Archive for May, 2008

It’s the morning after the D&AD Awards and my head is telling me I should have stayed off the white wine last night.
The twitter posts from my mobile were a plentiful (see here and here), but alas the Internet at the event was non-existant and I was unable to live blog the event. Below is [...]

Go South Africa!!! Just in from Mark Forrester via twitter: BBDO Cape Town has won a Yellow Pencil in Radio Advertising for Drums for client Marshall Music! Listen to the radio ad here.
The other South African nomination, King James for kulula.com Credit Card “Hijax” in Broadcast Innovations, unfortunately did not place.
PS For more tweeting from [...]

A few weeks ago I was asked by Bizcommunity if i would attend the D&AD Awards 2008 and blog about the experience. That wasn’t a hard question to answer, seeing the D&AD Awards is just about the most internationally respected and prestigious creative awards for the design and advertising industries!
With about an hour to spare [...]

The Times Online has just gone live with its completely restructured multimedia portal, http://multimedia.times.co.za.  Bizcommunity.com caught up with busy-bee Justin Hartman,  digital innovation manager at Avusa Media, who said:
The Times Multimedia portal launched today after a couple weeks of heavy development. We decided to utilise the open source content management platform WordPress to power the [...]

Tonight, Thursday, 15 May 2008, is the night! Creative minds everywhere are now spinning in anticipation of clutching that Black or Yellow Pencil in their sweaty palms and glowing with pride in front of the 1800 guests expected at the upcoming D&AD awards ceremony and Bizcommunity.com will be there in London, courtesy of our latest [...]

If you were ever in doubt what to get the geek in your life – or indeed anyone who sits in front of a computer for long hours – heated slippers and gloves that you can pop into the microwave, or plug into your computer’s USB port, are perfect this winter! The Bizcommunity team can [...]

Well, thanks to the SABC, there was no shortage of news headlines last week - always a concern for a trade daily during/after public holidays! And as many pundits are saying - a better script couldn’t have been written by any of the local soapie creators. In fact, it comes closer to resembling a Shakespearian [...]