May Luncheon: Adobe Trainer - Keith Gilbert
May 24th @ Creative Memories, St. Cloud, MN.
Back by popular demand, Keith Gilbert is returning to Saint Cloud to educate us on one of our favorite Adobe programs in May! During this one hour luncheon, Keith will focus on Photoshop training and is sure to impress us with his knowledge and insight into this great Adobe program that many of us use on a daily basis.
View more information and register here.
Adventure™ hires Assistant Account Executive Kayla Nesvold
April 30, 2012 – St. Cloud, MN - Adventure™, a full-service advertising agency with offices in Brainerd, St. Cloud and Minneapolis, recently added Kayla Nesvold to their expanding staff. As Assistant Account Executive, Nesvold will oversee a wide array of account-‐service tasks for the agency’s growing client roster. She will operate primarily from the St. Cloud office.
Rick Jensen Joins Soulo Communications
Minneapolis, Minn. – Soulo Communications is pleased to announce that Rick Jensen has joined the communication services firm as its new creative director. As a co-founder and former art director of Adventure Advertising, Jensen brings over 20 years of creative strategy and design experience to Soulo Communications.
Jensen's work in design and photographic direction has won AdFed awards at the local, district, and national levels. These ADDY awards include work for clients such as Larson Boats, Bayliner Boats, LaMettry's Collision and Creative Memories. “Rick is exactly the kind of talent we want to attract to our company,” says Soulo Communications president Tom Heller. “His abilities will help us provide even more effective services to our customers and position our company for even greater success.”
2012 ADDY Photos by Adventure™
Thank you to everyone who came out to the ADDYs this year! Check out the photos that were taken in the Adventure photo booth.
Recent Events...
MAD WOMEN: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the 60s and beyond - Author, Jane Maas
May 7th @ Voyageurs, Atwood Memorial Center, Saint Cloud State Campus.
Please join us as we welcome Jane Maas, author of Mad Women, as she discusses how she made her way to the top of the fabulous, but male-dominated ad world of the 1960s and 70s. Fans of the AMC series Mad Men will be thrilled by Jane’s wickedly funny and juicy inside stories, from the junior account man whose wife nearly left him when she found the copy of Screw magazine he’d used to find “entertainment” for a client, to the Ogilvy & Mather agency’s legendary annual sex-and-booze filled Boat Ride—but Jane also draws from her captivating personal experience and countless interviews with her peers to address the toughest issues of the era: equal pay, jaw-dropping sexism, and the painful choice many women faced between motherhood and their careers.
Adobe Training with Developer Evangelist Paul Trani
March 1st, 2012 @ Creative Memories - St. Cloud, MN
Student & Pro Members only $5
All Non-Members $40
This is an event you won't want to miss! Paul Trani is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe Systems where he travels the world, seeking out every opportunity to make life easier for designers and developers, using Adobe tools, of course. He will be spending THREE fun and informative hours sharing the latest and greatest that Adobe has to offer. The first hour of the training will focus on new Adobe products and features. The second part of the session will focus more in depth on Adobe training ranging from InDesign to the web - we encourage you bring your laptop to follow along, if you'd like. Also, space is limited, so be sure to sign up today!
Registration is closed. See you at the event!
Josh Barsch, Inside Google's Battle For Your Brain
Nearly three years into the bleakest economic period in recent history and amid catastrophic change in the media industry at large, Google is still recording large profits. How? Why? The world's most powerful media company is in the middle of a long battle to own your mind, in ways you probably don't even notice. Josh gives a detailed analysis of Google's wide-ranging future plans and how the expansion of its ever-extending tentacles into all forms of communication can both work for and against your company.
Join us on Thursday, November 10th @ Creative Memories
Registration is now closed. See you at the event!
October Professional Development Luncheon - Bill Moran of Hamilton Wood Type and Blinc Publishing
BILL MORAN of Blinc Publishing is a 3rd-generation letterpress printer, graphic designer and professor of printing history at the University of Minnesota. His clients include Prince, Arianna Huffington, Wells Fargo, 3M and a host of other Twin Cities businesses. Since 2001 he has volunteered at the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in a variety of roles including the writing and publishing of his book Hamilton Wood Type, A History in Headlines.
Registration is now closed. See you at the event!
AAFCM Re-brand Student Competition
Are you a student? Do you have what it takes to design the new AAFCM Logo?
Click here to learn all about the 2011 Student Competition.
AdMentor Panel Discussion
AdMentor is a mentorship program sponsored by the American Advertising Federation – Central Minnesota. A program aimed at partnering those preparing for a career in advertising and those already in the trenches. A way for professionals to lend a hand, a bit of advice or even help you land a dream job.
Join us on Thursday, October 13 at 6:00 pm at the St. Cloud Public Library - Mississippi Room.
Saint Cloud Agency Crawl
Ever wonder what goes on inside the creative agencies in Saint Cloud?! Well, here is your chance to get an inside look at some of the area's creative players!
AAF Central Minnesota will be hosting our first ever St. Cloud Area Agency Crawl on Tuesday, September 27th. This event will be a joint open house of agencies and businesses in the advertising, marketing and creative industries in the St. Cloud area. Students from the area colleges and universities are encouraged to check it out and stop by participating businesses to visit, tour, meet and mingle.
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2-5 pm - Social following at 5pm Johnson Group parking lot
Get all the details and register on Facebook!
