Flow produces Caves of the Ape Men coffee-table book
By Janet Berger // May 19, 2010
There aren’t many communications companies where lunchtime chats are littered with references to Australopithecus, the artefacts of Mapungubwe and trance dances depicted in rock art. This is what happens, though, when you work with a number of key players in South Africa’s heritage industry.
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Flow presents the latest HIV/AIDS and the Media Project publication
By Zintle Mtyeku // May 18, 2010
One of Flow’s recent projects has been the production of the HIV/AIDS and the Media Project discussion forum’s booklet, How healthy is our news? The state of health reporting in South Africa.
The HIV/AIDS and the Media Project’s main focus at its eighth discussion forum, held at the Wits Origins Centre on October 22, 2009, was to look into the role and impact of the news media on the HIV pandemic.
The book is a full-colour document, designed using the Project’s corporate colours. The cover is a collage of images representing the media, finished off with minimal images, fine text and white spaces for an attractive, easy read. Read more…
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Media training for Liberty Life
By Palesa Motau // May 17, 2010
Liberty Life is one of South Africa’s most prestigious corporates, and has been offering clients in Africa investment and financial products and services for more than 50 years.
Because the services Liberty offers are customer-oriented and often discussed in the media, Liberty Life requested Flow’s media training services in order to better understand and communicate with the media. Read more…
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Flow reveals the many faces of Cape Point
By Christine Marot // May 14, 2010
Cape Point boasts some of the most breathtaking ocean and mountain scenery on the planet. This narrow stretch of land, dotted with beautiful valleys, bays and beaches, contains a mix of extraordinarily diverse fauna and flora and forms part of the Cape Floral Region, a World Heritage Site.
It completes Cape Town’s “Big Six” attractions, along with Table Mountain, Robben Island, the V&A Waterfront, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and the Constantia Vineyards.
Flow was enthusiastic and excited about putting together new brochures in time for the Indaba tourism expo, for this premier tourist attraction for our long-standing client, the Thebe Tourism Group. Read more…
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Marine magic at Two Oceans Aquarium
By Ingrid Sinclair // May 07, 2010
Today, we launched the new Two Oceans Aquarium website. It’s an odd thing to look back on, especially since in many ways the work only really starts now. But reflection holds many valuable lessons and learning is certainly something we’ve been doing a lot of over the past month. Read more…
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Flow forges links with the Bakubung
By Miliswa Sitshwele // May 06, 2010
From Cape Town to Durban, Johannesburg to Rustenburg, Flow Communications has, in a short space of time, made its presence known as a driving force in the communications industry.
While most companies owe a great deal of their success to their strong advertising and PR campaigns, Flow Communications owes its growth to word-of-mouth advertising and referrals.
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Designing the Turning off the Tap booklet
By Ernie Joseph // May 05, 2010
Turning off the Tap, produced by the aids2031 consortium of partners, aims to understand the HIV/AIDS pandemic response, consider the implications of the disease in a changing world and chart a long-term response to the pandemic to change the face of AIDS in Africa by 2031 in Africa.
Flow Communications was approached to design the booklet and the project became my responsibility.
The booklet is basically a one colour (black type on white pages) document; the cover is full colour. Read more…
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Flow designs 2010 prospectus for Pridwin
By Neo Male // May 03, 2010
Pridwin Preparatory School recently approached Flow Communications to design its 2010 prospectus. The prospectus was to briefly outline Pridwin’s values, its scholars’ academic achievements and their sporting spirit, among other qualities.
Pridwin Preparatory School is a Christian boys’ school catering for learners from Grade 0-7. It is situated in Melrose, Johannesburg, and has been welcoming students for 87 years, since it was founded in 1923. Read more…
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Cofisa aims to improve local innovation systems
By Janet Berger // April 30, 2010
Cofisa (formally the Cooperation Framework on Innovation Systems between Finland and South Africa) is an initiative between Finland and South Africa, aiming to improve local innovation systems. The programme has been running for the past few years and intends to bring European expertise to the South African context, to help local people find ways to solve their problems and address their issues in a constructive manner.
The Cofisa book was a summary of the exercises embarked on and lessons learned from the process. Read more…
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Journ-AIDS provides safe passage through HIV/AIDS reporting minefield
By Nikolai Viedge // April 28, 2010
HIV/AIDS is a tricky subject to cover, journalistically speaking.
In addition to being a chronic illness which, if left untreated, is fatal, it also carries with it social stigma that has seen people vilified, ostracised, and in some cases, murdered, simply for having contracted the disease.
Reporting on the disease abounds with stereotypes and stereotyping. The Fourth Estate is encouraged to provide an independent voice and perspective, but it’s all too easy to simply reflect the views of those who see the disease as “a whore’s disease”, “a gay disease” or “a black disease”. Read more…
