South Africa, the European Festival of Creativity produced by Cannes Lions has announced its Jury Presidents for the 2017 Festival. Jose Papa, Managing Director of Cannes Lions commented, “Every year the eurobest juries feature an exciting mix of fantastic regional talent and global creative leaders. European creativity leads the way in so many areas and […]
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Digital Africa Exhibition and Beats Bloc Party among exceptional highlights of 2017 Fak’ugesi Festival
From 6 to 16 September, the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is back in Johannesburg to celebrate technology, creativity, collaboration and innovation from across the African continent. The highly anticipated 2017 festival will officially open with the launch of the Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Exhibition on 8 September and close with the Festival Finale – Fak’ugesi […]
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The Adobe Design Achievers Awards (AADA), one of the largest print and digital design student competitions in the world, has selected four student teams from Vega, an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE), to go through to the AADA 2017 semi-finals. “The AADAs offer young designers the opportunity to launch their […]
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Safely Home, the Western Cape Government’s Department of Transport & Public Works’ road safety campaign, has released a new hard-hitting TV commercial created by FCB Cape Town and Egg Films. The dramatic commercial, titled ‘The Knock-On Effect’, illustrates how you can avoid the devastating knock-on effect of a crash when you knock just 5kph […]
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Snow, Tulips and Chimneys’ new animation, is the first television commercial in over 20 years for Cerebos, South Africa’s favourite salt brand. They jumped at the opportunity to add another iconic South African brand to their reel, which includes work for the likes of All Gold, Bakers Biscuits, Clover and M-Net. “We’re just waiting on […]
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By Adam Weber, executive creative partner – M&C Saatchi Abel Johannesburg In a pivotal episode of the classic series Band of Brothers, it’s mid-winter in the Ardennes forest region. The frozen and exhausted soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division, Easy Company, advance towards the Belgian town of Foy. During the attack, their commander, Lieutenant Norman Dike falls apart […]
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Art goes to the people via decals on minibus taxis The works of the six finalists in the 2016/17 SA Taxi Foundation Art Award will be on display to the South African public from the end of July, carried as decals on 60 minibus taxis. The taxis will travel on conventional routes in the cities […]
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FCB Africa – and its creative teams over the years – is responsible for the lion’s share of South Africa’s iconic television ads in the post-Apartheid era. The South African edition of the Huffington Post recently wrote that reflections on life after Nelson Mandela’s release ‘evoke a mixture of contempt and sadness, as well as […]
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Bonitas Medical Fund is building on the considerable success of its 2016 ‘Eureka’ campaign with ‘Epiphanies’, a new television commercial and supporting online proof point videos. The second largest open medical scheme in South Africa, Bonitas aims to make quality healthcare accessible to all South Africans and offers a wide range of products that are simple […]
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Debonairs Pizza, South Africa’s most satisfying fast service restaurant according to the recently released South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi), has taken ‘it’ to a new level with another television commercial that taps into the social fabric of its core target market. Encouraging South Africans to try the brand-new On the Triple® offering, ‘Levels’ is […]
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