New Agency Addition

Imagination Graphics (iMgX) is a full service ad agency / graphic design shop located in Coeur d’ Alene. They first opened in 2002, and have been steadily picking up clients and employees ever since.

A quick spin through their website suggests that iMgX is an eight-person shop that focuses primarily on graphic design and signage.

Thanks for the heads-ups Sean. Just remember though, now you guys are on the hook to send updates from time to time.

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Updates from the folks over at Stoltz

For those who have been reading this blog for a while know, I’ve been known to rail on agencies who don’t update their website from time to time. Stoltz Marketing Group is one that I’ve nagged at repeatedly.

In spite of my good-natured ribbing about their lack of activity represented on their website, the folks over at Stoltz really have been quite busy. Since mid-October they’ve:

Created a couple of television spots for Northwest Nazarene University’s undergraduate enrollment campaign. If you’ve watched the Boise State Football games this past fall, you’ve likely seen them at some point. If not, they’re up on YouTube, and you can see them here.

Life:

Change:

They’ve also been chosen by Simplot to create a national print campaign for their RoastWorks line of vegetables, scheduled to start running in January.

Idaho Rivers United was the recipient of a newly-designed website, courtesy of the pro-bono work of the SMG crew.

And that was October alone.

Among other things, December has seen Stoltz Marketing Group selected by The Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to create a national campaign to increase the number of adult male mentors. This is the result of work done at the local level on Men in Need (featured here last fall), which was credited with increasing local male volunteer levels by 46% in 2006.

Also this month, SMG launched the website for Avimor, a “master planned community in the Foothills.”

If you’d like to find out more about any or all of this, you can take a look at the online version of SMG’s Winter Newsletter.

Now if they would just start putting out some more regular updates, maybe I wouldn’t have to write out these long, laundry-list kind of posts…

Hey, its nice to dream once in a while, right?

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Those pesky expiration dates

Platinum Advertising Group’s website seems to have vanished into thin air. I quick check of their domain name registration reveals this little tidbit — it expired on November 23rd.

Oops.

And apparently no one has thought to check on this site since then. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — the devil is in the details. Bad form folks, bad form.

Thanks for the tip S.

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Other Notable Sites – New Addition

There’s a new addition to the Other Notable Sites links to the right:

The Underdog Effect

The Underdog Effect is written by Jeff Reynolds of Rizen Creative. He started blogging back in August of this year, and has consistently been publishing new content ever since.

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Pro Bono work – the update

As I expected it would, an earlier post highlighting some local pro bono work generated some response. Here’s a quick update on what a few other shops are working on:

DNA Advertising:
DNA Advertising teamed with Dutch Bros. Coffee and Peak Broadcasting to collect books for Mercy Housing, which is building a library for different communities. Mercy Housing helps people find affordable housing and offers after school programs for children.

DNA, along with Blackfin Technology, is also working on a re-branding campaign for The Arc.

Es/drake:
Es/drake redesigned Zoo Boise’s website.

Es/drake also donated quite a bit of time and effort to the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Live Large Give Large activities earlier this year.

Others? Just let me know.

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