Just great. My favorite part has to be the Tetris building.
Some pundits have posed the question: Why do anyone need this thing? Indeed, even those of you are lining up and standing outside stores may be wondering, Why am I doing this? Why am I lining up like a zombie for an expensive piece of consumer electronics, a product for which there is no shortage [...]
“Brand” is one of those words that makes me cringe, because I hear it repeatedly misused and abused. So it was refreshing to read this in a New York Times interview with Debra L. Lee, the CEO of BET Networks:
So we sat back and for a couple of years we really went through a process [...]
Yes, we believe that all clients deserve a Bill of Rights. But sometimes they also need to hear how they can sound:
Dearest clients, it’s funny because it’s (sometimes) true.
Last weekend Mike K. and I attended the first ever SMartCamp, a conference focusing on the social web and its relationship to the arts. It was a good conference with speakers from some of the main players at the intersection of the arts and technology, including Etsy, Threadless, and of course, MoMA. However, there were [...]
Over the years we’ve noticed that there are common questions clients repeatedly ask us. And you know what? They should. These are questions that are not in the world of everyday knowledge. They are things that, as experts, we’ve learned because we had to. Often they are things that are annoying or frustrating (to us [...]
Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Every word and every language is a model. All maps and statistics, books and databases, equations and computer programs are models. So are the ways I picture the world in my head–my mental models. None of these is or will ever be the real [...]
“Well, the field itself is dominated by fashion and by the idea of selling stuff, so you have to be concerned with what’s currently being done, and the economy is based on the idea of change and new styles, and this year’s whatever. Unfortunately, that’s not the real basis for serious work. If you’re more [...]
This is a follow up to the Client Bill of Rights post from last week. The main purpose of this companion document is to explain to the client that they are also active participants in their project and are in many ways just as responsible for its success or failure.
“Free Slippers at Airport Security”, “A Hand Warmer App: The Phone Heats Up”, and “Antibacterial Doormats” are just a sampling of the user-submitted free ideas you’ll find on our new site for Epoch Films. What, you got a better idea? Then go ahead and share it. (And In case you are wondering, yes, those are [...]