The Dubs is looking for design interns to join the creative team for three, four week (travel expenses paid) internships.
The dates we are looking to fill will be updated regularly and are currently as follows:
• 4th March - 30th March 2013 (intern #1) • 29th April – 24th May 2013 (intern #2)
• 28th May – 28th June 2013 (intern #3)
To be considered for an interview you will be:
• Fully skilled in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign skills
• In possession of a portfolio of DIGITAL design work
• Passionate about digital design (web, mobile, tablet, social)
• Genuinely interested in the power of digital as a medium
• Aware of the digital landscape and emerging technology, platforms and ‘new stuff’ making waves
• Brimming with enthusiasm and the ability to hit the ground running
• Happy being tasked with creative research and presentation design on an ad-hoc basis
• At graduate level / seeking Agency experience
• A UK resident and aged 18 or over
PLEASE NOTE: All applications will be read but only candidates invited for an interview will receive written feedback.
No walk-ins and no agencies at this time thanks.
Please send your CV and portfolio (link preferable), along with a brief cover note about yourself and include the internship date that you are interested in applying for:
The Dubs was recently commissioned by Splice to re-architect and re-design their company website, creating a more streamlined, functional and boldly-simple entity.
The new site runs on The Dubs’ proprietary CMS and allows Splice to better showcase their premium, post-production capabilities across TV, Film and Commercials.
The Dubs is retained by Google to provide strategic and creative consultancy for international brands looking to utilise and innovate across YouTube, Google+, Streetview, GDN and Mobile.
The Dubs spent a chunk of last year developing the IA and producing interface designs for ING Direct UK’s transactional mobile banking offering – an offering which allows existing customers to:
• Manage their existing savings accounts
• Transfer money between accounts
• Set up SMS alerts
• Open subsequent accounts on the go
Here’s a short demo The Dubs produced to showcase the new service:
Well, you can now own an actual pair of Marty’s futuristic sneaks, because Nike has decided “it’s about time“.
Nike is releasing 1500 pairs of the shoes, all of which will be auctioned on eBay, with Net proceeds of the auction going toward fighting Parkinson’s disease.
Our relationship with the world’s largest online bank ING Direct started early in 2003 when we helped launch them into the United Kingdom and we’ve been their strategic web agency ever since.
In 2010/11 The Dubs embarked on a ‘digital refresh’ project for ING Direct to simplify their exisiting web channel to better fit the new brand campaign.
We crafted a ‘boldly simple’ design direction which would work with the site’s existing templates across its core product areas and not alienate customers who at the same time, were to be presented with a new brand strapline and TV ads.
We focused on better highlighting the ING Direct product suite, creating lots of white space and interweaving the campaign creative into the digital channel more so than ever before.
“Great agency, passionate about what they do and what we do – perfect! Very much appreciate their honesty and creativity.”
The heart of our remit is to ensure ING Direct’s Australian customers get the best experience online while from a marketing standpoint our strategic brief tasks us with stitching digital into all available marketing and communications channels.
As a snapshot at any point in time you’ll find us evolving ING Direct’s website customer experience, be crafting online advertising campaigns to promote new products, or extending other channels such as experiential and direct to include tactical microsites and email marketing to maximise their reach.
And as far as we have been told we are the only agency across any marketing discipline to handle ING Direct in more than one territory.
While that speaks well for us in itself we think our duration and depth of work with ING Direct stems from the range of digital services and results we deliver for them consistently.
Following ING Direct Australia’s rebrand spearheaded by the adoption of Charles the Orangutan as brand ambassador, digital engagement agency The Dubs has moved the bank into its next phase with social media.
The Dubs has launched a conversation campaign under the moniker of “Charles Writes” via Facebook to create an emotive connection with people in social media, uncluttered by standard industry bank product messaging.
While Charles is a fictional character (and obviously an Orangutan) he gave us an opportunity to build his persona and explore human emotional aspects common to all of us, we couldn’t do that while Billy Connolly was the face of ING Direct – there’s a bit of an irony to that!
Charles Writes is not a standard marketing approach of direct bank messaging, so we crafted a back story to Charles and an ongoing story arc that will be exposed over time.
It’s about creating a suspension of disbelief, when we watch a movie or read a book we all know the characters aren’t real but good story telling still allows us to relate on a personal level with these characters. We wanted to test if this approach could be applied to Charles Writes and whether through Facebook we could generate a two-way dialogue we our audience.
We’re pleased with the response so far given the campaign premise was to test the validity of storytelling associated with the brand. It’s all been organic growth as we have not started any content seeding strategy at this point to really drive activity.
We’re seeing people are overwhelmingly sticking with us as this story unfolds. We can count the people who have unliked Charles Writes on one hand (it’s four!).
To create the character of Charles Writes The Dubs has employed the talents of a contemporary social commentator from mainstream media.
The Dubs worked with their commentator and ING Direct’s marketing team to create the ongoing story arc that is progressing through themes such as food; given food festivals are rolling out, travel; as peoples’ attention is turning to holidays in the lead up to summer, and gadgets with Christmas present giving in mind.
However, there is an underlying theme that all people can relate to – love.
During this conversation campaign, Charles is going to meet a girl and talk with the Facebook audience about things like tips for first dates or what to do when you meet the family. These are experiences about developing relationships common to us all.
Outside of the Facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/charleswrites The Dubs created a microsite to introduce Charles as ING Direct’s new brand ambassador and the rebrand launch online advertising campaign.
Charles also has a voice on Twitter with his Facebook comments being rebroadcast as tweets while associated videos are played out through Facebook and YouTube.
Tony Ferguson run a very successful business in Australia with over 600,000 people having undertaken a weight loss program with them. They teamed up with Boots the Chemist to launch their brand in the UK to over 60 million people.
Our task was to roll out their brand platform online to coincide with the launch of the program through Boots in store and online via Boots.com.
Users could purchase products through Boots and then sign up to the ongoing weightloss program through the Tony Ferguson website.
Registration offers them:
12 step email support program
Blogs and forum tools allowing users to interact across the Tony Ferguson community
24/7 Online and phone support with trained advisors
A wealth of health and weight loss information from Tony Ferguson himself
Looking to strengthen Middle Eastern cinema, the Doha Film Institute was successfully launched at the Cannes Film Festival 2010.
The Dubs was commissioned to launch the web channel of the The Doha Film Institute.
The Doha Film Institute is Qatar’s first international organisation dedicated to film appreciation, film education, and to building a sustainable film industry in Qatar. DFI is committed to nurturing regional storytellers, while being entirely global in its scope:
