A welcome thank you: GSDH likes to work for FIFA - and not only because the FIFA sent two people from GSDH as fairies with two Category 1 tickets to the sensational GER-ARG game last Saturday! The GSDH creative agency has supported the FIFA already before in the management of various extensive printing projects as well as their distribution in the country, in cooperation with Sven MĂĽller Design.
Saturday saw more than 300,000 fans surge through Cape Town’s Fan Mile, rejoicing in happy anticipation of the big game. GSDH’s Genie and Hanne were delighted to be among them, holding tickets to one of the most exciting events of this World Cup. It was gigantic …
The question however, is whether it was the four goals that quickened their pulses, or was it rather Ballack, who sat pretty close to us (and had to recognize, how replaceable he is …). Hanne and Genie say: Thanks FIFA, thanks Christian!
As a campaign for Bodog, the webguerillas have conceived and designed an outstanding viral flash game, which makes shooting for the goal even more fun for men. The GSDH Creative Agency and the webguerillas already have a longstanding working relationship, and so we were approached take over the exciting part of the realization in flash.
The game is called Kick Ass. The user can choose from seven attractive girls, representing seven nations. When user selects one of the girls, she goes to the centre of the field and takes her clothes off, down to her bikini. Now the user must try to hit the booty of the model with a football. As a reward, the user gets cash and a video of the shot in slow motion, which can be replayed at any time.
We thank the Webguerillas for the great opportunity! The only problem is: the programmer who handled the project now refuses to be involved in jobs that don’t include 90-60-90 Brazilian females – oh well… 
Check out: www.kickass-worldcup.com
We’ve waited a long time, but now it’s finally here. The Football World Cup 2010 is upon us. For the first time, the World Cup takes place in an African country. That’s why South Africans are even prouder to host the 2010 World Cup.
Just in time for the big event, GSDH has created an exclusive African World Cup e-card. Fans can create a funny animated greeting card, enter their country and choose a slogan to show support for their favorite team at the 2010 World Cup. The card can then be sent by email or shared with friends on Facebook.
Who are you supporting? Show your friends with our World Cup Greeting Card.
—-======<( PRRRRRRRRRP!
Send your personal: Worldcup eCard now!
This year there is a real boom in 3D movies. In 2010 alone, more than twenty 3D films will be released in theaters. One of these films, Streetdance 3D, started in German cinemas on the 3rd of June with much success. With 132 000 visitors Streetdance 3D climbed to No. 2 in the cinema charts -despite the great summer weather, making it the best movie start after ‘Sex and the City 2′.
We had the exciting and challenging task of implementing the entire online campaign for Universum Film. This included strategy, concept, design, programming as well as all the online advertising and ongoing support.
The website is designed to reflect the 3D feeling of the film, through the use of animation and layering. On the site, the user can watch the official trailer with 3-D glasses, browse the extensive image gallery, read background information on the film, trigger a reminder for the film and download some great goodies to get you in a dancing mood.
We are very happy, that our campaign could contribute to this huge success of the film and thank Universum Film very much for their co-operation.
Check out: www.streetdance-derfilm.de
The GSDH Creative Agency is excited about the upcoming cooperation with Immowelt AG! With more than 960 000 listed properties, Immowelt is one of the biggest online portals for properties in Germany. Whether a family dream house, a city penthouse apartment or a little cottage, whether you’re buying or selling - Immowelt has the right home for everyone. As a creative agency specialising in online marketing we are able to communicate the advantages of Immowelt on the internet. As a first step we take over the conception, creation and production of various online- and banner-campaigns. Watch this space for more…
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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 HefeweiĂźbier. 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
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!
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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
Once upon a time on a grey and rainy day in Cape Town, ten pirates were about to search for their new office. A mysterious Belgian had told them that inside this office they would find some precious buried treasure.
They couldn’t agree on the perfect plan so they split into small groups, each finding the way in their own special manner: The programmers followed strange numbers on an extra wooden leg that only they could understand. The designers grabbed their drawing boards, hoisted a poster and set sail towards the new office! The project managers had prepared their plan days ago and set off on course. When all the groups arrived at their new office they were puzzled to find the CEO’s, who had left after all of them. How the CEOs had found the way, nobody knows to this day.
And there it was, the magnificent treasure: a large and incredible ping-pong table in the middle of their new fortress. They knew immediately that here work would be even more fun and immediately they started working on their exciting projects.
We’d like to spread the joy that we’re getting out of our new ping-pong table, so go ahead and click on the pong table in the middle of the map. Let the games begin!
