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At a meeting held prior to the Vision 3 conference a group of industry leaders convened to explore opportunities to unify NAPL and PIA. This action was taken for several reasons: the economic conditions of the past several years, the ongoing contraction of the industry and a response to calls for action from membership and [...]
Continue Reading →PhinneyBischoff/Design House has promoted Nate Oliver and Holly Keenan to co-presidents and added Nick Chapman as creative director and Maya Babish as director of brand strategy. Oliver has been with the agency four years and Keenan 10. Chapman comes from Draft FCB and Babish from Wong Doody Crandall Wiener… dddDNA has hired two Seattle advertising [...]
Continue Reading →• John DeNure, 92: The local graphic arts industry lost its foremost historian with the passing of John Walker DeNure on Feb. 3 after a courageous four-year battle with cancer. Even though quite ill at the time, John took the time to write a much-appreciated article for the November/December issue of MARKETING about the museum [...]
Continue Reading →by Linda McCune KOMO 4 became the first station in the country to produce a series of four station-image spots utilizing a custom-built, fully remote-controlled aerial camera drone. KOMO Creative Services director Scott Altus said the drone mounted with a Sony FS 100 camera shooting 1080i at 60 frames, enabled the crew to capture cinema-quality [...]
Continue Reading →This seven-member panel of experts in marketing communications from outside Washington State will be one of three entities involved in judging the MARKETING Awards, between March 19 and April 10. The other two are the 11-member Committee of local marcomm pros not involved in the competition, chaired by Richard Bendix, and visitors to the www.marketingnw.com [...]
Continue Reading →“Summit” meetings normally are held when things reach a crisis stage, like the conditions surrounding global warming or the Syrian revolution. So it’s no wonder that the fledgling Washington Tourism Alliance would call a second such meeting for April 5 at the Sea-Tac Hilton Hotel and Conference Center. It’s still hard to swallow that Washington [...]
Continue Reading →By Linda McCune KOMO 4 became the first TV station in the U.S. to produce a series of station-promo spots, using a custom-built, remote-controlled aerial camera drone. KOMO creative services director Scott Altus said the drone, mounted with a Sony FS 100 camera, enabled the crew to capture cinematic-quality HD images at a variety of [...]
Continue Reading →The pace of business consolidation has slowed recently, but there were two transactions of note last month. First, PrintWest continued its expansion with the acquisition of Woodinville neighbor, LaValle Printing. And Seattle-based Total Outdoor, with offices in the major U.S. markets, has entered into an Exclusive Management Agreement with Fourpoints Outdoor. PrintWest co-owner Phil Parrish [...]
Continue Reading →The Seattle Art Museum’s promotion of the Picasso exhibit won Best of Show in the 2012 Totem Awards. A total of 23 Totems and 16 Certificates of Excellence were awarded to 19 entrants in the 22 categories of competition, sponsored by the Puget Sound Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. Colehour+Cohen paced the [...]
Continue Reading →By David Horsfall What makes a great commercial? If you could choose Seattle’s Best Commercials Ever, what would be on your list? A week before the Super Bowl I posed that question to readers of The Talking Horse Blog. Minutes later I had my first answer. Since then I’ve received dozens of suggestions. Mainly from advertising [...]
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