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Leading Innovation at Dentsu Mobius and consulting for other Dentsu brands I spend most of my time conceptualising and building innovative prototypes, hands on in pitches and client work, and consulting and pushing an agenda of innovation within the organisation.Clients: Disney, Singapore Airlines, Oreo, Pringles, Toyota, WWF, General Motors.Key player in ensuring we won the Disney pitchMember of the Dentsu Group Global General Motors Innovation ChampionsThe General Enthusiast is my bi-monthly newsletter on Innovation thats sent to 100s of clients and thought leaders in the industry.Dentsu Innovation Awards judgeLead the rebranding Dentsu Mobius and Dentsu Media’s merge into DM2.

Successfully lead pitches on Standard Chartered Bank and NBA.Member of Innovation Team, looking at new technologies to drive new business. Clients included Mastercard, NBA, Standard Chartered Bank, McDonalds, Infiniti.2 x Silver W³ Digital Awards winner.

Leading Innovation at Quirk, one of the most important digital agencies in South Africa.I also served as a bridge between the tech team and creative departments as well as consulting on technology from a creative viewpoint.Member of “dream team” concept team.Clients included Internet Solutions, DSTV, Durex, PPC Cement, RAB.

Chosen out of 100s of applicants to participate in the Google Umbono Accelerator ProgrammeCo-founded, designed and programmed events listings startup Gigham, helping you find things to do based on your social profile and location. Gigham grew out of another startup project I was developing while in Berlin - Walaa - a music search engine.Finalist in Demo Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.Voted Top 40 best new startups in Africa.Launched in 6 cities - Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein and Nairobi.Massive learning curve both in business, internet psychology, user acquisition and coding.

Responsible for in-house design and concept team. Oversaw re-build of the company's new e-commerce site.Art directed Photokina installation - the world's largest photographic exhibition.

Creative Director on the Jetstar Account, successfully launching the brand into the Tokyo market.Helped grow Jetstar business in Osaka and Nogoya by 400% in a year.Jetstar team award as the best 360 Account at Ogilvy in Asia. Directed Jetstar 2009 launch TV commercial. Jetstar winner of 2008 Asian Integrated Marketing Awards.Mandated to serve as a bridge between ATL and Digital, though ended up working mainly on above the line projectsWorked as ACD as part of Sokenbicha (Coca Cola's and Japan's biggest mixed tea brand) team. One of the biggest accounts in Japan. Our TVCs repeatedly scored the highest link test scores in the brand's history

I moved to Tokyo in 2003, working on contract with Bates Asia on Lucky Strike. Then with a small boutique agency - Hypu Japan, and as an Art Director at Brand Architecture before moving to Ogilvy Japan. But I have to say, working there was not as exciting as I hoped it would be. Great projects were few and far between, coming from being an almost digital rockstar to a city where I had to prove myself from scratch was difficult. During this time most of the work I did was pure production.While in Japan I had also been working in my spare time on building motion reactive systems for installations, and held a number of exhibitions and performances - including being invited to give a performance at the famous Apple Store in Ginza.

A small group of us left Tinderbox to set up our own studio, with me serving as Creative Director. We called it radarboy - after the name I had sometimes been DJing under - a name was inspired by my love for cultural remix.We were most interested in playing with this new media, expropriating it, attempting to use it in new ways and creating our own content. One of the first pieces of work we did was a free magazine called Capsule. It was an instant hit and won us two Gold Loeries and an Invision Award (then one of the top digital awards in San Francisco - other winners were the Real Player and Hillman Curtis) and a host of other awards. Our site was voted one of the 10 best flash sites in the world. We were the only digital agency in the top 10 agencies in South Africa.We quickly established ourselves as a major player, and grew a cult following for our quirky irreverent style. And worked with some of the most major and forward thinking clients at the time. Independent Newspapers (IOL), where we also formed part of their digital think tank. Lucky Strike, where we spent more than two years building various innovative media for them, Minolta, MWeb (South Africa's largest internet service provider), Thwarte, Rembrandt Group, Alexander Forbes, JWT, etc, etc. We were recognised as one of the top 10 agencies in South Africa (and the only digital agency in the list). - Cited by many big-name South African creatives as inspiration for getting into the industry.- Multi award winner, Loeries, Spada's, Construction awards. Ground breaking work in the digital space. - Digital pranksters. Street Art. Hacks. Installations. Art Events.- Ran the infamous Lucky Strike campaign - where our work was ported to a number of other countries and presented as an to their brand managers of how to play with the brand. - Work presented at Design Indaba as example of great South African design. - Made some magazines on a stiffy disks and in animated gif format.

