Shelf Life: Going wild with brave, integrated design in (South) Africa

Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland)’s weekly pick of recent product, packaging and design launches: VISI’s “Wild Design” tells us why we should love living in Africa and the World Design Capital of 2014; HKLM capitalises on annual report integrated reporting requirements; House of Brave’s office redesign; and Chris Pine decodes Armani.

Sport magazines getting creative with cover designs

MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. By media blogger MediaSlut.

‘Nowhere to hide’ – The best magazine covers this week.

MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. By media blogger MediaSlut.

Magazine covers (from Russia) with love

MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them.

Magazine covers we love: All boxed in

National Geographic is famous for a lot of things, but one aspect of NG stands out as a trademark symbol, the thick yellow border. It’s recognized everywhere and distinguishes this publication from most others.

Cover S’Hot: Magazine covers we love (this week)

The death of Apple founder Steve Jobs definitely made news worldwide, and every weekly publication tried to do something unique and special with their covers, but I found my absolute favourite (below). On the local front, this time of the month is really slow, because most magazines come out around payday. NewsNow, which really tood out for me as did the Visi wrap-around.

New Media adapts strategy for digital world

Firms such as New Media (formerly New Media Publishing) have always positioned themselves as the meeting point between content and marketing. Now they are moving away from pulp and ink (though it remains a large and profitable chunk of the business) towards multiple platforms including mobile, the web and tablets.

Vision for Visi

Visi is one of a handful of truly iconic South African magazines. It has always prided itself in superior design and production values, as well as a quirkiness that resonated with many South Africans. For a while now, though, the public seems to have been less enamoured with the magazine as seen in its declining circulation in recent years.

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