TMG Think Tank Research
TMG Think Tank Academic research, including feminist analysis, and scientific writing for a specialist audience. At the height of Covid-19, TMG’s Urban Food Futures Programme embarked [...]
Green Action Week Communications
Green Action Week is a global sustainable consumption campaign in which about 40 environmental and social justice organisations around the world hold a series of activities in October each year that illustrate the concept of Sharing Community. This year, for the first time, Green Action Week is extending its reach and is being opened up to public participation.
Local Wild Food Hub Video
The Local Wild Food Hub is a voluntary association with the mission of engaging people in getting to know, cultivate, and use the forgotten local indigenous and wild foods of the Cape.
The Beginning: Stop Frame Animation
Shortlisted for a 1min, mobile phone, French Film Festival competition: Making Peace with Nature. This video uses stop frame animation to show the simplicity of compost making.
Plastic Tide Video
Amazing rescue & research done for seal and cormorant entanglements by the Two Oceans Aquarium, V & A Waterfront and Sea Search Research and Conservation.
Project Biome Website
Upon the launch of Project Biome, we crafted a captivating landing page where visitors can delve deeper into the project's details. This is to hold the space while we develop an effective communication strategy. The website uses powerful, spacious typography and captivating imagery, effectively conveying the primary objectives: the restoration of natural landscapes, the promotion of agroecology, and the revitalisation of human systems, all rooted in the profound wisdom of indigenous knowledge.
Izivunguvungu ‘Sudden Strong Winds’
Kader Williams and his team have shifted the winds for many underprivileged children. A place he comes from and knows too well. Through his commitment and love of the sea he changes perspectives and possibilities for these children.
Rethink the Stink Website
Rethink the Stink is an NPO and action group focused on responsible management of water and wastewater. Mycelium was briefed to create a simple website that shared an overview of who they are and their activities. The Rethink the Stink website uses clean and modern typography with big powerful images. The website also embeds their active and engaging Facebook group feed on a news page.
A Ripple Effect Video
What happens when you bring artists, scientists, city officials and aquatic ecosystems together? What unfolding ideas, discoveries or new images arise out of collective thought and action across different disciplines? This was the premise and provoking statement of the EITZ / SANOcean art meets science workshop and followed by this video from the event.
Mother Natures Tunes | 5050 Story
We might not understand what they’re saying, but just like us, other species speak or communicate with each other in their own “languages”. Meet scientists Tess Girdley and Simon Elwen, who are recording and studying how animals “speak”.
Renu-Karoo Website
Renu-Karoo provide plants, seeds and consulting services to those engaged in efforts to restore damaged Karoo veld. Their new website offers simple navigation to the extensive information they offer on a variety of indigenous plant species. It contains clean and clear text that is packed with keywords for good SEO. Beautiful images of their plants visually hold the space and share some of the magic of what they grow in their unique Karoo-based nursery.
Cape Town Wetlands City | 5050 Story
Wetlands are some of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, yet they are amongst the most important. Our most famous and biggest wetland is the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, but there are thousands of smaller, and equally valuable, wetlands across the country.
Stable Planet Alliance Advert
Created for Earth Overshoot Day, this print and social media advert shows a wistful, somewhat neglected child losing hold of balloons in a windswept world. The heart-shaped balloons suggest the values we hold towards stability and security, and what we are loosing - a stable society, climate and planet.
Urban Food Futures
Foodweb.city was developed over a 12 month period for the Urban Food Futures Programme. The programme aims to contribute to a transformation of existing urban food systems and provide concrete solutions for more liveable futures in urban and peri-urban habitats. Foodweb is the online platform designed to present the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for the urban food systems research, analysis, implementation, advocacy and activism from the project’s primary research sites.
Anthology of Sustainable Consumption
This ‘Anthology of Sustainable Consumption’ presents a collection of viewpoints, experiences and case studies from both the Global North and South with the aim to illustrate the need for a transition to sustainable consumption and production. This compilation emphasizes the urgency with which we need to act to bring a better world for all into being.
Soil for Life Organic Home Food Gardening Course
This is the Soil for Life tutorial on how to grow healthy veggies right outside one's back door. This incredible course has been run for many years in communities around Cape Town, and has seen a multitude of backyards turned into abundant food gardens.
