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A few months ago, I joined the creative team at Colossal Squid Industries as a Design Lead. So far, so AWESOME! It has been an amazing ride thus far.

“Colossal Squid Industries is an independent digital creative agency. We help extend brands across fragmented digital channels. Interactive, social, branded games, augmented reality - we call it all digital adverstuff. We’re neither a traditional ad agency nor a production company. We’re more of a technological secret society, a confederation of interactive craftspeople hell-bent on creating staggering online work for our clients.”

I am currently working on the Kimberly Clark account which has been a wonderful experience. The members of the team are smart, funny and just enjoyable to work with. I have learned so much from my peers and am excited about the Squid’s and my future. The launch of the project I am currently working is at the end of March so, keep a look out. It’s a good one. So proud of it already!  Here are some other images of the Squid…

Manifest recently had the opportunity to help MetroSquash with their 2010 US Squash Open Championships site. At this point, we only have the “splash” site up with a lot more to come in the next few months. Check it out and will update as soon as we are able to add to the site.

 Manifest Digital launches new brand and phase one of the web site. With all the change, manifest has also found a new home at 600 W. Chicago. All this great design work was done by Laureen Feeny, Christine Davis & Jim Jacoby.  All the crazy flash was done by Danny Davis. The brand and web site are continuing to grow with a lot of great additions in the forecast. Check out some of the goodies below.

Last night at the Chicago Microsoft Phizz Pop Challenge, the Manifest team walked away as both the overall champion and the people choice champion. It was an amazing night for Manifest and ourselves. Thank you for all the support, congrats and all the amazing comments about our solution.

Manifest Team:
Brain Henkel - User Experience Specialist
Kevin Panke - Sr. Interactive Designer
Dan Thompson - Developer

I am going to keep this post short. Below are some images taken throughout the night by Jason Ulaszek and Jeff Woelker. A video of the actual Manifest presentation taken by Jason can be seen on Manifest’s YouTube page. Visit Phizz Pop for all the details of the competition. Enjoy.

Welcome to Chicago PhizzPop Challenge - Chicago

PhizzPop Creative Challenge

Manifest/PhizzPop Splash Screen

Manifest - Five Star City

Manifest - Athlete Creator

Manifest Solution - Virtual Earth World Map

Manifest Wins!

Manifest Team with Jim Jacoby.

 Hustlewood is up and running. Went live on a Friday evening. That should tell you something. If you ever  need a little help coming up with ideas, a design for that idea and how to market that idea, H3 can help. H3 is always down to help out anyone large or small. We do this because of the all love for a good challenge, to keep our tools sharp and to learn more. To see what’s happening on a more daily basis, check out Th3 Wood. Enjoy it!