Category Archives: worth mentioning

Something new is Sprowting Up

Sprowt, an “initiative to nurture emerging designers in our local design community” has launched in the Treasure Valley.
From their website:
What Is Sprowt?
Sprowt is an initiative to support emerging designers in their transition from university to a professional career. Currently, we’re gathering feedback from local graduates and employers and plan to use that data to develop [...]

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The Not-So-Terrible Twos for SOVRN Creative

Our friends over at SOVRN Creative celebrated their second anniversary recently, and shared a few highlights from the past two years, including:

Joe has learned more about trash and recycling, water conservation, wastewater management, and nursing than he ever thought he would. Unless you want to incur his wrath, don’t throw away anything [...]

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Setting Aside Humble and Understated…

…for the moment at least.
Because this is the point at which I get to say that the Idaho Ad Agencies blog is now the award-winning Idaho Ad Agencies blog.
Bear with me – the boasting will be over soon.
The Idaho Ad Agencies blog recently received an Excellence award at Capital City Communicator’s inaugural IMPACT Awards.  It [...]

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Party Hats and All

Over the weekend, the Idaho Ad Agencies blog turned four-years-old.  What started out as a ‘just because I can’ project has grown into so much more.
Thank you to everyone who reads, comments, and contributes to the site in one way or another.  You’ve helped make it what it is today.

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In Memory: John Givens

The Idaho advertising community lost one of it’s founders with the passing on John Givens on Monday, February 1st, 2010.
Not familiar with the name?  Unfortunately, neither was I until last week.
John Givens was a third-generation Boisean, a graduate of Boise High School and after service in the United States Naval Air Corp during World War [...]

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Predictions and Trends

Its that time of year again.
The time when everyone and their dog, cat and goldfish makes their predictions about what the biggest trends will be in the coming year.  And, like every year, its a shot in the dark.  Sometimes those predictions are right, sometimes they’re horribly wrong.
That being said, this year I say we [...]

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Foerstel’s Christmas Wish

[ December 10, 2009 to December 18, 2009. ] As seen recently on Foerstel’s Facebook Page:
Foerstel******PLEASE READ***** To all of our Foerstel Friends and to our peers in the design and marketing world. We are very happy in our new office in the Linen District area and enjoy being in the heart of our community. However, because of our location, we see “everyday” how [...]

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Chasing the Answer to an Identity Crisis

At some point in time, every agency has likely been faced with this question: What kind of agency are you?
Darryl Ohrt, founder of Plaid, takes a swing at answering that very question from a small agency’s point of view on the Ad Age Small Agency Diary.
From his piece:
When people ask about our agency, I often [...]

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Help Bring ART & COPY to Boise

By now you’ve likely heard about the film ART & COPY.  But just in case you haven’t, here’s the official synopsis:
ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our [...]

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George Parker Does Not Hate Everything

Believe it or not, it’s true — there’s proof!
Kidding aside, during an appearance on Episode 63 of The BeanCast, George Parker had a few complimentary words for the work that Drake Cooper has done over the years for the Idaho Lottery.
The brief comment came in the context of a discussion that he and the other [...]

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