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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 PostDesigners 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
A Flood of Media: Books & Magazines Dump
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on June 30 at 5:08 PM DMDers Justin and Carla started a book share here in the office. So I brought in all the books I've read recently. But once the sorting began at home, I discovered some treausres in the magazine world too. Take a look. Topics: free write 1 Comment 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
A Loss For Words
Posted by Rowland Hobbs on June 15 at 9:01 PM I've admired Tim Russert since before he joined Meet The Press. As a young political organizer I recall seeing him on NBC during the 1988 election. Studying the art of rhetoric, I watched with intrigue during the 1992 Election when he grilled the primary candidates. On Friday, many of us at DMD crowded around the TV to hear the news of his passing and expressed the same sense of having lost a respected friend. The rest of this weekend has been non-stop coverage of this giant in the world of journalism. After the jump, I don’t have much to say so I created a word cloud from the New York Times, LA Times, and Washington Post obituaries. I like the idea of remembering him through words; it reminds me of what he taught me each Sunday morning. Topics: free write, public relations 0 Comments Read Full PostThe 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 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 PostConde Nast Looks at the Best & Worst Green Companies
Posted by Duke Sherman on February 26 at 10:24 AM In the March issue of Portfolio, Conde Nast reports on the 11 best Green Companies and the 10 worst that should be doing more. Some are expected, some are surprising... Topics: branding, economic development, free write, green 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!.