I oversee most of the creative output of the Johannesburg office. Much of this involves launching and directing creative pitches - gathering a ton of differing references, fixing on a route and crafting a presentation intent on winning work. Parallel to this I creative direct the studio in running jobs, I present all work and do all face-to-face meetings and presentations with agencies, agency clients and direct clients. I treat on and direct shoots for agencies and direct clients. I do script… Show more I oversee most of the creative output of the Johannesburg office. Much of this involves launching and directing creative pitches - gathering a ton of differing references, fixing on a route and crafting a presentation intent on winning work. Parallel to this I creative direct the studio in running jobs, I present all work and do all face-to-face meetings and presentations with agencies, agency clients and direct clients. I treat on and direct shoots for agencies and direct clients. I do script supervision and direct many voice & audio sessions on our various jobs, from 30-second TVC's to 15-minute AV's. We get to work on a fairly wide variety of jobs, from broadcast (channel) to commercials, AV's, integrated communications and the occasional feature film. Show less

I was a founding partner at KOKI, working and collaborating on all the nuts and bolts of starting a new business, and then moving on to collaborate with my partners or run my own jobs as we launched into the world of broadcast design and animation, for commercials work as well as corporate communications. Much of my time was spent multi-tasking, in both hands-on design, animation and client-facing roles. Half of our work was new-media/digital projects, from full corporate web-architecture to… Show more I was a founding partner at KOKI, working and collaborating on all the nuts and bolts of starting a new business, and then moving on to collaborate with my partners or run my own jobs as we launched into the world of broadcast design and animation, for commercials work as well as corporate communications. Much of my time was spent multi-tasking, in both hands-on design, animation and client-facing roles. Half of our work was new-media/digital projects, from full corporate web-architecture to design, development and project management of small to medium-sized web developments. Show less

I worked on integrated campaigns for Nike, Nedbank, Jet and Emperor's Palace (amongst others) alongside the ATL teams. We conceptualised, designed and built mini promotional sites as well as larger CMS-run corporate sites. We also produced smaller animation and motion graphics jobs eventually building up to a broadcast-capable capacity. We formed a very young New Media unit within the agency and, by default of a leadership vacuum, were forced to become fairly autonomous - thus, alongside… Show more I worked on integrated campaigns for Nike, Nedbank, Jet and Emperor's Palace (amongst others) alongside the ATL teams. We conceptualised, designed and built mini promotional sites as well as larger CMS-run corporate sites. We also produced smaller animation and motion graphics jobs eventually building up to a broadcast-capable capacity. We formed a very young New Media unit within the agency and, by default of a leadership vacuum, were forced to become fairly autonomous - thus, alongside the creative and technical development, we were compelled to produce all the proposal documentation, cost estimation and project spec as well. A fairly steep learning curve. Show less

The earlyish days of the web - I did front-end design and animation on various new-media/multimedia/digital projects for many large corporates and popular brands. Tinderbox was one of the star-companies of its day - everything we did was new and exciting - the people were all talented and passionate. I managed to do some creative writing on a couple of sites, and was trusted to run the creative on some jobs by myself. So young!