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Special Thanks to Our Golf Hole Sponsors

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:06:40 +0000

We’d like to give thanks again to all of our great sponsors. You helped make our event even better. So, in no particular order, a big thank you to:

Independent Edit and Independent Studios
Splice
AE Graphics (carrots and Gatorade)
Civilian Edit
Saturn Lounge (photo booth)
Horny Goat Brewing Company
Story
Purple Onion
Tyler Traband Music (Belly Dancers)
True North (Ice Cream Craft Service)
Creative Associates
Cafe Hollander
Hanson Dodge (Trek Bike Raffle)
Burton & Mayer
Spot Filmworks (Hit our rep for a $100)
Locatelli & Company
Studio Gear
Breakaway Bike Couriers
Malloy Photography

Animation in Advertising with J.J. Sedelmaier

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:35:08 +0000

J.J. Sedelmaier, of J.J. Sedelmaier productions will be talking about animation in advertising at The Eisner. He’s one of the brains behind SNL’s Saturday TV Funhouse (which includes Ambiguously Gay Duo) and Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, to name a couple of his shows.

The talk is November 13th at 6:30 pm at the Eisner Museum.
Adworkers members get in FREE and Non-Members for $10.

Read J.J. sedelmaier’s bio or watch his reel below:
[local /wp-content/uploads/2008/10/sampler-reel_08.mov watch his reel]

RFP due PDQ!

admin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:42:34 +0000

No, not for the convenience store chain. General Mitchell International Airport has requested we post their request for proposal for marketing and PR services. Materials are due Oct. 10, hence the reference to “pretty darn quick”. For complete information on requirements and contact information, visit http://www.mitchellairport.com/bids.html

Good luck to all who submit!
Joe

Attention Artists

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:42:26 +0000

We at New Momentum (members include Adworkers Chris Buhrman and Brian Malloy) are working on a pro-bono book entitled “One: Meditations on Human Unity” and are looking for art (paintings, drawings, photographs) that can serve as an object of concentration during meditation, thought or prayer. The art should based on quotes like the ones listed below. If you need an idea of the kind of artwork that has been submitted so far, take a look at the wall in Chris Buhrman’s office at CK.

If you are interested in donating some work or know someone who may be, please email Christina Cortes at 414.227.2245 and/or go to the following web site for more information:
www.newmomentumforhumanunity.org/oneletter.html

We are already one. We just think we are separate.
‹Thomas Merton

One thought ever in the fore
That on the Divine Ship, the world directing time and space,
All people of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage,
Are bound to the same destination.
‹Walt Whitman

The Universe is a community of subjects, not a collection of objects.
‹Thomas Berry

Out of a great need we are all holding hands and climbing.
Not loving is a letting go.
Listen, the terrain around here is far too dangerous for that.
‹Hafiz

He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.
‹Mahatma Gandhi

New Adworker Shirt – You Decide!

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:53:42 +0000

It’s been a while since we’ve had a way for you to show everyone that you belong to the best damn ad club in the country. Well, now we’ve got four ways we could do it and you get to choose which one we go with. Take a look at the shirt designs below (each submitted by your fellow adworkers), study them closely and vote for the one that you’d like to wear. By the time the big show is over, it’ll be on your back.

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Milwaukee Company Receives National Emmy Nomination for Pioneers of Television Series.

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:41:47 +0000

Milwaukee-based Boettcher/Trinklein Television recently received a national Emmy nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their PBS series Pioneers of Television.

“It’s such an honor to be mentioned in the same breath with the quality programs in our category,” said producer Steve Boettcher. Pioneers of Television was nominated in the Outstanding Nonfiction Special category along with productions from HBO, CBS and Pixar.

Nearly six years in the making, Pioneers of Television is an ongoing PBS series that melds new HD interviews with rare archival clips to offer a fresh take on TV’s founding celebrities. “The stars deserve all the credit for this nomination,” producer Mike Trinklein added. “Our hats go off to the people we interviewed; icons like Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Jonathan Winters, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Barker, and Betty White.”

Boettcher and Trinklein interviewed more than 100 celebrities for the series—including Merv Griffin’s final interview before he passed away.

Based in Milwaukee, Boettcher/Trinklein Television is one of just a handful of nominated production companies located outside California or New York. “Wisconsin is just a better place to live and raise a family,” Boettcher said. “And I think the talent-base here is deeper than people realize.”

That notion will be put to the test when the winner is announced at the televised 60th Annual Emmy Award Ceremony Sept 21st. Boettcher and Trinklein aren’t writing their “thank you” speeches just yet—but they are dusting off their tuxedos. “I have to admit it would be fun to be seated next to Steve Carell or Alec Baldwin,” Boettcher said.

Boettcher is a resident of Mequon and a native Appleton. Trinklein is a live-long resident of Cedarburg. For more information on the company, go to www.btmediaworks.com.

