by Herman Manson. This full-service digital agency has grown from a four-person shop to a 40-person agency in little over 3.5 years.
Tag archives: durban
#Loeries2015 finalists (updated)
Loeries 2015 finalists are being announced each day during Creative Week Durban, taking place 10–13 August 2015. We are updating this list as new finalists are announced.
Loerie Awards: First finalists (incl Digital, Student & Ubuntu)
Loeries 2015 finalists are being announced each day during Creative Week Durban, taking place 10–13 August 2015. This is the first batch.
Motive: Amazing Faith47 murals — urbanism & the informal economy
by Mahala. Faith 47‘s murals in the Durban inner-city are complete. The walls are situated adjacent to the Early Morning Market in Warwick Triangle. The project was one of the Fringe Projects that form part of the 25th World Congress on Architecture, UIA2014.
Uber — not a taxi as you know it
by Herman Manson (@marklives) [SPECIAL OFFER FOR MARKLIVES READERS!] Uber, a mobile app that connects passengers with private drivers licensed to carry passengers, has recently set up in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban in its first foray into African markets.
Design Annotator: Fast Cars And Interesting Faces
Design Annotator with Uno de Waal is a new 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.
June is always a special month for us at Between 10and5. This month we focus on projects that young people are doing, or projects that involve the youth in some way. I’m really excited to bring you the best of what the next generation of South African creatives are bringing to the table. We also have some great illustration work as always, and a personal favourite of mine is the street photography coming from Durban.
New Durban agency launched by three ex-TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris staffers doing well
by Herman Manson. A new Durban based agency, Conversation LAB, launched August 1 after three TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris staffers broke away to go it alone, has successfully been picking up significant new business.
Brands require domain strategy for new gTLD names
Mike Silber, a Director at ICANN, says brands who have not participated in the current round of applications have been pressing to get clarity on further opportunities to apply for new gTLDs.
New generic top level domains hold dangers for brands, democratisation of Internet
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for the Internet’s naming system, is working its way through nearly two thousand applications for New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names.
The silence on COP17 and its unintended lesson for South Africans
South Africans have an extraordinary social conscience, says Thomas Kolster, the Danish communications consultant and author of the soon-to-be released book The Bible of Goodvertising (from Thames & Hudson) who is visiting South Africa in the run-up to the COP17/CMP7 conference being held in Durban, 28 November – 9 December 2011. Which is why the lack of public debate on and interest in COP17 here is so surprising to him.