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Tomorrow sees the start of the main events for the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon. As the agency who does the Marketing for Two Oceans (not to mention the many Colourworks’ staff members who are running in the race) we are all very excited! Two Oceans encapsulates the beauty of Cape Town as well as [...]

With the Argus approaching rapidly we thought we would take some time to brush-up on some elemental cycling nutrition. So to all of our clients taking part in The Argus we wish you the best of luck and hope that you find the below information on what to eat and what to avoid on the [...]

Love makes the world go round! In celebration of Valentine’s Day Colourworks has decided to offer you a chance to win a fantastic prize compliments of one of Cape Town’s most exclusive restaurants, Pigalle. Read some of the charming (and not so charming) Colourworks staff quotes on what the team thinks love is all about and [...]

Colourworks would like to welcome you back from what we hope was a great holiday season. With the advent of 2012 and the Olympics on the horizon we’re going for gold this year.

Brainstorming and coming up with new creative concepts can be more formidable than tackling the Greek deficit. You may not consider yourself a creative beast, or you may simply hit a bulldozer of immobility when trying to generate something original. Never fear, creativity is actually something that can be honed and is not purely innate. [...]

With a new year approaching and no doubt a few individuals contemplating a change of scenery on the work-front, we thought we would take a look at what elements of social media you should be considering before sending out your next job application. Gerrit Hall,  from Rezscore, offers his topical insights below… Thanks to Facebook, [...]

If you ever doubted the power of social networking then this piece may make you reconsider. The Dalai Lama has officially joined Google+— and he’s already planning a Hangout with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The Hangout, announced Friday on the Dalai Lama’s Google+ profile, will take place Oct. 8 at 10:30 a.m. South African [...]

Rick Chin is the director of product innovation at SolidWorks, where he develops new products and researches how technology will make us smarter, simplify daily tasks and seamlessly fit into our everyday lives. What follows is the first of his 8 insights into what the future holds for technological innovation. In 20 years our technology [...]

“Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” So began the “letter from the founders” penned by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the company’s securities registration form in 2004. Despite ever-increasing commercial success since that date, Brin and Page have kept to their word. Google is an unconventional company [...]

Last weekend the Colourworks team attended the HP Annual Conference at the Royal Elephant Conference Centre in Johannesburg. HP Print Station representatives from around the country gathered for the conference, as well as an awards ceremony. The Colourworks team, headed-up by owner Lesley Waterkeyn, scooped several major awards for conceiving and executing a number of [...]

This Women’s Day Colourworks representatives teamed up with African Tails to make a real difference to 40 families in dire circumstances. The Skandaal Camp is a group of 40 families sandwiched between power lines and a rubbish dump in the Vissershok area. Upon a visit a few weeks back by African Tails (an NGO aimed [...]

1. Create a dedicated Twitter landing page. One of the most valuable parts of your Twitter profile is the link in your company’s profile. Instead of simply pasting in the URL of your homepage, take the time to create a new page on your website specifically targeted toward visitors from Twitter. This Twitter landing page [...]