Michael Lebowitz - Big Spaceship

Big Spaceship

Michael Lebowitz founded Big Spaceship in 2000 and serves as its CEO. An architect and board member of SoDA, the Society of Digital Agencies, he is also a member of AIGA's Visionary Design Council and the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.

Speaking on creativity, innovation and the role of engagement in digital communications, Michael participates in and leads seminars across the globe, from MIT's Futures of Entertainment to the Click Conference to the One Club. He is also a frequent juror for creative awards, including the Cannes Lions, the Clio Awards and D&AD. Michael was recently named the Chairman of both the 2009 One Show Interactive Jury and the D&AD Viral Jury.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Stacie and son Isaac.

An innovation-led digital creative agency, Big Spaceship partners with brands to create deeply engaging experiences, products and relationships. Telling stories and starting conversations across the digital landscape, the company has garnered many accolades for its work, including One Show, Clio, Webby and Cannes Lion awards. Big Spaceship holds more FWAs than any other firm and was the first American agency inducted into the FWA's Hall of Fame.

Learn more about Big Spaceship:
http://www.bigspaceship.com

Our blogs:
Ideas & insights - http://think.bigspaceship.com
Art & Science of code - http://labs.bigspaceship.com
Follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/bigspaceship

Check out Qapture: http://www.qapture.net/

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June 17, 2009

augmented reality growing up fast

in the past week AR took a nice step forward with two very thoughtful examples of how virtual and actual can mix in useful (not just pretty, shiny) ways:

Layar - an Android mobile app with incredible potential for taking AR into the world with you.

and the US Postal Service's Priority Mail Virtual Box, which lets you see if what you're shipping will fit in their flat rate box. A simple, useful tool.

*update* - should be mentioned that the excellent folks at AKQA are responsible for the Priority Mail application. Nice work, folks!

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May 13, 2009

some things i've done recently

After chairing the "viral" jury at D&AD, I talked to Creative Review about it

7 Minutes to Change the Internet For Advertising

make sure to watch the other presentations in this series. they are excellent (and superior to mine.)

Conversations About the Future of Advertising aka CATFOA (in lovely Minneapolis)

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April 9, 2009

five of my favorite digital campaigns of the year

forbes asked me to select five of my favorite campaigns of the year. a fun challenge. here's what i came up with.

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April 5, 2009

james earl jones recites the alphabet

(via SwissMiss)

thanks to @bright_moments for passing this *gem* on as well:

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March 24, 2009

one show interactive judging

chairing the One Show Interactive jury this year was both an honor and a fabulous time. amazing jury, strong work and the IAC building was a stellar venue.

i did daily posts for adweek's adfreak blog during judging.

and there are some wonderful photos in the One Show judging pool on flickr.

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March 6, 2009

friday fun - terminator: salvation

over the years we've talked about making casual games for hardcore gamers for some of our movie studio clients. our latest, and most ambitious, is for Terminator: Salvation. it's taking advantage of most of the features of our OMFG Engine, but what i love is that we're starting to inch our way closer to the higher energy and engagement levels of console (or at least handheld) games in the browser.

not that i'm claiming that this game would replace anyone's PS3, but we do see years of gameplay when we launch these games, so there must be an untapped desire for richer, more visceral experiences than solitaire and bejeweled on the web.

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March 6, 2009

one show interactive - scary

it's quite an honor to be chairing one show interactive. even more of one to be among these folks. but i don't know about working with a vampire...

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March 4, 2009

relaxing spam

just got this with the title "RE: USA Menshealth ID528731 Weekend best prices"

but the nice part was the attached image:

a welcome little moment...

update: ray points out you can own this approximate relaxing image yourself in tshirt form: http://www.theselectseries.com/product/1411/Jeff_Staple/SOS

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February 9, 2009