Emakina Blog » Life at Emakina http://blog.emakina.com Building a better web. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Design is Dead is movin’ on up http://blog.emakina.com/2010/01/20/design-is-dead-is-movin%e2%80%99-on-up/ http://blog.emakina.com/2010/01/20/design-is-dead-is-movin%e2%80%99-on-up/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:36:17 +0000 Laurent Jadot http://blog.emakina.com/?p=2257 Design is Dead goes for bigger and better! Last week, they packed their bags and moved into its new headquarters!. It took them 1926.83 kilos of manpower to move: 124 boxes, 5 and a half aliens, 4 near-dead plants, 52 terrabytes of server capacity, 19 grey mice and much more to our new headquarters.

From now on, your trusted creative force is to be found in the Duboisstraat 50, 2060 Antwerp. You’re more than welcome to pop in for some coffee and a guided tour. For a sneak preview, click right here.

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Since the amount has been doubled by the Emakina management, it is a total of… 1000€ that was donated to Music For Life this year. This allows the Red Cross to buy 200 mosquito nets which will help preventing the spread of Malaria disease.
To help the cause, and listen to your favorite tune on StuBru, you can donate on this website.

 

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How will interactivity manifest itself in the coming years? What will interactive marketing look like?  And what will it mean for customers and for companies?

Whether you realize it or not the possibilities of interactive technologies for marketers are endless. The 19th Emakina Academy Session invites you to discover those possibilities and capture what could by the highlights of interactive marketing in 2015.

During this Emakina Academy, you will:

  • Take a look into the future of interactive marketing.
  • Discover an exciting future that interconnects everything, everywhere, all the time and erases the borders between the physical and worlds.
  • Learn how mobile technologies will create unlimited possibilities for making interactive communication a new part of life.
  • Know how to engage in an authentic positive word of mouth to raise brand awareness and drive direct sales through social shopping.
  • Understand the connections between emerging trends and design thinking (graphic design, web design, or simply in design in general).

This free seminar will take place Thursday, 22 October 2009 between 09:00 and 14:00 @ Tour&Taxi – Port Avenue 86C – 1000 Brussels. View road map.

Register online: www.emakina.com/academy and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

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After 10 min.:

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After one hour:

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Once upon a time we had mass media advertising, brand activation and retail. Then the web and email, display and search advertising. Now we talk viral, buzz and guerilla, RSS, YouTube and social networks, mobile, iPhone and Location Based Services, podcasts, Joost and IPTV, video game consoles and in game advertising, widgets or gadgets, MMORPG or virtual worlds, chatbot or Google Earth, RIA, AIR or Silverlight, digital signage and interactive retail, floor, wall, cars … you name it.

Native to this world of complexity, Emakina fuses imagination and innovation, orchestrates the relevant touch points to build brand experiences that engage consumers… brand experiences that combine stories and emotions to create attention, interest and ultimately desire.

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]]> http://blog.emakina.com/2008/12/18/playing-music-for-life/feed/ 0 Emakina wins the ViaMichelin Karting Cup http://blog.emakina.com/2008/12/05/emakina-wins-the-viamichelin-karting-cup/ http://blog.emakina.com/2008/12/05/emakina-wins-the-viamichelin-karting-cup/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:00:33 +0000 Laurent Jadot http://blog.emakina.com/?p=1280 Hot thursday for Emakina agencies. While our colleagues of The Reference were receiving pride and glory at the CMS Awards, four valiant Emakinians climbed to highest step of the podium at the ViaMichelin Karting Cup. Congrats to our natural born drivers Antoine, Alain, Florent and Stefan.

]]> http://blog.emakina.com/2008/12/05/emakina-wins-the-viamichelin-karting-cup/feed/ 0 Régine’s fan-club http://blog.emakina.com/2008/10/29/regines-fan-club/ http://blog.emakina.com/2008/10/29/regines-fan-club/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:42:00 +0000 Laurent Jadot http://blog.emakina.com/?p=1205 At Emakina, we’re very lucky to have an incredible receptionist called Régine. A treasure of patience who is always available to help you solve the frequent day-to-day issues you face in your professionnal life. If we add that we’re now about 150 Emakinians in our Brussels office, you can imagine how efficient Régine must be to serve all of us equally.

As we’ve obviously the best receptionist in the world, we created a Facebook group for die-hard fans of Régine. Join us.

]]> http://blog.emakina.com/2008/10/29/regines-fan-club/feed/ 1 A faery came to my desk today http://blog.emakina.com/2008/08/21/a-faery-came-to-my-desk-today/ http://blog.emakina.com/2008/08/21/a-faery-came-to-my-desk-today/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:00:18 +0000 Laurent Jadot http://blog.emakina.com/?p=998 The gift from our creative studio to our valiant receptionist Régine who turned one year older this Thursday.
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