As you may have heard, Substance will be at SXSW 2010. We’re stoked to be a part of it again this year, and want to make sure we can provide and gain as much knowledge and inspiration as possible. In that spirit, here’s some stuff we’re thinking about as well as some recommendations on where to get coffee, a sandwich…
our thinking about News & Updates…
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8 March 2010
The Substance Pre-SXSW Supplement
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4 March 2010
Mr. Lowe-Rogstad goes to Washington
It’s no secret that we really like bikes. From our work on RideOregonRide.com to making any excuse to ride bikes to get doughnuts, we enjoy being on two wheels. From March 9 – 11, David will be joining the Oregon contingent at the National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. As part of the Oregon delegation, David will be participating in sessions…
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2 March 2010
What If and Why Not: the University of Oregon Presentation
About a month ago I received an invitation from my friend Peter Yesawich, Jr. to talk to the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism. We put together a conversation about where digital/interactive is heading, the semantics behind digital and interactive, and approaching what we do by first asking ”What If and Why Not?” At the end of the day, the students broke…
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1 March 2010
Oregon Bounty in Communication Arts Interactive Annual
“Super immersive without being heavy-handed, achieved through excellent interaction design. This site makes me hungry. Well done.” —Mathew Ranauro (from Communication Arts 2010 Interactive Annual) It’s been really tough to keep this one a secret, because we were thrilled to learn that the site we designed and built for Oregon Bounty was going to be in Communication Arts 2010 Interactive Annual.…
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12 February 2010
Join who?
As we approach the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics, I think back to this day four years ago. Working at different companies, David, Todd and I were part of the team involved in launching the “Join Bode” campaign for downhill skier Bode Miller. Working with Wieden+Kennedy (where Todd was the producer for the project), the opening ceremonies were…
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11 February 2010
The Central Cascades
Over a year ago, we started on a journey with Travel Oregon, Washington State Tourism, and National Geographic to discover the best geotourism locations in the Central Cascades. We began by building a site that allowed people to submit geotourism locations to be considered for National Geographic’s Central Cascades MapGuide. With over 1,100 submissions, the Central Cascades team narrowed down…
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19 January 2010
Three Years
Three years. Doesn’t seem that far back, yet worlds ago from today. That’s the day we started Substance. I don’t want to go into a long-winded review of the last three years and what we’ve accomplished… if you’re looking for that you can review what we’ve done and how and why we’ve done it (the quick summary is: some awesome stuff). Three…
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5 January 2010
The Great 2009 Substance Recap
Can you believe it? Another year in the record books, and what do we have to show for it? Well, plenty. — February 2009 — Recognizing the changing weather trends for Portland as just one effect of global climate change, we had the opportunity to help do something about it. Working with the visionaries at ClimatePath, we helped rebrand and…
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23 December 2009
Holiday! Celebrate!
Happy Holidays from the team at Substance! If you’re looking to get a hold of us over the end-of-December holiday season, we’re going to be out of the office a few days. Hope you get to enjoy some time off as well, and if we don’t get to chat before 2010, we’ll see you on the flipside of the decade. If…
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11 December 2009
The Leaders Will Lead
Maybe it’s an “end of the year” thing. Maybe it’s because many in the marketing, advertising and interactive industries had challenging years from a business standpoint. Or maybe pontification always happens when the future is uncertain. At any rate, I’ve been seeing article after article on, “Who will Lead: Traditional Agencies or Digital Agencies,” like this one from AdWeek called…
RT @gunrack: @substance's very own @dlowe93 is pictured on @BikePortland's blog RE: the Bike Summit in D.C. Check it! http://bit.ly/9aH9OD
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