es•ca•late/ˈeskəˌlāt/
Verb: 1.Increase rapidly.
2.Become or cause to become more intense or serious.
We are the Digital Sages who read the present and we decree that it is suffering from overload. Too many people, too much excess, too much inefficiency, too much bloat.
We are the Story Builders, who create useful marketing that tells the story of your product and then continues to build that story to respond to an unpredictable audience in real time… because the brave new revolution has created an arena that is incremental, experimental, continually optimized -- "perpetual beta" -- and never, ever complete.
We are the Cat Video Carnage Control, who understands the explosion of media platforms and ensure that you connect effectively and simply, with real time dialogue to an exponentially complex world. (… because at some point Darwin’s model always stops rewarding complexity)
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43 Airschool
43 Air School contracted the services of BigCityStudio to come up with fresh, new creative designs for the 2011/2012 marketing campaign. We were thoroughly impressed with the high level of service offered by Ingrid who recognised our requirements and met our demanding time schedules. Her passion and striving for design excellence sat well with our own value for ‘Training Excellence’ and we will be contracting BigCityStudio for the majority of our advertising and multimedia projects going forward. We highly recommend BigCityStudio and would like to take the opportunity to say “Thank you, Ingrid!”