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Primetime Emmy Awards For Interactive Media

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26 Apr 2008

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Method’s team members are experts in their fields and passionate about their work. Listen in as we discuss design, technology, and the business of creativity.

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Finding New Ways to Use Old Strengths

Adam Dole

18 Aug 2008
Many of today's top companies are so fixated on their competition that they forget to focus on their single most important competitive advantage: their strengths.
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Opening Up the Living Room

Jennifer Crakow

14 Aug 2008
In our current world of un-conferences, regular meet-ups, and foo-camps, I easily forget about how unidirectional traditional conferences can be.
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The Rest is History

Vince Santo
GM, New York

  01:31 Vince Santo<br/>GM, New York
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Project Management

Bridget McDonough
Project Manager

  00:34 Bridget McDonough<br/>Project Manager
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Everybody Came to the Meeting

Milena Sadee
Art Director

  01:44 Milena Sadee<br/>Art Director
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What Role Can Social 3D Worlds Play in Education?

Claus Nehmzow

15 Jul 2008
Corporations (as well as schools) have too long shunned games as learning tools.
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On Brand Experience

Robert Murdock
Creative Director

  00:46 Robert Murdock<br/>Creative Director
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Branding in Virtual Worlds:
Part 3

Claus Nehmzow

01 Jul 2008
What makes brand extensions into virtual worlds a success or a failure? Part 3: b2b brands.
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Meritocracy

Michael Keany
Chief Strategy Officer

  00:48 Michael Keany<br/>Chief Strategy Officer
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Startups are wrong if they think they don't need research

Chris Tacy

10 Jun 2008
A start-up (read: you) can't afford to wait until after its product launches to get to know its customers.
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Explain Yourself!

Ritik Dholakia

28 May 2008
One of our unique challenges is to find ways to engage the audiences of our design more deeply in the process of our design.
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"Mushrooms": Skill Across Disciplines

Patrick Newbery
VP, Brand Strategy

  00:21 Patrick Newbery<br/>VP, Brand Strategy
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Branding in Virtual Worlds:
Part 2

Claus Nehmzow

11 May 2008
What makes brand extensions into virtual worlds a success or a failure? Part 2: successful examples of consumer brands.
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Working with Constraints

Milena Sadee
Art Director

  00:50 Milena Sadee<br/>Art Director
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Blu-ray: The Next Connected Living Room Entertainment...

Method

08 May 2008
In addition to great picture and sound the next generation of Blu-ray disc players have something that is just starting to come into focus: network connectivitiy.
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Chindogu - Why Japan's Still Got It More Right

Ritik Dholakia

01 May 2008
Second, Chindogu, if you don't know, is the Japanese art of the "unuseless." It is the ultimate in Not Form Over Not Function.
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Welcome to the New Method.com

Robbie Vann-Adibe

29 Apr 2008
We hope that it helps you understand who we are as a firm, what we might be able to do for you as a client, how we work, what we are like to work with and what it's like to work at Method.
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Branding in Virtual Worlds:
Part 1

Claus Nehmzow

27 Apr 2008
What makes brand extensions into virtual worlds a success or a failure? Part 1: less successful examples of consumer brands.
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My Irrational Love For the Backwards "N"

Khoi Uong

27 Apr 2008
The MFA in me thinks about outsider art, primitivism and the artist's mark. The designer in me thinks about Postscript and TrueType.
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Primetime Emmy Awards For Interactive Media

Method

26 Apr 2008
What are you waiting for? Go for the gold! Start writing your acceptance speech!
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Beyond Visual Translations

Milena Sadee
Art Director

  00:38 Milena Sadee<br/>Art Director
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The Slow March of Traditional Media Toward the Sea Continues

Chris Schmidt

19 Apr 2008
All signs are pointing in the same direction, and that direction is towards a substantial spending shift in advertising towards interactive media.
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SEO and the Shopping Mall

Mark Roudebush

19 Apr 2008
In the web environment, the ability for a company to increase its findability in search engines is key.
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The Network is the Computer...

Abdullah Shaikh

19 Apr 2008
Google and amazon are playing a vital role in leveraging their massive datacenter infrastructures and providing access to these resources to individuals and software startups.
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Parking with Your Phone

Erik Hunter

19 Apr 2008
Your phone is now your credit card and your cashier.
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Looking Out For #1

Valerie Hoecke
GM, San Francisco

  00:27 Valerie Hoecke<br/>GM, San Francisco
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Interacting With Your Television

John Gilles,
VP, Media & Entertainment

  00:28 John Gilles,<br/>VP, Media & Entertainment
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Work Culture

Mark Roudebush
User Experience Designer

  00:37 Mark Roudebush<br/>User Experience Designer
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Content is...Queen

Mark Roudebush

16 Apr 2008
In the end I have to wonder, whose opinion really matters?
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Storytelling with Maps

Mark Roudebush

16 Apr 2008
As we've learned from Apple's lead, building smart applications is good, but making them work with one another is better.
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The Hub of Human Interaction

