholi — ‘Faces and Phases’ #designindaba
Zanele Muholi, a visual activist and photographer, is a speaker at the 2014 Design Indaba. In 2013 she won the Fine Prize for an emerging artist at the 2013 Carnegie International and the prestigious Prince Claus Award, presented in Amsterdam.
Athi-Patra Ruga: Not your average wallflower #designindaba
Athi-Patra Ruga was born in Umtata in 1984 and lives and works in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. Athi-Patra Ruga was recently included in the Phaidon book Younger Than Jesus, a directory of over 500 of the world’s best artists under the age of 33. He is a speaker at a speaker at Design Indaba 2014.