by Emma King. Why isn’t the public relations industry in South Africa innovating more?
Tag archives: innovation
Fair Exchange: Balancing innovation with renovation
by Erna George. As we start the New Year with resolutions and new plans, innovation and change are top of mind.
#CannesLions: Innovation winners
Cannes Lions Innovation 2015 has announced winners in the Creative Data and Innovation categories. South Africa has no wins in either category.
Beyond Borders: Driving innovation and its role in Africa’s prosperity
by Craig Page-Lee (@cpl_ignite) A consistent topic that is appearing more frequently across the multitude of publication and blogs that I trawl through, in the quest for greater knowledge, is that of innovation.
Green Sky Thinking: I make therefore I innovate
by Colwyn Elder (@colwynelder) Design-hungry patrons certainly got their fill at the end of February 2014 with Design Indaba’s signature lineup of creatively inspirational speakers, complemented by the prestigious GUILD exhibition, Africa’s first international design fair. In keeping with Cape Town’s WDC premise “Live Design, Transform Life”, sustainability was a key theme across both.
SA wins Media and Outdoor Lions #canneslions
The Innovation, Media, Mobile and Outdoor Lions category winners have been announced at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. See also SA Cannes Lions winners Day 1.
Design Indaba 2012: John Bielenberg is wrong (and right about it)
It seems like graphic designer John Bielenberg will not be defined solely by his creative credentials. And there are plenty of those, including arms-full of awards, exhibitions, honorary degrees and fellowships.
Ad Agency business model not innovating or evolving
Loeries 2009: Apocalypse Now? With Loeries 2009 looming Herman Manson asks if the ad agency business model remains sustainable.
Behind the trillion dollar billboard
Conceptualised and created by TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris, these billboards and posters for The Zimbabwean newspaper were made entirely of worthless Zimbabwean bank notes. The billboard is made up of trillions and trillions and trillions worth of Zim dollar notes, which worked out to be cheaper than using paper.
Survival of the ad-apted
I was speaking to Clem Sunter the other day when he told me that in Darwin’s first edition of Origin of the Species, Darwin didn’t talk about survival of the fittest, rather the survival of the adapted. The short code = those who survive (and thrive) are those that adapt the fastest. What Darwin meant was that survival is ensured for those who best fit the environment as it changes.