Chris Rawlinson

One of the great things about living in Cape Town is the Design Indaba. Since 1995, the Design Indaba Conference has been inviting the world’s top creative minds to address professionals from the creative, corporate and educational sectors alike. Each year at Ogilvy we send a selection of our staff to listen to the talks [...]

It’s that time of year again for the annual Google year in review video. Click on the video above to see how the World Searched with Google in 2011. For the full list of search trends go to http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/ Related PostsGoogle: 2010 Year in Review

Text messaging is 19 years old. The first text message was sent on December 03, 1992 to Richard Jarvis from Neil Papworth, who sent the message using his personal computer. The text message read “Merry Christmas”. Below is a timeline created by Tatango to help you understand how text messaging has evolved over the last [...]

Cnet UK have created an animated history of the iPhone in memory of Steve Jobs. Enjoy

Wonderful Infographic by SocialBakers. Using their Engagement Analytics tools they have created an overview of how the main social media tools fit into our world. To see more South African based infographics go to our very own Ogilvy Cape Town staff member Ivan Colic’s blog Afrographique. Related PostsInfographic: Office Party Season Infographic: Anatomy of an [...]

Wonderful Infographic explaining some of the innovative uses of NFC technology and predicting it’s future. For the advertising industry this is something that we have already started seeing a few innovative uses of (NFC enabled posters, facebook check-ins etc), and in the near future its only going to get better. Click on the image to [...]

Recently Sony Ericsson Kindly sent me their latest top of the line smartphone, the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ Arc. Although the handset weighs about the same as a spec of dust and feels a bit plasticy it’s actually surprisingly rugged and certainly is one very powerful smartphone. The Arc runs Android 2.3 gingerbread, and comes complete [...]

Interesting Infographic from Cisco showing their predictions of how the web will look in 2015. Given that we know affordable and widespread access to the web produces a positive growth in a countries GDP (and general quality of life), it seems that according to the infographic Africa needs to get cracking a bit and man [...]