An assignment in my interactive media class: solve the newspaper industry in one page. Here’s what I said: Solving the newspaper industry in one page – here we go: I’d like to start my solution by drawing a parallel to an often-discussed failure of great American industry: the American rail system. Not too long ago, the United [...]
March 12, 2009
Hello world, myself and fellow UO student, Tyler Kirsch have been lucky enough to be named 2009 Bedbury Scholars. That means that we have been sent by the UO and Scott Bedbury to the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Follow our learnings, insights and experiences at http://ducksxsw.wordpress.com/. You can also follow my updates on Twitter.
March 2, 2009
I graduate from the University of Oregon this June. So, naturally I am getting a lot of questions about my plans when I graduate. Here’s what I know so far: I’m not going straight to work. That doesn’t mean that I’m not going to work, or that I’m going to take a year off. Who knows how [...]
February 26, 2009
I tend to get really passionately into things from time to time. Sometimes they stick and I remain obsessed forever. Other times though, I live and breath it for a week or so and then it fizzles out and dies. One thing is for certain though, when I get obsessed with something, I spend way too [...]
October 28, 2008
So apparently the content “isn’t that bad”, but this is a 300 level college business course here… If only for the UO image, please find another text book…
October 26, 2008
I know that its ironic that my last post promised that I was still alive, yet I have yet to post anything since. Whatever. School has been going great. New things: I have been doing my blog thing as a contributor to Advertising Age’s new GenNext blog. Check that out if you want to see me [...]
August 12, 2008
Well it’s been a long time since my last post and a lot has happened since then. The final presentation for BBH is done and over with. It went really really well too. Everyone presented beautifully and we blew the expectations of senior managment away. It felt great. The difficulties of working with all the different [...]
July 30, 2008
In addition to our normal daily work, us interns were tasked with completing a summer-long collaborative project. So, over the course of the summer, we have been creating a campaign to launch a new product for one of BBH’s clients. There are ten of us, representing all of the major disciplines. We present to the [...]
July 26, 2008
I’ve been denying it for far too long… My name is Alex Kniess, and I have a moustache problem. It all started when I was just a young pup, shaving my fuzzy face every day despite the fact that I could wait weeks. I had heard that the more you shave, the faster and thicker your hair [...]
April 29, 2009
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