Last night, I gave a presentation to the Richmond chapter of AIGA entitled “Enabling Interactivity”.  The presentation aimed to share insight on the tools and practices Grow utilizes to help ensure the smooth execution of complex digital initiatives.  Here are the slides from that presentation.

Download: Enabling Interactivity PDF

On our Thank You Begins With A T site, developer Josh drew a marker and an envelope. Astute visitors pieced together that they could draw on Josh and e-mail him copies of their creations.  Thousands of drawings flooded Josh’s inbox, and the rest of our team followed along with an RSS feed.  Many of the drawings were too good to keep to ourselves, so we’re happy to share this compilation of our favorites.  As a disclaimer, web users given a pen and freedom of expression will frequently draw genitalia.

Want to win a shirt from the site?  Leave a comment, and we’ll pick three random winners next week.

Whenever we wrap up a big project, we like to celebrate with a fun-filled Grow outing. As luck would have it, Drew’s birthday fell on the same day as our latest adventure, so we had even more reason to party.  At the always-delicious Plaza Azteca, Drew dawned his sombrero like a good sport, but he was thoroughly embarrassed when the whole place was clapping and singing to him.

After our delicious and entertaining lunch, we headed over to a nearby mini golf / driving range. After an exhausting 18 holes and a few astonishing holes in one, the scores were tallied and a winner was announced. Drew, Careyann, BJ and I took home bragging rights. Go team!  We spent the rest of our day at the driving range, where we mostly made fools out of ourselves.  The full Flickr set is here.

It was a lovely day and a well-deserved break for our hard working team.  The celebrated project just launched, too.  Check out the HP Photosmart site, or see more details here.