Berlin based, urban culture and graffiti book specialists From Here To Fame Publishing are pleased to present the first round of titles from their spring 2010 catalogue: Calligraffiti – The Graphic Art of Niels "Shoe" Meulman and On The Run Book # 7- Graffiti Tattoo – Kings on Skin.

The lecture of the two authors Niels Meulman and Adam Eeuwens starts Thursday the 11th at 8pm in our Basement Bar.

Street-edge meets high-end design as contemporary Dutch calligrapher, typographer and designer Niels Meulman, also known as graffiti artist “SHOE” from the legendary Crime Time Kings, explores the contours of words as images in "Calligraffiti" - his hybrid art form which blends calligraphy and graffiti. He presents for our viewing pleasure a wonderful interplay of contrasts, such as ‘black-white’ and ‘rise-fall’, with a series of fast phrases and upbeat witticisms in the form of captivating typographic masterpieces.

Julius Wiedemann and Rob Ford from the FWA teamed up for TASCHEN Verlag to present you with "sixty success stories from clients' briefings to final projects" - and two of them are ours. Both our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab and Vandalsquad feature as examples for a successful investment online.

You can flip through the entire book here, or read more at the TASCHEN website. The Internet Case Study Book is out in April 2010.

Here are some recent impressions from inside the studio and our basement bar.

For Meyer, Miller, Smith we reevaluated the functionality of business-cards from scratch. What information does a name card in the digital age actually need?

The MMS card focusses on creating a tangible impression, one which communicates the craftsmanship aspect, love for detail and simplicity of the brand. The carrier is a thick piece of leather with the embossed logo on one side and a flat color printed on the back.

Instead of printing individual cards for each of us, we decided to print just one blank card for everyone and produce individual rubber stamps which contain a name and a link to all other contact information on the website.

Online people can download all relevant information straight away.to their address book and find the address information linked to google maps.

February 2nd, 2010. opening at 20.00pm, first speaker starts 20.30pm

This tuesday, the 2nd of February we'll opening our basement bar for the 2oth "Talk about the Weather."

Speakers this time are cinematographer Tomas Erhart showing cellphone photograpy he has been taking for more than 5 years and THE SOZAILHELDEN, a charity group focussing on internet projects to draw attention to social problems.

more information on:

http://www.talk-about-the-weather.de/

When tasked with creating a new company name, we were looking for something plain and simple, distinct but not artificial.

Looking at names of established advertising agencies like Tragos, Bonnage, Wiesendanger and Ajroldi - better known as TBWA, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO), Bartle, Bogle, Hegarty (BBH), or Doyle, Dane, Bernbach (DDB), we decided to create something similar, but with the most common, everyday names in the English language: Meyer, Miller and Smith, respectively.

Each of them is simple and ordinary on its own, but powerful in combination with the others.

Meyer:

From the Middle High German word "meiger," meaning "higher or superior," often used for stewards of landholders or great farmers or leaseholders - today a Meier is a dairy farmer. Meier and Meyer are used more often in Northern Germany, while Maier and Mayer are found more frequently in Southern Germany.

Miller:

Miller is usually an occupational surname referring to a person who owned or worked in a grain mill.

The popular Miller surname has absorbed many cognate surnames from other European languages, for example the German Mueller; the French Meunier, Dumoulin, Demoulins, and Moulin; the Dutch Molenaar; the Italian Molinaro; the Spanish Molinero, etc.

Smith:

Derived from the Anglo-Saxon "smitan," to smite or strike, Smith and its derivations are an occupational name for a man who works with metal (smith or blacksmith), one of the earliest jobs for which specialist skills were required. It is a craft that was practiced in all countries, making the surname and its derivations the most common of all surnames. Smith still tops the list of most popular surnames in England and America, and is also a very common last name in Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and Australia.

1st approach / guild crests

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After 10 years of building custom websites for various clients and seeing the demand  for more complex e-communication tools growing constantly, we saw the need to develop THE ONE system for all needs which enables us to build cost effective state of the art websites including everything for your daily e-business and e-communication needs.

“ MMS-figaro integrates the most popular web platforms into your website.”

The MMS-figaro web kit is a blog based system which allows the creation of a highly dynamic custom designed website with as many subpages as you need.

"Figaro" includes a blog, twitter feed, is linking to location based information, google maps, calendars, adress books and contains all common media links for a minimum price.

Easy Administration:

The easy to use administration area (as simple as wordPress but more powerful) allows you to administrate every single section of your website.

Texteditor

Page navigation for adding and administrating pages.

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This Tuesday, the 5th of January we'll be gathering with our friends, business partners and members of the Berlin creative community for the 19th Talk about the Weather.

We'll be seeing Werner Kranwetvogel´s latest photographic work on North Korean Mass Games, Celia Czerlinski’s fashion brand CELIACZERLINSKI and Michela Vieser’s richly illustrated roadbook of yet undiscovered places in Germany.

read more on
www.talk-about-the-weather.de

You can now vote for your favourite website of the year at the FWA  People`s Choice award here.

Your vote should obviously go for August, our Red Bull Soapbox Racer.

Update: The results are in. The FWA Website of the Year is "We choose the Moon", and "Labuat" won the People's Choice Award. Congratulations!

Meyer, Miller, Smith consists of highly creative individuals ranging from advertising creatives with decades of experience in analog media to square eyed digital age specialists who all share the same passion: Helping to shape the brave new world of networked communication and turn it into an exciting, meaningful, loving and entertaining place.

Although our services include print design and production, film, video and motion design production, we do not create classic advertising first, to later base a website on. Unlike traditional agencies we have a holistic approach that includes interactive media right from the beginning, usually as the key component. Our core competencies include design and implementation of interactive websites and applications for online, offline and mobile devices; Flash- and HTML-based websites; intranets; online games; multi-user applications.

We also believe that our future lies in collaborative work. That’s why we maintain a growing network of friends and collaborateurs, including strategic alliances with partner companies and creative individuals which helps us to look outside our world, explore new horizons, and add our own visions to say things in new ways, with new craft.

A mindset like this is best cultivated through creating exemplary products, services and experiences, some of which you will find on this website. Because when you assemble a group of smart, funny, fearless people infused with boundless passion, you can create work that rocks.

Which is why we believe this is a very exciting time for all of us.