It’s a wrap! February 2020

Every company has a different style of collaboration. I’ve been really lucky to see a number of companies from the inside. I’ve seen some amazing solutions, such as having to explain why someone is cc'd in an email by having to make an explicit note about it. I’ve seen some destructive ones, too. Some go as far as making me feel like I’ve joined Josef K. in Kafka’s Trial, trying to fix things that were damaging to a business yet not finding ways to succeed. 

This past month was challenging. bunq’s style of collaboration is nothing I’ve seen before. Partly very fast. Partly highly bureaucratic. Partly very personable. Partly very distant. And at this point it’s hard to summarise how this past month has gone. 

Instead, I’d like to discuss some other things I’ve been working on and challenges that I had to deal with this past month. I’ll apply the sandwich technique to this blog post to make it all seem a little less dramatic. I am quite tired after the emotional whirlwind of the past weeks. 

The Open European Dialogue, which is an organization founded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, has a new branding (not published yet) that Maximilian Mauracher and I will hopefully be able to reveal soon. I’ve drafted their new website copy and cannot wait to see it implemented. 

The Swing Kitchen called off the entire rebranding. We had redesigned their branding and their website and were already working on implementing the SEO. However, a couple of weeks ago, the whole project got called off and none of it will be implemented. The invoice, however, is getting paid in full. Which shows character. 

I’ll write about multiple topics I thought about a lot this past month in more detail instead of trying to make them fit into this short blog post. Stay tuned.