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Lorenz Seeger

Lorenz Seeger

·Jun 9

Let’s talk about values

We started thinking about values and all we got were some guiding principles — As we recently launched our new brand and website we want to give some insight into the guiding principles that guide our creative decision-making and our collaboration with each other. You can visit our new site here. Our work on finding ourselves as a team started with asking how we…

Values

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Let’s talk about values
Let’s talk about values
Values

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Lorenz Seeger

Lorenz Seeger

·Jun 1

Everything in its right place

Say hello to the all new Diesdas brand and website — We have been teasing our new brand for a long time already. A blurry logo here, some colours there and yet we took our time before revealing everything to the public. Creating our new brand was and still is one of the toughest jobs an agency can do. Because you…

Launch

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Everything in its right place
Everything in its right place
Launch

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Ella MJ

Ella MJ

·May 11

Pondering participatory educational environments

The launch of the #everynamecounts indexing tool — our contribution to Arolsen Archives mission to build a digital monument to those persecuted by the Nazi regime — got us thinking about digital activism. As we see from the participation of more than 90,000 volunteers globally who give their time, energy…

Social Justice Education

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Pondering participatory educational environments
Pondering participatory educational environments
Social Justice Education

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Lorenz Seeger

Lorenz Seeger

·Dec 23, 2022

2022: year in review

Writing the new chapter — This is the end Hold your breath and count to ten Reading this, you immediately hear one of the best Bond theme songs of all time in your ear. We’re talking about Adele’s Skyfall, of course. In the film, James Bond experiences a debacle on his first mission and is…

Year In Review

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2022: year in review
2022: year in review
Year In Review

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Laura Tortel

Laura Tortel

·Oct 27, 2022

Laura’s Design Journey — Episode 1

Why am I doing this? Hi! I’m Laura, the new Social Media & Community Specialist here at Diesdas. I started a few months ago and am now excited to bring our external communications back to life. A job that revealed itself to be more challenging than expected. I thought it would be easy to start…

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Laura’s Design Journey — Episode 1
Laura’s Design Journey — Episode 1

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Laura Tortel

Laura Tortel

·Sep 28, 2022

The time we… created a phone-based learning platform for children with no internet

At diesdas.digital, we believe in the power of education and the importance of equitable opportunities for all (#SDG4). Making education more accessible, by a simple phone call. This is what we achieved with our project Educast and its pilot program 3 Minutes Tutor by PRATYeK. From a big ambition… In Spring 2021, we started…

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The time we… created a phone-based learning platform for children with no internet
The time we… created a phone-based learning platform for children with no internet

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Lorenz Seeger

Lorenz Seeger

·Jan 26, 2022

A new chapter for diesdas

Diesdas has been around for over half a decade. When we started the agency we didn’t know whether the world needed another digital agency but we gave it our best shot. Now we’re ~30 people, building digital products for brands and companies big and small that literally reach millions of…

Digital Agency

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A new chapter for diesdas
A new chapter for diesdas
Digital Agency

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Harry Keller

Harry Keller

·Dec 30, 2021

2021: year in review

It’s the end of the year already? When did that happen? — Hello! I’ve written quite a few of these yearly recaps (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) over the company’s lifespan, but this year was harder than any of those others before. The last 12 months went by in the blink of an eye, yet 2020 feels long ago. We did a…

Year In Review

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2021: year in review
2021: year in review
Year In Review

7 min read


Maria Gebhardt

Maria Gebhardt

·Dec 2, 2021

Increasing the quality of text-to-speech audio

Nowadays text-to-speech engines like Google WaveNet work impressively well, but they’re still not without flaws. Here is what we do to get the automatic readout of ZEIT ONLINE’s articles sounding more human-like. — Imagine the sentence Leonhard Fuchs was seen onboard a Boeing 737 by DER Touristik on his way to attend the 25. Christmas dinner in the city of Merseburg, Germany. being read to you like this:

Text To Speech

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Increasing the quality of text-to-speech audio
Increasing the quality of text-to-speech audio
Text To Speech

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Maria Gebhardt

Maria Gebhardt

·Sep 17, 2021

How the 4-day workweek is treating us.

We’re into the final month of our 4-day workweek experiment and we thought it’s time to finally share how it’s going so far. — We started our 4-day workweek back in July (read here how we’re implementing this exactly) and now moved into the final month of this three months experiment. Are we enjoying this time? Of course! Are we sad to see it leave? Most definitely! Throughout this time many of us gave…

4 Day Week

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How the 4-day workweek is treating us.
How the 4-day workweek is treating us.
4 Day Week

4 min read

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Diesdas Digital

Diesdas Digital

We combine strategy, design & technology to cut through the noise and launch digital experiences people will tell their friends about.

Lorenz Seeger

Lorenz Seeger

Husband, father of two, dog owner. Also Managing director at diesdas.digital by day, working on olivenoelkontor.de by night.

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Tom Juby

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