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Illuminant launches new online store for Belgravia Wines

A source of light. — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:54:27 +0000

The Illuminant Digital team is proud to launch the new generation, “version 3.0″ website and online store of leading Australian cool climate winery, Belgravia Wines. The project was approved, executed by Illuminant and launched within a 5 week period. We’re proud to have served Belgravia for their branding, digital, design, and strategic communications needs since 2010. The new [...]

The Chinese Year of the Water Snake 2013

A source of light. — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:42:38 +0000

In this new year of the Water Snake, the Illuminant team wishes all our clients, partners, allies and friends be blessed with the luck brought by double snakes. May you find sources of water on both your left and right, that things bend in your favor under all circumstances, that global sources of revenue flow to [...]

Spring Festival: the Chinese (Lunar) New Year (infographic)

A source of light. — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:07:09 +0000

January 2013′s Illuminant’s Chinese Takeout focuses on the Chinese Spring Festival (also known as the Lunar New Year or the Chinese New Year, which is somewhat of a misnomer since the new year is celebrated across Asia). If you find this month’s infographic helpful, please consider checking our other Illuminant’s Chinese Takeouts: A Realistic Overview of China, Understanding [...]

Launching the new Reis Studios website

A source of light. — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:10:30 +0000

Illuminant is proud to announce the launch of the new generation Reis Studios website. Reis Studios is a pioneer of the burgeoning New York City contemporary arts precinct known as LIC. A stone’s throw over the East River from the UN building, and bordering Brooklyn only minutes to the south, LIC has the highest density of [...]

Launching a new online wine store for Belgravia

A source of light. — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:15:25 +0000

We’re very proud to have been associated with the excellent Australian cool climate winemaker, Belgravia Wines, over the last two years. Our work for Belgravia has encompassed a substantial branding effort, marketing collateral and campaigning in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, and digital marketing, including web development. Today we’re delighted to congratulate Will and his [...]

All our stories from World Business Forum 2012

Simon Cousins — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:00:50 +0000

For interested readers’ convenience, we’ve assembled links to all our blogged coverage of the World Business Forum 2012: Management guru Jim Collins, on “return on luck” NYC property mogul Barbara Corcoran on her top-8 lessons learned from her career as an entrepreneur MIT psychologist professor Sherry Turkle on the danger presented to society by being always-connected Interbrand CEO Jez Frampton on what makes [...]

Richard Branson at World Business Forum 2012: choice quotes

Simon Cousins — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:24:01 +0000

On what gets Richard Branson up in the morning: “Four words. Enough of that, Richard.” On his daily schedule: “80% of my time is on not-for-profit ventures.” On his approach to hiring: “Often what you see in an interview is not what you see when that person gets into the job. What we look for are people [...]

Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter at World Business Forum 2012: “Addressing social problems with capitalism.”

Simon Cousins — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:40:11 +0000

Michael Porter, the Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School took the stage immediately after lunch on day-2 of the World Business Forum 2012. Prof. Porter, an economist, delivered an address entitled “The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value”. Starting by challenging the old adage that ”if its good for business, its good for society”, he suggested that [...]

Jack Welch at World Business Forum 2012 – a selection of quotes

Simon Cousins — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:43:04 +0000

The wide ranging conversation between the Wall Street Journal’s Alan S. Murray and legendary GE CEO “Manager of the Century” Jack Welch touched on dozens of topics. Not being a trained journalist, and not having a strong partisan opinion on US politics, I had some trouble getting my arms around a summation of Mr Welch’s talk. [...]

Insights into Nissan’s melding of engineering and marketing from World Business Forum 2012

Simon Cousins — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:57:52 +0000

During his talk at World Business Forum 2012 in NYC, Interbrand CEO Jez Frampton chatted with Nissan EVP Andy Palmer and Adobe CMO Ann Lewnes on stage. I wanted to share a couple of interesting insights presented by Nissan’s Mr Palmer. Nissan asks its engineers to predict social trends 15 years out. It asks its marketing [...]