Contributing photographer Jimi Rae (cover Africa issue) has recently returned from Nairobi, Kenya where he was documenting work done by the Sumerian Foundation. The foundation finds foster homes for orphaned kids and ensures they receive a complete education. They’ve also set up vocational training within local businesses, providing job opportunities and helping to grow the local economy.
The [...]

Our friends over at One Horse Town have just launched their new website - go check it out!
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Belvedere South Africa has recently introduced their Artistic Luxury campaign, themed around the phrase ‘This is Downtown’. The most talented up-and-coming creative talents in South Africa are spotted and selected as ‘Belvedere Evangelists’ and are tasked with creating their own luxury inspired creative masterpiece, whether it be photography, fashion, design, graffiti, art or music, expressing the ‘Downtown’ identity. [...]

1 magazine, 2 live acts, 3 fashion designers, 4 writers and 5 illustrators = CREATIVE UNITY PARTY

Chew magazine, the pioneering South African online magazine, in collaboration with PUMA will be celebrating Creative Unity on 2 July 2010. Join Creative Unity’s event page to find out who will be playing live, who will be designing and who will be showcasing at this kicker [...]

Last night the Chew Crew attended the Zoo City book launch celebrated in super style at The Book Lounge. We were greeted by creatures of all sorts: customised bears, black zoo biscuits (and no, it didn’t make us hallucinate sadly), marabou storks, panda bears and even a sloth (casually wrapped around his owner’s shoulders - [...]

I’m incredibly fortunate. Being a founding partner and editor of Chew magazine has given me the opportunity to work with incredibly talented creatives from all over the world. They inspire me daily with their work and creativity but most of all by their dedication and passion to the creative world.
Chew’s contributing fiction editor Lauren Beukes [...]

We have some fantastic news to share with all of you. Natalie Nicklin’s cover illustration for Chew’s YELLOW issue has been selected by Creative Review to be part of their illustration annual which will be out at the end of June. Read more about Natalie in the YELLOW issue on pg. 64

=Congratulations Natalie! Watch this space for more=

For many, creativity is their drug – without it they cannot live. In this issue of Chew, we celebrate those who sit until the wee hours of the night perfecting an illustration, those who consume copious amounts of coffee to bring life into an animation, those who are always on deadline, those who *drink enough [...]

Just some of the amazing contributors who read at last night’s Home Away launch which prompted me to buy the book (I’m sure it will do the same to you). I can’t wait to sink my teeth into these 24 stories written by 24 South Africans about 24 cities, each at a specific hour of the [...]

I’ve always wanted to ride in a yellow New York cab. I love scrambled eggs. Mellow yellow reminds me of the 80s. Sunflowers and honey make nice gifts. One of my most treasured possessions is my Pantone Process Yellow C mug all the way from Paris. Sun. We all need a little yellow in [...]