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AutonomousChief Executive Officer
Jan. 2024City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaWe played rock paper scissors and I won. Final score 7-3.
FanmodeCreative Director
Sep. 2021City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
KapchaCo-Founder
Jan. 2021City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
BRANDTRUTH//DGTLFreelance Creative Director
Feb. 2020 - Jul. 2020Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Hack-a-BrandCo-Founder
Mar. 2019Johannesburg Area, South AfricaHack-A-Brand's productivity and workshop tools help creatives, strategists, marketers, and business owners build better brands. From brands to Rands (or Dollars, or whatever) Our purpose is simple get business noticed for what makes them special, communicate their purpose, build trust, and the sales will follow. And one day more jobs, which leads to more freedom. That's what we believe.
Where the hack did we come from? Hack-A-Brand is the brainchild of Autonomous Republic, a "boutique" integrated brand and advertising agency. AR's mission is to liberate businesses by cultivating better brands, marketing and advertising. And its been achieved through brand and marketing workshops they offered their clients. The client responses to the workshops and their results spurred an idea that anyone could better their brand, if only they had the right tools. That's when Hack-A-Brand was born (2018ish). The founders researched and developed brand hacking tools, testing, redesigning, chucking out and starting again, till they worked. The result is a collection of tools that champion brand development while democratising marketing and advertising efforts.
SLIDIFYCreative Director
Apr. 2018 - Jan. 2021JohannesburgSlidify exists for the sole purpose of helping others make their moonshots come true. We don't research and develop, or make geniuses tinker away in bunkers somewhere. No, we just design, animate and up-sell the crazy ideas of those dreamers through beautiful and inspiring presentations.
Exp AgencyCreative and Strategy Director
Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2018City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Group Africa MarketingCreative and Strategy Director
Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2018City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
LIVE+ AgencyCreative and Strategy Director
Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2018City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
RetroShedCo Founder
Mar. 2015 - Jul. 2016453 Jan Smuts Avenue, Blairgowrie, JohannesburgRetroShed is an all-inclusive creative co-working environment that enables creatives to establish a professional business presence, connect with others, and build communities of interest, ideas, and talent. RetroShed have the added benefits of having an in-house advertising and business solutions agency, Autonomous Republic, that will aid and offer services to the space’s members, as well as load-shedding beating inverters which will be coming soon to keep the necessities running giving small businesses the advantage they wouldn’t have got anywhere else. From our own concerns of finding suitable office space for ourselves, we found that many providers hide costs and everything ends up being an extra charge, be it parking, internet, furniture etc., and that creates a problem for small businesses that need to know exactly how much they will need to breakeven. Things that we deem necessities were offered as extras, and from a small business point of view, and that was just not going to roll. As a growing share of the world’s workforce gravitates toward “independent” and off-site work, co-working spaces are becoming important places for freelancers to gather, connect, and get work done. South Africa, with its high rates of entrepreneurship and small business startups needs to provide the those businessmen and women with platforms that not only nurture their growth but inject the much needed professionalism. From the mouth of the president, South Africa needs small businesses to thrive, to cut the unemployment, increase investment and to become pioneers in the eyes of the world.
Autonomous Republic CommunicationsExecutive Creative and Strategy Director
Aug. 2013 - Jan. 2024Johannesburg Area, South AfricaWe are the Autonomous Republic an independent integrated marketing and branding agency based in Johannesburg. Since its founding in 2013, the Autonomous Republic has been helping others realise their sovereignty by building independent brands that have no equal, with clearly-defined purpose, and customer-magnetised values.
The Autonomous Republic is owned, managed and run by its original two creative founders that believe that working directly with experienced creative and strategy is what provides instant answers, faster service and partnerships with our clients that move beyond just a business relationship. Our creative designers, copywriters, strategists and technologists are hand-picked from the best in the industry according to their category of experience. We take pride in our creative and production team that produce the strategy, thinking and ideas that create visuals and text for every single strategic thought.
Our specialised agency has a big heart that looks at advertising, marketing, branding, social, digital and experiential holistically, providing solutions that integrate only fruitful channels instead of each medium in isolation or a spray-and-pray approach.
Our straight-talking approach has been called out by our clients as our best trait calling us the “no BS” agency, as we consult and strategise with our clients, their internal staff and executives in a close partnership to decode their ongoing or current obstacles. We don’t dance around any of the issues, or claim we know or can do “everything”, but we can provide you with the truth, results-driven solutions and action all these to build your brand into something meaningful, bold, emotive or just darn epic.
Iclipse Creative SolutionsDictator of Art
Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2013TTL
Timesquare AdvertisingArt Director
Jun. 2012 - Nov. 2012TTL
JWTArt Director
Dec. 2007 - May. 2012TTL
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