Ed Callan Consulting provides strategic and tactical marketing consulting. Specializing in helping companies identify and articulate their core value proposition, Callan Consulting has developed a focus on the business side of design, helping clients link business objectives to design objectives and manage their return on investment from design projects. Clients have included companies ranging from IBM and AT&T to early stage start-ups.
www.callan-consulting.com
Exbrook Exchange Inc. are communication advisors who help ambitious individuals and their organizations manage change through strategic branding and the power of design. Their clients include numerous Silicon Valley enterprises, Fortune 500 companies, and public advocacy organizations.
Harpoon, Inc is a brand strategy consultancy that specializes in uncovering and articulating brand identities and insights, consumer understanding and category learning. Harpoon’s goal is to offer the creative marketing community a strategic marketing partner and resource, based in innovative consumer listenership, focused on creating, positioning, and leveraging successful brand and product propositions in an ever-changing marketplace.
Informing Arts provides strategic marketing consulting and business advisory services to corporations facing revenue challenges. We specialize in helping executive teams think through and respond to current or anticipated challenges involving customers, products or markets. Using proven frameworks and processes, we facilitate their development of action-oriented strategies aligned with measurable goals and tactics. As independent advisors we challenge clients to grapple with what it will take to hone their competitive edge while making their value proposition more compelling to customers and partners. Since 1990 we have served industry leaders such as Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Sony, Panasonic and Xerox, as well as market innovators like Classmates, PhotoDisc (now Getty Images), Corbis and Avenue A/Atlas.
www.informing-arts.com
IS² is a software consulting and development company that has a proven track record delivering high quality solutions, on-time and within budget. We specialize in distibuted systems integration and development based on open industry standards. We provide all levels of service from Analysis and Specification through implementation and on to deployment and long-term maintenance.
www.is2inc.com
Metaphor, a name development and verbal branding consultancy, specializes in helping clients articulate the promise of their corporate, product, and service brands. Providing the language tools a business needs to define a relevant brand proposition, illuminate a distinctive competitive positioning, express a compelling brand personality, and engage the target audience, Metaphor has, since 1993, assisted hundreds of companies in meeting a wide array of naming and verbal branding challenges. Metaphor’s clients range from multinational biotech, medical device, and communications companies, professional services firms, retailers and consumer product makers, to successful technology and Internet startups.
www.metaphorname.com
MetaDesign is internationally known for creating systemic and forward-looking design systems for corporations and institutions with complex information problems. These information design systems include identity, interaction and environmental design and are valuable tools for conveying critical information for commerce, culture and government.
www.metadesign.com
Rob Wittig & Tank 20: Electronic author and communications design strategist Rob Wittig’s background includes a 1987 Fulbright Scholarship to Paris to study technical, artistic, and theoretical aspects of creating visual/verbal literary works with online publishing technologies, on the invitation of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and the Centre Georges Pompidou. In the early 1980s Rob co-founded IN.S.OMNIA, an literary electronic bulletin board system deemed ‘legendary’ by cyber-chronicler Howard Rheingold. Rob’s book, Invisible Rendezvous, Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 1994), is an analysis of these spirited projects. Rob now directs TANK20_language_arts, an electronic literature publisher, writes and consults for organizations and design firms around the country, and teaches in both literature and graphic design programs.
www.tank20.com
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