Archive for July, 2009
Heineken does good
Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
True story. One of the hooligans in our office bought a case of Heineken for his bar at home.
When he cracked open the first bottle – doh – beer's flat. After a rather bleak evening without a bracingly cold green beer in his hands, he pens a letter to Heineken outlining his overwhelming sadness.
In response, Heineken South Africa sent him literally a truck load of free Heineken gear to kit for his bar. Ice buckets, flags, a huge neon sign and even slipslops for crying out loud. You name it, he's got it.
Clearly a celebratory party was called for and one of the lovely girls arrived with a specially baked and iced Heineken cake to thank the good Heineken gods for their kind and generous gesture. The gods smiled on them that night and ever since, our young hooligan hasn't stopped raving about his favourite beverage and the stylin' people that run it.
Nice one Heineken. You saw an opportunity to make young hooligan feel like a rockstar and seized it.
Now can we chat about our office and in particular an empty area of it which would look just great with a snappy little fridge filled with frosty green bottles in it?
1000 Drawings: Coming to South Africa in November
Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
If you like drawing stuff – then you can put your habit to good use this November when 1000 Drawings hits SA.
Drawings are sold for R100 with all the money going to charity.
All are welcome to draw and make a difference.
Draw anything on anything with anything.A5
Sign and date your work and be sure to add your email add.
If our Mac doesn't start behaving itself we're going to cut an A5 sized slice of it out and draw exactly what we think of it for submission. That'll count, yes?
More: 1000 Drawings website
BRAND HOOLIGANS: Thanks, sounds and pics
Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
BRAND HOOLIGANS yesterday went down a treat. Huge thanks once again to all of our awesome and inspiring speakers: Mike Schalit, Andrew Baxter, Justin Letchert, Andrew Smith and Shane Dryden as well as Nadine Botha.
Massive thank you as well to our brand partners for the day: Jack Black Beer for the six-packs and kegs, the New Space Theatre for the stunning venue, the Grand Daddy Hotel for the Trailer Park and usual legendary service, Tradewinds for the stage furnishings and & Union for the delicious pre-event lunch / beer and coffee experience.
Download Playing african music
As part of our presentation, we sent team out into the city as an exercise in urban inspiration to capture the essense of Cape Town in a 1 minute sound byte on their cellphones. What they found in twenty minutes was amazing. These are a few of them.
You – the action figure
Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
News from Japan now – a toy maker there is offering action figures molded to replicate a photograph that you send them. We're assuming that it's a photograph of yourself that you're wanting to make all buff and unreal.
Nice. Now you can clone yourself in plastic. It's you…just better, and harder. More…there.
[via JapanToday]
Mick Jagger’s daughter for Hudson Jeans
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
News now is that Georgia May Jagger, the 17 year old daughter of legendary British rocker Mick Jagger and supermodel Jerry Hall, has been recruited to be the new advertising face of Hudson Jeans.
We've never heard of Hudson Jeans and had no idea that Mick Jagger was capable of producing children after wearing such tight crotch-hugging pants all through the 70's, but as a choice of a celebrity face of a jeans brand Ms Jagger is an inspired one.
More over at Sassybella.com
Biblioteq bookshelf
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
Biblioteq is a Cape Town art bookstore which recently relocated from Kloof Street to the Loading Bay near the Cape Quarter.
To draw awareness to the move – the folk over at frank wonderment, Lowe Bull’s design company, created this interesting bookshelf. The agency designed and created a square font that, when enlarged and constructed, spells out Biblioteq.
Can you see it big boy? Look real careful. Yeeeeeesssssssss. Love the inclusion of the AK-47. Always comes in handy during home time in Claremont or on shopping trips to Canal Walk it seems
Designer: Simone Michelle Rayner
Photography: reneé frouws
Assistant: Rotem
[thanks Brian]
Nike ad: Lance Armstrong ‘Feed the Warrior’
Posted on 28. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
Armstrong + Nike = New ads [funny] You wanna feed the warrior? [video link]
Reminds us a bit of Terry Tate the office linebacker
[via @jontyfisher]
Rubbish art
Posted on 28. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
This is essentially what those striking sanitation people were trying to get right yesterday.
Looks like a pile a junk, but shine a light on it and an art work magically appears as a shadow.
Freaky.
More here. [thanks Mia]
BRAND HOOLIGANS speaker profile: Andrew Smith and Shane Dryden
Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
The far reaches of Internet retail in South Africa are dangerous places. The landscape is littered with the carcasses of failed ventures and once 'amazing ideas' born in the fires of after-rugby braais fueled with Klippies and Coke.
But leading the way, armed to the teeth with razor-sharp weapons and nerves of steel, is the dynamic duo of Andrew Smith and Shane Dryden from the legendary online kitchen tool outfit Yuppiechef.
Although at first glance they may look like kind, friendly chaps – at night they stalk the stark, windswept halls of Internet cafes in the bowels South Africa's biggest cities, into which even the police fear to tread, for touts, fraudsters and Retail 2.0 heathens that dare chance their luck with stolen credit cards.
Three years on, thousands of sales later and enough online retail experience to give Jeff Bizos a run for his money, the guys join us to share their secrets to online profitability and what's going to be hot after 2010.
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Experience Shane and Andrew together with five other marketing visionaries at
the BRAND HOOLIGANS experiential marketing conference hosted by
Cherryflava on the 30th July 2009 in Cape Town.
Tickets are still available for the event – all the details on how to book your spot can be found here.
Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France Art bikes
Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.
The Tour de France is now over for another year. No drugs were found – yet, but did you happen to notice the tricked out art bikes Lance was abusing on the 'special' stages?
The bike he rode yesterday into Paris was designed using real butterflies – to save weight and all that.
Tour de France, Hirst customized a Trek Madone with a gorgeous array of
real butterflies from the frame down to the Bontrager rims, which also
bear a repeating pattern of the willowy creatures. Eschewing the
traditional LIVESTRONG yellow in favor of bright shocking pink logos
all around, Hirst brings even more attention to the cause in a
colorscheme that can be easily read at nearly any distance (or speed).
All the special stages bike were designed by some of the world's most influential artists to support Lance's Livestrong foundation.
The Exhibition opens at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris before traveling to the United States this autumn.
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