Author: Brian

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Internship Opening: Graphic Designer

Wirestone in Boise has a Graphic Design Internship available.  From the folks behind the scenes:

Wirestone, a digital marketing solutions company, is looking for a highly motivated and talented Graphic Design Intern to assist with growing needs in our creative department. The intern must be organized, detail-oriented and possess strong typography and layout skills. Day-to-day duties might include working on PowerPoint layouts, helping to design a presentation or creating storyboards for an animation. Knowledge of the following programs will be expected; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PowerPoint and Word. At Wirestone, our interns are considered an integral part of our team and as such, their ideas and input will be valued.

Those interested should contact Brie Bolopue for more information.

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Curb Cup

If you’ve been around downtown Boise, you’ve likely seen the posters.  If you’re active in the Twitterverse, you’ve probably heard the chatter.  But what exactly is Curb Cup you ask?  Well, from the source:

On Sunday, August 30, much of Downtown Boise will be a stage – where entertainment and performance all come to life on our streets and sidewalks.

Destined to be a must-attend, gotta-participate annual signature event for our community, the inaugural Curb Cup will feature hundreds of performers and thousands of voter attendees…all in one great circus of creativity in the heart of our city. It’s all free. It’s all fun. And, it’s all to celebrate who we are, where we live, and how we express ourselves.

Curb Cup

Boise’s Inaugural Curb Cup will take place on Sunday, August 30th from 2pm – 4pm in the streets of downtown Boise.  It features over $3,000 in prizes, including $1,000 First Prize.

And, if you’d like to register to perform, you still have time.  Registration is open until August 25th.

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Feedback Needed: Job Board

When the Idaho Ad Agencies blog was revamped earlier this year, one of the new additions to the site was the Jobs section.

Well, it’s been a few months since that happened, so now is a good time to get some feedback from you, dear readers.  Do you use the Jobs section?  How often do you look through the job listings?  Do you find valuable information there?

And, for the employers in the crowd:  Have you considered posting a job on the Idaho Ad Agencies Job Board?  Why or why not?

As always, feedback and comments are much appreciated.

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Beer and Blog

What is it, you’re wondering?  In a nutshell:

Beer and Blog is a weekly meet up based on bloggers helping bloggers over beers. It was started by Justin Kistner in Portland, OR in January of 2008.

And yes, it’s happening in Boise too.

You blog?

You drink beer?

You want to hang out with folks who do?

Come to the Front Doorevery Friday between 5:00 – 6:30PM to geek out, get help with your blog, launch a new product, bounce an idea off other geeks, or just kick off the weekend with a couple beers. There is no set agenda, no speaker, no program, just ad hoc, beer-bathed bloggery.

This is a long-overdue addition to the events calendar.

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Lemonade

So, you’ve been laid off fairly recently?  You’re not alone, and you’re getting your own movie: Lemonade

Erik Proulx, former Senior Copywriter at Arnold Boston and driving force behind Please Feed the Animals went in search of laid-off agency folks to see how they’ve made a living, a life, and found happiness outside of the advertising world.

Hat tip to the many other outlets that have covered this already, including AdPulp, AgencySpy, The Denver Egotist, PSFK and many, many more.