Profiles

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A radical rock star wannabe, Pepe Marais, executive creative director of Joe Public, describes how, in retrospect, he sees himself in the early days of his advertising career. Over the past 5 years he has come to redefine himself, cleaning up his act, in his words, in step with the transformation of the agency he co-founded with business partner Gareth Leck.

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Garrick Hamm is determined to make the best of things. As Chairman of the Communication Design category for the 33rd Annual Loerie Awards, Hamm, a Creative Partner at the London based-design consultancy Williams Murray Hamm (WMH) has been inventing and reinventing brands across all disciplines for the past twelve years.

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Brandt Botes has launched a new studio under his own name. Sean O’Toole meets with the designer to talk about the end of print and pyjamas.

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Amsterdam is positioning itself at the forefront of industry change with a collaborative work model penned by Roger Beekman, founder of 60 layers of cake, the collaborative agency he launched in Amsterdam in 2005, and which last year spawned an office in Cape Town as well as several competitors.

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His self-serving semantics. On shilling for Cel C. "I get paid, but I don’t sell out. I don’t work for them – I work with them."

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Over the past year or so, artist Jacques Coetzer has been commuting between his eccentric Danish-styled home in Riebeek Kasteel, north of Cape Town, and Moshi, a town in Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region. The reason: coffee.

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Finding Robert Wong, Executive Creative Director and co-founder of Google’s Creative Lab, is not as simple as one would imagine.

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The guys behind new Cape Town agency, 60 Layers of Cake, md Ben Wren and Operations Director Michael van den Heerik, both left senior positions at The Jupiter Drawing Room to launch an agency they hope will help turn traditional agency structures on their heads.

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Momus, in Greek mythology, was the god of satire, mockery, censure, writers, poets and criticism. Sean O'Toole meets up with the mythical creature in Berlin.

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One of South Africa’s more enigmatic photographers, Dave Southwood has, if the pundits are to be believed, a canny knack for disappearing for periods of time only to resurface with a clutch of new and impressive material which features places as diverse as South Korea, Robben Island, Laos, Ivory Coast and more besides.

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In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Stephan Naudé interviews illustrator Jason Bronkhorst.

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Situated at 44 Stanley in Milpark, Johannesburg, Design is a Good Idea is a place of inspiration for those obsessed with limited edition designer heirlooms. It’s a place of inspiration for anyone obsessed with the best high-end, limited edition designer collectibles and heirlooms from some of the worlds most forward thinking designers: Sander Mulder, Lars Amhoff, John Brauer, Jaime Hayon and Nato Fukasawa – to name but a few.