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Win the funkiest, freshest carry bag for your laptop, files, weekend accessories, just about anything, really. We think you’ll want to take this one, absolutely everywhere. It’s a one-of-a-kind stunner, made from recycled, branded billboards! Each “Flap Jack” bag is thus, truly unique – a plethora of colour and redesigned design… made for the true stylista.

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From another dimension comes a new superhero, agile & super-equipped to face all of life’s challenges!

Being neither male nor female (yet!), SuperSperm embarks on journeys that explore issues and global maladies such as over-population, unprotected sex, family planning, human behavioural traits and even the future cloning of our species. SuperSperm is the future and represents the power to overcome, that we all share. From the moment of our conception, he/she is the best of the bunch and typifies extraordinary survival skills and knowledge. SuperSperm’s superpowers are constantly evolving AND manifold; ranging from extreme motility to uncanny perception and foresight. addressing many of the world’s dilemmas (which are literally, all of our babies!), SuperSperm may well become the next Mother Teresa or Barack Obama, by which time his/her powers will be transferred and a new SuperSperm born!

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Fresh ideas, mental “pods”, and the biggest global election to ever take place… We tackle all sorts of issues of the Earth, from delectable foods one can eat without guilt to the most creative ways to redesign our planet – go on and have a read. We’re pretty sure there’s something in it to pique your interest too.

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Take a brilliant client, in this case Lombard Insurance Group, find one of their greatest accomplishments (Lombard underwrote Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium for a, still, undisclosed sum), find an amazing shot of this spectacular project while under construction, add a compelling headline, some succinct copy and you should have a pretty powerful ad, right? Wrong. Since the stadium is going to be one of our semi-final venues, come 2010, it’s off-limits to all except FIFA partners and sponsors. Regardless of who actually sweated, toiled and negotiated to make this project get off the ground and rise above sea level, if you’re not the airline, the car manufacturer, the fast food chain or imported beer, don’t even go there, you will get fouled! One has to hand it to the football governing body though, when it comes to protecting themselves and their affiliate brands, FIFA rank right up there with Petr Cech*. And very few players ever mess with him!

*Petr Cech, is from Czechoslovakia and currently plays for Chelsea. In a recent poll he was voted “Best Goalkeeper in the World.”

We are proud to be involved with Reckitt Benckiser’s “Dettol Shona Khona”, (meaning “Go for it!”) initiative, started in 2005 with the main aim of nurturing young South African soccer talent beyond passion and beyond the dusty township school field, into real life skills for the game and the chance to become a professional soccer player who has been trained by the very best. To date, 24 lucky kids have been able to represent their schools and Shona Khona at the Sao Paulo Futebol de Base in Brazil through this very initiative, and many more have been sent to national training clinics to further improve their game.

And with the soccer craze just about reaching pitch fever now, on the eve of 2010… one can imagine the sheer excitement and honour it has been for us to put Dettol Shona Khona 2009 together from a branding, promotional and advertising point of view.

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What makes New York’s Times Square so magnetic, time after time, year after year no matter where in the world you come from?

It’s the free-flowing energy that touches everything and keeps on changing. The concentrated vibe that seems to live in one place but owes its pulling power to every corner of the earth.

This contagious energy is what inspires us. We are neither constricted to time nor to the corners of a square. Rather moved by the rich, palpable experience that is urban culture. So, global or local, you will find us in one place. We choose to be in the centre of it all. Absorbing all that is eclectic, collective and relevant to the now.

Our consciousness is made up of everything that attracts us, everything around us, everything about us, and everything about you. Move with us as we move into new territories, new ventures, new ways of expression, guided by where we’ve been, never standing still, always going forward.

Streetology

The school of thought that is evident in your work when you are street smart. That’s the x factor in your ad.

Urban Experience

It’s all around you. Get with it or get left behind.

Skillz

Someone who’s prolific in the field of communication / everyday life, got skills. Very necessary in advertising. Rapper, Mase (Bad Boy Entertainment, 1999) once put it like this:

“See the difference with me When I do what I do I do what I’m doing But I’m doing it like I’m doing it for TV”

In response to the above, one can say:

Did you hear him do that without stopping for breath? Whoooa, skillz!
He got me remembering lyrics ten years later. Now that’s mad skillz, yoh.
NB! It’s not advisable to still be pumping Mase now… but props to him for leaving an impression.

Entourage

Refers to anyone who’s rollin’ with you (no relation to “groupie”). Your entourage is the people that belong in your circle. e.g. Timesquare’s entourage is made up of its clients and employees.