Today's the day for Loeries entries

Your time is almost up, but not just yet - you still have until midnight tonight, Friday 18 June 2010, to submit your entries online for The 2010 Loerie Awards. 18 Jun 2010 09:28

New global look for youth agency

Global Education, an international specialist youth agency, briefed boutique design studio Santana Graphix at the end of April 2010 to provide a new look for its stationery, electronic signatures, posters and flyers specifically created for an upcoming international education conference and generic print advertisements. 7 Jun 2010 09:58

Ranking the Loeries

The 2010 Loerie Awards will have an official ranking of winners in order to provide a transparent report on the outcome of the awards, and to avoid different and sometimes confusing claims, the organisers announced on Wednesday, 12 May 2010. 13 May 2010 08:52

Loeries extend World Cup ad submissions deadline

The deadline for the both the flighting and entry for 2010 FIFA World Cup-related entries into this year's Loeries has been extended to 13 July 2010. Work eligible for the extension includes all brand communication that is in one way or another related to the hosting of the world cup in South Africa this year and is not limited to official world cup communication. 11 May 2010 10:34

Loeries Communication Design chair appointed

“Greg Quinton's creative wisdom, years of design and judging experience on numerous global juries, and Black D&AD Pencil says it all. We are very privileged to have someone of Greg's calibre on board,” says Gaby de Abreu, founding member of both Switch Design Group and the Brand Design Council, commenting of the confirmation of Quinton as jury chairman of the communication design judging panel for The 2010 Loerie Awards. 10 May 2010 10:07

2010 Loerie tickets on sale

Sales of single evening tickets or a weekend pass for the 2010 Loerie Awards in Cape Town, 1-3 October 2010, are now open. For every two grand seats purchased, three gallery seats can be purchased. However, educational institutions can access gallery seats by contacting the Loeries office. 3 May 2010 09:17

FIFA World Cup: 2.2m tickets sold, 500 000 still available

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The 2010 FIFA World Cup is slowly but surely edging closer to a full stadium syndrome, with 2.2 million tickets sold so far. The remaining 500 000 tickets will go on sale on 15 April 2010 during the last ticket sale phase, which includes over-the-counter sales at designated FIFA ticketing centres nationwide, the organisers announced today, Friday, 9 April. 9 Apr 2010 13:30

SA interior design scoops international award for work in Africa

The International Commercial Property Awards 2009, which took place in London during October, awarded the Africa region prize to MM Interiors for its work on the headquarters of one of Lagos' largest law firms, Aluko & Oyebode and on the Harrow Park Golf Club in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. 3 Nov 2009 10:17

Launch of fourth annual Makhulu Polane design competition

The annual Makhulu Polane t-shirt design competition is open for entries from Thursday, 16 July 2009. This local initiative was started by Big Blue in 2006 in a quest to discover and support fresh home-grown talent. 15 Jul 2009 09:33

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Real African images from Great Stock!

Get the full spectrum of authentic African imagery from the renowned aFRIKA Collection: exquisite photography and footage, rights managed and royalty free, captured all over this beautiful continent. 25 Feb 2008 12:44

Call for design :output

For those design students who aren't satisfied to see their projects dumped in the back of a drawer once critiqued by lecturers, :output offers these works one last chance to see the light of day. 14 Jan 2008 07:30

Zim advertising awards go ahead despite lack of new campaigns

[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's Advertising Publicity Club is organising its annual competition for the advertising industry, despite a dearth of new campaigns due to an economic crisis that has stunted growth and limited new advertising campaigns in a once vibrant sector. 11 Jan 2008 07:04

Africa leads in international design

The Icograda Executive Board of Directors for the 2007-2009 term was elected during the close of the Icograda General Assembly in Havana, Cuba last month. To represent Africa, Mohammed Jogie was elected as vice-president to the Board. 3 Dec 2007 12:22

A NEWAFRICA design perspective for Europe

NEWAFRICA, a travelling design exhibition showcasing the latest and most contemporary products from Africa, is said to be the first of its kind in the world, and aims to challenge the prejudices associated with design on this continent. 29 Mar 2007 16:37