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Whether you’re in Koblenz, New York, Geneva or Hongkong -TRAFFIC Communications’ home is all over the world. That´s why we used a TRAFFIC skyline as the theme for the recent revamp of the internet presence of this successful full-service advertising agency. The dynamic flash application displays the showcase of clients, projects and campaigns in a slick, clean and modern look - which is liked all over the world!
see www.TRAFFIC-communications.de skyline
GSDH was approached by Kochan & Partner, Munich, to realize an informative website for FH Coburg, university of applied sciences. The central theme behind the website is to make students feel at home, so all information is displayed through handy magazines which are placed on a typical student desk.
Kochan & Partner’s innovative graphics, in combination with our Flash know-how, resulted in an imaginative, easy to navigate and informative website. Click here to visit the site.
GSDH was approached by PHILIPS Healthcare for a new internet presence for the 90th Roentgen Convention. The large medical convention takes place from the 20th to the 23rd of May and provides advanced training opportunities, workshops and scientific speeches. The convention has attracted over 7000 visitors in the last few years.
GSDH has created a microsite for Philips which presents the newest techniques and machines for the Roentgen Convention.
GSDH would like to thank Philips for the great collaboration, and we’re looking forward to future collaborations.
www.philips.de/Roentgenkongress
With almost 340.000(!) visitors in German theaters during the first 4 days, the new Jason Statham Action movie Crank2 - for which we produced the official website and the online banner campaign - impressively and unerringly jumped to number 1 on the German theatre charts! This makes Crank2 the most successful of all Jason Statham’s forerunner movies (Crank, Transporter 1-3) for the first weekend showing…
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Thank god its over 02
In the spirit of sharing, I have decided to join my fellow designer Ernst in giving away some cool work (to be used for non commercial purposes of course). These two A3 posters were designed by me to rather cynically celebrate the end of 2008. Feel free to interpret it however you see fit.
download poster 01
download poster 02
Enjoy.
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The official movie site for Crank 2 is online. The site presents appealing design, interesting features, sophisticated concepts and user-friendly applications. The user will be provided with a lot of exciting content by means of a trailer and story information as well as downloadable goodies and an online lottery. Moreover, you are able to enter the world of the movie by means of a gallery, information about cast / crew and behind the scenes info. As expected Crank 2 is jam packed with action and a “must” for all action movie fans, who want to watch Chev Chelios on his path between life and death.
Universum Film GmbH came up with a sensational product in Crank 2. GSDH received a challenging brief to design, conceptualize and create the official Crank 2 movie site. We would like to thank Universum Film GmbH for the great collaboration and we are looking forward to working on new and exciting projects with them.
Check out www.crank2-derfilm.de
Exciting new key visual for SAE launch in Cape Town
We got an exciting brief from SAE college Cape Town, to create a single key visual to promote the launch of the local branch. This visual would be the cornerstone of all their online and print promotional material.
SAE is an internationally renowned media school with branches all over the world. In fact, both founders of GSDH have studied at SAE colleges in Sydney and Germany respectively. They offer state of the art equipment and innovative teaching techniques to students with ambitions of conquering the extremely competitive media industry.
The challenge was to create a single visual that could be adopted to promote the following courses, Audio Production, Interactive Media Design, Film and Animation.
The design itself was a collaborative effort between Genie Botha, and the David Maclennan. It combined hand drawn illustrations and typography with fresh colours and a strong layout to appeal to prospective SAE students.
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GSDH developed a logo for Scoreloop. Scoreloop provides a technology for mobile game developers (e.g. iPhone developers) who want to turn their single player game into a multiplayer game. Very interesting, check out their soon to be launched website: www.scoreloop.com
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GSDH created a high quality website for the Bay Consulting Crew, a company which specializes in the fields of auditing and legal advice.
The design draws parallels between the challenging sport of sailing and the company’s values and ethics.
Sailing is a discipline based on, precision and teamwork, where highest professionalism with regard to concentration, communication and execution is required, especially during turbulent and challenging times.
Likewise, the Bay Consulting Crew is characterized by all of the mentioned skills and is thus able to serve clients on the highest level.
GSDH received the exciting order to implement these skills within one website and has been able to pilot the ship safely into the harbor…
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The eggs within Bernbacher’s egg noodles are only laid by happy bavarian outdoor chicken. That does not only taste better but shows again that Bernbacher’s noodles are of top quality - like our microsite, www.gsdh.org/Bernbacher which has been created with regard to Bernbacher’s campaign. A ringtone with the bavarian “Defiliermarsch” of cackling chicken is also provided…
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The tough gangster and killer Chev Chelios is back, and is now in need of electricity to keep his new artificial heart beating. His real heart has been stolen by triad mugger Johnny Vang. Vang wants to use Chev’s heart to vitalize triad boss Hu Dong’s life. Slowly but surely, Chev is running out of time…
GSDH received the exciting task to create the official movie site and already provides a teaser site of the movie until the official site is launched…
After Rob went back to his belgian home, GSDH now has a new member of the graphic design department.
