Jaco Burger, a designer and partner at Die Ateljee will be heading off to Cannes following his win of the coveted Adams & Adams Young Creative Loeries Award. “My entry was a collection of work done mostly for cultural institutions; MoDILA (Museum of Design, Innovation, Leadership & Art), Wits Art Museum, UIA & SAIA Durban [...]
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Vega dominates at Loeries and Pendorings
The Vega School of Brand Leadership’s (Vega) reputation as a leader in brand innovation has again been cemented having recently won one Gold, three Silver, and three Bronze awards, and claiming three out of four craft awards at this year’s Loeries. In addition, its students also collected two silver Pendoring Awards for the Owl Rescue [...]
Intern wins gold at the Loeries
Six months ago, 140 BBDO creative intern Mawande (Manez) Sobetwa didn’t really know what a copywriter was. This weekend, he won gold at the Loerie Awards along with Lubalalo Mtati and JP Le Riche on the Snickers ‘Tongue Twister’ radio advertisement. Executive Creative Director at the agency, Ivan Johnson says that it’s fresh, unschooled and untainted talent [...]
Net#work BBDO wins Grand Prix at Loerie Awards
Net#work BBDO celebrates another successful year in radio advertising with a coveted Grand Prix Loeries for their ‘Mercedes-Benz – ‘Attention Assist’ campaign at the culmination of the 34th annual Loerie Awards held in Cape Town last night. This is the 19th Grand Prix for the agency in its 18 years of existence. In addition, the [...]
Adam&Adams 2012 Creatives Award Winners
“Enquiring minds make for exquisitely crafted creative works. The portfolios of this year’s Adams & Adams Young Creative Winners shows curiosity manifest itself in uniquely conceptualised work on a par with the best in the world,” says Mariette du Plessis, partner at law firm Adams & Adams – the sponsor of the Adams & Adams [...]
Net#work BBDO wins Gold at Pendoring Awards
Net#work BBDO wins Gold at the Pendoring Awards The entertaining and humorous TV campaign by Net#work BBDO for Ndalo Media magazine title Destiny Man had made waves as it depicts a socially inept character who is obviously not reader of the publication. The campaign concept was created and developed by Net#work BBDO Executive Creative Director [...]
AAA searches Gauteng for young copywriting talent
Starting today, the AAA School of Advertising in partnership with YFM, are embarking on a five-week campaign called the AAA/YFM Copywriting Challenge. The AAA is scouting for bright young individuals with a gift for creativity and the written word. The competition-based initiative aims to educate South Africa’s youngsters about the job opportunities within the advertising profession and to [...]
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris employees break-away to form new global agency
Durban and UK – A new creative agency, Conversation LAB has opened its doors in Umhlanga, Durban and Brighton, UK. Led by Kevin Power with 18 years global advertising experience, including BBDO London, Publics London, Marks and Spencer, the agency boasts local co-founders Tamerin Borland and Jonathan Oliff (who, with Kevin, hail from TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris) and [...]
Toms Fels joins MACHINE as deputy MD
Tom Fels, who was previously Business Unit Director at 34 and responsible for handling SAB and Foodcorp, has strong experience in strategic brand management, and more recently extensive experience in core shopper marketing, consumer engagement and sales promotions. In his capacity as Deputy Managing Director, Fels will focus on driving the integration of the specialist [...]
Fox P2 and Gloo win the 2012 Roger Garlick Award
At last night’s MOST Awards, AMASA announced Fox P2 and Gloo’s joint entry for Brandhouse as the overall Roger Garlick Award winner. Entered by Pete Case in the Best use of Online, Social Media and Mobile category, the entry showed how the two agencies jointly combated drinking and driving for its client through online [...]
