International heavyweight judge for Pendoring
Gerhard Myburgh, multi-award-winning creative director of The Campaign Palace in Melbourne, Australia, is this year's international judge of the Pendoring advertising awards for outstanding Afrikaans advertising.
Myburgh has been a judge at the Loeries and Ad of the Month and had a large number of advertising awards under his belt when he was the South African creative head and part of FCB Johannesburg and TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris creative teams. Judging will take place in Johannesburg on 14-15 August 2009
Judges
- The other members of this year's Pendoring panel of judges are
- Iaan Bekker, creative director, Brandwealth
- Brandt Botes, graphic designer director, The Jupiter Drawing Room, Cape Town
- Esti du Plessis, copywriter, The Royal Metropole
- Francois de Villiers, executive creative director, Draftfcb Cape Town
- Denise Meadon, group head: marketing, Clover
- Jerry Mpufane, managing director, Draftfcb Johannesburg
- Minky Stapleton, illustrator
- Marius van Rensburg, creative director, 99cents
- Klasie Wessels, chairman, Streetschool
Specialist judges
- Anton Visser - TV (director, Velocity)
- Rian van Heerden - Radio (OFM)
- Tseliso Rangaka Truly South African (senior copywriter, Ogilvy)
- Roela Hattingh - students (Vega The Brand Communication School)
These awards are aimed at motivating the industry to deliver exceptional Afrikaans work and prove to marketers that mother-tongue advertising has great merit.
For more, go to www.pendoring.co.za.