Client: Saint-Etienne International Design Biennale 2009
Title: AIDS (Cock & Pussy = AIDS)
A comment on HIV/AIDS illustrated by icon (to avoid language issues) and was part of an installation that included ‘AIDS wallpaper’ as a backdrop to the cock/pussy
Tag archives: south africa
Garth Walker: Jabu Ndlovu and the G13
This week MarkLives is dedicated to the work of South African design great Garth Walker.
Client: Saint-Etienne International Design Biennale 2009
Title: Jabu Ndlovu – Self Portrait
Says Garth: A comment on the (current) G8 which will grow to include 13 countries (including South Africa). Jabu is an alter ego for young disenchanted Africans who see their leaders as having sold out to the ‘boys club’. At their cost. Jabu shows his feelings towards the Group of 13 nations…
The disintermediation of GSM operators
The disintermediation of GSM operators: Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are at serious risk of losing revenue to disruptive startups in the next 12 to 24 months.
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:
Mark Issue 2: Blueprint (to surviving in ad land during the recession)
Mark Issue 2: Blueprint (to surviving in ad land during a recession)
Txt the people
Mobile marketing is in its infancy as it struggles with usability, measurement and education – yet all bets are it’s going to be big. By Herman Manson
Tom of Finlands heads down South…
Tom of Finland, one of the newest perfumes by Etat Libre d’Orange, is making its debut in South Africa. Ogilvy Johannesburg is the appointed agency. The Tom of Finland perfume pays tribute to the fetish artist of the same name notable for his stylized homoerotic art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture.
Revealed: What South Africans think about the ad industry
In the US two-thirds of people feel that ad agencies have some responsibility for the current worldwide economic crisis by causing people to buy things they could not afford. How about here in South Africa?
Windows 7 Review: Windows as it should be?
On April 30 Microsoft unveiled the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) – the final Beta version of the upcoming release of its new operating system – to the developer community. Today (5 May) it goes live to the public. The initial Beta released in January has been polished, updated and improved. Microsoft have also included new functionality, namely XP mode, which uses Virtualisation to run older XP programmes natively in Windows 7, promising 100% XP compatibility. Will this release be the one to finally set aside Windows XP (and kill off Vista)? STEVEN AMBROSE blows his download data cap again, downloads all the bits, and puts Windows 7 RC to the test.
Lucky the three legged Cheetah launch the Golf 6
Ogilvy Cape Town has come up with a wonderful ad for the launch of the Golf 6 that is bound to end up being one of our favourate ads for the year.
The team flew up to Namibia, which has the world’s largest wild cheetah population, and found with a woman called Marlice van Vuuren who rehabilitates wild animals, including cheetahs at her game farm near Windhoek. She drove a three-legged cheetah that she was rehabilitating around in her bakkie. The Golf 6 found its launch star. Its director was Henry-Alex Rubin, an Oscar-nominated documentary director now directing commercials.