Our favourite new client! (among many old favourites) We met with Mr Nkosana Khosa, the Marketing Director of Orlando Pirates earlier this year, 2 weeks before one of the big Pirates vs Chiefs derby matches. He briefed us on coming up with a new design for the VIP suite tickets for the match. Mr Khosa liked the designs so much that he called us in to recce Orlando Stadium to apply a similar look and feel to various spaces around the stadium. The catch was that we only had a week and a half to design, print and install. No sweat! We are currently involved in various projects with Pirates that will be rolled out soon.

4.	Vodacom Origins of Golf and the Vodacom Championship

Over the last 4 years, Brand inc has been responsible for the design of all the collateral around these prestigious golfing events. From overall theme design through to branding and production of the smallest items, we’ve been involved in some incredible tournaments. It’s been fantastic working with Trinergy Brand Connectors, who run these events, and even though there have been some late nights and tough deadlines, it’s awesome being a part of golfing history.

5. Miss World Beauty Pageant

Another outrageous deadline! We pitched on this event along with SAIL about 3 months before the event was to take place. SAIL won the pitch and then the fun and games began :-) We were notified 3 weeks before the event that it was game on! Various event and branding collateral were developed relatively quickly, and all seemed to be going pretty smoothly... but wait... the Monday before the event, we were called in to recce Gallagher Estate for multiple branding options for Miss World 2009. This included various banners, directional signage and multiple large scale branding solutions like 25m X 4m and 4.5m X 2m banner drops. Well, let me tell you... what a stressful week! We got approval on all the layouts at 5PM on the Wednesday. Our loyal and trusty suppliers worked non-stop from that moment till literally midnight on the Saturday morning to make sure that all was printed, manufactured an installed correctly. This process included our managing director up a ladder assisting and managing the installation team at Gallagher on the Friday night.

6. IRB George Sevens Tournament

Brand inc. has been putting together all the creative elements for the IRB George 7’s tournament since 2005 and with the success of the SAA National Club Champs campaign, SA Rugby again gave us the opportunity to pitch on developing the advertising and branding campaign for the 2009 George Sevens tournament. We had to up our game further on this one as the magnitude of this tournament is far greater than the NCC campaign, and is viewed on a global basis broadcasting to millions of people. The Push the Tempo campaign was developed. We wrote a song for the campaign that was adapted for the radio and TV commercials. We also designed sequential posters that would each have a verse from the song, with the catch line on the last poster in the sequence. This created fantastic continuity from the TV and radio commercials. Once again, the campaign and tournament were a roaring success!

7.	Bonitas Medical Fund Activation at the Comrades Marathon

Brand inc partnered up with The Advertising Booth to assist in executing all the deliverables, and logistics required for the Bonitas Medical Fund activation at the Comrades 2010. The magnitude of this project far exceeded any that we had done before. We designed a new look and feel for the campaign as well as handling all the exhibition stand designs and production, all exhibition and race day branding, including at the start, 2 hotspots and at the finish line. We also executed all the television, radio and print media. The feedback that we received from client as well as event organisers was extraordinary, all were very impressed and the brand exposure far exceeded any previous campaigns. A job well done!

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