Chris Rawlinson

Great local work by Kulula and King James. This weekend the above ad aired in national newspapers, and coincidently the SA president married his fourth wife! Kulula says the offer is a uniquely South African response to pressures faced by larger families during these turbulent financial times. If you fly with your four wives, the [...]

Wonderful ad parody from Nando’s and their agency Black River FC. To understand the above clip you will need to have seen the original popular clever ad for Sanlam featuring Ben Kingsley by another local agency King James. Related PostsNandos: Black Tuesday Nando’s drops it like it’s *not* hot Nandos: Dalai Lama visit to South [...]

If you have anything to do with advertising, you will probably appreciate theses new ads for the upcoming 2011 Eagle Awards (The main creative print awards in SA). The ads help to show what obstacles most great creative work has to overcome in order to see the light of day. Click on the images to [...]

To help celebrate 10 years of Kulula their agency King James has worked out that they have flown 55million KM, the same distance from here to Mars!. They have bought plots of land on Mars and will be giving away 22 of them to lucky winners who suggest the best use of the plots through [...]

More wonderful work from King James for Allan Gray investments. The ad is a long awaited replacement for the much loved and awarded James Dean commercial from the same agency (See that here). Well done Alistair King, Paige Nick, and the rest of the crew, lovely work. Related PostsCape Union Mart: Tiger [Woods] spotting Allan [...]

Nice work from King James for Plascon. They commissioned artist Jarryd Kin to paint a portrait of Kate and William’s royal wedding kiss made out of mayo, jam, ketchup and flour on Plascon’s new stain resistance Double Velvet paint, then proved its stain resistance by wiping it clean. On Plascon’s Facebook page Fans who suggest [...]

More great innovative marketing from the kulula team. This time they have  decided to ad a ‘tikkie’ South Africa to the UK royal wedding by delivering a herd of cows to Buckingham Palace as lobola. For every flight booked from 14 February, kulula will make a contribution to the cost of a herd fit for [...]

For those who have never heard of the Loerie Awards before they are basically the main advertising awards for agencies based in Africa and the Middle East. The Loeries recognise the best creative work in every area of brand communication including television, radio and print advertising, graphic design, architecture, direct marketing, non-broadcast video, live events, [...]