Bank Reopens with “Osman Kahn: Unviewed”

July 11th, 2006

After a few delays Bank reopened last week. If you missed the opening, (and the private party after) well you missed out. At least come check out Osman Khan’s piece. Bring your mobile phones along for the full effect.

"Osman Khan’s work centers around the use of technology to construct interactive installations and site-specific interventions for social criticism and aesthetic expression. His work explores certain themes to see how technology fabricates as well as subverts our understanding of identity, communication, and public space. For his first solo show at Bank, Khan creates an interactive text based piece that exposes how our newly adopted dependencies on digital devices have transformed notions of communication, privilege and mediation."

GROOP Speaks at “Career Dialogues”

July 11th, 2006

Art Center College of Design invited Jose Caballer and Jennifer Eno to speak at their Business Dialogue series. The title of the speech was "I Want to be an Evil Businessman, I Want to be a Flaky Creative: THE_GROOP on Business, Creativity and the Space in Between"
To quote Art Center staff "You guys got straight to the point and where honest with the students. And it was not boring. Thank you."
So if you need some “not boring” speakers for your school just let us know.

AIWA featured in Taschen’s “Web Design: Flash Sites”.

July 11th, 2006

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GROOP Client Workbook Stock is Acquired by Jupiterimages

July 11th, 2006

Workbook’s Stock division is aquired by Jupiterimages not a division of Getty Images. THE_GROOP provided Workbook Stock with brand strategy, identity and UI design. Workbook Stock will maintain it’s name and identity.

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THE_GROOP is Tapped by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce to help in the Redesign of their Website

July 11th, 2006

Who does the business community call when they need online expertise? Well THE_GROOP of course. Marie Condron the Marketing Director for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce tapped THE_GROOP to help in the redesign of the Chamber website. Look for upcoming news from us on the progress of the site.

North Venture Partners Collaborates with THE_GROOP for the Design of Their Identity and Website

July 11th, 2006

What do you get when you combine powerful business skills and creative strategy kung-fu? You get North Venture Partners. North is the child of Alex Bernstein and David Brody who recently defected from Virgin Digital to start the new venture. North redefines the relationship between business and creativity like Lewis and Martin redefined sketch comedy. Except in this case we can’t tell who is Jerry and who is Dean.

THE_GROOP not only created their new identity, collateral and website but we are also a strategic partner with North.

Find out what it’s all about at: NorthVP.com

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Extreme Makeover for TalentBoom Beta

July 11th, 2006

In Hollywood there aren’t supposed to be any second acts. But THE_GROOP helped Hollywood Wannabe go through an extreme transformation. From renaming, identity, UI redesign and getting the PHP insides tuned, the GROOP doctor was in-the-house.

Look for an official launch this fall but for now just check out the flash demos.

Directed by GROOP Designers Aldo Puicon and Aure Gimon. Sound design by our friend Drew Schnurr.

 
Before and After screenshots of a TalentBoom profile.

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300,000 Users a Week for Nike’s Just Do It website in China

July 11th, 2006

Jack Peng of Oceanmonsters & THE_GROOP helped Nike launch a social networking/video blogging site for Chinese Youth. Collaborating with Wieden + Kennedy Shanghai, THE_GROOP helped launch the online portion of a unique campaign that marked a departure from its traditional approach for Nike. Instead of highlighting sports heros wearing their shoes Nike choose to highlight the stories of regular kids in China. In the first few weeks of the site being live it was pulling in 300,000 users a week! If that is not traction I don’t know what is.

You can read more about it here: i-wisdom

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We Are Looking for a Graphic Designer to Add to Our Team

July 11th, 2006

THE_GROOP is looking for a Graphic Designer to work on several upcoming projects. Details here

GROOP CEO and Creative Director Jose Caballer Selected as a Judge for Young Guns 5

July 11th, 2006

Young Guns 5 is the Art Directors Club bi-annual competition that awards the most exciting young talent in visual communications under 30. Jose had the privilege to be a “Young Gun” several years ago and now he returns as a Judge.

Look for him at the awards reception Nov 9th, 06. For more information about Young Guns 5 please visit: Art Directors Club

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