Accolades and Awards

Awards

Winner 2017 W3C Web Audio competition
Grand Prix Loerie for Thinking Multimedia
Gold Invision New Media Award (San Francisco) for Capsule 02
Gold Loerie for Thinking Multimedia
Gold Loerie for radarboy.com
Gold Loerie for Capsule 02
Gold Loerie for Capsule 01
Good Design Award, Tokyo, 2006
Gold SPADA Design Award for Thinking Multimedia
Gold SPADA Design Award for Capsule 02
Gold Construction Award for radarboy Broadcast
Gold Construction Award for rbdj
Gold Construction Award for T-ShirtMaker 1.0
Gold Construction Award for IOL Newssaver
One Show Special Mention for Thinking Multimedia
The Digital Zoo networked installation commissioned
Silver Loerie for Dynajets
Silver Loerie for T-ShirtMaker 1.0
Silver Loerie for radarboy Broadcast
Best 360 Brand for Ogilvy Asia Group for Jetstar

The Loerie Awards are Africa’s premier creative awards show.
The Construction New Media Awards are held in association with the International Design Indaba and are judged by an international panel. Past judges include Tom Roope, Neville Brody, Joshua Davis, Lewis Blackwell and Malcolm Garrett.

Other

NYU ITP Summer Camp, Instigator
Member of Noisebridge China Hack Delegation
Member of Dentsu Innovation Heroes
Member on the Consultative Body of the International Design Indaba
Creative Head, Absolute Made, Berlin
Guest Lecturer at AAA School of Advertising, Cape Town
Guest Lecturer at United World Colleges, Singapore
Guest Lecturer at ITP Summer Camp, New York
Guest Lecturer at Hirt & Carter School of Communication, Cape Town
Voted Top 10 on World's best Flash Sites
Work presented as Outstanding South African Design at the Design Indaba
Quoted in numerous technology newspaper and magazine articles as a technology specialist
Founding member of Boom Room technology forum.
Built award winning TShirt Maker - pixel tee app
Awarded art grant from Lo-Fi

Exhibitions

2018. Counting Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2018. Lighthouse. Llum BCN, Barcelona, Spain.
2017. Monolyth. ITP, New York.
2017. Sea Silo. The Wrong, Online Biennial.
2016. The 5 Stages. Schmiede Werkshau, Hallein, Austria.
2016. Your Move. FabCafe Opening, Singapore.
2013. Internetix Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.
2010. Look to the Sky. Salone del Mobile, Fabrica del Valapore, Milan, Italy.
2011. Motion Dance. Raum 44, Berlin, Germany.
2010. The Lounge Room. Mind Pirates, Berlin, Germany.
2008. Reaktiv. TY Harbour Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2006. Reaktiv. Applestore, Tokyo, Japan.
2005. Ring Movies. Online, Denmark.
2005. Motion. Super Deluxxe, Tokyo, Japan.
2005. The Digital Zoo. Group show, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2004. Soft. 2004 An exhibition of music and arts, Loopline Cafe, Tokyo Japan.
2002. Hunger Kills. New Media Underground Festival, Cape Town.
2002. Wedding Dress. Cape Town Festival. Installation with South African fashion designer Coppelia.
2001. Post Festival. Bijou, Cape Town, South Africa.
2001. Graffiti Machine. Resfest, Cape Town, South Africa.
2001. This Space to Let. South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
2001. Talking TV. Myself.write MyCode. Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town.
1999. Signal is An Input. Design Indaba Opening, Cape Town.

