Loeries: Feed Your Ego - Part 2
If you’ve got an ego so large that even a big fat raise, your boss’s job and a supermodel won’t satiate, then The Loerie Awards has created just the site for you.
In line with this year’s campaign missive to Feed Your Ego, the folks at Hello Computer have designed a nifty little microsite where you can leave behind all semblance of civility and challenge other industry heavyweights to online duels.
Registering is simple, and once you have signed in, you have creative license to tailor-make your very own online ego, by selecting from a variety of options on each visual aspect of your character. If you really want to show-off, you can even download an ego skin and design your digital self from egotistical head to toe. Then the game begins, as your online ego enters the arena and challenges other characters to a battle for the title of Master of the Loerie-verse. The ultimate winner receives two Rock Star Passes to this year’s Loerie Awards in Cape Town from 24 - 27 September- a prize worth fighting for!
Create your very own (alter) ego: register on www.feedyourego.co.za. Entries close on 14 September and the winner will be announced on 19 September.
Ross Hillier photography
Check out the photography work from Ross Hillier, a photographer based in Cape Town.
Born in the Cape and driven by the inspiration of this mad and wonderful world.
I’m an artist with a need to capture the things around me as they appear as well as touching on social and moral issues that play such a big part of all of our lives and this planet.
Usually found nocturnal.
Inspired by music and the ocean and light and life. Forever with my eye through a lens.
Gloo - Simba Gram
Another site developed by Gloo. This one allows you to create messages sung by Simba Potatoes and send them on to your friends. The concept is not new but still quite a nice execution of this, with some cool videos being created for each of the possible selections. Worth having a look to at least see the appreciate the quality of the finishing touches on this.
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10and5 presents Twoshoes
10and5 is super excited to feature Twoshoes, Cape Town’s latest design duo:
Twoshoes Graphic Designers are Quinton Bruton & Toby Attwell. Based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Quint’s childhood was spent barefoot and herding imbuzi (goats) in the foothill of KwaZulu Natal and in the suburbs of Harare, where Toby lived, it was so hot that no one ever wore shoes. When they reached the big city they bought a pair to share. It works for them.
Although great believers in free speech they care more about what the message looks like and prefer to arrest your attention with art and technology. Incredibly powerful and compelling visuals and images are their way of representing an idea. When typography talks everyone listens. Even in the new South Africa there’s value in white spaces and no one needs to speak all 11 official languages for the message to be loud and clear.
Quint and Toby say it’s ok to judge a book or album by its cover. The design on a T-shirt should attract attention and provide pleasure – who needs substance when you can have form? Music festivals, posters, books & packaging. Pet food and parties. Local looks much lekkerer and visual puns hit home the hardest.
Let this dynamic duo realize your potential, they’ll keep both feet, bare or otherwise, firmly on the ground as they elevate your image, but hey that’s enough chatting its time to go graphic and get designing.
Visit Twoshoe’s website here.
Gloo - Ghost Pop Banners
I recently found this banner by Gloo (ED: Hey Gloo how about sending them to us in the future! We love these!! 
Really enjoyed the concept of a normal washing ad that goes wrong when you mouse over. Great concept, awesome execution. Definitely worth having a look.
What’s your thoughts?
Volkswagen/Golf 6 “Biker Gang”
This ad for VW from Ogilvy Cape Town took first place in May’s Ad of the Month Newspaper category. The copy reads “The quietest cabin in its class. New Golf.”
Agency: Ogilvy CT
Client: Volskwagen
Product: Golf 6
Title: Biker Gang
CD: Chris Gotz
AD: Prabashan Pather
CW: Sanjiv Mistry
Photo. Guy Neveling
Stonewall+ creates Dial-A-Nerd banners
Stonewall+ created these rich media banners.
The idea was to create top of mind awareness for the Dial a Nerd brand in the online space using Rich Media. They came up with three Rich Media concepts to inform the target audience that Dial a Nerd not only fixes computers but that they also sell a range of accessories, laptops, hardware, Macs and can help you upgrade your machine. You can view them here: Nerd Flash, Nerd Fix and Nerd Upgrade.
Then for good measure they also came up with the idea to have an interactive banner (ED: Please note that after the campaign was finished they have moved servers and this might run a bit slow) that you could chat to and ask advice. The banner can give you the number to your closest nerd branch, help you make a booking, give you advice on how to remove a virus, tell you what RAM is or just have a chat. This allowed Dial a Nerd to extend their service experience online and get users to interact with the brand and it’s character, Dan.
Great concepts, great executions!
Tickets to Vice launch
Yo guys, we have some special tickets to the Vice Magazine launch party to give away. You might have seen the interview with Ace Swart, local publisher of Vice, and he’s kept his promise to keep a set number of tickets out for Between 10 and 5 readers. Click through to submit your details in the form.
Reminder: Syndrome
Join Charles Maggs and Robert Sloon for the opening of their exhibition, Syndrome, tonight at Whatiftheworld/Gallery in Woodstock.
Gloo - Paper Art Microsite
We recently discovered this micro-site from Gloo that allows you to customise and save a pdf template of a paper toy. There’s a male and female toy each with a ‘business’ and ‘casual’ side that you can change the features of. The die for the toys was obviously inspired by the awesome readymech style paper toys. Loads more cool images when you click through.
