Browsing all of posts in interactive
Diary of a Microagency
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on April 8 at 12:11 AM Ample articles, blog posts, hand wringing, panel discussions and chest thumping from marketing agencies are calling attention to the Damocles sword hanging over print and broadcast journalism. Yet, few agencies have turned their inquiries on themselves. If “The Media Is Dying,” is the agency its coffin?Topics: advertising, branding, design, grassroots, interactive, media, public relations 8 Comments Read Full Post
Q&A with Popcha! on the future of Virtual Worlds
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on December 2 at 7:25 PM Last week Google announced its intention to close Lively, their virtual world platform. Having collobrated on "The Virtual Brand Footprint: The Marketing Opportunity in Second Life" (downlaod here) with Boris Kizelshteyn, we thought we should ask him and his his firm, Popcha!, what the future of virtual worlds looks like now. In our Q&A, we discover what happened at Google, what this might mean for Google Earth, and where you might be holding your next company conference.Topics: interactive 11 Comments Read Full Post
Conversation v. Authority. In this episode, Architecture!
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on September 29 at 10:17 AM Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic for The New York Times, provided a list of buildings he would demolish. Toping my list is Penn Station.But it was Ourousoff’s attack on the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) that created a bit of a stir in the Architectural blogs, with BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nassbaum citing this as another sign of the death of The New York Times.
Architecture became for an instant a lighting rode for the ongoing paradigm debate of conversation versus authority. Topics: advertising, interactive 6 Comments Read Full Post
Designers Can Save The Newspaper
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on July 28 at 4:00 PM Journalists write. They don’t design.With newspapers nationwide suffering from lost advertising, revenue, and market share, how can we imagine a solution that can breathe new life into these failing brands? The start of some of my thinking is of the role designers may have in saving the newspaper. A new breed I am calling the "designalist".
Topics: advertising, branding, design, free write, interactive, public relations 2 Comments Read Full Post
Branding v. Brand Experiences
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on July 24 at 9:14 PM I think the term branding gets abused. So I’ve been playing with some definitions. Interested to get feedback on “brand experience” v. “branding” in regards to online marketing. Let’s see if I can break that down after the jump…. Topics: advertising, branding, interactive 0 Comments Read Full PostGrand 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 PostA Microlending model that opened our eyes
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on April 2 at 10:39 AM 'm happy to announce that DMD has taken on, as a pro bono assignment,the role of marketing agency for MicroCredit Enterprises (MCE).
I'll be posting more on this going forward, but for now, let me tell
you why we were so seduced by MicroCredit Enterprises. Topics: advertising, branding, design, financial services, interactive, philanthropy, public relations 0 Comments Read Full Post
The Race to Become the Webmail & Instant Messaging Leader
Posted by Duke Sherman on March 20 at 11:54 AM The value of social networking has been primarily been isolated to community sites such as Facebook and MySpace, but email and Instant Messaging market share trends are providing a much more efficient platform for such a system. Some recent market share numbers... Topics: advertising, financial services, interactive 3 Comments Read Full PostNew 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 PostMetrics Round-up: 2008 so far...
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on February 25 at 5:53 PM Consumer decisions on sustainability; corporate investment in sustainability. Advertising clutter. DVR usage. Who really clicks on ads? Bloggers are a nice demographic, but not all the next generation is as online savvy as you think. Fine out more in the metrics round-up. Topics: advertising, branding, grassroots, green, interactive, public relations 3 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 PostMicrosoft may unlock new branding market with Yahoo Acqusition
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on February 3 at 5:01 PM Lots will, including Google's response well analyzed here and here, been said about this proposed hostile bid (although I found Yahoo’s FAQ rather amusing in its ability to lay out questions and provide no answers.) I believe, however, that there is a side that is being overlooked: a new market for branding online. Topics: advertising, branding, financial services, interactive 1 Comment Read Full Postweb 3.0 is here: Google's Eric Schmidt describes
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on January 26 at 11:28 PM Via Read Write Web comes this interesting video... Topics: interactive 0 Comments Read Full PostGoogle & Asia: The Big Deal
Posted by Duke Sherman on January 24 at 2:57 PM It seems that Google can’t wait for America’s lack of bandwidth to catch up with their wireless aspirations... Topics: advertising, financial services, interactive 1 Comment Read Full PostSometimes they get it right!
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on December 17 at 7:00 PM Hulu is pretty neat. Some free episodes of Hereos? Yes, please!....Topics: advertising, interactive 1 Comment Read Full Post
Can a cheap, open source, green computer take the market?
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on November 11 at 7:32 PM Wal-Mart has sold out of the under $200 (not including monitor) computer. It is green.... Topics: green, interactive 0 Comments Read Full PostMetrics Roundup: Diversified Media
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on November 10 at 7:37 PM A look at recent trends, statistics, and research... Topics: advertising, branding, interactive, public relations 0 Comments Read Full PostMetrics Roundup
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 28 at 7:54 PM Smiling, search engines, data visualization and digital billboards....more in the metrics roundup... Topics: advertising, grassroots, interactive, public relations 0 Comments Read Full PostInformation Architects and Advertising Planners unite!
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 27 at 8:02 PM I just came across this poster which smartly argues why advertising planning and information architecture will increasingly blur together. The author, David Carruthers, has a good blog exploring the topic as well.... Topics: advertising, branding, interactive 0 Comments Read Full PostEverything is Misc!
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 27 at 7:59 PM Thoroughly enjoyed this video Topics: design, interactive 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 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 PostVirtual Brand Footprint: Links
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on August 22 at 8:25 PM Really great conversation is emerging on our white paper--in collaboration with Combined Story and Market Truths--across a number of blogs.....Topics: advertising, branding, design, interactive, public relations 0 Comments Read Full Post
BBC Homepage Redesign
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on August 20 at 8:25 PM What happens when you look through old tags.... Topics: design, interactive, public relations 0 Comments Read Full PostThe Virtual Brand Footprint
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on July 30 at 8:32 PM “The Virtual Brand Footprint”, our white paper on how marketers can get the most out of Second Life in collaboration with Second Life development agency Combined Story and research firm Market Truths, is the first in a series of papers using the phrase “brand footprint” from DMD..... Topics: advertising, branding, design, interactive, public relations 0 Comments Read Full PostHow the Olympics demonstrates the value of content
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on July 17 at 8:30 PM NBC is betting more on putting Olympics online than through TV based upon the poor performance for advertisers through TV during the Winter Olympics and the rise of page views for online content.... Topics: advertising, interactive, philanthropy, public relations 0 Comments 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!.