Loerie Grand Prix winner.Gold Loerie, Silver Loerie Gold SPADA Design AwardOne Show Special MentionI joined Tinderbox Interactive, then South Africa's hottest New Media shop, not having much experience, but on the basis of the experimental art in Macromedia Director I was then doing. It was exciting times, and inspirational to be around such a crazy team of people who all thought the same way I did. We were producing ground breaking, world class work and having the time of our lives. Tinderbox was also where I discovered Flash (Ver.2), I knew that I had seen the future, and immersed myself fully into it. Within a few months of having been there I scooped up a number of awards including the coveted Loerie Grand Prix - until last year, the first and only time a Grand Prix has been awarded in New Media. The product was a CD Rom application called Thinking Multimedia, a quirky exploration of the state of multimedia, using mostly Flash for animation and Director for the programming bits. However, the company was expanding fast - from a core group of 20, there were now over 120 staff members and it still growing rapidly. We moved into plush new offices, the beer fridge was no more and when Tiderbox was sold to one of South Africa's biggest tech corporations a year on, it was time for a change.

I returned to South Africa during the peace talks and negotiated settlement and started working in journalism, took a job at the Daily Dispatch, soon moving up to becoming the youngest bureau chief in the country. Later I became Cape Town correspondent for Capital Radio and freelanced for a number of prestigious publications including SAPA, Reuters, the Mail and Guardian, AFP and the Sunday Times, to name a few. And later worked as a researcher at the media department of the University of Cape Town. Around this time I discovered the internet and graphic design. I enrolled into a Diploma Course at Concept College in Cape Town in graphic design and took a part time job at South Africa's first internet service provider, Internet Africa. A time when Quaterdeck Mozaic was the rage and animated gifs were cutting edge. The web was the wild west and I wanted to be part of it. Most importantly, the company also offered plenty of in-house training and courses in all fields of the web - from technical Unix stuff to Html and web design. This was also where I discovered Macromedia Director. I was able to move things across the screen! And a very big light went on. I bought my first Macintosh, a state-of-the-art 7600 (with a whopping 130mb of hard disk space), officially signaling the beginning on my career in digital art.

Computer Sciences seemed all serious, boring and business-like to me and having very little to do with art. So I studied social science and politics at the University of Cape Town, something that was extremely interesting to me in a country going through intense political change. I have always been interested in socialisation, and cultural remixes and hacks and this is evident in much of my work. After completing my studies graduating cum laude, in protest of the government's apartheid policies I refused to serve my military conscription and was forced into exile. This was actually a blessing, and allowed me to travel extensively, working and living in Germany and the UK, and visiting numerous countries in Europe and Africa. My travels not only broadened my world-view, but exposed my to different design cultures and communities and ways of thinking. I visited all the major museums and art galleries and soon found out, while I could appreciate the classic artworks, these were not what excited me. Discovering the almost anarchistic playfulness of technology artists in London and Berlin, though, struck a major chord with me.- Top 10 in class.- Subjects: Political Science, Information Systems, Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Commercial Law.- 105% for final Information Systems project.

I've been dabbling in art and computers since early childhood. With my mother an art teacher, and my father a musician, and an early adopter of digital music production, a career in design and computers was a natural progression. For as long as I could remember I was bouncing between dabbling in my mom's art studio, fiddling with my dad's synthesizers or taking apart everything devices to see how they worked and attempting to mod them. I dreamt of being an inventor. Growing up around computers and technology, I am comfortable with any technological learning curve and can use pretty much any software - or rapidly adapt my knowledge to those I don't already know. The application is a mere paint-brush, and what you do with it is more important. As a teen, I began to program games on the Commodore 64. I was fascinated about being able to create something from nothing and being able to "make television" - to move things across the screen. Besides the obligatory teen game programming, I wrote a number of hardcore programs in my early forays into computing, including a barcoding system, a library tracking system and a scheduling system. Before the internet age struck, I already had a modem and was connecting to various BBS systems.After completing my studies graduating cum laude, in protest of the government's apartheid policies I refused to serve my military conscription and was forced into exile. This was actually a blessing, and allowed me to travel extensively, working and living in Germany and the UK, and visiting numerous countries in Europe and Africa. My travels not only broadened my world-view, but exposed my to different design cultures and communities and ways of thinking. I visited all the major museums and art galleries and soon found out, while I could appreciate the classic artworks, these were not what excited me. Discovering the almost anarchistic playfulness of technology artists in London and Berlin, though, struck a major chord with me.