It’s where we work. We are excited to be featured on “This Ain’t No Disco”, a portfolio of some of the best agency interiors in the world. We were actually a little excited to just be asked to submit our studio space. We take a lot of pride in our studio and are always happy when we know it is well received with other creative’s! It’s a ‘studio’ not an ‘office’ and we are pretty adamant about that; our space is an important part of our team and our culture.
Culture has always been the essence of nclud; the team, the environment and feeling more creative when you walk in the door than before you came. Even in the beginning when there were just two of us, as practical and cost-effective as it may have been to work from our spare bedrooms; finding a proper studio space was first on our list of to-do’s.
If you haven’t seen the new nclud studio, check out some of the photos (don’t forget to rate, five stars are much appreciated, but only if you mean it):
We get asked a lot lately, where is Cindy? She seems to be everywhere at once at times; she is happily in San Francisco working with Yahoo! on Yahoo! buzz. She loves it so much over there we are sad to say that she will be leaving nclud. While she is no longer officially a part of the team, she will always be a part of nclud and we will continue to work together. Cindy is an amazing friend, a huge source of inspiration and our favorite person to eat ‘pizza as big as your head’ with. We thought we had a lot of fun over here, but apparently those Yahoo! guys and gals are even more wild and crazy than us.
Cindy joined nclud right after leaving ScrapBlog at the beginning of the year. Actually, Cindy has been working with nclud since the beginning, on our very first client project actually. Cindy joined nclud at a special time, a time when we were growing, growing out of a two-person shop, and really figuring out who we were as an agency; or better, who we were going to become. However, Cindy had left the DC area and moved to San Francisco and we knew from the beginning co-location wasn’t going to work well with the sort of creative culture we wanted to create. Originally we had planned to relocate Cindy back to DC after SXSW ‘08; but Cindy ultimately fell in love with the bay area, the people and the opportunities in that area such as working with amazing organizations like Yahoo!, Ma.gnolia and Crown Publishing.
We, and the entire DC web community, would love to have Cindy back. Anyone who knows Cindy, knows what a strong and wonderful personality she has, she creates an aura that people are drawn too. She was one of the early influencers that really helped drive and grow the DC web community. But we are all ecstatic to hear how much she does love it out in San Francisco and we hope themattharris can get out there soon as well!
Today, the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, CMPI, is launching a new program that takes a careful and candid look at just what you get via government-run (aka “Universal”) healthcare. The project is called, BigGovHealth.org.
The Washington, DC premiere is being held tonight at the National Press Club with guests Congressman John Shadegg, former Senator Don Nickles and other healthcare players; there is even a presidential candidate on the RSVP list.
When it comes to healthcare reform, BigGovHealth.org is Cinéma-vérité.
We worked with CMPI on branding, information architecture, content editing, video editing, visual design and development. The site is currently being powered by WordPress.
We are happy to announce that the Ogilvy Public Relations redesign has officially launched.
Ogilvy Public Relations partnered with nclud to do a complete redesign of their interactive visual presence at OgilvyPR.com. The objective was to create a simple, clean and highly unique visual design that was elegantly sophisticated. Working closely with the their Digital Influence group, a visual experience was created to convey Ogilvy’s position as a global Public Relations agency.
The objective was to be “conversational” without being stereotypically “web2.0”. To emphasize the global and dynamic nature of the team within Ogilvy and their strong position as industry thought leaders.
We worked with closely the executive team at Ogilvy Public Relations to do creative strategy, information architecture and user-interface design.
Views from our original design concepts:
Full Disclosure:
The Digital Influence team at Ogilvy worked with and evolved our original information architecture and design concepts for launch. We do not currently maintain the site or are responsible for its design support.
