Nancy’s posterous

Stanford went FAB thanks to the power of EDITING it tight! It was taped so we'll post it when ready. Tx for asking @petehayes

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One of my employees Eric transformed his house for Halloween toDisney Princes theme. c-r-a-z-y amount of work.

Many folks have asked about our Halloween house from this year.  Here are some photos.  This year, we created Sleeping Beauty's castle (and expanded the theme to include Sleeping Beauty's other princess friends), complete with fire breathing dragon, Cinderella's Carriage, and costumed characters.  Grace went as Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Michelle was Maleficent and I went as Prince Philip.  We transformed our porch into a castle interior featuring princess treasures (glass slipper, spinning wheel, (working) magic mirror, Aladdin's lamp, Ariel's shell and a poison apple).  We had about 700 trick-or-treaters in addition to lots of adults and other fun friends.  I have attached some photos.

                 
Click here to download:
One_of_my_employees_Eric_trans.zip (1128 KB)

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Rare look at the design process of a mammoth tattoo book project a Duartian is in and developed

hand stenciled packing (1500 of them)


hand cutting the stencils

large giclee prints for the gallery (we bought a printer just for this project)


cleaning the foil finishing, and silk hand binding (covers are made with velvet and suede)


concept sketches for the packaging


concept sketches for the digital imaging print work


mock up of the page format and how we want it to be finished...each piece folds out into architectural book format thirds.


Max photographing the details for the book

Test prints comparing to other colors, an organic process we went through...


Eric, senior designer from Palm, working with us on layout and color systems.


the books arriving back in America!


front of the building with projection

early on the crowd started to build

me with the book, and all the exhibit prints

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Bacon and eggs came to work this morning

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Beautiful shots that a Duartian (Dan Gard) took at the pumpkin patch this weekend

             
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Beautiful_shots_that_a_Duartia.zip (1084 KB)

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My team did a fun game of creating random album covers. You can try too.

Nichole Nye on our team sent out this e-mail to all Duartians today. They had a ton of fun. The results are pretty funny.

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Hey guys,

  Those of you that were at Duarte Power Hour today will remember me talking about this, and I’m sure a bunch of you have most likely done this before, but a few of us thought it would be fun to send out here at Duarte! You follow the instructions below and make an album cover for yourself! It’s a cool little creative exercise a bunch of you might get a nice kick out of J
 
Cheers!

  HOW TO PLAY:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More... Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together. (you can use PPT and export it as a JPG and that works too)

 

 

 











On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Michaela Kastlova wrote:


Fun! I got this one :)


On 10/22/09 5:05 PM, "Alex Varanese" <Alex@duarte.com <x-msg://11/Alex@duarte.com> > wrote:
Like I said, you're unusually lucky with these. That said, I'd still probably buy this.

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From: Nichole Nye
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:56 PM
To: Duarte Employees
Subject: Album Cover Game


                 
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My_team_did_a_fun_game_of_crea.zip (1380 KB)

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Had meetings with some of my favorite people today @yvonneurness and @lammerding

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My team just finished hosting our first ever Camp Tellahellofastory at POPTech in Maine

From Eric: 

We just finished delivering the Camp Tellahellofastory presentation for the PopTech audience.  We had ~50 people, which I believe was the largest sign up for a seminar  (woo hoo!). 

The room was in a lodge-like dining room of the Whitehall Inn, which gave it a "in a cabin" kind of feel, with its wooden tables and cider.  I had everyone stand and sing the Camp Tellahellofastory camp song, say the camp cheer and told them the background between our camp and our rival, Camp Status Quo.  After giving them a lesson on story making, helped along by the fire drill clip from The Office, they set to work in groups (pre-determined by a piece of nature at their tables - leaf, rock, twig, chestnut or bark) to focus on their audience, choose their information, arrange that information and create slides.  Then they presented (next to a campfire) and we had a "How did that go?" session after that where we talked about the things this helped them see.  We ended with another song, and a plug by Tracy about out training and ended.

We had lots of positive comments, which is good because the crowd was pretty quiet.  They got into their presentations, definitely exceeding the 3-5 minute time restriction I gave them.  That said, they all seemed to get the point, learn the good way to start a presentation, see the value of minimal words and simple graphics, and walk away with tools to do better in their workplaces in the future.  Several people came up to us saying that it was great.  One lady said she will never forget this.

Here are a few photos.

Eric

         
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My_team_just_finished_hosting_.zip (2007 KB)

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Having a BALL with a hysterical group at this week's seminar!

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Here's a peek at an internal e-mail brainstorm on concepts around "reducing risk"

We hold virtual e-mail brainstorms here at Duarte for clients all the time. We get tired of seeing companies use the same dorky clichés to communicate a problem. Here’s a list of out-of-the-box ideas you can use next time you need to make a presentation that communicates the need to “reduce risk of project failure, operations and maintenance”:
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Taking the apple off your head
Pitting cherries
Putting outlet covers on electrical plugs
Wearing a suit of bubble wrap
Using hand sanitizer
Wearing a surgical mask
“lock out/tag out” on industrial machinery
Warning signs (like the one of the car going off a cliff)

Structural support
Insurance
Training Wheels
Pads
Seatbelt
Foam wrapped around everything
Bubblewrap
Fluffy Clouds – I don’t know why...don’t judge me!
Fangless Cobra
Tamed Lion
Sleeping Alligator with keeper holding bottle of sleeping pills
Monterey Bay Aquarium like tank with giant shark, and kids outside of glass
Oiling gears (steam engine) for less risk of failure and maintenance example
Bridge over troubled waters?
Ninja vs. Indiana Jones with a gun!
Big bowl of hot spicy chili with TUMS right there!  Eating person smiling!!!
A kid putting a pillow in their pants before they are about to be spanked.

Concept: Seeing things that are not seen (yet)

  • Night-vision goggles
  • x-ray
  • x-ray glasses (superpower)

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