Shelf Life: David Adjaye to transform Hallmark House, new name for Orlando Stadium

Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland)’s weekly pick of recent product, packaging, design and food launches: Hallmark House is transforming into designer mixed-use space in Maboneng; Lipton launches a new combination flavour; Protea Fire & Ice! Menlyn opens; and the rebrand of Orlando Stadium is underway.

Shelf Life: Happy 50th, Lunch Bar! Here’s to much more munch, oviaas!

Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland)’s weekly pick of recent product, packaging, design and food launches: An iconic Cadbury chocolate turns 50; Coca-Cola bottles up its artistic side; new reds from Glenelly; and a shout out to brands which delivered in the #CapeFires.

Ad of the Week: In the Great Karoo, a flag visible from space

by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) Since 2010, FCB South Africa has been promoting the idea to ‘Keep Flying’ the flag. The latest news from this initiative is an effort to ‘ground’ the campaign in a legacy project: the Giant Flag in the Great Karoo, with socio-economic and ecological benefits.

Design Annotator: Everything about the Loeries

Design Annotator with Uno de Waal is a column featuring the top design work from South Africa’s biggest online creative showcase, Between 10 and 5, curated by Publisher Uno de Waal @Unodewaal.

I’ll be honest – when I looked at the calendar for September I had slight heart-attack at the busy schedule that started filling up my calendar for these next two weeks. Next week sees the start of Creative Week and the culmination in the 2013 Loerie Awards. Just after that it’s the FNB Joburg Art Fair and Str.Crd at the same time, not to mention the Hello Ambassador conference in Pretoria. Follow our ongoing coverage through our Facebook or Twitter accounts.

We’ve dedicated the column this week to the Loerie Awards – we’ve had a look at some past retrospective work, but also some interesting up and coming talent. Check it out.

Ever wondered what it took to win a Loerie in the decades past? We did, so we decided to take a look back – way back – into the Loeries archives to see if we could dig up some of the old winning work.

Creating happiness part of the job at thirtyfour

Often, when speaking to agency MDs and creative directors from many of the traditional flagships of South African advertising, the name of some specialist below-the-line agency would come up, and the conversation, flowing so easily around the currents of industry gossip but moments before, would grind to a halt. “I’ve never seen any of their work.” And I would go, “But you have…”

Media corrections and our social reputations

The modern news cycle has been diminished to a matter of minutes — even less on services like Twitter. And it seems to just keep speeding up.

From print to mobile, this conversation screams Laduuuuuuma!

Soccer Laduma is the biggest-selling sports publication in the country, as well as the biggest-selling male interest publication. It’s also the second biggest-selling weekly paper and the third biggest-selling newspaper in South Africa (after the Daily Sun and the Sunday Times). Not too shabby for a publication as niche in its content as Soccer Laduma.

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.

Avusa to discontinue SoccerLife 442, remains committed to consumer market

Avusa Magazines is closing down SoccerLife 442, the soccer lifestyle title it has been publishing for the past seven years. News of the closure comes in a memo from Avusa Magazines GM Justice Malala to staff that was leaked to Bizcommunity.com. The February 2011 issue, currently in the process of going out on newsstands across the country, will be the final one.

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