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!

Applied Arts, ‘Canada’s Visual Communications Magazine’ published their 2009/2010 Interactive Awards today and Engine Digital once again made the cut!

See what won after the jump.

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There’s a lot of debate over Flash relevance lately, with Apple making a big statement by excluding the ubiquitous platform from its iPad, iPod, and iPhone devices. But the demand from marketers (and consumers), as noted in the recent SoDA Digital Marketing Outlook report, says otherwise.

We say meh! Flash is here to stay. So we’re building up our Flash team with the recent addition of Senior Flash Developer, Daniel Butler, straight from London’s Agency Republic where he held the title Creative Technologist, working for a wide range of clients including Mercedes-Benz, PlayStation, O2, BBC, MTV, Green & Black’s, The UK Government, and EA Games. His work has been widely recognized by global advertising award shows where he’s taken home honors including a Bronze Cannes Cyber Lion, Webby, FWA, and D&AD yellow pencil.

Daniel brings a solid ability for developing smart efficient ActionScript while keeping an eye on process. At Engine Digital he’ll work in both of these areas, while working with the creative team to build smart brand engagements and branded utility. Leading our Flash dev team, he’ll build efficiencies while leveraging new and emerging technology. We’re just happy to have another cool accent in the studio.

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.