David, a real Capetownian, was at Michaelis School of Fine Art from 2003 until 2006, majoring in sculpture and new media before he realised that he would rather work in graphics. So he did CityVarsity´s Multimedia Design and Production course, finishing at the end of 2008.
He has a strong focus on hand-drawn graphics and illustration, and an interest in combining traditional, physical media with a digital product. Here is an example and we are really looking forward for more of his work…
As usual we are starting the year off with a blast! As you know we love Philips and Philips loves our work. After our Philips Camelrace has finished off as a great success in December 2008 Philips Healthcare Germany asked us to produce a new microsite for one of their solutions.
This as well as the rest of our current projects look extremely promising and so we are looking forward to another exciting year and do invite you to join the ride…
GSDH have achieved great success! On the 2nd of December “Annual Multimedia – Yearbook of Digital Marketing 2009” was published, and we were awarded for our b4u-studio website. Our team is truly honored to have received this award, and are eagerly working towards our next one.
No comments“Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.
- Provide non-Flex developers with a good overview of what is possible in Flex in a “look and see” environment
- Provide Flex developers with an illustrated reference tool
- Provide commercial and non-commercial Flex developers a place to showcase their work
Tour de Flex includes over 200 runnable samples, each with source code, links to documentation, and other details. Topics include the Flex Core Components, Flex Data Access, AIR Desktop Capabilities, Cloud APIs, Data Visualization, Mapping, and a growing collection of custom components, effects, skins, etc.”
Check it out here: http://flex.org/tour
Its always nice to get good feedback, especially from people who know what they are talking about… Manfred Weber is a Flash developer in Munich and always has quite good thoughts and ideas in regards to Flash and Flex. So if you are interested in ActionScript and the newest developments add his blog to your listof must-reads…
Manfred’s feedback, cheers Manfred
Last week Friday we left our computers at the office and headed outside to enjoy the springtime sunshine and to get our hands dirty for a good cause.
We volunteered our various creative talents to the “New Kidz on the Block” initiative and participated in the revamp of the Nokhwezi EduCare Centre in Mfuleni close to Khayelitsha.
“New Kidz On The Block” is an organisation with the heart in the right place. We joined other volunteers in the valant effort to revamp the daycare centre in just one weekend (eat that, Debbie Travis!!!).
For us, it was a great experience in team building. By the end of the day we were splattered with paint from head to toe and happy with the knowledge that our efforts helped to improve the lives of so many children less fortunate than us.
Check out the amazing results on their website !
Harald Linsenmeier, an exceptional copywriter and creative director, approached GSDH to code his online showcase. The award winning work diplayed include video and print ads for big names like Audi, Opel and Coca Cola…
Check out www.hlfreelance.de
Philipp Hartmann and Steven Mewissen lead a workshop last week at the GSDH assessment centre in search of some highly trained professionals. Applicants were asked to part take in our company sing & dance to prove their worth. Those who failed to do the moves correctly, and with the right style, were eliminated (watch out for the lady in pink who fails to turn around).
After a rigorous and grueling session there was much debate about which candidate had the right qualities to be accepted into the company. We watched the video footage over and over only to come to one conclusive decision; unfortunately none of the applicants had the flair that we were looking for. The date for the second workshop will be announced shortly - good luck next time!
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This is what it takes, to take part in the Nature Friends online contest, which we did for the agency Traffic Communications and their client Nature Friends.
The producer of natural cosmetics got a voting portal, mainly done using PHP/mySQL, to give two best friends the opportunity to upload and vote pictures. The best nature friends can win a weekend trip to the beautiful Harz in Germany.
Take part in the Nature Friends Online Contest
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The long wait is over! GSDH has just launched the Flash website for the very successful celebrity and fashion photographer Ugo Richard.
It was such a pleasure to work with Ugo Richard, and we at GSDH had a lot of fun working on this project. Ugo is extremely happy with his new presence on the web, stating that the website measures up to the same high standard as his work.
Click here to see the site.
On Tusday the 19th of Auguth the new Flex User Group Munich is gathering for the first time. We are meeting at Master’s Home for a beer or two. If you are interested, come join us…
Looking forward to meet everyone for the first time!
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The whole world is desperately looking for flashers and GSDH now has one more of them.
Chris relies on not less than 15 years of work experience. As an art director for several big agencies in Cologne you can’t beat his knowledge of print and web design.
But after a while everything static becomes boring. That is why Chris decided to not only play around with Flash but to turn it into the main focus of his career. Thanks a lot for this wise decision! It can not get dynamic enough for Chris, but luckily the possibilities in Flash are endless in this regard…
Chris’ drive to the new and unknown recently inspired him to grab his wife and dogs in Germany to look for a new challenge in Cape Town. Or maybe it was the mountain that was calling him, because when he isn’t programming you will find Chris climbing it…
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