Tag Archives: Cape Town

ScaleConf – Cape Town Tech Conference 2012

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Techie alert in Cape Town! The ScaleConf is taking place at the Kirstenbosch Botnical Garden on the 26th and 27th of January. The conference brings together local and international experts to discuss about the challenges and the future of building … Continue reading »

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Happy New Year and a lesson in laid-backed-ness

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Now I have spent my first New Year in Cape Town. One of the season’s main attractions is the Kaapse Klopse. For a German that sounds like something to eat, since „Klopse“ are meatballs. But it comes rather from „clubs“, … Continue reading »

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Yrrem samtsihc!

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Good advertising makes things different from how one knows and expects them. Cape Town is the right place for that, because here many things are already different from what our many European clients know. Christmas in summer for example. Most … Continue reading »

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The laughter that lurks in the deep of an image search

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The other day we needed an image of a shark-attack for an presentation. Shark attacks are one of Cape Town’s “landmarks”. It’s just incredible, what cruelties you find on the web!
 
Here for example, one of those monsters has half-way swallowed … Continue reading »

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The five biggest freaks in Africa get dressed up

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Afreaka recently approached us to design a logo for their company that they are starting up in Cape Town. They specialize in creating unique dress-up costumes that are themed to the big five.

The Logo consists of a simplified image of … Continue reading »

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We are signing off on our new copywriter – immediately!

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And we sign you up as designer. At least, if you send me a picture that says what this blog entry does. For it has a thousand characters. (Please check! I‘ve added dummy sentences like this one to match the … Continue reading »

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A Cape Town fantasy

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We wanted to create some artwork for our studio in Cape Town, so we ordered two big canvases and decided to do some black and white illustrations with a theme relating to the city of Cape Town.
I decided to do … Continue reading »

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Reinforcement for our design / illustration corner x two!

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We welcome Richard Moir to our team, a 22 year old ginger to add even more colour to GSDH.  To give you a little background on Richard, he was born in a small town called Swellendam in the Western Cape. … Continue reading »

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FRESH – SA Fine Art Talent

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Tonight an exhibition called FRESH will be launched at the famous Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town. They will be showcasing emerging artists that are starting to make their presence felt in the South African art world and one of … Continue reading »

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City of Cape Town’s Bid to be WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2014

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We at GSDH are proud to be based and to produce in Cape Town and we strongly support Cape Town’s bid to be World Design Capital 2014! Some of you will probably ask: “What is the World Design Capital?” The … Continue reading »

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