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.
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Media Future: You can’t bank on it
Absa and Investec both finally launched banking apps in the last two weeks – and both have taken a narrow view of the market, writes Arthur Goldstuck (@art2gee).
Two major banks have finally come out of labour and given birth to mobile apps to complete the South African family of financial apps. Both Absa and Investec showed off their long-awaited apps to the world in the last twe weeks, joining FNB, Standard Bank and Nedbank in the nursery of 21st century banking technology.
The proudest parents this week were the members of the Absa team who had climbed into bed with their, err, parent company, Barclays, to produce an app with clear African credentials.
Ad of the Week with Oresti Patricios – a bank moves forward (by looking back)
by Oresti Patricios. As the very foundation of banks change, how does one position banking brands favourably for the future? Standard Bank has answered this conundrum with a very clever campaign that looks backward in order to look forward.
Market Research Wrap: First SA BrandZ ranking released
Standard Bank is SA’s biggest brand, and banking sector set for change — Cheryl Hunter’s weekly wrap of the latest market and consumer research.
Ad of the Week: Carpe diem
by Oresti Patricios. NATIVE VML and Arcade Content have created a Standard Bank campaign to lift South Africans out of the doldrums.
2015 Smarties winners
The Mobile Marketing Association of South Africa has announced the 2015 South African MMA Standard Bank Smarties winners.
You’ve probably shopped at Design Partnership
by Herman Manson (@marklives) If you’ve walked into a Hungry Lion or a Standard Bank branch, MTN, Tile Africa, Nando’s, or even a Shoprite Liquor store, you would have experienced a retail environment designed by Design Partnership, the specialist retail-and-hospitality design consultancy.
Design Annotator: Yield street art, Four Corners, and love for cities
by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) Today on Design Annotator we’ve got: r1’s street art Yield; Spier Architectural Arts creative director Liani van der Westhuizen; new work by Wesley van Eeden; Cape Town Love app; Josh Hayman’s GoldRush; Four Corners director Ian Gabriel; making of Four Corners; XooXity Hackathon recap and winner; 2014 Loerie Awards campaign; and the new Standard Bank TVC from TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris and Egg Films.
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.
Shelf Life: Downton Abbey wallpaper!
LG proclaims ‘It’s all possible’ when ‘Life’s Good’; Standard Bank moves ‘design forward’; trendy Woodstock gets some Middle-Eastern flavour; you can own a ‘piece’ of Downton Abbey; and we’re still waiting to hear when Kiehl’s will open in Cape Town…