The committee brainstormed and discussed the graphical platform for Desktop Olympics. After careful crafting we ended up with a simple, monochrome logotype that subtly connotes our heritage to the ancient games yet expresses a new context:
The Desktop Olympic committee shares their working space with other fine Brain Workers at the Magdalena Festival: a workshop called [...]
The committee finished the work on definin the long-term, overarching strategies and then got to work. All progress were documented on the shared Google Docs workspace.
The web team elaborated the strategy and scope for the Desktop Olympics internet presence. They also started sketching on the information architechture. At the same time web strategy and started [...]
The committee assembled on the sunny shores of the river Drava and drafted mighty todo-lists. The committee divided responsibilities according to Sport Design, Event design, Communication”, Website, and Project organisation.
A new ideation tool, the Unsworn Heartwheel, was then successfully utilised to establish the important use qualites of the event, the sports and the community. [...]
After a brief session of refining yesterday´s sports the committee walked on a user-test excursion to Mediamix - an advertising agency with employees that are known for their excellent keyboard-stamina and mousewheel dexterity. How would the committees freshly designed olympic disciplines fare in a real-world office environment?
Silly smiles and sore scroll-thumbs were obvious signs of [...]
After excellent and inspiring introductions by the handsome Swedish chairmen, the offical Desktop Olympic committee was formed in an old water tower by the river Drava in Maribor, Slovenia.
The committee got straight to work on defining the seven disciplines Several promising proposals (Folder Weight Lifting, Scroll Racing, Folder Wrestling, to name a few) were put [...]