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Qatar Museums wins at the User Experience Awards

Qatar Museums’ website has won a Silver Award for Best Cultural Experience at the fourth annual User Experience Awards.

The User Experience Awards inspire technologists to create elegant, human-centered products that solve real customer problems. They showcase next-generation digital work by honouring and celebrating with the most talented UX innovators and highlighting exceptional UX best practices.

The website and online presence is a collaboration between Qatar Museums, digital design studio Cogapp and Wolff Olins. The three teams worked closely together to develop and deliver an online communications platform to communicate and exemplify Qatar Museums’ new brand. The result is a responsive, bi-lingual Arabic-English, media-rich website that is fully integrated with the rest of the Qatar Museums online and social media presence.

The User Experience Awards 2014 finalists celebrated at this year's UXies event held at the historic Merchants Exchange in San Francisco.

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Katy Mooney joins Wolff Olins

We're pleased to welcome Katy Mooney to our San Francisco office. Having led strategy for brands like GE Software, Gap Inc., Procter & Gamble and JC Penney, Katy is well placed to to do the kind of game-changing work that gets us going.

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Design Like You Give a Damn

We’re bringing together a bunch of incredible people - Nat Hunter of the RSA; Chris McGinley of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Age and Ability Research Lab; Steven Johnson of Collaborative Change and James Auger of Auger Loizeu – to consider "what should designers give a damn about"?

Design Like You Give a Damn is the first in a series called Dirty Rotten Socials, which focuses on how to drive social change across industry. Designed to ensure the audience get stuck in, get close to the "experts" and have their say, The Dirty Rotten Socials will get your mind reeling and your hands dirty.

Tickets are sold out but you can follow the action on #rottensocialsdesign

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Customer centricity + health

We're very lucky to have Ali Parsa, the entrepreneur who is re-engineering the healthcare system, headlining The Future Now, our event about customer centricity. 

Ali's new venture Babylon is recognised by WIRED Magazine, among others, as one of the most exciting developments in health innovation anywhere in the world, with the potential to change humanity's expectations and experience of healthcare.

You can register for The Future Now waiting list by clicking here.

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Welcome to NOS

NOS, a new Portuguese telco, launched last week.

At the heart of the new brand is the idea ‘Há mais em nós’; there is more to us. NOS helps people connect to their groups and do things they can’t do alone.

The new name signals this idea; NOS means ‘we’ in Portuguese. The visual identity is a wheel formed of multicoloured individual spokes, which expresses the concept of unifying people; we are stronger together. Future products will make it easy for groups to connect and share.

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Google Fiber

After successfully rewiring Kansas City, Google Fiber has now announced plans to expand into 34 new cities across the USA. There was more good news last month as the project was awarded an Effie, the industry award calling out exemplars in marketing effectiveness. Google Fiber has brought blisteringly fast internet speeds, content a la carte and TV on the internet to Kansas City and we’re very proud to have been part of that, alongside Venables Bell & Partners, Omnicom Media Group, Enso and Essence Digital.

  Read more about Google Fiber here.

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New creative voice for a nation

Last week, Qatar Museums launched its new organisational purpose and creative identity.

As a major influencer in the world of art and creativity, Qatar Museums is looking to help create and support the next generation of cultural producers within Qatar. It will be an engine of new creative life, inspiring one generation to the next.

Read more about the new brand and purpose here in the Gulf Times here.

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Just Kyoorius

Kyoorius Magazine, which connects the creative world within India with the rest of the world, has interviewed our incredible designer, Fleur Isbell about her code-generated cover for the D&AD Annual. The magazine was amazed to hear about “the magic that happens in her head and with her hands”.

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Triumphant

Our work for Triumph Motorcycles was recognised as outstanding by UK design bible, The Creative Review Annual, at a private view in London last night. The Annual highlights stand-out work from around the world, showcasing the best in visual communications from the past year. 

Read more about Triumph Motorcycles here. 

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Say hello to Ije

He’s our new global CEO.

Born in America, raised in Nigeria and settled in Britain, Ije has been MD of our London office for four years and is now set to lead our global business forward into an exciting new chapter.

“As the relationship between organisations and individuals is pushed forward by new technologies, our role is to help clients find creative ways to build deeper, richer human experiences that have both positive social and commercial impact.

Across the business we’re pushing boundaries and inventing new tools to help our clients be fit for the future. I’m humbled to be a part of that and look forward to building on all of Karl's tremendous achievements."

Follow him @onyeije

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Welcome to NewDay

Launching today, NewDay is a fresh new alternative to financial services for the UK that will help everyone be better off, by being better with money. Retail card customers, the unbanked and the underserved can now get the financial advice and products they need. NewDay's CEO James Corcoran said, “we’re optimistic and excited about the prospect of making our customers better off in the future”. At Wolff Olins, we're proud to have worked with NewDay on their journey. 

Visit the NewDay website. 

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New brand revealed for the Emirates College of Finance

With HH Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum presiding over the unveiling ceremony, the Emirates College of Finance revealed its new brand on Tuesday. Wolff Olins is proud to have worked on this project, starting with renaming the college (from Emirates Institute of Banking and Financial Studies) to designing an identity that encompassed the college's central role in the United Arab Emirates and reflected the three pillars on which it was built: the emirates, education and finance.

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Wolff Olins @ Cannes Lions 2014

Yesterday, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity announced the 2014 jury presidents. Our CEO, Ije Nwokorie, is honored to lead the jury in charge of celebrating the best design work from around the globe. And he's in great company – executives from BBDO and Samsung Electronics are amongst the companies represented in the line up. Check out the rest of the jury presidents here.

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The Future Now

The transformation from physical to digital is accelerating. The technology powering this shift is also commodifying goods, services, and relationships raising questions about the future of commerce along with the role and value of brands. In the process a few companies have intermediated nearly all communications through the creation of proprietary platforms. As they move to further consolidate their power, change is brewing.

Join us for a talk by Daniel Siders, hacker, troublemaker and one of the architects of web protocol Tent. 6 March from 6.00pm.

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A force for growth - John Hearn joins Wolff Olins

John Hearn has joined Wolff Olins as Global Principal in our New York office where he'll be helping our clients achieve far-reaching growth. 

John brings over 20 years experience as a creative innovator and practical problem-solver, he's delivered transformation strategies for some of the world’s leading brands and has invented new products, services and business models from the ground up.

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We're at Design Indaba

Going to Design Indaba this month? If so, be sure to nab a place in the audience for our London MD Ije Nwokorie's talk on design thinking.

Design Indaba's driving for a better world through design, creativity and innovation. At Wolff Olins, we like to think we’re doing similar.

We’ll have more detail soon but, for now, here’s a little more info.

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Fast Company's Most Creative in Business

Our Executive Creative Director, Todd Simmons, has been named as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business today - an "influential list of modern renaissance men and women across the economy and around the globe."

To see who else made the list, check out the announcement here, the MCP 1000 site here and join the conversation on Twitter using #MCP1000.