Monthly Archives: November 2007

November 22, 2007
Communication, Creativity and Leadership, StagisLife

Do you prefer espresso or caffè latte? Interactive infotainment

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Do you read Berlingske or Politiken? Do you prefer espresso or caffè latte? Are you concerned about global warming? What party do you vote for? It sounds like a survey by STAGIS’ new partner, TNS Gallup, and it very well could be – but it isn’t. Quite the contrary it is a part of the [&he ...
November 8, 2007
Branding

Not Shaken not stirred

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November 7, 2007
Communication

Shooting today for Lindorff

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As you probably noticed, someone turned off the big switch to the light outside this afternoon. Still, when I went to our photo shoot for Lindorff today with photographer Mikkel (who also did fabulous OKI Identity lovecolour pics for us time ago), Mikkel easily and creatively managed to do a series ...
November 5, 2007
Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

Another useful toy

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What do you think of designer toys? I must admit I had my problems understanding them, but then again I do get why ones can be fascinated by the super-designed, pieces. For instance Amos, a quit popular item designed by James Jarvis. In my opinion James Jarvis’ figures is great because they ar ...
Creativity and Leadership

Return of the Real, CPH Dox opens on friday

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Last week I was talking at CBS to a bunch of students about authenticity and the model I’ve developed. One of the (good) questions is why the notion of authenticity has become so important and wether it’s a new thing or just a phenomenon that has gotten new interest in the light of how s ...
November 2, 2007
Anthropology and Culture, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

What business can learn from volunteer organizations

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Recruitment and Employer Branding are project related communication and leadership concepts that I’m working on now, as part of projects in STAGIS’ pipeline. That includes taking part in seminars and networks on Employer Branding. Here figures confirm that employees seem to thrive in job ...
Design and Identity

Danish Design Association has been established

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The other night I joined some 30-odd design companies in the library of the beautiful Børsen-building in Copenhagen where the Danish Design Association was formally established. I really enjoyed meeting some of the designers working in different areas of the business. Among others I spoke with Jesp ...
November 1, 2007
Anthropology and Culture

STAGIS lecture at CBS today on ‘The Authentic Business’

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This afternoon, November 1st from 5-6.30 pm, Nikolaj Stagis is speaking on ‘Den autentiske virksomhed’ (The Authentic Business or Organization, my free translation). The lecture is on how a business or organization is or becomes authentic. What will a high degree of authenticity do for y ...
October 30, 2007
Communication

Tell it AND show it

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STAGIS just finished making a video for the website of Kastanievej Efterskole, with the pupils talking about their experiences with living on Kastanievej Efterskole (it works like a boardingschool, but only for a year). The being away from home, the new friendships that are made. Friends who almost ...
October 26, 2007
Branding, Design and Identity

Link

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Design Observer: Writings on design and culture. There is 10 writers on the blog; Among the founding writers is Michael Bierut, and one of the contributors is Adrian Shaughnessy. Co-founder of Intro, This is Real Art and today he runs ShaughnessyWorks, a studio combining design and editorial directi ...
October 20, 2007
Creativity and Leadership

Iceland Airwaves is now

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I have a faible for Iceland – its atmosphere, nature, vibe and spirit of the Icelanders. This weekend Iceland Airwaves, the most intimate Indie Rock Festival, is on in Reykjavik. A festival I loved visiting and covering as a journalist a couple of years ago for Danish Cover Magazine. I was inspire ...
Communication

The Blog Prize 2007

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Debate on blogging is going around these days – for what do we need blogs, how should or shouldn’t we use them, is blogging a democratization tool, or is the high number of (uncensored and sometimes unverified information published on) blogs just polluting www and our minds? How does it make sen ...
October 19, 2007
StagisLife

Stay focused!

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Just a little something for all you people working with communication in organisations, from a gentelman called David Shrigley. May your weekend be grand! ...
October 18, 2007
Communication, Creativity and Leadership, Design and Identity

A Creative Nation

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Maybe you know, maybe you don’t; but last month Denmark was actively branded as a creative nation in the U.S. At this occasion we should show the Americans what true creativity is all about. Remember, we have delivered some fancy trash cans to MoMA, so we must be creative?! Therefore we sent our c ...
October 16, 2007
Design and Identity

www.blogomkraeft.dk

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This week we finished a poster for www.blogomkraeft.dk – Blog about cancer. We developed and designed Blogomkraeft in the spring 2007, and approximately next week the poster is distributed at hospitals, libraries etc. all over the country. All the small words in the graphic element “Sæt ...