Art of the Week
This is extremely unique. What a cool glimpse at the growth of a family!
I cant help but scroll up and down and watch the faces age and grow younger.
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June 2007
Greg Seal Launches
Dr. Greg Seal, prothodontist, gets a great looking site courtesy of RD2.
We first met Dr. Seal back in December; he was friends of Larry. We soon realized that he was serious about making people’s teeth look good and function properly. We knew that the best way to impress him was to show him our commitment to making things look good and function properly.
He had a site that was pretty good, and another one that was even better, but had been halted in production and never made live. We knew we’d have to blow it out of the water if we wanted to do it right. A special thanks to Jeff and all his hard work. He brought the design concepts to the table and kicked off the whole vision for the site. He also visited Dr Seal’s office, and realized the best way to sell the place was with big, beautiful custom photography. So, we called our friend Richard Krall. Richard has worked with us on past engagements, and we knew he’d be able to capture dynamic images of the workplace.
Once we got the custom photos back, Jenny took over the creative lead, and Brandon offered some thoughts on occasion. Once design was final, Mark coded it all, and installed a cool scrolling function on the home page. All of these factors came together to produce some of our finest web design to date, and so you can see why we’re all smiling.
Art of the Week
Hi.
Art of the week has been changed temporarily to Artist of the Week in dedication to Drew Goren. I just found out about this guy, his work, and his family. His work as well as the photos of he and his daughter really touched me.
What a life! Cheers to your legacy, Drew.
Art of the Week
I saw Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on Saturday night at the House of Blues. It was a great show! The House of Blues is by far the nicest venue in Dallas now. The staff was extremely professional. But watch out, the drinks aren’t cheap.
I meant to post these gems Friday evening but strange things were happening and I just wasn’t in the mood.
This is a unique idea. I haven’t seen this done before. Reminds me of the city model from the Beetlejuice film.
Small World
Advertising genius.
Cool Visual
This really is fun.
Confetti
What it’s like to be God.
Flickervision
Meet the world.
Flag Campaign
My favorite this week. Caution: Not for the epileptic!
Wildcard
And finally, a true sign of the times. Last week we ordered Palmolive for the office online.
links for 2007-06-18
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Drawings I like by David Foldvari
Men Hugging Men
Lot’s of traveling lately and seeing old friends, business associates etc. can be a little awkward. Moving in for the “hey man, haven’t seen you in a while hug” is not always easy or natural for me. I am not usually a “huggy” kind of guy, but I don’t want to come across as stand-off-ish, or insensitive. Here’s a great video that is helping me get through this social complexity.
Bag I Want
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So I am a bit of a bag freak and love really cool bags. I found this killer bag and want to adopt it as the RD2 MacBook Pro bag…Colors and all.
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Love this leather products site and really want one of these computer bags. Mom, if you are watching my del.icio.us bookmarks, I have a birthday coming up…hint, hint… Love the 15 inch MacBook Pro bag in rd2 brown and blue.
Vacation: Catching Up On The Latest Trends
I was on vacation last week and got to catch up on some reading that was piling up at home. And guess what I learned? If you can believe it, from what I can tell, this Internet thing is really starting to catch on.
In my stack of reading was the May issue of Business 2.0 magazine; I enjoy many of their articles exploring new technologies and finding new ways to connect with customers - which is what we do at RD2. So I was surprised at an article about the Ad agency BBDO and the Chief Creative Officer David Lubars:
An 800-pound gorilla fights back. Business 2.0 Magazine, May 2007
The reason I was surprised was because here we are in mid-2007 and an Ad agency is being applauded for - get this - being “…reborn…” and “…unorthodox…” as they help clients “…navigate a strange and bewildering new-media landscape.” Yup, Ad agencies have finally heard of the Internet, which they evidently see as strange and bewildering. BBDO’s forward thinking CEO was quoted as saying: “You can’t just buy people’s attention anymore. You must engage them.” Wow, what insight.
OK, I’m being a bit harsh, and I do recognize the forward thinking and creative ways Mr. Lubars has used the Web to help clients explore new frontiers in communications - he was behind the series of famous BMW films back in 2001 which we all pointed to back then as a new way to “engage” the customer, (So I really am a fan).
But my point is this. We live this stuff every day at RD2 and we use, respond to and recommend to clients many new ways to “engage” the customer. The article finally points out what we have been saying for years - you have to think and act in new ways to break thru the clutter and to tap new opportunities for business. The users have really taken over. Not only are there new technologies and tools, made available every day by inventive developers, but now there is also a growing list of new practices by users which in turn triggers new ideas for tools and creates even more opportunities for businesses.
The article also points out that many clients don’t trust their large, lumbering, money hungry (my words not the article’s) Ad agencies to concept and execute these new communications strategies - they many times prefer smaller, specialized firms; did I mention RD2 is a boutique specializing in new marketing technologies?
Send me a letter and I’ll fax you a copy of the article - then we can do lunch over three martinis and…I think I’ve made my point.
