Shelf Life: New positioning for heritage Cape brand

Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland)’s weekly pick of recent product, packaging, design and food launches: 330-year-old Boschendal brand refreshes; Nando’s goes uptown; and Momentum’s foray into fashion.

Ad of the Week: Nando’s serves up the good news

by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) From Nkandla to load-shedding, from chaos in parliament to ISIS, the bad news seems to be coming at us hard and fast. Thankfully, there’s a flame-grilled chicken brand with a good sense of humour that’s campaigning hard to get us to laugh.

#designindaba diary: Reclaiming public buildings and beauty in Dakar #makechange

by Herman Manson (@marklives) The 2015 Design Indaba Conference’s in-between day (usually day one and day three are the strongest) still delivered some gems to delegates: Robbie Brozin, Selly Raby Kane, Omar Victor Diop, Santiago Cirugeda and Stefano Giovannoni.

Ad of the Week: Call me chicken but it’s a tie

by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) Two of South Africa’s favourite fast-food chicken outlets, Chicken Licken and Nando’s, have seen new television commercials flying forth from their creative coops. And — happy day — both use humour to market the respective (but competing) brands.

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