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From start-up to acquisition in just 12 months

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

It’s great to hear when our old Firedog staff go on to do fantastic things.
Gareth Knight was Firedog’s Digital Manager a couple of years back and left us to go it alone with a start-up technology consultancy in 2005 he started called Technovated. In fact, Gareth even helped us set up the Fireblog as […]

Return on investment innovation

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Last night, Cliff and I attended a lecture by Michael Peters, Chairman and Creative Director of Identica. For those of you who don’t know of Michael Peters, he boasts a career spanning 30 years within the global design and branding arenas and has been responsible for many high profile global branding projects. Michael is one […]

Take Two

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

It’s 17:56 and we’re knackered! Physically and literally beaten. Why you might ask? Isn’t that par for the course? The deadlines and briefs, torturing yourself for creative idea after creative idea? Well, yes it is, but today was different. Let me tell you why! Today was like none other. We were involved in a TV […]

Firedog. As seen on TV.

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

There we were squirreling away. Doing what Firedog does and we received a call from out of the blue. Some guy called Chris from ’something or other design agency’. We met up once at a networking function and we’d got on really well. (Mental note - must do more networking…)
bbc, headhunters, dragons […]

£38000 is the average annual cost to pitch if you are a UK design agency

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

We’ve just co-authored some ground-breaking research in partnership with British Design Innovation (www.britishdesign.co.uk). We approached them a few months ago with a view to gaining a better understanding of the design agency pitching environment. Why it happens and what current attitudes to it are from both an agency and client’s perspective. It makes for […]

Robert Scoble’s corporate weblog manifesto

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

We’re new to this stuff (like most of us) so this article outlines the rules that we’ve agreed to play by.

e3Media

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

We came across these guys and we thought: 1) what a funky digital agency and 2) what a cool website!