Spring Sale
Find locally made gifts, jewellery, ceramics, accessories and other crafts in Muizenburg this Saturday.
Another Thesis Social Jam Session this Sunday
Stan The Man with the plan…. This session is dedicated to Stanley Parkies our first host. He has passed on, but the beat must go on and this is our farewell to him.
In order to keep things fresh and expose new people to the streets, we have a live act line up with two groups that have never performed in Soweto before and its a blessing that we have them with us. First is Bongiziwe Mabandla and The Fridge. This is a three guitarist band that sings folk music. 5th Floor is a hip hop duo from the streets of Cape Town that is breathing fresh air to the hip hop infested market of South Africa. They have already blessed Party People hosted by DJ Kenzhero. Read more…
Reusable packaging for Primi Piatti
The new Primi Piatti take away packaging is designed by Blacksheep graphic design studio. The packaging is made from 100% recycled paper with a built in grease-proof lining ensuring it maintains its shape when you do this -
All the take-away packaging can be reused as potting trays. Blacksheep says, “We decided to illustrate this idea in the form of a step-by-step guide on the back of each box.” Even though the design is based on functionality it still maintains a slick aesthetic. Click through to take a look. Read more…
Idea Bounty – Peperami Crowdsourced TVC
Peperami has just launched a new “it’s a bit of an animal” advert to British TV viewers. The ad features the memorable self-cannibalising “animal”, from earlier Peperami ads, but now it has equally wild kids – “they’re bits of an animal”. Having recently split with Lowe, their agency of 15 years, Peperami opted to source the creative idea for this ad, not from an agency, but from the “people”.
The latest ad was conceived and scripted by Rowland Davies, an ex-creative director from Germany who submitted his idea with Kevin Baldwin, a copywriter from London. Their joint effort beat 1,185 entries and won the $10,000 prize facilitated by crowdsourcing platform, Idea Bounty. Read more…
Carte Blanche turns 22
Carte Blanche, M-Net pay-channel’s flagship magazine and actuality programme, is turning 22 this year and to celebrate they’re throwing a party and inviting everyone. The “CB22: It’s all about you” campaign will make use of Carte Blanche’s Facebook and Twitter pages to vote on which stories will be seen on Carte Blanche on Sunday, 12 September 2010. Read more…
It’s Arbour Day tomorrow
With more than 350 trees donated through their site and organic fertiliser sponsored by Neutrog Fertilisers, Greenpop has serious plans for Arbour Day tomorrow.
Greenpop have been in touch with two pre-schools in Vrygrond, Sunrise pre-school and Ithemba pre-school, and they’ve requested 15 trees each, so the team will be there tomorrow getting them into the ground and educating the children and teachers on good tree care.
Keep up the good work Greenpop! Remember, if you’d like to help out you can donate a tree or volunteer your planting services at www.greenpop.org.
Bob’s Your Uncle
The newest logo and package design by Fanakalo is for something truly unique – Wine in a beer bottle! The product is a Boer & Brit wine, perfect for picnics, people who don’t want to drink an entire bottle of wine in a restaurant, or just perfect for drinking straight from the bottle.
Sold in South Africa for 20 Bob. Read more…
Ogilvy + Write on Africa’s Creative Fundraiser
You’re invited by Ogilvy and Write on Africa to ‘come watch an arty movie, with arty people at an arty venue’ to raise funds for the Percy Bartley House Rejuvenation. The movie is entitled “Long Street” and is by filmmaker, Revel Fox. It’s set in Cape Town (in case you didn’t get that from the title) and stars the well-known South African director’s wife, Roberta Fox, his daughter, Sannie Fox, from the band, Machineri and Busi Mhlongo. Read more…
1 in 100 000
This is a campaign for The Sunflower Fund by The Jupiter Drawing Room and Clickthinking. The Sunflower Fund is an organisation which was founded in 1999 by parents of children with leukaemia, to try and get financial support and raise the number of bone marrow stem cell donors in South Africa.
The 1 in 100 000 Challenge was conceptualised as a build up to National Bandana Day on 12 October 2010. The campaign, designed by Jupiter Drawing Room, demonstrates the harsh odds that only one in every 100 000 people suffering from leukaemia will find a bone marrow stem cell match. Read more…
New Dunlop TVC
Dunlop has a new tv ad currently screening to advertise Dunlop Zones, their retail outlets. The ad aims to position Dunlop Zones as the ultimate destination for a premium tyre fitment experience, and outstanding service from passionate, committed professionals. The ad is focused on ‘Human Precision’ as opposed to their previous commercial, here, that focused on driving precision.
The advertising agency who came up with the concept for the commercial is O’Donoghue & Associates. John O’Donoghue says, “We were given the challenge to show how Dunlop Zone dealers are passionate in a very precision driven way, capturing viewers’ attention in a manner that builds on the success of our previous precision driving advert”
The production company who shot the commercial is Collective Films and the ad stars the talents of three Parkour artists, including world renowned British Parkour ace and stuntman Chase Armitage, along with two of South Africa’s own Parkour talents, Dane Grant and Vernon Willemse, playing the role of Dunlop Zone staff.
(Parkour, also known as Free Running, is a demanding physical and mental discipline in which participants fluidly navigate a route using their surroundings to keep moving forward and in doing so perform acrobatic launches, bounces and jumps off and around various natural elements.)
