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The Twitter has landed
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on May 25 at 9:27 PM I've toyed with Twitter. I've been excited. Then Confused. Perhaps the stages of Twitter acceptance. But until now, I didn't understand its full pwoer. See why. Topics: free write 0 Comments Read Full PostCouldn’t make it to ICFF? Here is what design blogs are reporting
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on May 19 at 9:50 AM DMD has been out in droves at ICFF. On the trade show floor, at the events, and, of course, this morning catching up on the blog coverage.Topics: architecture and design 0 Comments Read Full Post
Hospitality Design Expo, AIA, ICFF Round-up, Round-up! so far...
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on May 17 at 3:43 AM Hospitality Design Expo happens every year in Las Vegas. This year, though, it has been placed on the same week as American Institute Of Architects in Boston, and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in NYC. So our team has been in full-blown trade show mode, not sipping, but gulping down design. Here is what the media is saying so far, a round-up, round-up if you will allow me.Topics: architecture and design, hospitality, public relations 1 Comment Read Full Post
Grand Theft Auto IV: A Confluence of Art, Marketing, M&A, and Guinness
Posted by Duke Sherman on May 16 at 12:54 PM Now that Grand Theft Auto IV ‘s first day gross of $310m has entered the Guinness World Records, the looming question is what will happen to the hostile takeover from Liberty City? Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of the game, is entrenched in a takeover bid by gaming titan Electronic Arts whose $2b offer ends today.... Topics: advertising, branding, design, financial services, interactive 5 Comments Read Full PostThree Things I learned Saturday Night
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on May 11 at 6:00 PM Saturday night I had the privilege of participating in a small salon organized by my friend Caitlin Dover, an editor at Print magazine (they just won a National Magazine Award!). As the event was an intimate affair, each person presenting a project they were working on from essays, to music, to photography and illustrations, I won’t reveal what each person was pursuing, but I will reveal what, in just a few short hours, it taught me. Topics: free write 0 Comments Read Full PostBeep! Beep! Who's got the keys to the....zero-emission car?
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on May 5 at 7:29 AM I'm obsessed with cars. As a kid I would memorize everything about them. I think it surprised my family, as my eyesight percluded my chances of driving. Nonetheless, I would sketch new dashboard designs, quiz car dealers on MPG and horsepower, and drive the rest of my family—who honestly didn’t care as much about cars—a bit crazy. So, it is with some childlike glee I can tell you about two new cars, and one concept car that are attempting to finally, truly decrease emissions.Topics: branding, design, green 1 Comment Read Full Post
- DMD green BlogSocial Media in Oil & Gas: A Snap ShotPOSTED BY Jason Warnock ON FEBRUARY 11 AT 2:00 PM
We asked DMD Insight Managing Partner, Gina Miller, to weigh in with her thoughts on the ongoing Social Media debate in the Energy sector. She has provided an interesting and often times detailed snap shot into the activity within the Oil and Gas producer market as well as the importance and underlining principals of a good Social Media campaign. .
- DMD insight BlogFinding Gems at the Armory Art ShowPOSTED BY Rebecca Goldberg ON MARCH 6 AT 12:21 PM
I am not an expert on art though I do have a fascination with it. The majority of my knowledge is rooted in its history, and as I do not have a place to put the pieces I admire, I had little experience attending a show of current (living) artists. My curiosity brought me to the Armory Art Show at Pier 92 and 94 on the west side of New York this weekend. For an art fair, it was surprisingly structured. There were aisles, informal booths, and it looked much more formal than I had imagined. I wanted gritty, arty, struggling but alas even art is a business it seems. .
- DMDxd BlogUnconferencePOSTED BY Jesse Poe ON FEBRUARY 12 AT 7:02 AM
Today’s UnConference was a smash hit. Hosted by DMD and Arne van Oosterom (Owner and Strategic Design Director at DesignThinkers, a strategic design agency based in Amsterdam, founder of WENOVSKI design thinkers network) at Parsons The New School for Design. A collection of 20 great cross-disciplinary thinkers from San Francisco to Finland and in between, met for 4 hours to discus solutions for urban design. The unconference started as a mummer, quickly raised to a rumble of fantastic ideas and thousands of possible directions for making world of design better. After an hour of this exciting fray of thinking, GK VanPatter (Co-Founder, HUMANTIFIC, CoFounder, at NextDesign Leadership Institute Founding Editor at NextD Journal), stepped in with his own brand of design, making sense of cross-disciplinary innovation. And make sense of it we did! Broken into 3 timed sessions we: discovered the issues we all had burning within us and were addressing in our own ways distilled them all down to the most potent and effectual problem to solve, the problem which when solved would begin to unravel the tensions around other problems and open them up for solving finally coming up with 50 possible solutions to that one issue Amazing day. Amazing minds. Amazing results that got at the heart of not just possible directions for making world of design better, but possibly making the design of our world better through better interactions. Look for more on this Unconference what we learned, what we can share, and what/when the next one will be!.