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DDG - Celebrating 15 Years!


DDG Celebrating 15 Years
1995

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GCP Catalogue – FIrst Job

1997

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Hoare Bros – Brochure

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Dianna Ferrari – Website

1997

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United Way – Annual Report

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Cold Chisel – Published Book

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Levi's – Website

1999

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Melbourne IVF – Corporate Identity

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APESMA – Course information brochure

2000

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Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages – Award winning environment design.

2001

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Bendix – Price Book

2002

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Bendigo Bank – Annual Report

2003

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EAN – Website

2004

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Shell Oil – 50th Anniversary Book

2004

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Ford Performance Racing – Custom Application

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Barwon Health – Annual Report

2006

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City of Greater Geelong – Annual Report

2007

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Mercy Health – Rebrand

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Penfold Motors – Website & Rebrand

2007

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Office National – Rebrand

2009

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Celebrity Slim – Website

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Adroit Insurance Group – Rebrand

2010

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Arms Reliability – Rebrand

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Trivantage – Rebrand


Many thanks to all of our clients for making the last 15 years possible.

1995

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Dzign Advertising Founded by Jonathan Roberts and Fred Thompson

GCP catalogue - first job

Kevin Mitnick, a notorious computer hacker, is finally captured by the FBI.

Yahoo!, the popular search engine, web directory and email service is founded by Jerry Wang and David Filo.

eBay, another giant of internet commerce comes into being as an online auction house.

1996

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Built 1st company website.

Gary Kasparov and IBM supercomputer Deep Blue face off for a series of chess matches that pit man against machine. Deep Blue became the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. However, Kasparov went on to take the match, winning 4-2. During a rematch in 1997, an upgraded Deep Blue defeated Kasparov and won the six-game match.

1997

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Moved offices having grown to 10?

Dolly the sheep is introduced to the world as the first fully-cloned complex organism.

1998

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Fred’s brother Jim joins firm as General Manager.

Launched Levi's Australia Website at Pitt St. Mall Store with live feed.

Google, a company which would come to dominate the internet search engine wars thanks to their unique sorting algorithms, is founded in California.

1999

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Company divided into 2 business units: Dzign Visual Communications specialising in Graphic Design and Diezel Interactive focusing on Web Development.

Napster, a file-sharing application that allows millions of people to trade music and movies digitally over the internet is first made available. The program would highlight the growing copyright concerns of the music industry and spark a revolution in music distribution.

World panic about the Y2K bug, a perceived software glitch that will affect computer systems when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, 1999 reaches the height of its intensity.

2000

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Business sold to Asia Online, a Hong Kong based company having raised $US150 million with the goal of listing on the NASDAQ.

MADC Award won for the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages environment design.

We secure Bendigo Bank as a client.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position.

The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

2001

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Jonathan, Fred and Jim (Fred's brother) acquired Dzign and Diezel having grown both companies to staff of 35.

Apple release Mac OS X with it's new user friendly interface.

The first version of the iPod is introduced to world.

Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music.

Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

2002

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The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

2003

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Adobe Creative Suite is released creating serious competition to Quark Express for the top Desktop Publishing software.

2004

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Company restructured and renamed Dzign Diezel Group (DDG).

Google introduces its Gmail product to the public. The launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date.

2005

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Celebrate 10 years.

YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.

Adobe gobbles up Macromedia in pure-stock buy out worth US$3.4 billion.

2006

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The new MacBook Pro and iMac became the first Apple computers to use Intel's Core Duo CPU.

Pluto no longer seen as a planet in the solar system and is redefined a "dwarf planet".

2007

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Rebranded Mercy Health

Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

2008

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Launched Rebrand of Office National.

Office renovations and IT upgrade completed.

Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.

2009

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Launched rebrand of Winchester Australia.

Windows 7 released to replace the short lived, controversial Windows Vista operating system.

Global Financial Crisis hits the world hard.

Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.

2010

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Happy 15th Birthday!

Apple realease the eagerly awaited iPad and iPhone 4.

 
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