Keane was out all day on a pretty awesome field trip.

   

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Keanes_Field_Trip_Today.zip (331 KB)

Here it is, the Keane Production Board version 0.5. 

The board now has three main areas, a "Backburner" area to capture ideas on the left, a "This Week" area where each Keane member has a row to sort out their tasks for the week (loosely organized by client) and a "Completed" area on the far right for everything accomplished that week. 

The proposed flow we're considering is:

• Tasks are captured individually on Post-Its and placed in the left Backburner area somewhat aligned by the name of who's responsible. 
• Every Monday each person places tasks their going to accomplish in the main "This Week" area. Larger client's tasks can be aligned in columns.
• As tasks are accomplished their moved off to the right side into the "Completed" area (for bragging rights).

We picked up some colored tabs for additional visual messaging: 

• Pink Tabs on a task are elevated to a "You need to get this finished today or ELSE" level.
• Blue Tabs on a task are tasks that someone else creates that they need you to complete so they can move forward on a project (Example: Write copy, gather logo assets from client).
• Green Tabs on a task are added to completed tasks and moved into other people's area when ready for review.

And the black strips are actually magnetic for added yet-to-be-determined functionality.

Supplies used: 

• Stretched canvas art board
• Three rolls of white duck tape
• Four rolls of magnetic tape
• OfficeMax Self-Stick Pop-ups (AKA Post-Its)
• Post-It Tabs
• White Erase marker

At the moment we're all busy generating tasks but we anticipate the whole production system to kick off next week and will report back here on how it goes!

A few weeks ago I decided to start exploring new project management systems, namely real tangible ones versus an online Basecamp-esque system. In case you missed it, here's a link to the original post: http://keane24.com/new-project-management-system-inspired-by-for
 
Here's my critique so far:
 
Pros: Easy to see tasks, centrally located
 
Cons: Only built for one person (me), no real system, not organized enough
 
This week I've started drafting up plans for the next version (sketches above) and have a lot of great ideas, I'll post up photos as soon as it's complete.

I was at Revolver Records this weekend with Diana, perusing the vinyl as they were taking away stacks upon stacks of inventory to their new location on 2nd/Roosevelt. Found an original 1997 pressing of Godspeed You Black Emperor's f#a# album, which was only limited to 500 copies and includes a penny flattened by a train among its other awesome inserts. A treasure indeed.

Anyway. As I was leaving I spied another gem, this one tacked up on the corkboard near the door – an open invitation to a 4th of July party at Bike Saviours, a bicycle co-op in the fixed-gear heart of Tempe. Thought the little note was too cute to keep to myself. I mean, the cost is only 5 yollars and, while there are no smoke bombs or other fireworks allowed, you'll be able to see some awesomely-named bands spit fireballs and emit spark showers:

• Haiku Ambulance
• Pigeon Religion
• Ovariesy
• Soft Shoulder
• Hell-Kite
  

Downtown Tempe Community: Brand Rehab

Before 5pm hits on a Friday, here are some shots of this beautiful book we designed/produced for SunCor, that we just received yesterday. It's always exciting to see the final piece and we couldn't be happier.
 
(Don't worry, for all you print-a-philes, you can expect Russ Maloney to flesh out this project in excruciating detail here in the coming week!)

     

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New_Client_Work_-_SunCor_Proje.zip (3201 KB)

For those of you who don't know, the big Keane vs. Forty Agency Bowling Throwdown is tonight. You can get the details here: http://phxadblog.com/2009/06/the-first-ever-agency-throwdown-hits-two-local-agencies/

On Tuesday Forty released a video attempting to lay the smack down on us:



So, without question we decided to do a little bit of video work ourselves as somewhat of a video-smack talk reply:



Come out tonight and root for your favorite agency. If you need help deciding, here's a recent score from one of our teammates:

[Editors note - This was also made in about a day in case you were wondering]