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Do you dream of becoming a designer? Visit The Open Window Open Day on 24 May - The Open Window
Graphic designer, animator, video artist, motion graphics designer, art director, producer... These are only a few of the opportunities available to talented youngsters who dream of a career in a creative environment. We'll show you how to realise your dreams on Saturday 24 May. 15 May 2008 12:32

Yellow Pencil fever mounts
Tonight, Thursday, 15 May 2008, is the night: creative minds everywhere are now spinning in anticipation of clutching that Black or Yellow Pencil in their sweaty palms and glowing with pride in front of the 1800 guests expected at the upcoming D&AD awards ceremony. Bizcommunity.com will be there in London, courtesy of our latest guest blogger, designer Mark Forrester, who will be blogging live from Royal Festival Hall. Meanwhile, Damon Stapleton, executive creative director of TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg who is just back from judging the Digital and Direct categories, has a few words of advice on what it takes to win a coveted Pencil. 15 May 2008 08:57

Open Window student wins animation category for professionals, MNet EDiT online awards - The Open Window
Louis Minnaar, a third-year student at The Open Window School of Visual Communication, took the honours in the animation category at the MNet EDiT online awards ceremony on May 9. 14 May 2008 17:00

SA young designers asked to bag it
Exclusive Books is challenging young South African designers to submit fresh concepts for the its new plastic shopping bag in a nationwide competition to all design schools. “Exclusive Books believes in promoting fresh talent and innovative thinking and ideas, and that's why we are approaching design students and giving them the opportunity to showcase their talent,” explain Batya Green-Bricker, Exclusive Books marketing manager. 13 May 2008 08:43

Design meets online - Springleap.com
Launched on 20 February 2008, Springleap is SA's newest addition to groundbreaking Internet companies taking the online community by storm. Loosely categorized as a social media come online retail outlet, Springleap invites visitors to the site to submit their T-shirt designs and win if their design is voted for by the burgeoning Springleap community. 12 May 2008 12:42

One Show: Gold for JWT, Silver for Jupiter
NEW YORK: The One Show and One Show Design winners were announced last night, Thursday, 8 May 2008, in New York, and JWT Cape Town scooped a Gold Pencil for its poster campaign for Jabula Hair and Braids, with The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town taking Silver in television for Musica. 9 May 2008 11:29

Inaugural Wolda judges announced
MILAN, ITALY: Wolda, the Worldwide Logo Design Annual, announced the distinguished panel of 30 independent judges that will select the winning entries for its 2008 inaugural edition yesterday, Wednesday, 7 May 2008, and South African Dave Holland, who is creative director at Brand Union Japan, is one of the Designer judges. 8 May 2008 08:55

SA artist designs for Google
Desré Buirski, the artist best known for designing Madiba's trademark presidential shirts, represented South Africa at the launch event of the iGoogle artist themes project in New York last week. Buirski was one of 60 artists from around the world to design her own theme for iGoogle. 7 May 2008 08:36

SA Clios shortlist announced
Once again, South Africa has made the shortlist for the 2008 Clio Awards in the Billboard, Innovative Media, Print, Print: Direct Mail, Radio and Television/Cinema/Digital categories. Awards will be presented at the 2008 Clio Festival, 14 - 17 May 2008, at the Gansevoort South Hotel in South Beach, Miami, Florida. 29 Apr 2008 09:37

Revit short course - Greenside Design Centre
Revit is the preferred software when it comes to producing working drawings and 3D images. 25 Apr 2008 11:32

Reddy to judge Design Lions
LONDON: A higher than anticipated number of entries in the newly launched Design Lions competition has prompted the appointment of three more judges, including Nathan Reddy of Grid Worldwide Branding & Design, the organisers of the International Advertising Festival announced yesterday, Wednesday, 23 April 2008. 24 Apr 2008 09:16

Two SA D&AD Pencil nominations
LONDON: The interim results for the D&AD Awards 2008 judging were announced recently, and of the 143 nominations, two are South African entries: BBDO Cape Town for ‘Drums' in Radio Advertising and King James for ‘Hijax' in Broadcast Innovations. Nine other SA entries went In-Book. 24 Apr 2008 09:00

Who really owns your work?
[Mark Winkler] Now, perhaps I was brought up in an old-fashioned version of my industry, but the principle upon which I have always worked is that once the client has paid for the work commissioned, the material in all its forms belongs to the client… 21 Apr 2008 07:30