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EXCLUSIVE: Cell C drops King James, FoxP2 – retains Ogilvy
Cell C has decided to drop King James and FoxP2 as its advertising agencies.
Cell C puts new agency decision on review
EXCLUSIVE: Cell C puts new agency decision on review
Mind the gap? Not anymore.
Over the last number of years Cape Town has come to the fore as the “Creative Capital” of South Africa’s advertising industry thanks to the consistently high ranking of a number of Cape Town agencies at local and international award shows.
Design Indaba 2012: Find courage and leave the Wookie pant-less
by Herman Manson Find courage. To leave the Wookie pant-less. To think wrong, and be right about it, to capture a sense of place in otherwise mundane spaces, to give when its not something your trade is known for, to order cities from the informal rather than the formal city. And to enjoy doing it. …
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Design Indaba 2012: Where it’s at
by Herman Manson. Cape Town is gearing up to host one of the world’s premier design conferences – the 2012 Design Indaba. DI regular and Pentagram partner Michael Bierut will MC this year’s, event alongside Michelle Constant and Khaya Dlanga.
The agency as an idea incubator
At the recent memorial and tribute to Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive, Chief Designer of Apple, had the following to say about ideas: “Steve treated the process of creativity with a rare and wonderful reverence. You see I think he, better than anyone, understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts. So easily missed. So easily compromised. So easily just squished.”
Matthew Bull, Andrew Whitehouse launch NY shop
Matthew Bull, former chief creative officer of Lowe & Partners (an Interpublic Group company) and founder of South African agency Lowe Bull, has teamed up with Andrew Whitehouse, executive creative director at FoxP2, to launch a New-York-based agency, The Bull-White House, which will be a sister agency to South Africa’s FoxP2.
Breaking now: Matthew Bull talks about the new NY shop he is launching with Andrew Whitehouse
Breaking news: Matthew Bull, former chief creative officer of Lowe & Partners (an Interpublic Group company) and founder of SA agency Lowe Bull, has teamed up with Andrew Whitehouse, Executive Creative Director at FoxP2, to launch a New York based ad shop, the Bull Whitehouse. The agency will be a sister agency to South Africa’s FoxP2.
Ad award success no longer sole arbiter of agency and industry respect
The 2011 Loerie Awards are done and dusted (no pun intended), with Cape Town agencies grabbing three of the top five (first, third and fifth) spots on the official overall ranking table. Two of the three Grands Prix were awarded to Cape-based agencies.