Marty Neumeier gave an inspiring talk at the beautiful offices of the Design Council in London and signed copies of his latest book – Metaskills. The event was a huge success, with a great turnout from all elements of the UK design community. The evening was filled with great insights and enthusiasm for a new way of thinking about the future of business – and the attendees left inspired and energised.

We are bringing you the rare opportunity to meet our Director of Transformation, Marty Neumeier, and hear him give an inspirational talk about his latest book, Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age at the Design Council’s Angel Building in London. We strongly urge you to take this opportunity to attend our FREE event on April 10th at 6pm to get a wonderful taste of the future of business and meet with like-minded peers.

The 2013 Silicon Valley ADDYS awards presentation was a great evening in many ways. It was a great opportunity to relax with our peers from other Silicon Valley agencies while also celebrating the fact that Liquid walked away with more awards than ever before. We received honors for our work with Reef, Intel, HP, SanDisk, Kareo, iMemories, Mighty Leaf Tea, Velodyne and Good Tech. Great job to the entire Liquid team!

Windows 8 is the latest and most significant evolution of the Windows operating system. After considering other firms, Microsoft selected Liquid Agency to manage the development, design and production of all the marketing and branding assets required to launch the product in stores worldwide. We are happy to report that we pulled off this massive undertaking without a hitch—and, regardless of the crazy schedules, it was a pleasure working with the Microsoft team!

The people that work at Liquid are truly amazing. Without them we would not be able to deliver the kind of work that creates results for our clients and gets accolades from our peers. So, this year we started the quarterly Amazing Award as a way to recognize the people that exemplified our values and our culture the most. Here are the winners of the Q4/2012 awards—please post a comment on the blog and congratulate them!

To celebrate the New Year, Adobe asked Liquid Agency to help them live up to their vision as an advocate for creativity. Working collaboratively with the Adobe brand team, we developed a unique interactive experience that transforms New Year’s resolutions into works of art that can be shared through social media. This is Adobe’s way of saying thanks to the creative community, and invite people to share their inspiration with others. We were glad we could help—and invite you to create some artwork based on your resolutions and share them with your friends and family, so they can be inspired too.

For 32 years, the Regional Design Annual sponsored by PRINT magazine has evaluated the very best design work done across the USA and organized it by region. This year, two projects designed by Liquid Agency were singled out as some of the best work created on the West Coast. We're very proud of this accomplishment and wanted to share the good news with you.

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!

Our very own Director of Transformation has written a page-turner of a business book. It’s about the mandate for change in post-industrial society. Marty argues that today’s widespread unemployment is not a jobs crisis. It’s a talent crisis. Technology is taking every job that doesn’t need a high degree of creativity, humanity, or leadership. The solution? Stay on top of the Robot Curve—a constant waterfall of obsolescence and opportunity fed by competition and innovation. This is the age of the designer, the visionary, and the courageous leader.

Rapid market changes, disruptive business models, and growing M&A activity are all contributing to why companies small and large are making adjustments to their branding approaches. And the trend is to make these changes at increasingly rapid speed. This is putting a great deal of pressure on brands and their agencies to deliver brand strategies within extremely compressed timeframes. Does this mean we need to ditch a rigorous brand strategy processes in favor of just getting it done?