Monthly Archives: October 2007

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

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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 ...
Communication, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Bringing environmental issues top of mind

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Today the 15th of October is world wide Blog Action Day. Interesting concept! The idea is uniting blogs and minds on environmental issues, bringing them top of mind. At least that’s a first step to bring about changes and actions as well. Excellent timing, this Blog Action Day: this Friday the 12t ...
October 15, 2007
Authenticity Book

Three Reasons why Authenticity is the New Customer Sensibility

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Troels asked me to spell it out. Why is Authenticity important? And thanks for asking, Troels. Sometimes the simple questions are the most difficult and I certainly find this one of them. This is the argument and the reasons I’ve been able to come up with: 1. We’re fed up with fakes. We ...
October 12, 2007
StagisLife

Back in business

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After a few months of absence I’m now back as a member of the STAGIS crew. In the past few months I have amongst other things been working on finishing my degree in “communication and media”. But I have decited that why not do both? And I have to say: I’m delighted to be back ...
October 9, 2007
Branding, Design and Identity

The grass-project

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This might look like a kind of gardening… And it is, but there is a story behind. Troels is on a mission concerning the quality of a stripe of grass we are using in a picture for a project. We had to borrow a bit of our own lawn in order to find grass that […] ...
October 4, 2007
StagisLife

To interview an 15 year-old

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Yesterday I was interviewing pupils at Kastanievej Efterskole for a short movie STAGIS is doing for their website. Together with Mads Nielsen, the very pro fotografer helping us out, I spent the day in the world of 15 years-old. Surprisingly it’s not that is not that different from being 25! M ...
Authenticity Book

Autentiske virksomheder drives af mening

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Inspireret af Julies kommentar med spørgsmål til arbejdet med autenticitet, er her et par tanker til spørgsmål nummer to: 2. Den mening, organisationerne er drevet af, og den historie der udtrykkes, og dermed modtages af kunderne/borgerne/brugerne/leverandørerne, bliver vel opfattet forskelligt ...