WHAT'S GOING ON?

who decided that a day has only 24 hours?! i wouldn’t mind if it’s getting dark in between… but i really could need some extra hours these days!

anyways, last week i worked on several prototypes, together with bill saragosa - great stuff! i’m sure YOU, the percussionists, will love them.

in the meantime, all congas from our “conga design contest” have returned. i shot them for our online-voting which will be launched by tomorrow. 
we got many awesome designs from the participants… my team and i are really astonished! i just have to prepare the photos and put them online. we also made a cool application for our meinl percussion facebook account. but more on that tomorrow.

one designer-team forwarded some photos from the origination process (seen on the attached pics). thanks to nelly brunkow and adrian florae for sharing this with us! i can imagine all the passion and endurance everybody put into this project… it’s very appreciated!

this week, we’re having an agency pitch. in other words – we're running a meeting marathon! but i’m looking forward to it and i enjoy all the inspiration, new ideas, and smart marketing ways that are going to be introduced.

next week i’ll be in london and in paris to check out some major european drum stores for gathering information and feedback on our instruments and also to do some market analysis.

stay tuned for our online conga contest...

mario