Liquid Agency is proud to announce that we've opened our first office in Latin America. Based in Santiago de Chile, and operating under the name of MagiaLiquid, we are ready to export Silicon Valley innovation and support clients who have branding and marketing needs in the entire Latin American region.

We’re very pleased to announce that Bill Zabit has joined Liquid Agency as the company’s Executive Vice President. Bill will work closely with the two founders – Scott Gardner and Alfredo Muccino – to continue growing the company with special emphasis on delivering value to clients in the process of major transactions, crisis and change.

Alfredo Muccino just returned from driving a rickshaw across the entire country of India, risking life and limb in a race called The Rickshaw Run. Why did Liquid sponsor such a crazy idea? To raise money for charity and to support the idea that life should be an amazing adventure.

Yes it's finally here, the Best Practices Report from this year's Liquid Brand Summit, held in March at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto.

Building Brand Culture. Part of a series of Best Practices from the Liquid Brand Summit 2011. This article captures the findings from a session about Brand Culture facilitated by Robert Richman from Zappos Insights at the Liquid Brand Summit 2011. The Brand Summit brought together more than 100 professionals to discuss the latest ideas about branding and marketing. More articles will follow.

Spring has sprung and so have we . . . if you haven’t heard, 2011 is shaping up to be quite a banner year for Liquid. Not only are we celebrating our 10–year anniversary, we also recently announced the opening of our first European office and we’ve been honored with dozens of design awards in the first three months of the year, including a much coveted “red dot” Product Design Award and a REBRAND 100 Global Award of Distinction. You can read about those in recent blog posts we’ve published.

In an effort to bring branding to a “higher level” Liquid Agency is proud to announce that it has opened new offices in Tibet. Tibet is of course, the highest region on earth with an average elevation of 16,000 feet, that is sometimes referred to as “The Roof of the World”. According to Scott Gardner, President and CEO of Liquid Agency, “Over the last year Liquid Agency has been in the process of expanding our geographical reach, and after much consideration, we have decided to open up an office in a place that will give us a new perspective symbolically as well as physically.”

Design/Management Europe 15 is a conference organized by the Design Management Institute (DMI) – an international organization that seeks to heighten the awareness of design as an essential part of business strategy. Some of the most inspiring design leaders in the European community will lead the presentations.

The red dot design award, the origins of which date back to 1955 is divided into the three disciplines “red dot award: product design”, “red dot award: communication design” and “red dot award: design concept”. With more than 12,000 entries from more than 60 nations, it is the biggest and most prestigious design competition in the world today. The sheer number of entries and the diversity of nations represented makes this event highly competitive, so we are extremely pleased to announce that we have won our first red dot product design award!!!!

Who are the biggest brands in the technology sector? Liquid Brand Summit attendees got a sneak peek. Folks who attended the Liquid Brand Summit last week were the first to find out as Liquid Agency released the findings from an annual research study by Socratic Technologies evaluating the impact of brands in 40 different technology markets.