WWF videos on Groundwater
Since the drought in the Western Cape, groundwater has become a debated topic, and an interest in boreholes, springs and aquifers has grown. World Wildlife Fund South Africa (WWF-SA) commissioned Mycelium Media Colab to produce two educational videos that explore our underground water in Cape Town.
Farm to Fork
Farm to Fork is a short documentary episode that goes to Gugulethu and Ocean View in Cape Town, where we learn from two community led small-scale farming groups about the possibility of using food local production to build community resilience. This film is part of ten short documentaries that illustrate the flaws of the South African food system exposed through the COVID 19 pandemic.
Vanity & the Planet – 50/50 story
12 minute feature story produced for the SABC environmental show 50/50 that takes a closer look at the environmental price tag of the fashion and beauty industry.
Self Care Course – Activate Academy
In our society, the need for hope, self-belief, self-love is at an all-time high. This course is a journey of self reflection, self love and self care. In it learners are guided on a journey to really get to know themselves… They gain a better understanding about what has shaped them, they explore what brings them joy and we share resources and information on where to seek further support should triggers arise
Makoma Lekalakala – 50/50 story
6 min Alle Wereld story produced for the SABC environmental show 50/50, profiling Makoma Lekalakala of Earthlife Africa in celebration of Women’s Month, Aug 2020.
IOI video on Zandvlei
IOI-SA uses Zandvlei Estuary as a case study in Estuary Management as part of the IOI-SA Course in Ocean Governance for Africa. The video focuses on the history of the Vlei, challenges for the estuary as well as management measures and ideas for the way forward.
Cape Town Stink – 50/50 story
12 minute feature story produced for the SABC environmental show 50/50, giving an overview of ocean pollution around Cape Town.
Kos Gangsters – Best Documentary Award
In December 2020, Lara Taylor won Best Documentary Award at the Mobile Moviemakers Cape Town Film Festival for her mobile video “Kos Gangsters”. The video was filmed at the Ocean View Farm and focuses on two of the female farmers. Coming from the harsh environment of Ocean View, their stories highlight the strength and courage that these women have.
Down to Earth Screenings at the Labia
During March and April 2019, Mycelium Media Colab co-hosted a number of screenings of the documentary film, Down to Earth at the independent Labia Cinema in Cape Town. Down to Earth is a 90-minute film about a British couple with three young children who spent five years journeying across six continents, living with indigenous tribes and “earth keepers” on a quest to learn their ways and gain new perspective.
Water Stories
WaterStories.co.za is a storytelling web portal that explores freshwater and ocean contamination around Cape Town. The website aims to support citizen choices for a clean environment; equip communities to recognise that any injury to water is an injury to all; that working for clean water is working for health for all.
Kia Johnson – new 50/50 presenter
SABC2’s long running environmental programme 50/50 which aired it’s new season on the 8th June 2020 has our very own Kia Johnson of Mycelium Media as the new host.
Cape Mental Health Annual Report
The effects of Covid on mental health globally set the theme for this annual report. The design and layout presented information for stakeholders in a visually rich way, including images and infographics to tell the CMH story.
Concours d’Elephant Brochure
The Elephant Family uses art as a means to raise funds for the rehabilitation of Asian Elephants, as seen in this brochure of re-decorated 'Ambassador' cars, Royal Enfield motorcycles and tuk-tuks from India.
Times Live Series
This series was commissioned by Activate! Leadership, to highlight the inspiring people that have passed through their doors. Their Change Drivers programme equips Activators with innovation & project planning skills. They explore aspects of leadership & values; and offer an understanding on how to navigate the socio-political landscape.
ReNature Promo Video
reNature is a compilation magazine series that paints a picture of the regenerative, sustainable world that is possible if we bring a better understanding and respect for Nature and our relation to her, back into all aspects of human life. This project is in development and we are currently seeking sponsorship.
African Centre for Biodiversity Publications
Contributing research and writing for African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) publications. ACB is a research and advocacy organisation working towards food sovereignty and agro-ecology in Africa.
All Woman TV
Just real women, having real conversations about real things. Not a new concept right? But how about we throw in diversity of age, race and culture? How about we get different opinions delivered in a way that celebrates the beauty and complexity of the female mind, body and soul? All Woman TV is a talk show that celebrates all the ways of being woman, and created collaboratively by Gang of Creatives, directed by Jemima Spring.
