Metaskills are master skills that help you learn specific skills faster and better. They’re in high demand because our post-industrial world needs increasing levels of creativity, humanity, and leadership to shape our increasingly sophisticated technologies. Which of your talents are the most highly developed? Are you intuitive, or studious? Empathetic, or logical? Imaginative, or driven by process? To help you see which of your talents you rely on most, I’ve put together a little quiz.

Last year we started the quarterly Amazing Award as a way to recognize the people that exemplify our values and our culture the most. And for the awards themselves, we utilized a nearby workshop to help us make eight custom awards. We crafted the Amazing Award trophies out of wood and acrylic for our Q4/2012 honorees. As you can see they turned out awesome! So our entire team headed over for a tour and some real Silicon Valley Thinking inspiration.

Estamos contentos de informar que sobrevivimos al último CES show. Para el CES de este año las expectativas eran bajísimas, sin embargo – la Asociación de Electrónicos de Consumo – considera que fue el show más grande en su historia. Participaron más de 150.000 personas para ver el lanzamiento en Las Vegas de más de 20.000 nuevos productos – sin embargo, nos fuimos un poco decepcionados. ¿Porqué? ¡Descarga nuestro reporte y lee sobre ello!

We're happy to report that we survived the latest CES show. CES 2013 was supposed to be dead from the start, instead – according to the Consumer Electronics Association – it was the biggest show in its history. Over 150,000 people were in Las Vegas to see more than 20,000 new products being launched – yet, we walked away feeling a bit disappointed. How could it be? Download our report and read all about it!

ZER01 is an organization that explores what will be possible tomorrow by provoking new ideas, sparking experimentation and seeding creative collaboration between artists and engineers – today. And, ZER01 just happens to be next door to our offices in San Jose. As you can imagine, as soon as we were introduced to ZER01 we knew we wanted to find out more and be involved. And it has been a blast!

El prototipado en el proceso de diseño fue uno de los temas tratados en las conferencias del Design Service Network. Felipe Montegu - integrante del equipo MagiaLiquid – asistió a la charla del diseñador de Ford Manuel Grossmann; ¿Quieres conocer las dimensiones de la creación de prototipos en el Diseño de Servicios? ¡Ahora te lo contamos!.

Considering that this was Microsoft's last year at CES, this year's show was still amazing. Attendance was the highest in the show's 44-year history, and no less than 20,000 new products were launched - including the latest in Ultrabooks, OLED TVs, and 3D printers. Liquid Agency was there to take in the sights and sounds, and to see what tech brands stood out in the chaos. Here's a snapshot of our observations, and the full report is available for download below. Check it out!

An exclusive interview with Rosabel Tao of Myspace. Ms. Tao led a discussion on brand relevancy at the Liquid Brand Summit, held March 1 in Palo Alto.

We’ve definitely won our share of design awards over the years: Our work has been honored in many design competitions for projects that have included identity, packaging, publications, environments, retail merchandising, and interactive design. That said, we’re particularly proud of the recognition we received at the IDEA 2009 competition...and in this one we only achieved “finalist” status.

During a meeting with HP we learned that they were involved with The Plastiki Expedition – and we hoped very much that we’d have an opportunity to work on the initiative. After all, this is about a nautical adventure and our name is Liquid! Lucky for us, a few weeks later we got the call, and we’ve not been able to get it off our minds since. In fact, I have been personally more excited about this project than anything else I’ve done in the last 20 years….and I’m not alone – our staff thinks this is a super cool project. It is really nice to have the whole studio inspired and energized.