With the Loerie Awards 2009 moving from Margate to Cape Town, we didn’t really know what to expect. A fair bit of rain failed to hamper proceedings with Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille getting the Saturday night Electronic evening off to a cracking start. In amongst the madness we happened to walk away with quite a few lovely, shiny birds that we are extremely proud of.
“If you feel like your coworkers just don’t ostracize you enough, these fuzzy bear and rabbit USB hand warmers are sure to do the trick. “Why does that guy have his hands jammed into a stuffed animal’s esophagus?” they’ll ask.”
http://gizmodo.com/5363313/stuffed-animal-usb-hand-warmers-quickly-brand-you-as-office-weirdo
Making beautiful functional websites is the order of the day at HC, but it’s easy to forget that the backbone of the web is more than just commercial. A massive community built on trends, forums, collective opinions and less than functional websites exists throughout the realm of the internet. I thought I might explore this idea with a tongue-in-cheek soapbox aptly dubbed Memetics And The Internets.
Question: Did he win because of this campaign and an incredible effective marketing stratgey or because he is genuinely an amazing candidate bringing real hope and change to America?
What are your thoughts?
Please see the Presedential Candidate, “Obama for America” video on the official Cannes Lions 2009 site here.
We were asked by Am I Collective (our esteemed and friendly neighbours downstairs) to pretty up a Bare for an upcoming exhibition. What an honour! Considering we don’t normally get paint under our nails this proved to be quite a task.
HelloComputer’s in-house Illustration Department, “NewBlack” took on the task with Lead Illustrator, Simon Maclennan heading up the project.
Last week saw in my introduction to the renowned 27Dinner. Being a newbie, meeting the people who we all follow regularly on Twitter and via their blogs can be rather intimidating. The dinner hosts the local industry masterminds; bloggers, authors, lecturers, eMarketing gurus, mobile fundies and entrepreneurs in their respective fields. Co-founded by Mike Stopforth and Dave Duarte, the event essentially stimulates networking and collaboration within the digital space and very successfully at that.
