You know those lists of the best blog designs, your favourite design sites, the hottest creative minds? Yeah. Well guess what – we are going one better. Our favourite SA interactive designers will be featured on MarkLives during the course of the next few months with interviews and samples of their best work. Because substantial designers deserve substantial coverage. Soweto based Reggie Legoale marries protest to design to create work that is both substantial and beautiful.
Tag archives: internet
SA Newspapers and their no sense approach to Twitter
MarkLives published a mini-survey on the popularity of SA news services on micro-blogging service Twitter in December last year. We thought it was time for an update.
Speakerbox rocking design
Speakerbox is an online music community that focuses primarily on South African music, music culture and live events. The look and feel of the identity is young, energetic and visually current, using a fair amount of hand done illustration with a limited colour palette to establish an overall brand consistency. From match boxes, t-shirts and skate boards to the website – Code made sure they designed one cool brand image.
Dropping ‘paper’ from news
The American Society of Newspaper Editors is planning to remove “paper” from its name and expand its membership to include editors of online-only news Web sites and journalism educators, the society announced yesterday.
SA Newspapers on Twitter
Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, isn’t being utilised properly by South African newspaper publishers. Internationally Twitter is being used by media organisations as diverse as CNN and the NYTimes to push breaking news to subscribers. Big name local brands such as The Star, Beeld, Die Burger, the Cape Times, the Sowetan and others are still missing in action. So which South African newspapers make use of Twitter?
4,5-million South Africans now online
The number of South Africans now online have risen to 4.5 million. This is the key finding of the Internet Access in South Africa 2008 study, released today by World Wide Worx.
This website went horizontal
Television commercials production company Velocity has launched a new website as part of the new Velocity Corporate identity designed by REX. Instead of going vertical the design went horizontal effectively showcasing Velocity’s work in a unique manner.
Major music label announces digital revenue exceeds CD sales
The label of music stars like Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin have announced that revenue from digital music downloads has surpassed that of CD sales.
Seeing is believing?
It’s no secret that consumers use the Internet to do product research. Before making important product-buying decisions, more and more people are going online to research products, prices – and alternatives. Even though word-of-mouth and recommendations from friends remain the most important methods for deciding on future purchases, even these are moving online with the …
Christian Science Monitor drops print for the Web
The 100 year old Christian Science Monitor will abandon its daily print edition next year in favour of its website and a weekly print title.