BBWD Recycles Food for Global Warming.

02.24.2010

Saving the planet is all about being green and sustainable.  So if you’re going to make a stop-motion animation for a film about global warming, why not use food as your stars?  That’s exactly what we at the Bureau for the Betterment of the World through Design™ did with our contribution to Simon Robson’s global warming film “Coalition of the Willing”, which can now be seen on the Betterment Bureau website!  Check out some work-in-progress materials below and see how the film is coming along at the Coalition blog.

LK sends Creative Director Geoff Bailey to New Mexico; knife fight does not occur.

02.17.2010

We sent Geoff Bailey, LK Creative Director extraordinaire, on a four-day sojourn through New Mexico in search of locations, bolo ties, and a killer recipe for Indian Fry Bread.  Amidst the beautiful New Mexican landscapes, highways and unending skies, one should always expect the unexpected, right?  Did Geoff get into a knife fight with an angry Grandma?  No. Did he organize a 500 person flash mob and perform in the middle of the empty desert?  Also, no. But he did meet a 6-year-old Rottweiler who could accurately howl every Patsy Cline song by heart, and on-demand.  In between Patsy songs, he was also able to find some sensational locations for an upcoming shoot. See you soon, New Mexico.

Fun(d) for Good /. Foos for Haiti.

02.07.2010

Foos for Haiti was a smashing success! The generous and jovial spirit of all of you helped us raise $2,000 to benefit the People of Haiti and the Efforts of the Red Cross.

The tournament was heated, the players were focused, and when the dust settled there was a clear victor: team Dans ta Guelue (Ben Yonda and Sébastien Larreur).

A thousand gold-wrapped thank yous go out to our amazing partners and sponsors: Saturdays Surf NYC, Brooklyn Brewery, DJ Charlie Wonder, Incase Products, Lekker Home, The News Inc, Cheap Monday, SML Bags, Aerial7 Products, Casio Watches, Evisu Jeans, Lisa Shaub Hats, LM.affair by Lincoln Mayne, Bellisima World Jewelry, Art by Sasha and Oksana, and all of the many volunteers and attendees that made the event a smashing success!

BBWD Manifesto.

01.21.2010

A thought on manifestos:

We’ve been working on the Betterment Manifesto for a month now and we’ve just realized something: they are hard! But when they work, wow they work. The power of language is indisputable.

Formal Fridays™.

10.30.2009

Being the casual office that we are, we occasionally like to celebrate the wardrobe freedoms afforded to us as non-bankers/stock-brokers/accountants by turning the idea of Casual Friday upside down; people of the internets, meet loyalkaspar’s Formal Fridays™. When the mood strikes us, we shed our jeans and sweatshirts, pickup our suits and dresses (for some of us, both) from the dry cleaners, and fancy-it-up on a given Friday. Needless to say the workday usually ends with empty high balls and happy faces. Check our Flickr if you’d like to see additional fanciness.