VerveCast

Our latest quarterly magazine is now posted.
VERVE 13.0

it’s the expression of creative ideas. it’s the enthusiasm we feel. and it’s our desire to share concepts, news and resources with others. verve is Z2’s quarterly magazine with regular updates.

The work of Z2 Marketing is featured in a new book titled “Basics Design: Design Thinking” from UK author Gavin Ambrose.

Here’s a short description of the book: “Basics Design: Design Thinking is an introduction to the process of generating creative ideas and concepts. It identifies methods and thought processes used by designers in order to start the process that eventually leads to a finished piece of work. This focus on ideas and methods eschews an abstract, academic approach in favor of a useable approach to design as a problem-solving activity.”

(You can order it at Amazon.)

A group of Milwaukee-area photographers are working together to give something back to the community this year…

Help-Portrait is a movement of photographers, coming together in every major city, to use their photography skills to give back to the community. On December 12th, photographers around the world will be grabbing their cameras, finding people in need, and taking their picture.When the prints are ready, the photographs get delivered. Yep. It really is that easy.

Learn more about it at: helpportraitmke.com

Bocce is a bowling-type sport typically played outdoors, but we’re bringing it indoors at the InterContentntal Milwaukee. (Wikipedia has a good explanation of bocce if you want more details.)

We play in the lobby, and it’s just a few yards from CLEAR if you need any drinks or dinner to complement your game.

Play ball in the house with indoor bocce ball at InterContinental Milwaukee on Tuesday nights through December 1, 2009 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Being a group of designers and creatives, we’re also art lovers, and we like good ideas and inspiring projects… so seeing Karen Schmidt paint these 3″ x 3″ portraits of people she connects with via the Internet is a neat thing.

Here’s her pitch “I’m working on a project that requires me to paint many 3″ x 3″ portraits, so I’m soliciting headshots from everyone.”

We like it… you can find out more at sendmeyourhead.com