Latest Press Moving Brands launches San Francisco studio – 15/02/10
The San Francisco location will be the company’s fourth global division, with studios already in London, Tokyo, and Zurich. Located in San Francisco’s eclectic SOMA neighbourhood, the new studio will enable Moving Brands to service the fast-moving needs of our west coast clients as well as the wider US market. CEO and co-founder of Moving Brands, Ben Wolstenholme, moved with his young family to San Francisco in 2010, where he will continue to act as CEO to Moving Brands globally.
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Today activities to mark the official launch of Moving Brands Inc, San Francisco begin. To the left you can see a photo of our new studio, with CEO and founder Ben Wolstenholme, in the foreground. Apparently Ben has already been helping MB SF members with some cultural learnings – starting with English language (”naff”, “jumpers”, etc) and the Americans have reciprocated with classics such as “git ‘er done”, “for sure”. It’s clearly a learning curve on both sides. For lots more information about the new studio and Ben Wolstenholme, please check out the ‘Press‘ section of our website.
In conjunction with the piece in today’s Design Week, we are pleased to officially announce the launch of our new studio in San Francisco. Moving Brands’ CEO and founder, Ben Wolstenholme (pictured), moved with his family to live full-time in the city in early 2010. The new Moving Brands studio, located in San Francisco’s eclectic SOMA neighborhood, will enable us to service the fast moving needs of our West Coast clients as well as the wider U.S. market. The San Francisco studio is our fourth global division, with studios already in London, Tokyo and Zurich.
Keep checking back to the MB blog for further updates of the launch as it rolls out state-side.
Guardian Media and Technology reporter, Mercedes Bunz, today posted the first of a two-part look at Augmented Reality. To reiterate our comment on the piece, we are very excited to see The Guardian giving some column inches to this technology. Check the piece out here and check back to the site tomorrow, when Mercedes is covering AR and journalism. Wonder if our Living Identity paper will get a shout out?
Speaking of shout outs, KanYe West gave our work for KEF a nod on his blog over the Christmas break. Thanks KanYe! And on this one, we’re gonna let you finish.
Images and films of our ‘Living identity’ paper can be viewed on the Moving Brands Flickr, Vimeo and YouTube accounts. Since launching in September 2009, the paper has received critical acclaim from the design industry, the technology industry, brands, in print, and online. Bruce Sterling featured it on his Wired blog, H+ Magazine said we had “revolutionised branding”, SeptemberIndustry have released a preview of our upcoming ‘Session’, and Grafik magazine are running an in-depth feature on the project in their November issue. If you would like to speak to us about the project, please email info@movingbrands.com.
A little bit of a news update for today’s blog post. Firstly, Executive Creative Director, James Bull spoke to students at the London College of Communication on the subject of “Making the Most of Social Media”. Feedback from the students was great and we have won some lovely new followers on the MB twitter. In the press, Design Director, Mat Heinl spoke to Marketing Week about “pushing boundaries in brand identities“. And lastly, but by no means least, we have been honoured to have a very special visitor from the U.S, George Englund, in the studio. Producer, director, actor, writer, Hollywood veteran, and friend to MB’s founder Ben Wolstenholme, George has been helping us incorporate the power of storytelling into our work as well as regaling us with tales of hanging out with Brando and breaking deals with the Vatican. You’ll be missed George!
