The Brand Union Cape Town (previously Coley Porter Bell) was awarded a bronze Apex for La Capra in the launch category, and was an integral part of the Ogilvy South Africa team that won Silver for Castle at Thursday’s awards ceremony. This is the second year in a row that The Brand Union has won at Apex...

There are many businesses out there that claim to “do branding”. From street lamp posters peddling Branding and T-shirt printing to the more specialist corporate brand agencies, it’s little wonder that there’s confusion as to what this “doing branding” really means.

Janet Kinghorn, Executive Creative Director, for The Brand Union Africa has been chosen to judge the prestigious Cannes Design Lions in June this year. This is the first time she has been invited to judge and the only South African to be chosen for this category in 2011.

Creative complacency is something that we are all at risk of, especially when the chips are down and we’re working at full tilt. As a creative company, how do you push past comfort and become greater than you were the day/week/month/year before?

The world wants creativity; it yearns for it and celebrates it when it’s put in front of them as a perfectly formed idea. Apple is the poster boy for our desires. But why is it that we resist these ideas when they are first conceived?