David, one of our design team, has won this month’s prestigious Springleap competition. Launched in February 2008, Springleap is SA’s newest addition to groundbreaking web-based companies taking the online community by storm. Using a similar business model to the USA-based site Threadless, people submit designs for each competition, and the community votes on which design they would like to see printed on a t-shirt. Each month a winner is chosen based on which design gets the most votes.

This month the theme of the competition was “Down The Rabbit Hole”, a reference to Alice in Wonderland. David’s design was the most popular, and has received some great feedback from the Springleap voting community as well as the owners and employees of Springleap.

The winning design is printed on high quality slim cut t-shirts that can be ordered via Springleap, or bought from many stores located around South Africa. They also deliver orders to anywhere in the world, so if you want a shirt, head over to http://www.springleap.com/designs/view/a-very-important-date and place your order.

In medical technology; Computed Tomography has been one of the most important medical innovations in recent years. Now Philips presents their brand new improved medical scanner.

The PHILIPS iCT creates a complete scan of an organ within the space of two heartbeats. The Scanner is reliable, precise, high performance and generates optimum results at a high image quality. The fast scanning speed and low dose of radiation reduces the patient’s exposure to radiation. With the Philips iCT the diagnosis will be improved and optimum results are guaranteed.

The GSDH was approached by PHILIPS Healthcare to create a 3D Animation. The procedure and technique of the iCT Scanner as well as its benefits are explained to potential clients via a short step by step animation video.

It was quite a while ago that we first raised our glasses to the meeting of Bavarian tradition and Cape Town creativity when GSDH was put in charge of the entire online presence of the Bavarian Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan.

We have now completed the most important part of our task: the new website is online! While staying true to Weihenstephan’s long-established visual identity, we have brought a fresh look and new approach to the brand’s presence on the web.

This collaboration has resulted in a site through which the user can fully explore the world of Weihenstephan, find out about the history of the world’s oldest brewery and discover how the beer is brewed, and engage with fun interactive extras.

The Weihenstephan Beer Game, for example, is already getting a lot of positive reactions. In this game, the user can practice pouring the perfect glass of Weihenstephan Hefeweißbier. They can then post the result directly from the site on their Facebook Wall via Facebook Connect or they can send it to a friend.

Check out www.weihenstephaner.de

Final Draw in Cape Town: after this weekend, we finally know who’s playing against who in the first round of the World Cup. Now the soccer fever is spreading and the whole world celebrated the opening of this major event with South Africa.

While a relaxed Charlize Theron announced the team groupings at the CTICC, the crowd watching the event on giant screens in Long Street went crazy.

This is just a small impression of what was going on here on Friday, 200 meters away from our office.

The production of World Cup advertising material is running at full speed in South Africa at the moment and foreign companies are looking for agencies like us who are familiar with the country.

So was Sven Müller Design when they entrusted us with the production of their FIFA advertising materials for two big exhibitions in Cape Town and Johannesburg. We gladly took over the complete handling here on-site and found this a great opportunity to show the high professional standard of South African suppliers.

Sven Müller Design is happy that their brochures not only meet European standards but were also produced and delivered quickly and efficiently, and South Africa is looking forward to many orders still to come from all over the world.

GAMER, the latest science fiction masterpiece by Universum Film, will be in German cinemas in January. The opening of the movie will be supported by the official movie site – conceived and designed by GSDH. This amazing flash website will help to build anticipation for this upcoming action spectacle.

Just like the movie, the website encompasses three different worlds. Game - the malicious shooter game entitled “Slayer”, where real prisoners are used by gamers as avatars to fight each other to death. The second world Society – also uses mind-control technology. This world is a shrill, decadent and unscrupulous virtual society. The third world is Reality – the real world, in which millions of people follow the controversial games.

Leading actor Gerard Butler as Kable and his wife Angie, played by Amber Valletta, are both captured in the games and are struggling to escape from them.

The user can navigate between those three worlds and experience different exciting flash designs while he browses through the gallery, has a look behind the scenes or discovers all the special goodies. Next to the homepage we will also be responsible for inGame advertising and banner campaigns.

Check out www.gamer-derfilm.de

Here at GSDH we find that there is nothing more satisfying than having happy clients, and we’re ecstatic to ad Castro to that list.

Castro has just launched a new range of their ultra-fashionable clothes with a very exiting campaign that’s sure to spread like wildfire. The Castro Campus Tour is set to go around universities in Germany to enlist students to re-enact some of the photographs that were taken for the current Castro Fashion Guide. Each photograph will be uploaded to the Castro Campus Tour website that was designed and developed by GSDH. Once the photographs are uploaded the public can vote on their favorite! 20 winners will be chosen and given 100 Euro’s each with which they can ignite a shopping fever at any Castro store.

Check out www.castro-campus-tour.de

Die Möglichkeiten, die mobilen Anwendungen sinnvoll und kreativ in sein Geschäftsmodell einzubinden sind schier unendlich. Wichtige Denkanstöße und handfeste Tipps liefert die iPhone developer conference am 01. und 02. Dezember im Hotel im Wasserturm in Köln.

Die zweitägige Konferenz bringt außerdem Entwickler auf den neuesten Stand der Technik. Von der Anwendungsentwicklung mit dem iPhone SDK über Oberflächengestaltung mit dem iPhone SDK 3 bis hin zur Spieleentwicklung mit Cocos2D werden die wichtigsten Themen abgedeckt. Besonderes Highlight: In drei Kategorien wird die beste deutsche App 2009 prämiert.

Weitere Infos gibt es hier: www.iphonedevcon.de

Kunden von GSDH sparen unter Angabe des folgenden Codes 100,-€ bei der Anmeldung: IPHO9gsdh

As everybody knows, boss no. 1 is an enthusiastic surfer and not many people dare to mess with him on the water.

Because of his extraordinary skills he is used to jealous glances and now, with his amazing birthday present, he can take it to the next level in terms of style: with his brand new fins, designed by GSDH!

Rock the waves, boss!

Towels can inspire an imaginative mind, at least when you explore them on the brand new experiential flash website for ABYSS & HABIDECOR. The Portuguese manufacturer supplies luxury hotels from around the world with high quality bath linens.

GSDH was given the task to design a website that gives the user the opportunity to experience the wonderful products of this fascinating brand whilst learning more about the corporate side of the business. The website links these two sections with one easy to use, very unique, circular navigation system within a design that is clean, classic and modern.

Numerous interactive applications and videos invite the users to immerse themselves in a playful world of towels, colours and exquisite style. Welcome to the world of ABYSS & HABIDECOR!

Check out www.habidecor.be