The Advertising Federation hosted thier annual Addy® Awards Gala at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts last night. Turns out Red Olive won a Gold Addy for The Discovery Gateway Childrens Museum and a Silver Addy for Upper Limit Aviation in the web design and interactive categories. It’s a great feeling when your work is validated by an award voted on by a jury of out of state creatives. Congratulations team, looking forward to 2011!
After completing the new website for Upper Limit Aviation, they invited us down for some one on one helicopter flight training. Being the adventurous bunch we are, we took them up. Ok , just for a moment, we thought we might die if we were handed the controls. After a quick pep talk and laying the groundwork of what all the levers and pedals do we set to the sky in four choppers over the Salt Lake Valley. We each got a half an hour to learn on control at a time until we could handle all of them and fly by ourselves, with an instructor within an inch of the controls of course. If you have never done this I highly suggest you call them and hook it up, it’s freakin awesome! Turned out to be a great team building exercise for us, and we can now say “I flew a helicopter and nobody died!”
Thanks again to the team down at ULA.
Vince and Brad made an appearance on KUTV 2 News this morning with Casey. A PR gig to help promote the upcoming Utah Addys Awards, we had a little fun with the other creative agencies in Salt Lake. This years project was creating ad campaigns to control the negative press surrounding Tiger Woods, Balloon Boys Dad, and John Gosslin. Brad was on team Manic Project, and Vince headed up team “Butt crack of dawn”. If nothing else watch video #3 “Vince Spin Move”. “Oh what an entrance” Vince refuses to admit it but, he’s not an ambi-turner, he can’t turn left.
Red Olive Design is a proud supporter of the American Advertising Federation of Utah , we help out at events, compete in the various competitions, frequent the luncheons, and donate hosting and support for the website www.utahadfed.com
Josh put his dues in as a web design contractor in 2009 and passed with flying colors, as of today Josh signed on as a fellow Olive. Glad to have you on our team and looking forward to actually getting you some of our new business cards made up.
After receiving a Masters Degree in Art, Josh has used his creative abilities in the graphic design field for the past five years. During that time Josh has worked in everything from T-shirts, to large tradeshow displays.
Through his print design experiences, Josh has now found a passion in web design. He is delighted for the opportunity to be working at Red Olive and creating meaningful XHTML markup and beautiful CSS design on a daily basis.
Though undeserving, Josh is fortunate to be partnered with his wife Angelee and two daughters Darby 10 and Klée 8.
Downtown Salt Lake at the Gateway lies a great little restaurant by the name of Biaggi’s. Good food, great ambiance, and a staff that will put up with our crap. I would like to openly apologize for complaining about the white elephant idea, it turned out to be a blast and I am glad we did it. Thanks again Vince for planning it all. It was a good night, as the black eyed peas would say.
I am extremely proud of the team we have assembled over the last 10 years, simply a fantastic group. You’ll never meet a more honest, hard working, talented, or funny group. Thank you all for what you each bring to the table and making everyday something I look forward to, rather than dread.
Empower Kids, Inc. is a non-profit organization that helps put safety programs into Utah schools to help protect children against abduction, bullying, and sexual predators.
Red Olive was honored to help further the cause by donating our creative talent on the Empower Kids new logo.
5″ x 7″ Full Color Holiday or Thank You Cards. Price includes both design and printing.
Qty 100 – $320
Qty 250 – $400
Qty 500 – $450
Qty 1000 – $575
Blank Envelopes Available at $30 per 250
Custom Printed Envelopes Available for $400 (1000 Qty min.)
The decision to revamp the Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity was long overdue, so they approached the top design firms in Utah requesting help. Red Olive answered the call and donated the entire project development costs to the Nonprofit. Besides a complete redesign, some of the new website features include multiple managed calendars, fully content managed pages, a dynamic events system, and donations.
Through the work of Habitat, thousands of low-income families have found new hope in the form of affordable housing. Churches, community groups, and others have joined together to tackle a significant social problem, decent living for all.
Habitat for Humanity later invited Red Olive Design to sponsor the annual golf tournament at the Salt Lake Country Club which was a great opportunity for our team to get out and meet other business leaders in Utah, and have a little fun doing it. Red Olive was blessed by the opportunity to serve those in its community and we’re excited to see it finally go live. Check out the new digs here: http://www.habitatsaltlake.com
Going to school and looking for a place to intern? We’re going to be interviewing graphic design interns shortly, if you would like to be considered apply here. Here is the 411
- Must have basic working knowledge of the adobe creative suite and know your way around a Mac
- Ability to multitask and not slip into a coma if we leave you alone at a desk
- Starting as unpaid internship with the exception of mileage reimbursement and some other perks
- You will learn the basics of print and graphic design production and the opportunity to learn from 15year veterans.
If you’re stellar we may hold onto you after the internship is up. Thanks for looking.
FILLED THANKS FOR THE APPLICATIONS!
Mark Eaton, a 7ft 4in NBA legend in Utah, is best known for his 12 year NBA career with the Utah Jazz. Perhaps lesser known, did you know that he also owns and operates two award wining local restaurants, The Tuscany and Francks. From 1994-2005 he was the chairman of the Mark Eaton Standing Tall for Youth Organization. For eight seasons he hosted Jazz Tonight on KJZZ-TVand Mark Eaton Outdoors, as well as SportsHealth Today, an internationally syndicated radio show.
Mark is also a business and motivational speaker who shares with organizations and audiences nationwide how he went from a 7′4″ twenty-one year old mechanic who couldn’t play basketball to a twelve year career as an NBA All Star. He reveals the secrets that skyrocketed him to fame as the Two-Time Defensive Player of the Year, enabled him to break the NBA record for the most blocked shots in a single season and be selected to play in the 1989 All-Star Game
Mark stopped by our office after a spot on K-Talk radio, also a Red Olive client, to see how we could help. His current motivational speaking website, www.7ft4.com , needed a little help. While Red Olive will be addressing the usabilty concerns and making the website more effective at converting leads, our primary focus will be on re-programing the entire site to be content managed and standards compliant. When finished Mark will be able to update his schedule, page content, and review leads from anywhere.
