A look back and DesignStamp in 2010.

2009. The year that will probably be remembered longer than most. After the crash of 2008, this was the year of the hangover. And though we began the year with a promise of positive change, some people failed, and we collectively acknowledged the near and seemingly far, climate change impact (with surrounding controversy). Some events united us in our shock, sorrow (MJ, Kennedy, and Shootings) and ridicule (Kanye, Balloon Boy). 2009 Acronyms such as H1N1, AIG, HST (Canadians) stayed in the headlines and had us panicked, angered, confused in varying degrees. Some stories will continue to unfold, build or just continue in 2010. But it’s safe to say, most of us look forward to a new year.

Not sure what the world will be doing in 2010, but Vancouver (our home-town) is ready for 2010. And zooming in even closer, DesignStamp is set to forge ahead into the new year as well. Here are the top 5 things that have us excited right now in broad sketchy details, just so that we can remain open to the possibilities that present themselves to us after the Holidays.

We, at DesignStamp are particularly excited about 2010 because:

1. Coming Soon. Yup, without displaying the ever-popular construction man animated icon, we will soon launch a new site for ourselves that will better reflect what we do and who we are. (You say: Soon is not a date. I say: I know, but as we tell our clients, don’t make promises of dates and things, unless you can be sure to stick to them. So we’re taking our time, between client projects to get this done. We want to do this right).
2. Team. What bites about the current site is that it gives you no sense of who we are. That will be more transparent in 2010.
3. Partnerships. As we grow as a team, we have also been working closely with some great companies. We will release collaborative work in 2010 that will help us build on shared strengths and leverage each others specialties.
4. Clients. We have been very proud to work with premier non-profit organizations that are affecting real change across the globe. We are also equally proud to help large brands communicate effectively. We will launch 3 new projects in the first quarter of 2010.
5. Blogging. For reals. This has been inactive, sorry excuse for an Opinion for way too long. We are going to use our site, and our social networks more regularly and be better contributors to conversations in 2010. For now, follow us on Twitter. While we work with clients to help them get social, we have not done the same for ourselves consciously. “If you don’t have the bandwidth, and not sure of how you are going to participate: Don’t!”. That said, our presentation on getting social on SlideShare has been the most tweeted presentation, twice in 2009!

We wish you and yours a peaceful holiday season. Look forward to working, tweeting, sharing with you in the days ahead!