Yesterday I spoke at the KIKK digital festival in Namur, Belgium. The conference where extremely well organized and I would definitely recommend digital french-speaking people to go there if it’s back next year. My talk was called “Have a passion, not a business plan” and here’s how we describe it:
Is it possible to build an agency where you will actually enjoy coming to work every Monday morning — a playground rather than a production factory? That is what the founders of Hello Monday set out to do in 2006 when the agency was founded.
Jakob Kahlen, Creative Director and partner at Hello Monday, shares the ideology behind building and running an independent creative digital agency, and shows in depth case studies from some of the Hello Monday’s most colorful client projects.
A lot of other great digital speakers (and generally nice people :-) where there, including Ben Hammersly of Wired, Lab [AU], Lernert & Sander, Multitouch Barcelona, Andrew of Breakfast NY, Nico of Mixcloud, Filip of Creative Applications, Julien of Radio Laidback, Michael from Jung von Matt Next, and many more.
“On a perfect Monday the engine runs on passion, the deck is the playground, and the course is set towards great deadlines, good craftsmanship, skilled and friendly people, honesty, good food, mutual trust, and no fear. We sail between three offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus, and New York, but there is only one boat.”
Our NYC office is featured in this months Computer Arts. Hurry to the store to get the magazine or read the article online here.
Today we’re launching a new project for the brilliant people at LEGO. It’s called Life of George and it’s the world’s first interactive game combining real LEGO bricks with apps for your iPhone/iPod Touch. Follow George around the world as he challenges you to a series of fun building tasks. Build as fast as possible, capture your model with your iPhone/iPod camera and get scored on your building skills. Apart from the tasks George gives you, you can build and save your own models and challenge you friends to be the fastest & best builder in the two player mode.
Hello Monday did the design of the interface and the entire illustrative universe for the app and the game levels.
More George:
Download the app here: iTunes store
Buy the bricks here: LEGO Online Store (or any LEGO flagship store)
Hang with George on Facebook
Here’s a selection of some of the press that the launch got:
Techcrunch
Engadget
Wired
FAST Company
CBS News
Creativity Online
ZDNet
TIME
This week I was invited to beautiful Tallinn, Estonia to speak at the Best Internet 2011 Conference. I met with one of the organizers when judging the Cyber Lions in Cannes and she asked me if I would come to one of their conferences to talk about the trends and winners of the Cyber Lions categories.
The Best Marketing conference is one of the biggest marketing events in the Baltic countries and seemed very well planned. If you’re interested, here’s the full program of the event.
Thanks to Silja Oja and Hando Sinisalu for inviting me.
If you’re interested in the full presentation deck, I shared it on Slideshare here.
Extremely proud to be getting our first Cannes Cyber Lion silver award for the Google Demoslam project that we did for Google Creative Labs together with the New York based agency Johannes Leonardo. It’s a very special feeling to have your Cannes-virginity taken, especially sine I was actually at the ceremony witnessing it.
Just finished jury duty at this years Cannes Cyber Lions. It has been an amazing, inspiring and pretty exhausting experience. At the course of 5 days, 25 of the best digital creatives from around the world have been judging 2.830 of the worlds best digital projects (ads, campaigns, websites, mobile and tablet solutions).
