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Thank you

Written by Mihai Dragan on Monday, January 5th, 2009 ( One response )
Tags: agency, colleagues, future, interactive, new year, offices, team

2009. After an year of hard work I can say I am amazed of what we, at MB Dragan, have accomplished.

We have launched a lot of great projects, effective campaigns, beautiful and usable websites, some mobile applications, we’ve launched a new mobile marketing division and many others.

We have kept our promise to our old clients and gained new ones.

Our team grew 5 times.

We moved in a new, bigger and nicer office.

Our income grew 10 times.

We opened new offices.

We had fun.

We discovered.

We got angry and joyful.

The most important thing, however, is that we’ve met each other. I am glad to have met you guys. I thank you for all your hard work and all the things you have done this year.

Thank you, in no particular order, Razvan, Irina, Alex, Alina, Andrei, Andreea, Victor, Catalin, Spio, Alin, Tudor, Sorin, Daniel, Anca, Adrian, Cristina, Octav, Gabi, Iulian, Irina for your efforts.

Many thanks to our clients who trusted with their brands and businesses.

Last but not least, thanks to all those reading our blog posts, our twitts, reading our press releases, using the sites we’ve launched, playing the games we launch, interacting with our work.

Let 2009 begin

Brainrock

Written by Mihai Dragan on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 ( 3 responses )
Tags: brainfuck, brainrock, creativity, mb dragan, team

One of the interesting things we do at at agency is we all get together in the attic, every Tuesday at 12 PM and discuss ideas. We call it Brainrock.

How do we do it? There is one guy or gal presenting a given subject for about 15 minutes (it doesn’t matter if it has anything to do with the agency, internet, work or whatever). After those 15 minutes the hole team debates on the subject. It’s like a brainstorm with no purpose other than to trigger new concepts, encourage creative thinking and … well … have a good time.

We like to “baldly go where no one has gone before”. We start with usual things like “The future of computing”, “Human evolution from wildness to modern time”, “Social condition of prostitutes” and end up with interesting (well … sometimes weird) theories regarding the financial crisis, human collective thinking, a future with no privacy, mind control or psychokinesis. Yeah, we think too much .

I don’t know of other such activities in agencies (the closest you will get to this is the usual, boring, “do we have to do this … ?” brainstorm). It is however a very good way to a. exchange information between different types of creatives (programmers, designers, copywriters, account managers, strategy planners even sales managers and executives – we all consider ourselves creative people) and b. discover new ways to look at common subjects.

Did I mention we used to call it Brainfuck?