Archive for May, 2010

May 26, 2010 0

IQ CEO Offers Vision and Best Wishes to Elon’s Masters Graduates

By melissa in News

Last Thursday, IQ CEO Tony Quin, addressed the 2010 graduates in Masters of Interactive Media at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina.  In his commencement speech, Tony reflected on the evolution of the digital landscape and shared his vision for the future.  Here is what he said in his speech.  The entire video [...]

May 23, 2010 0

Platforms – The Next Opportunity?

By Tony Quin in Innovation, strategy

Over the last year we have increasingly been working to figure out where the opportunities are going to be in the next couple of years. Our work in widgets, apps, mobile, data visualization and the like first pushed us to what we call data driven dashboards and now beyond that to platforms. Platforms are consumer [...]

May 20, 2010 0

Portfolio Night 8

By joel krieger in News

IQ will be representing at Portfolio Night 8 this evening over at King Plow in Atlanta. Looking forward to meeting top new industry talent and seeing some great advertising. Be sure to stop by and say hi if you’re a student or recent grad looking for a creative gig.

May 17, 2010 0

IQ Wins Gold at the FCS Portfolio Awards

By melissa in News

IQ was awarded the Financial Communications Society (FCS) Portfolio Gold Award last Thursday for the New York Life Guarantees Matters site.  The Gold award is the top award in the Consumer Retail, Website category, and is one of the most prestigious awards in the financial services industry.  The awards ceremony was held in New York [...]

May 13, 2010 0

Really nice orchestration of online and offline photos

By Zach Pousman in digital, social media, strategy

Shutterfly is an established (and maybe a little bit tired and long in the tooth) provider of picture storage and printing. Very smart of them to create a new site aimed at young folks (since their original market is definitely aimed at parents and grandparents) to import and integrate with all of the social networks. [...]

May 5, 2010 0

Google Chrome advertisement – visual proof points

By Zach Pousman in Advertising, Distill, design

Because the characteristics of a product are frequently intangible, it can be hard to convey them in an marketing and advertising program. We have products and sites we’re working on now that are “efficient”, “flexible,” “easy,” “water-tight,” and “tasty.” [Note: those are not all the same product/service!]. Everyday, we take those intangible characteristics and make them real…