Stephanie Curran
Senior Project Manager

  00:40 Stephanie Curran<br/>Senior Project Manager
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Collaborative Ethnography

Adam Dole
Researcher

  00:31 Adam Dole<br/>Researcher
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How Games are Changing the Channel on TV - Part 3

John Gilles

16 Apr 2008
While distribution platforms are getting morphed by games consoles, the games themselves are becoming a source of programming for TV.
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How Games are Changing the Channel on TV - Part 2

John Gilles

16 Apr 2008
Games are changing the TV landscape by altering distribution platforms, content programming and, finally, production environments.
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How Games are Changing the Channel on TV - Part 1

John Gilles

15 Apr 2008
I will tell you without hesitation that interactive TV (iTV) is here today - we've just been looking at the wrong boxes.
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Under the Covers of the Web

Brian Ross

15 Apr 2008
One of the problems with basic XHTML markup is its inherent lack of meaning.
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Design-Led Innovation

Evelyn Wang

15 Apr 2008
If at the heart of design is the endeavor to solve a problem, then in theory, there are as many opportunities for design as there problems to solve.
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Where Great Solutions Come From

Fiid Williams
Senior Architect

  01:00 Fiid Williams<br/>Senior Architect
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Challenges Are Welcome

Robert Murdock
Creative Director

  00:51 Robert Murdock<br/>Creative Director
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Brand Strategy Is Broken

Steven Spieczny

13 Apr 2008
It may sound entirely self-evident - "focus on the brand, stupid" - but I'm increasingly thinking that proposition is flawed, or at least in need of some retrofit.
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Is "The Big Idea" Dead?

Chris Tacy

10 Apr 2008
For decades we've all talked about The Big Idea. It has become half Holy Grail and half Sacred Cow.
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A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

Robbie Vann-Adibe
Co-CEO

  00:38 Robbie Vann-Adibe<br/>Co-CEO
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Relentless Curiosity

Mark Roudebush
User Experience Designer

  00:57 Mark Roudebush<br/>User Experience Designer
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The Impact of UX on Strategy

Jennifer Crakow
Director, User Experience

  00:21 Jennifer Crakow<br/>Director, User Experience
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Method's Experience Base

Adam Dole
Researcher

  00:37 Adam Dole<br/>Researcher
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Finding Gold in the Dark, Dangerous Cave

Jennifer Ng

09 Apr 2008
People are willing to go through the dark, dangerous cave, fighting monsters and digging through the dirt just to find the gold.
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Solving New Problems

Al Aguirre
Co-CEO

  00:50 Al Aguirre<br/>Co-CEO
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Maintaining Culture

Al Aguirre
Co-CEO

  00:53 Al Aguirre<br/>Co-CEO
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What does "Brand Experience" mean to a technologist?

Fiid Williams

07 Apr 2008
To me, the shining example of how brand experience and technology intersect is Apple.
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Creating the Future

Vince Santo
GM, New York

  01:14 Vince Santo<br/>GM, New York
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The Value of Rapid Prototyping

Robert Murdock
Creative Director

  01:01 Robert Murdock<br/>Creative Director
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Pragmatic Creativity

Chris Tacy

04 Apr 2008
"I don't remember being forced to accept compromises, but I've willingly accepted constraints." - Charles Eames
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Ideas v Products v Ads

Chris Tacy

04 Apr 2008
We need to know what we're good at and what we're not good at - and we need to be honest about our limitations.
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Collaborating with Clients

Chris Tacy
Chief Innovation Officer

  00:40 Chris Tacy<br/>Chief Innovation Officer
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How To Be a Successful Designer

Robert Murdock
Creative Director

  00:42 Robert Murdock<br/>Creative Director
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The Role of Design

Patrick Newbery
VP, Brand Strategy

  00:32 Patrick Newbery<br/>VP, Brand Strategy
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Strategists Watching TV

Chris Tacy

30 Mar 2008
How can I tell if someone is going to be a good strategic thinker?
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New Content Discovery Metaphors

John Gilles
VP, Media & Entertainment

  01:05 John Gilles<br/>VP, Media & Entertainment
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Living in a (Branded) Material World

Robbie Vann-Adibe
Co-CEO

  01:04 Robbie Vann-Adibe<br/>Co-CEO
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On Hiring Design Agencies

Patrick Newbery
VP, Brand Strategy

  00:48 Patrick Newbery<br/>VP, Brand Strategy
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Commitment to the Work

Al Aguirre
Co-CEO

  00:26 Al Aguirre<br/>Co-CEO
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Action in Chaos: Part 1

Robbie Vann-Adibe

22 Mar 2008
A recent family vacation presented me with a great allegory of business life.
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Brand Perception

Patrick Newbery
VP, Brand Strategy

  00:53 Patrick Newbery<br/>VP, Brand Strategy
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This Is What We Do

Vince Santo
GM, New York

  01:18 Vince Santo<br/>GM, New York