Press

2017 Centro Cultura Digital: The Wrong, the third edition of the digital art biennial
2017: The W3Cx: W3C Winners:
2017 Movement Computing: Digital Oxymorons: From Ordinary to Expressive Objects Using Tiny Wireless IMUs 2015: Engineers SG: George Gally - Three of Pentacles:
2014 Adobo Magazine: Standard Chartered Hong Kong explores the art of science through robotics
2014 Piktochart: Top 40+ South African Companies to follow in 2014
Accuware 2013: Internetix shines with Quirk’s innovation
2013 Ventureburn: 13 South African startups to look out for in 2013
2013 Africans Start Tech: South African Start-Ups to watch out for this year(2013).
2012 Ventureburn: Plans this weekend? No? You should probably check out Gigham
2012 Memeburn: Umbono Alpha Beta: Beer, pizza and startups, the Google way
2012: Sunday Times: Tech start-ups show their stuff
2012 Bandwidth Blog: Gigham: Taking you inside the Demo Africa 2012 Top 40 finalist
2012 Entrepeneur Country: Google's Incubator Success in South Africa
2012 Ventureburn: Meet the 40 startups selected for DEMO Africa 2012
2012 Bandwidth Blog: Home grown startups represent at DEMO Africa
2012 Bandwidth Blog: Home grown startups represent at DEMO Africa
2012 Bandwidth Blog: Local startup Gigham to represent SA at Demo Africa.
2012 African Start Tech: South African Start-Ups to watch out for this year(2013)
2012 Google Blog: Boosting Startups in Africa
2012 Popcornography: A Love affair with Gigham
2012 Appfrica: Inside DEMO Africa 2012, A Mini Documentary
2012 CP Africa: Inside DEMO Africa: Documentary provides a behind the scenes look at DEMO Africa 2012.
2012 TimesLive: Demo Africa a perfect launch pad.
2012 VC 4 Africa: Top 40 startups selected for Demo Africa 2012
2012 Brainstorm Mag: Into Africa Google’s approach to doing business in Africa
2012 Silicon Africa: DEMO Africa announces shortlist of 40 tech startups.
2012 Daily Kenya: Kenya dominates DEMO Africa 40 Finalists.
2012 TechZim: DEMO Africa announces shortlist of 40 tech startups.
2011 Web Addict: Google Umbono Tech Incubator
2011 Memeburn: Google launches new African Tech Incubator
2011 Silicon Cape: Google Umbono event: The energy was contagious!
2011 Techcrunch: Silicon South Africa: Google Launches Incubator For African Startups
2011 Forbes: 2011 Google Funds African Tech Startups
2011 Business Tech: The big issues in African ICT
2005 Furtherfield Low-fi gets physical at Stills
2005 Rhizome: Low-fi exhibition opens at Stills
2005 WEEKLY INCITE: Low-fi: new works by international artists using networked media
2005 MAZINE: Low-fi gets physical at Stills
2000 Artslink: SA's first on-line book.
2000 Artslink: Trekking to Teema.

Clients

Lucky Strike, Jetstar, Men's Health, Crumpler, Samsung, Bates, J Walter Thompson, Hypu Japan, British America Tobacco, Minolta, MWeb, MNet, Alexander Forbes, Independent Newspapers, NBA, Standard Chartered Bank, Durex, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Pick n Pay, Jupiter Drawing Room, Audi, Gilette, EastWest, South African Breweries, Tommy Hillfigger, Durex, Hollard, Liberty Insurance, Internet Solutions (IS), PPC Cement, Dettol, Sun International Casinos and Resorts,The Nelson Mandela Foundation, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Coca Cola, Disney, Pringles, Oreo, Singapore Airines, Singapore Land Transport Authority, Toyota, General Motors, Moet & Chandon, South African Breweries, Spier Wine Estate, Hennessy Cognac (LVHM), Glenmorangie Whisky, The Loeries, Cape Town Fashion Week, Ikineo, Sokenbicha, JVC, Cannon, Levis, Hanada College, American Beef, Shell, Ster Kinekor, Jupiter Drawing Room, Rembrandt Group, Baker Street Snacks, KTV, Docomo, Onistuka Tiger,Renault, Peugeot, Ponds, Tokyo Designers Block, Tokyo American Club, Museum Tokyo, EcoDecor Brand, African Dope Records, South African Press Association, Reuters, Sunday Times, Cape Argus, 702, Style, Student Life, Enterprise Magazine.