Graphis Mentions

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:38:57 +0000

Graphis recently announced winners for their Advertising Annual 2009. The usual Goodbys, DDBOs and Modernista!s of the world were included right along with some local Adworker Members: BVK, Jigsaw, and Laughlin Constable, with 10, 2, and 4 Golds, respectively.

Yet another voice telling the world what we already know: Milwaukee is a destination for great creative work. Well done. Visit http://www.graphis.com/news/winnerlists/adv09winners.php

Golf Outing Success!

admin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:11:16 +0000

You can’t blame the weather, it was perfect. You could try to accuse the pressures of the workload you were blowing off to be there, but that’s just sad. There’s always the alcohol factor. Meaning you probably didn’t have enough free Lake Front Brewery Beer (how’s that for a shameless product plug?) Take a look at the fun you had or could have had if you were at this year’s Adworker Golf Outing by clicking on the photos section. Team Story from Chicago took first place. They were tied with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Actually, we had to go back 4 hole scores to find where Story covered MJS. Get it? Cause MJS usually covers stories… HA!

CONGRATULATIONS!

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:30:28 +0000

Congratulations to Adworkers’ very own Jeff Ericksen for his Radio Mercury Award winning spot for Shorewest while he was at bvk. Jeff was writer and CD on the spot while Kelly Ladwig of bvk and Steve Kultgen of Independent Sound produced it. Just further proof that great work is coming out of Milwaukee, as we are all well aware. Check out the spot and the rest of the Mercury award winners at www.radiomercuryawards.com/rma/2008Winners.cfm

The Big Wrench

admin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:45:15 +0000

As you will soon be alerted, call for entries for the Milwaukee 99 awards show will be coming soon. In the spirit of the show, we recently sat down with last year’s Best In Show winners to pick their brains on how their team’s quiet little trade ad won the respect and admiration of the panel of national judges last year. Dave Hanneken, ECD at Laughlin Constable and Rich Kohnke, ECD at BVK were kind enough to share their insights on how the team’s winning ad became a winning ad, and perhaps give some advice for this year’s entrants.

UA: As last year’s Milwaukee 99 winner, you have probably had to use the Big Wrench to beating back art directors and writers wanting to work with you (for those of you new to the market, Big Wrench is not a euphemism, it’s the Best In Show trophy). With the influx of books I’m sure you received days after the show, what was the most transparent compliment given in regards to your win?

Dave: I had someone ask if Steelcase was a mini-client.

Rich: The only book I received was a copy of Hey Whipple, Squeeze This. Not sure what that means.

UA: When you’re not using it to open fire hydrants for the kids in the neighborhood, where does the Big Wrench reside?

Dave: Rich, do you have it?
Rich: I thought you had it.

UA: You’ve come a long way since writing Mentos television spots in Germany. What was the brief for the Nurture project and what brought you and your team to the final creative?

Dave: It was very research-driven, in the pre-concepting stages. The client discovered that hospital patients and their families want to keep things private.

Rich: Yeah, but they still give you gowns with open backs. Go figure.

UA: What were some of the rejected ideas?

Dave: That was the rejected idea.

Rich: That was the only idea. Either we really suck or we’re very confident.

UA: It’s also nice to see your work on Rosen Nissan still coming off fresh. Any advice for the young creatives out there aspiring to “break through the clutter”?

Dave: Work your asses off, stop complaining and be content making $12-5 in the first year.

Rich: That, and make a Starbucks run for me around 3:30 PM each day. You buy, too.

UA: Seriously, we all have skeletons in our closets. Who was the ugliest girl you ever bagged? Er…, I mean, what’s the most embarrassing ad you’ve ever had produced?

Dave: A long, long time ago I did an ad for Cross Pens once and the headline read: “The Write Stuff.”

Rich: He made me art direct it. And for clarification, that was last month.

UA: More often than not, a broadcast piece takes this top honor. If you were in the judges’ heads ala the film Being John Malkovich, what would you have said to them to get them to choose this piece above all the other great creative present?

Dave: Keep the idea simple.

Rich: And make all the retouching complicated.

UA: The Milwaukee 99 has never had a back-to-back Best in Show winner. How are you feeling about making room for another Wrench this year?

Dave: How would the Adworkers feel about making two of them?

Rich: Are you ripping me?

UA: There’s an interesting book out now (I can’t remember the name) with examples of people’s self-written six-word eulogies. What would yours say, keeping in mind “Sure he’s cute, can he type?” is already taken.

Dave: Here lies Dave, a man who

Rich: This type better be kerned properly.

UA: As a Milwaukee 99 Best In Show winner, is there any way you could help stop overweight shirtless guys from dancing in ads?

Dave: Never repeal the Second Amendment.

Rich: Hey, I got paid double-scale for that gig.