Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission is a book written by Andrew Kessler. The book documents Andrew Kessler's three-month stint in mission control of the NASA Phoenix expedition , led by Peter Smith and based at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona. The mission attempted (successfully) to locate evidence of water on Mars .
7-619: Andrew Kessler is the founder and CEO of Togather.com, an event marketing platform based in DUMBO. Formerly a creative director at HUGE , he co-produced Mars: The Quest for Life on the Discovery Channel and holds a degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Kessler is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. To celebrate the launch of his book, Andrew Kessler opened a pop-up store in
14-526: A UX School program offering about 12-week UX apprenticeships and opened offices in Rio de Janeiro and London. In 2011, Huge also began working with HBO to design and launch HBO GO , leading to the adoption of streaming TV initiatives by most cable TV brands. Huge would later work with Fox, FX Now, The Simpsons, and Hulu on direct-to-consumer TV initiatives. In 2013, Huge opened a production studio to support its expansion from product and web design into marketing as
21-725: A stake in Huge for close to $ 40 million. In 2009, Huge was named the fastest-growing company across all marketing disciplines by Advertising Age. In 2010, Pepsi announced it was working with Huge on the Pepsi Refresh project, using social media to fund public good projects. Later that year, Aaron Shapiro was named CEO and IPG announced an investment of between $ 8 million and $ 10 million to accelerate global expansion for Huge with new offices in Brazil, China, Singapore, and Japan. At this time Skokna and Kirovski departed Huge. In 2011, Huge launched
28-526: The West Village of Manhattan. Inside, the shelves were stocked with more than 3000 copies of Martian Summer . Kessler described the project as a "Monobookist Bookstore". This article about a book on outer space or spaceflight is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . HUGE (digital agency) Huge is a creative growth acceleration company, founded in Dumbo, Brooklyn , in 1999. Huge
35-400: The company took on integrated marketing work for Samsung and was named social media AOR for Audi. In 2013, Huge also launched the first redesign of New York City's municipal website in a decade. The company announced in a March 2018 statement that Shapiro would depart the company after 13 years of overseeing the growth of the company. Michael Koziol replaced Shapiro as CEO. In May 2019 it
42-404: Was announced Publicis Groupe veteran Pete Stein would replace Michael Koziol as CEO. In June 2021, IPG named Mat Baxter the company's Global Chief Executive Officer. In January 2024, Lisa De Bonis took on the role of Global Chief Executive Officer. In July 2022, Huge laid off 3% of its global workforce in response to a revenue drop caused by clients cancelling or pausing activities, and signed
49-464: Was founded by David Skokna, Sasha Kirovski, Gene Liebel, and Aaron Shapiro . Skokna and Kirovski, friends and colleagues at Deutsch , first established the company out of Skokna's apartment in 1999. Huge's first client was IKEA who hired the firm to redesign its websites. Between 2005 and 2010, Huge also won and launched web design initiatives for JetBlue , CNN , Reuters , Four Seasons, Pepsi , and Target. In 2008 The Interpublic Group acquired
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