UN Food App
Primary research within a United Nations-funded project with a farming community in Worcester, South Africa to determine whether a mobile application could reduce on-farm food waste and better link small growers to market.
Ecobrick Deep South
Ecobrick Deep South is a communications platform that raises awareness about the dangers of single-use plastics. The project involved creative conceptualisation for a public campaign in Cape Town's south peninsula.
Carbon Neutral 2050, Cape Town
Inspirational video produced for the City of Cape Town's Sustainable Energy Markets internal workshop, to generate new thinking and create awareness across the city's departments around disruptive technologies.
Community Chest/Impumelelo Awards Video
This is a leading awards programme in South Africa, rewarding innovators who find creative solutions to public problems. The video showcased some [...]
Soil for Life Annual Reports
A clean layout, fun graphics and inspiring photography have been used in this series of annual reports. They showcase the amazing work of Soil for Life who teach [...]
iThuba – Creating Opportunity
iThuba is an empowerment project that started in 2012. It was developed as a 3 hour training program for previously disadvantaged Grade 11’s and 12's from the townships to help prepare them for the difficult job market they face on leaving school.
Bellbunya Community Eggs Flyer
On this flyer advertising sustainably farmed eggs, an organic typeface was used and images were photographed and artworked into monotone creating a balanced, clean design.
ASC Identity Design
This environmental organisation builds relocalised communities that are socially, culturally, financially and ecologically sustainable. Three figures stand within the logo with their bodies in the shapes...
African Earth Rights Video Series
African Earth Rights is a communication platform for the catalysing conversations that help to shift us towards sustainability. The video series featured local "green" entrepreneurs.
Izingqi Zakwantu Nemveli: Rhythms of People & Nature
A graffiti-art Youth Day initiative run by The One Love Studio. Filmed and edited by Content Lounge as way to share what people are doing to promote nature.
Diploma Program
Conceptualisation and facilitation of a creative expression module for students enrolled in Stellenbosch University's Diploma in Sustainable Development, hosted at the Sustainability Institute. Conceptualisation, Writing, Research and Facilitation: Stef Swanepoel
350.org Rise Africa Up Video
A powerful video collection of the actions from across Africa for the Rise Up for Climate campaign, driven by global grassroots organisation 350.org.
Bellbunya Community Logo
Bellbunya Community is a demonstration center for sustainable living. For their logo, a stylised Bunya tree has been created. This tree holds a strong significance in the [...]
IPCC 1.5º Global Warming Report
Summary video of the ACDI roundtable discussion on the IPCC Special Report on global warming of 1.5 degrees, and the implications of the report's key findings for southern Africa.
It’s Africa’s Time
It's Africa's Time highlights the impact of responsible business around Africa. This episode, directed by Jemima Spring tells the story of how the same company who was building a water regulation dam in South Angola, close to the Namibian border, returned to finish the job 40 years after the dam was bombed in the Angolan Border War.
UN Habitat’s Optimizing infrastructure publication
Contributing case study author for this publicaiton, which outlined best practice of sustainable infrastructure use and development.
Treebox Identity
A logo and corporate identity were created for this company that design and install vertical gardens. A silhouette of a tree in a square coincide with the name in a well [...]
Liesbeek Series
An ancient fish from the days of Gondwanaland, finds a way to survive the Cape Town drought. Following the flow of the Liesbeek River, this is the first of a series about the people and life connected to it's path. Shot on an iPhone8.
Ubuntu Eco Village Logo
For the logo of this South African based eco village, multiple facets are brought together including people, community, homes and the environment. A man and woman [...]
Let’s Talk Regeneration
Let's Talk Regeneration is a multimedia campaign and web discussion series that supports the creation of a Long-Term Regenerative Plan for South Africa. It is an invitation to dream and a call to action, awakening the world we all know is possible.
Coastal Park Landfill: Extracting Gas from Trash
A short experimental drone video showcasing the methane extracting gas project runs at the Coastal Park Landfill in Muizenberg. The landfill facilitates the disposal of general waste, which cannot be re-used or recycled.
Conversations About Water
A short news feature about the drought in the Western Cape and the natural water spring on St James main road.