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iStrategyLabs is hosting Washington DC’s first ever Behance Portfolio Review on May 14th, and we’re inviting creatives from all over the region to come be apart of it!

We’re stoked to host such an awesome event. So, to make it even more awesome the iSL design team whipped up a fun, fully-responsive, parallax microsite to promote it.

Check the site for all the details, and make sure to join our meetup page if you plan on attending, or if you just want to see yourself as a Space Invader on the website :)

Click here for the full experience.  Be sure to check it out on mobile as well!

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Below is a quick photo tour of the process, from sketching/wireframing, to design, to development.  Scott, Roberto, and Mike were involved in the process from conceptualization to deployment.  Zach and Sarah also provided a great assist.

As Scott scaffolded the architecture of the project, Mike and Roberto created some digital assets to be scattered throughout the site.

We had a blast firing up After Effects and conceptualizing animations and sequences for the first scroll event.

Below is an internal favorite that just narrowly missed the cut.  Excuse the low quality of the GIF – a high res version is available here.

And finally… Credits.

Major props to Chetan + Nathan—our developer senseis—for some late-in-the game assistance when we were scrambling to launch this bad boy.

Vine: ISL Favorites from Brands and Fans

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If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ve heard of Twitter’s new video sharing platform, Vine – a mobile-only app that lets you record and share 6-second video clips edited on the fly, in an incredibly fun and unique way. It combines the best of photo, video, stop-motion, and our favorite — animated GIFs.

Here’s how it works:

Sign into Vine with Twitter and that’s it, you’re ready to record. With Vine’s custom camera, video records when you tap and hold on your phone screen. Take your finger off the screen and Vine stops recording. The simple, real-time editing lets you create everything  from simple 6-second un-cut videos, to more complex stop-motion clips and animations.

How brands are using Vine:

Across all industries, from food to gaming, brands have used Vine to foster online discussion with their fans and even tease new products. Here are a few great examples :

GE: It’s Raining Data

Gap: What shoes do you plan to wear with The 1969 Skimmer?


 

Rolling Stone: Guess Who’s on the cover


 

Nintendo of America: Check out what you get with the Wii U ZombiU Deluxe Set


 

Bacardi: #SixSecondCocktail


 

A few of our personal favorites:

People have been shooting and sharing Vines non-stop since the service launched this past January.

Some cool Vine spin-off apps include Channel 6, ”a personalized channel of videos posted to Vine” (type a search term in the bottom left corner to sort and filter). Similarly, All Around the Vines pulls together a collection of Vine videos you might like based on category and tag. Here are a few of our staff favorite Vines:


- @Corbett3000  
 


- @eshutt
 

-@EmilyTav
 

Best of both worlds:

We worked with our client Embassy Suites to get them on Vine and create their #FirstPost to promote the delicious breakfast you can expect when you stay at an Embassy Suites hotel.

With all of these fantastic Vines in just over a month, we can’t wait to see what comes in the near future from fans and brands alike.

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All-star interns Ryan Horgan  and Zach Khan contributed to this article. 

DCWEEK 2012 [Video Recap]

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The 2012 DCWEEK was bigger and better than ever before (I am totally biased). We’ve highlighted all of our Core Events during the week, including the Opening Party @ Penn Social, Hackathon @ Microsoft, the Keynotes @ Warner Theater, Core Conference & Tech Cocktail @ Artisphere and the Closing Party on H St.

Enjoy!

DCWeek 2012 Recap from iStrategyLabs on Vimeo.

With over 10,000 attendees, we had to analyse the data. Check it out here:

DCWEEK 2012 Recap by Peter Corbett

 

Keep up with DCWEEK on Twitter and Facebook.

 

Peter heads to Davos and The Driving Forces of the Creative Economy

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This past September, I had the pleasure and honor to be invited to speak at The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of New Champions (aka “Summer Davos”) in Tianjin, China. I joined a panel of colleagues from Denmark, Singapore, China and the UAE to discuss the “Driving Forces of the Creative Economy.”

If you’d like to watch the full panel, you can do so here and I’ve excerpted my contribution to the discussion into an 11 minute clip you can watch below.

Lastly, I’ve been invited to the Annual Meeting in Davos this coming January as one of 50 Global Shapers who will help bring a new perspective to the meeting – and accelerate each others’ ability to build world changing companies and movements. If you have any thoughts on the video – or think I should consider while attending Davos please let me know.

For an interesting insight into what Davos is like, read “Magic Mountain” by the New Yorker.

A Rare Opportunity to Join ISL and Work With Our Departing COO

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For those who know ISL well, you know that my brother (our COO) - Joe Corbett - has been instrumental over the past 4 years in getting the agency to where it is today. It’s now time for him to embark on a new adventure as we transition him out of ISL over the next couple months and he begins to either build a business from scratch or join a company that needs a tireless executer who know how to get s**t done. More about his plans here.

As we begin to optimize our operations team, we’re going to be looking for 2 new members to join ISL. This is a rare opportunity and I’m really excited to find the right fit.

The two positions are:

Creative Technologist (Operations) – Hack hardware and support the team’s tech infrastructure.

Lab Administrator – Learn how to operate an agency and work closely with me and DJ (our CMO) on all manner of community projects and marketing programs.

Details & apply are here.