This week, for Mother's Day on Sunday 14th May, we're doing things a little differently by inviting you to submit your own card designs and ideas. As an apparent trend, we're working with a limited timeframe and plan to have 10 cards up on the website by Thursday morning at the latest. So get your creative juices flowing, mix in a little fun, humour and local appeal, and see what you can come up with.

E-mail your design (in whichever format) to cupid [at] spreadthelove.co.za on or before Wednesday. Based on strength of idea and appropriateness of content, the 10 best cards will be selected and posted to the site, along with a credit to the person responsible. If you have limited design skill but have a great idea for a card, please e-mail that too and we'll happily execute if for you. Browse through the existing Valentine's Day cards for some inspiration.

The system is in place and ready to go, and we'll be adding in a new feature that will allow for cards to be created during the week, and then sent at a later date of your choice - this time around, we're guessing first thing on Sunday morning.

Spread the word! Spread the love!

UPDATE [11/06]: Well, doesn't look like it's going to come together this time around - big apologies to the online Mothers around South Africa, time just wasn't on our side (I was going to say creative support, but that would just be disheartening) ;)

Some great ideas came in at the last minute (Mark has some winners) but there weren't enough to make it worthwhile. All is not lost however, they'll go up on the site eventually. Thanks to those that did give it a go, we love you for it. Craig and I got thinking about the next occasion already: how about Spring Day (1 September)? A month and a bit later it's Bosses Day... *evil grin*....

Communication Arts
For the communication arts pages we are accepting print advertising, magazine layouts, fonts, poster design, digital design and packaging design. We are looking for work breaking in Jan and Feb, or international work not readily available or showcased in SA, that are innovative and original or feature a special technique in its creation. Images submitted need to be high-res (300 dpi

Commercial Break
For the commercial break pages we are looking for TV and cinema advertising. Still image sizes for TV commercials are 720x576 pixels minimum.

If you're interested you can e-mail toolbox at mweb.co.za or visit the placeholder website at www.brandmagazine.co.za for more information.

Via Biz-Community: BRAND magazine is an independent publication aimed at brand professionals in the corporate, media and advertising business. It is driven by three experienced marketing journalists, with Di Paice, formerly the Cape editor of ADvantage magazine as editor; Herman Manson, editor of online magazine media.toolbox as deputy editor; and Kim Penstone, formerly editor of the website Marketingweb, as Jo'burg editor.