Do you think the DA lost more support than they gained with their recent controversial poster?
Image via Mail & Guardian
I believe they may have. The biggest failing is that their campaign incited the wrong debate. Our country is facing so many social, economic and political challenges that they would have been better served to have focused on presenting a solution or approach to these.
Although I believe it was conceptualised and designed with honourable intentions, it has shown that the DA is out of touch with what South Africans want to hear from their politicians. It seems that the strategic and creative brief was more focused on creating controversy to turn heads and stimulate PR than it was on demonstrating a political stand point or strategy that South Africans can relate to and hold on to.
We designed a vintage-inspired website and online shop for Anomali, a bespoke jewellery design studio based in Cape Town.
“Anomali wanted a website with an vintage, rustic look to echo their jewellery design style,” says Daryl Glass, our creative director, “They also wanted to showcase their jewellery in a functional online store, which was an exciting new challenge.”
We’re looking for junior art director/finished artist with relevant experience and brilliant work ethic.
We look forward to your application if you’re a confident, creative self-starter with 1-2 years’ work experience who can take a job from concept to production without assistance.
Requirements: • Relevant qualification
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• Freehand
• Acrobat
• HTML coding experience would be advantageous
Remuneration: Dependant on experience
Location: 145 on Blaauwberg, 7441 Table View
Job type: Contract with view to go permanent
To apply, please submit your CV and portfolio of best work tojobs@powerof9.co.za
Please note: If you haven’t heard from us by the end of November, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful.
We have just launched the BeachWatch website. Check it out and tell us what you think!
BeachWatch is a mobile app that alllows you to watch live videos of Cape Town’s most popular beaches and surf spots on your mobile phone at anytime from anywhere.
Location-based marketing or networking isn’t exactly new but it’s been one controversial topic this year. People have been talking and tweeting about it but is it all it’s cracked up to be?
Foursquare, the site that allows users to ‘check-in’ to locations via mobile phones and broadcast their whereabouts, was created in 2009.
People who tweet don’t ‘thumbs-up’ like it when users connect their Foursquare account to Twitter and broadcasted their every move as in: “I’ve just checked in to PLACE X.”
The general sentiment on Twitter is “We don’t frigging care!”
Personally I’m not enthusiastic about location-based marketing, even though I set up a Foursquare account (hey, it’s part of my job). It’s a bit of an overshare that could delight psychopaths with stalkerish tendencies. And it seems I’m not the only sceptic.
‘Please Rob Me’ is a giggle worthy concept that highlights the dangers of broadcasting your location. It use to contain a stream of updates from location-based networks showing when users check-in somewhere other than their home. The idea is that when you tell people you’re not at home; it’s an ideal time for crooks to plunder your loot! It sure is something to think about!
So will location-based networks continue to be all the rage in 2011?
When Spring sprang in September, AMERICAN shutters gave Power of 9 the exciting task of shooting the fresh new season campaign.
The mission: to capture the way early Spring sunbeams sneak into a room through stunning shutters and chase Winter’s nip away. The warm rays cause even the embriodered foliage to bloom. The ultimate campaign to harness the budding vigour of the new season…Invite Spring! This seemed to be a somewhat simple task on paper but when it came to shooting, the mission proved a bit more challenging.
To all writers; words are weapons of mass construction (the opposite is also true).
If you’re reading this, I assume you understand English (or a reasonable facsimile thereof). I also assume you can read.
Amazed by my powers of assumption? Allow me to impress you further.
Because you’re perusing this blog I assume that when the Beatles parted ways, your parents, although perhaps coming together, had not yet fertilised the fact; and that it was probably your parents or, God forbid, your grandparents who were tripping in the Woodstock-induced free mud and sludge of 60s and 70s love.
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