Davies Rourke has an opening for a receptionist/project assistant. The full job listing can be seen here.
(Courtesy of BoiseHelpWanted.com)
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Rizen’s feeling a bit awkward
So apparently Rizen Creative is feeling a bit awkward. A visit to their site recently proves it. Give it a look for yourself.
Two things:
1) Gotta give the folks at Rizen credit for acknowledging that they know people are going to their site looking for information. Its a step up from their previous “New Year New Us” single page that had been up for the past four or five months.
2) The excuses for not presenting your own work will only get you by for so long. While doing your own internal work is not billable time, the potential for future (billable) client work as a result should be more than enough of a justification for working on your internal stuff.
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It Comes in Waves
So its no big secret that activity in a given agency tends to come in waves. You’ll be obnoxiously busy at a given time, only to have things slow down just a tick or two shortly thereafter. That seems to be the case on a larger scale with the business in general around these parts. From an external point of view, it seems that there was a flurry of activity earlier this year, but now most shops are pretty tight-lipped about what there up to.
Now I’m sure those on the inside would say that this is the time that they’re the busiest, and what is seen on the outside is a result of the work that’s happening now. That’s all fine and good, but I’m still going to throw that reminder out to all of the agencies in Idaho that you are your own client as well. And if you play the “busy card” when thinking about your own work, you’re doing a disservice to yourself, as the client.
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Job Opening
DTX Media has an opening for an entry level graphic designer. The full listing (what little of it there is) can be found here.
(Courtesy of The Idaho Stateman/CareerBuilder)
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How Do You "LIV ARGE?"
The past few days I’ve seen one of the “wrapped” Valley Ride busses around Boise. This particular bus is an ad for Corey Barton Homes. While it certainly does grab attention, at first glance I thought it said “LIV ARGE” on the side of the bus. The graphic behind the text appears to be that of someone lounging either in a chair, on the floor, or something similar.
As with everything that Corey Barton Homes has done recently, the Live Large tagline is in red. The kicker, however, is that the model in the picture behind the text is wearing a red shirt. While the colors are not identical, they are close enough that at first glance the bus is not very readable.
So the question I have to ask is, why didn’t someone step back and look at it from a distance before it made it to the side of a bus? Up close, and on a computer screen, I’m sure the different shades of red were easy to distinguish, but from 50 yards away, the pretty much blend together. The end result? LIV ARGE.
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