Meagan Hamman
Lecturer, Writer, and Designer in Cape Town, South Africa
I'm just a kid in a grown-up world with adult-sized responsibilities. I laugh really loudly at the worst jokes, drive fast, and live slow. Intersectional feminist, sayer of words, paradox, admirer of beauty, and very finicky about details.
I'm a big picture, idea- and solution-generating type of thinker.
After nearly two decades of working behind the scenes, I find myself at the front of the classroom. Since March 2015, I've taken up the challenge to facilitate various multimedia subjects in the Diploma in Information and Communication Technology in the Information and Communication Technology department at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Students have gone through my tutelage from first year until graduation, and I have thus far taught an average of 2100 first years, 150 second years, and 100 third years.
From fulfilling the role of sometimes designer and manager, curator and SEO writer of the events section at CapeTownMagazine.com (from May 2012 to February 2015), I transitioned into a part-time role as a designer and doing research and development for the Western Cape-based lifestyle website.
Between 2011 and 2012, I made a living as a designer at Full Circle Communications, creating layouts for printed internal communication notices and magazines for corporate companies such as Anglo-Dutch multinational consumer goods corporation Unilever, freight import and export management company SACD, and South Africa’s best-loved brand conglomerate AVI, to name but a few.
In late 2010 through 2011, I served Food24.com as a content producer as part of an internship programme and found a love for digital content while exploring my growing enthusiasm with social media.
After a morning of shenanigans with colleagues, I posted a #foodmovie tweet from the @food24 Twitter account and watched this innocent post go viral, first locally then internationally. The trending topic caught the attention of American-based online news aggregator and blog, the Huffington Post.
Quite possibly, my proudest social media moment.
Before this, I worked as a multimedia designer at Professional Vision Group, contributing to major Pick n Pay projects from 2008 to 2010, including a touchscreen project for their flagship store's rebrand.
While earning my National Diploma in Multimedia Technology at CPUT in 2005, I joined Kwekwezi Productions (now closed) as a production coordinator.