I woke up to my phone buzzing at 2am with emails from our London office sharing the news, we’d been announced as Adweek’s digital agency of the year. I’ve only been with AKQA for 8 months, but this is a fantastic gift, and I’m truly proud to be a part of this family. http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/agency-year-akqa-137015
Category Archives: Work
Freshly
November 21, 2011 – 12:16 pm
I’ve been working on something for a long time, and finally got around to making it happen. Freshly is a way to find out what farmers’ market is near you, open, now. It’s driven by trying to remember when the markets are open, and where they are on which days. I wanted something that would [...]
The future of QR codes
October 23, 2011 – 7:38 pm
It’s been some time now that we’ve been trying to get QR codes working as a marketing or user experience conduit, and it’s still just not working. For the majority of the smartphone-using public, QR codes are just not an option. They don’t know what a QR code is, they don’t know what to do [...]
Why I switched from Android to a 4 year old iPhone
August 24, 2011 – 8:26 pm
This week I stole a first generation iPhone from my year and a half year old daughter. She had been using it for months to walk around with, perched between ear and shoulder, repeating “hello? hello.” It had saliva coated on over it’s once pristine face, but I got rid of that quickly. Maybe a [...]
The end of advertising as we know it, or “the sky is falling”
August 23, 2011 – 8:37 pm
I wrote this the day the article in question was posted, and never made it public. I don’t know why it slipped my mind, but here it is, a little late, but true as ever. MDC partners has posted on their blog about the Reader function of mobile Safari, and are making it seem as [...]
