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A Pritzker, a Fan and a Handbag
Posted by Duke Sherman on July 31 at 1:02 PM What do you get when you combine a Pritzker, a Fan and a Handbag? It has been called everything from “genius” to “commercialization gone awry” to a “Star Trek –style spacecraft.” Whether you love or hate it, the 7.500 square foot epicenter where architecture, art and fashion collide is landing in Central Park in October. Topics: advertising, architecture and design, arts and culture, branding, design, free write 5 Comments Read Full PostThe Power of Escape
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on June 18 at 9:13 PM DMD set out on the first of our summer outings yesterday. We took a tour of the architecture and design galleries at MoMA lead by Christian Larsen, curatorial assistant. Recharged, we are now making a once a month outing as a team over the summer. More on the power of escape, what we saw (and heard) after the jump.Topics: architecture and design, arts and culture, free write 0 Comments Read Full Post
Couldn’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
The Museum Brand Footprint Roadshow: Toronto
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on April 8 at 10:16 PM We just got back from Toronto, where we presented the “Museum Brand Footprint” to The Art Gallery of Ontario.Topics: architecture and design, arts and culture, branding, economic development 1 Comment Read Full Post
New White Paper Announcement: "The Museum Brand Footprint: The Role of Architecture in Defining the Museum's Image"
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on March 5 at 2:58 PM DMD is pleased to announce the publication of "The Museum Brand Footprint: The Role of Architecture in Defining the Museum's Image," a new white paper that provides useful insights and case studies for museum professionals in the midst of, or just beginning, reconstruction projects... Topics: advertising, architecture and design, arts and culture, branding, design, grassroots, interactive, public relations 0 Comments Read Full PostBoredom, Cinematography, but, Don't Make Me Click: Learnings from Interactions 08
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on February 24 at 4:20 PM I did not attend Interaction 08 conference, but luckily they posted all the videos. I've been enjoying watching these on planes and trains, and discovered that boring users may inspire action, pacing in storytelling can create engagement, and that users don't want to click. But you have to click here if you want to see my takeaways and the videos. Topics: architecture and design, interactive 0 Comments Read Full PostThe Lists of Lists
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on January 2 at 6:41 PM The year in review through the eyes of lists!Topics: architecture and design, branding, public relations 0 Comments Read Full Post
"Local Cities, Global Problems: Jane Jacob's in the Age of Change"
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on November 14 at 3:31 PMAndrew Blum, whose blog I just found through A Daily Dose of Architecture, but whose work I've seen in various magazines such as Metropolis, has posted his essay on what it means to be a neighborhood today...
Topics: architecture and design, arts and culture 1 Comment Read Full PostLiving with uncertainity
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on November 10 at 7:48 PM How architecture--at odds with its surroundings--can create immortality!... Topics: architecture and design 1 Comment Read Full PostGreenbuild: Notes from afar
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on November 10 at 7:40 PM A round-up of coverage from the largest Greenbuild trade show in Chicago. Topics: architecture and design, green 0 Comments Read Full PostOffice Space 1
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on November 4 at 1:08 PMWe are about to move our offices, and so I was interested in looking at how various companies have put their space together....
Topics: architecture and design 0 Comments Read Full PostRapid Prototyping for Architecture and the culture of "making things"
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 21 at 8:07 PM A truly fascinating read in this month's Harvard Design Magazine arguing for architecture to embrace more mass production and step away from custom design. I found the read exhilarating as it embraced some of today's intriguing ideas: rapid prototyping, 3D printing, and Building Information Management (BIM). I actually found the article through Tree Hugger which gets very excited about the idea of "printing buildings" which would much better control the use and removal of building products.... Topics: architecture and design, branding, design, green, interactive 1 Comment Read Full PostThe wide world of architecture: Why architects should pay more attention to innovations online...
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 13 at 8:11 PM and some very cool global architectural projects.... Topics: architecture and design, design, interactive 0 Comments Read Full PostMetrics Roundup
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 13 at 8:10 PM I'm starting this feature which will be a depository of metrics certain categories. I think I've been inspired by this idea of "statistical storytelling" from the GapMinder foundation--see below for more on their incredible visualization software and a link to a great video... Topics: advertising, architecture and design, branding, design, grassroots, interactive, public relations 0 Comments Read Full PostRIP Herbert Muschamp
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 4 at 8:17 PM Architectural criticism is how new forms get digested. Its role is crucial, I feel, in how we domestic and come to adore the other worldly in architecture.... Topics: architecture and design, arts and culture, public relations 0 Comments Read Full PostThe Prosumer Playground: The Interiors World Today
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 3 at 8:19 PM Passionista, prosumers, and the new consumer of all the cultural and high-end. Topics: advertising, architecture and design, branding, design, interactive, public relations 1 Comment Read Full PostProcess
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on August 26 at 8:22 PM What architecture can teach intergrated marketing (all aspects from Interactive to PR) how to sell process, not the creative genius. Topics: advertising, architecture and design, arts and culture, branding, design, hospitality, interactive, public relations 1 Comment Read Full PostThe Museum Brand Footprint
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on January 6 at 8:35 PM Cultural institutions are increasingly turning to architectural talent to define their organization. Seeking to make a footprint that extends beyond the building to the brands local, national and international stature, cultural institutions go through an extensive architectural selection processes. Further, these organizations must go through extesnive development planning and--upon opening the doors to their new home--large public relations, advertising and online communications campaigns..... Topics: architecture and design, arts and culture, philanthropy 1 Comment Read Full Post- DMD green Blog
Social Media in Oil & Gas: A Snap ShotPOSTED BY Jason Warnock ON FEBRUARY 11 AT 2:00 PMWe 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!.