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!
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.
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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
After the peaceful underwater world of Unsere Ozeane, our newest project for Universum returns us to the hail of bullets again in the form of From Paris with Love, the action-packed new film starring John Travolta as the unorthodox secret agent Charlie Wax.
At least as awesome and entertaining as the movie is the online-campaign (including concept development, website design and banner campaign) produced by GSDH. The official movie site includes the trailer, an exciting gallery and a reminder service, as well as background information about the story, characters and cast which will provide the user with insights into the high-action world of secret agents. There are great downloadable goodies like the From Paris with Love Screensaver (get it here).
The result is a site which fully captures the action-packed spirit and style of this film: Welcome to Paris, Baby!
Check out: www.frompariswithlove.de
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
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 MĂĽller 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 MĂĽller 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.
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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
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
The Soccer World Cup is just around the corner, taking place in one of the most beautiful countries in the world: South Africa! This means it’s high time to go about your advertising effort for this extraordinary event.
Few countries in the world feature such dreamlike and breathtaking scenery as South Africa.
With such beautiful surroundings, and an event as big as the World Cup, this is an advertising opportunity that can’t be missed! Imagine your product in such an ideal setting.
GSDH now offers you the service of photography and video footage with a wide range of relevant motives: beautiful landscapes, impressions of South African soccer, exciting safari sequences, the friendly people of South Africa, and so much more!
Contact us and we will be glad to give you individual advice and prepare a quote for you.
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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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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.
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I recently stumbled upon an article by Rhett Trickett at his Magnetic Blog about a 30 minute design mixtape he had compiled. After listening to his mix I was so inxpired that I created one of my own (a 30 minute mixtape of really cool chillout songs for those hectic mondays) and sent it in to him. I was really pleased with the result, and am happy to be back into music. Download my mixtape here.
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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