Connecting the Dots / An Agency Blog

It’s late April, summer approaches, the sun is shining, and it’s Friday. What better way then to share a success story with you here at Engine Digital! We’re proud and honored to announce the appointment of Laura Mason to the role of Junior Information Architect.

Laura started out here as an intern and quickly meshed with the rest of the studio while delivering such solid work that we just couldn’t let her go. Let that be a lesson to the rest of you interns out there. They’re not all thankless jobs of fetching coffee and dry cleaning.

Laura just found out this morning so she didn’t have time to make a video documenting her rise to Information Architecture infamy. So, instead, we bring you another intern success story from the Wes Anderson film, Life Aquatic. Which, is a little bit like working at Engine Digital. Lots of talent, and lots of love, on a boat? Ok, that’s a bit of a stretch, but regardless, welcome Laura and good luck!

Totally excited this week to find our Vancouver studio featured on Office Snapshots. Lots of amazing spaces on this site – we check it out from time to time – you may need to block out your afternoon and explore the inspiring spaces that are home to some really creative companies.

Check us out here.

Being of the adventurous sort, we’d like to take this opportunity to unveil our new travel blog! Since so many of our dear Engineers are often out of the studio on various sojourns throughout the globe, we decided to build a fun, light-hearted way of tracking their EVERY MOVE. It’s a Tumblr and it’s easily updatable via mobile.

We’ll be putting it to good use immediately in Austin, TX for SXSW! Just think, right from the comfort of your home or desk you’ll be able to watch Engine Digital hobnob with the superstars of the internet, attend an endless stream of parties, and witness technological advancements that will change the world as we know it, all under the wonderfully arid Austin lone star sky. It wasn’t easy to find volunteers to accept this task, but we’ve assembled a team and we’re on our way.

It’s called HBWT! or Have Blog Will Travel. Please follow it so we don’t miss our home too much.

Before we begin please put your headphones on and press play on the above video.

Good times here at Engine Digital H.Q. in Gastown! We just found out that Engine Digital has been named to the “Biggest Ad Agencies in Metro Vancouver” list by Business In Vancouver Magazine. Check out the current issue here.

We’re also in the midst of full on Olmypic fever since the horn in the harbour just signaled more gold for Canadian Maelle Ricker in Women’s Snowboard Cross.

What a great afternoon. We’ve got the Daft Punk on while working hard at getting to the top of that list, and we’re cheering on Canada for more gold!

I had the chance tonight to attend a screening of the recently released Art & Copy documentary presented by BCAIM as part of Advertising Week. This is at times a humorous yet down to earth look inside the advertising business, from the perspectives of some of the biggest names in the agency world.

The film provides the context for advertising as we know it today, touching upon the space that the craft fills in modern culture. Some of the familiar subjects include industry icons including the blunt and animated George Lois, the man behind the idea of ‘The Big Idea’, Dan Wieden & David Kennedy of Just Do It fame, Jeff Goodby & Rich Silverstein, creators of the Got Milk? campaign, Hal Riney the creator of the classic american dream styled television spot, and Lee Clow, who’s work includes the much lauded 1984 spot for Apple and pretty much every campaign for that brand ever since Steve Jobs returned to steer the ship.

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