Fire and Lion

08/08/2018

This is a small, happy announcement: Fire and Lion is joining Electric Book Works. This doesn’t change anything about our work for our clients: in fact, the two businesses already share the same team. We’re really just changing the name on the door.

We founded Fire and Lion nearly three years ago as an agency specialising in storytelling and design. Since then, Fire and Lion has become known for its multi-format publishing work, using the tools and infrastructure we built at Electric Book Works.

It makes sense now to work under one banner, which will be Electric Book Works.

Electric Book Works was founded in 2006, and has a long history of publishing innovation and high-quality book-production. It was the birthplace of acclaimed initiatives Book Dash, Bettercare, and Paperight, and has trained, consulted to, or made books for many of South Africa’s top publishers, as well as non-traditional publishers in South Africa and elsewhere.

25/05/2018

In two separate events on 2 June and 9 June 2018, in Gauteng, teams of volunteer creative professionals will gather to create new children's books in African languages, to be translated, printed for thousands of children, and made freely available online. Everyone is a volunteer on the day, giving o...

08/05/2018

Calling experienced designers and illustrators:

Do you want to embark on a book-making adventure to produce an original African children's book in one day?

You will team up as a writer-illustrator-designer team, and your book will be printed for thousands of children!

For more details or to apply now visit onedayonebook.org

16/03/2018

We designed and developed the technology for CORE Econ's exciting new project, 'Economy, Society, and Public Policy'. See the functionality come to life in this short video.

In March 2018, CORE published the first five units of Economy, Society and Public Policy (ESPP). This ebook helps teachers create a course in economics for n...

07/03/2018

We are honoured to have received an IAB SA Bookmarks award, we topped the 'Specialist Publisher Sites' category for the work we did on CORE's 'The Economy'.

The Bookmarks are the premier awards for digital marketing and production in South Africa, and we were up against the biggest digital production agencies in the country.

For more of our work, see our portfolio: https://fireandlion.com/portfolio/

27/02/2018

Fire and Lion are finalists in the IAB SA awards for our work on CORE's The Economy (http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/).

We're holding thumbs, and working as hard as ever to bring you more beautiful books for a multi-format world.

18/12/2017

We've been very busy this year at Fire and Lion.

A huge thank you to all of our clients, friends and family. We'll see you in 2018 for more adventures in print and on screen.

30/11/2017

Letterpress printing brings a design to life so beautifully.

We can't wait to hand out some of our new business cards...

20/11/2017

Zimitri Erasmus and Desiree Lewis will be in conversation from 18:00 tonight about Zimitri's new book 'Race Otherwise'.

We designed the book inside and out for Wits University Press