Wii! It’s Friday

At the end of a busy workweek what is better than a bit of exercise? That’s why we had our very first try out on our new Nintendo Wii today. The driving force behind the acquisition of the Wii, Jacob gave us all a performance on how to ride on cows, play Ping-Pong and shoot each other with laser beams. Speaking of exercise we also reorganised our desks in the office to make room for our new anthropologist, who starts on Monday.

More information about our new employee will be unveiled after the weekend …

Custom-made brochures

Yesterday, our print supplier did not deliver the final product – that’s unfortunately what happens sometimes. Added up with a quite complicated accordion-inspired design of the brochure, we all had to take turns to get the campaign material for AS3 Employment finished in time. That’s how a series of unfortunate events resulted in genuine custom-made brochures – because as always the idea has to be executed thoroughly!

PS. Today the story got an even happier end, as the slogan from the brochure got a honourable mentioning by business guru and professor Steen Hildebrandt at a business convention.

Assembling our first billboard

Soon our very first billboard will be visible on bus stops and street corners all around Aarhus. As strategic and creative partner for Aarhus Municipality we have designed the campaign CO2030 – with the ambitious goal to get the city Co2 neutral in 2030. Here we reveal a little sneak peek of a prototype version of the billboard soon to be seen out in the open.

Advert in Elle Interior

For the second time Hatch & Bloom has made an advert for the Europe-leading trade fair for design, Formland. The adverts are featured in various international design and interior magazines and at the moment you can see the Candy advert in the Elle Interior magazine. But as most of you know, Hatch & Bloom does more than adverts. Actually we’ve made the entire communication concept and the advert is only part of a whole range of visual deliveries.

Together at last!

Here at Hatch & Bloom we’re buzzingly busy as usual. That’s why we've hired Helle, the diligently typing girl in the picture. Helle and this company go way back. She has assisted Hatch & Bloom as a freelancer in some of our service design projects. Now she is here to stay – and thank god for that. Helle’s ability to spot user needs and her communication skills are most needed. In the weeks to come we’ll introduce you to more new talented Hatch & Bloomer’s – so keep an eye on this blog for updates.

Another year of meaningful service design

The new year has started out quite promising for Hatch & Bloom. We are very proud to announce that we have once again been assigned to do a comprehensive service design project in collaboration with the Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority. This time our aim is to improve the user experience for patients with complex diagnosis at Randers District Hospital. We will do our utmost since last year's Danish Design Award for another service design project has made us eager to repeat the success. Enough about expectations though. For now we are just thrilled to be given the opportunity to make things better for patients, relatives and medical staff in Randers.

PS. If you look carefully you might notice that we have already ensured the next generation of talented service designers.

Making our conference room audiovisual

After a long and cosy holiday we’re back in the game doing what we do best – hatching ideas and getting them to bloom. Here our house carpenter Morten is doing what he does best – being the master of the Wood World and setting up our new flat screen. As many of you probably have experienced, our conference room has formerly been known as ‘the valley of echoes’. Thanks to Morten we now look forward to a lot of inspiring conferences, workshops and meetings in our new audiovisual conference room.

It remains to be seen what we’re going to put in the wooden boxes …