Starting on Friday 30 March and ending Sunday 1 April 2012, the annual Toffie Pop Festival, a festival/conference hybrid that celebrates contemporary popular culture, publishing, design and art, is once again taking place at the Cape Town City Hall.
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Finding Cape Town’s Design Voice
Can Cape Town become to Johannesburg what Austin is to Dallas, Barcelona is to Madrid or San Francisco is to LosbAngeles – not as big, not as industrial but certainly more creative, entrepreneurial and tech-centric? Gavin Levinsohn, CEO of Ogilvy Cape Town asks the question, but already it seems rhetorical.
S’HOT 2011 review: Pop culture town
The Client: Toffie Pop Culture festival
The Agency: The President
The Brief: Create a CI for the annual Toffie Pop Culture festival.
Creative Solution: Create a CI that embodies the creative, yet accessible spirit of the festival and conference, based in Cape Town.
Creative Team: Peet Pienaar (creative director)
Chew on pop and design culture at Toffie
The Toffie Pop Culture Festival and Design Conference is back in Cape Town for its second year and promises to give delegates lots to chew on (ok, that was cheap – like the tickets!). The festival/conference hybrid, which takes place at the truly lovely grand dame of Cape Town, the City Hall, Thursday 24 March – Saturday 26 March 2011, offers a mix of workshops, speakers, curated exhibitions, films, boxing matches and parties.
Inside Coco Joe
A look inside Coco Joe
Channel O launches Coco Joe
Channel O has appointed design and publishing consultancy The President to launch the magazine Coco Joe as a brand extension for the channel. The magazine is segmented with half the print run appealing to females (Coco) and the other half at males (Joe). This issue was edited by Johannesburg based Nonkululeko Mlangeni – whose recent …
The MK Bruce Lee preview
ssue 3 of MK Buce Lee will be in-store end of May 09. MK Bruce Lee is a quarterly publication focussing on the local music scene and is sponsored by music channel MK. Agency The President recently scooped a silver CLIO statue at the 50th Annual CLIO Awards. The magazine won the award in the category for Editorial Design. MarkLives provides a preview of the next issue: