United Adworkers 208

Shine your shoes. The Milwaukee 99 is less than a month away.

Nick Pipitone — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:48:52 +0000

Are you ready for the premier creative award show in Wisconsin? That’s right, this is it. It all takes place September 16th at the Harley Museum. It is THE event of the year. There simply is no reason to miss it. In fact there are 99 reasons to go to the 99, we just don’t have time to list them all here. We do know, however, that the reasons include:

The ability to rewrite an award winning headline in your head, and keep it to yourself
You will be able to have discussions with your peers about the meaning of “Inception”
Freelancers will routinely get the chance to say “Yeah, friend me on Facebook”
Students get the opportunity to mingle with future co-workers they will grow to strangely dislike
Someone who calls himself “The President” will give a speech without a powerpoint!
and of course, the best reason: The booze

So join us, reserve a table and hang out. It’s pomp without the circumstance.

Brand New World with Max Lenderman

Nick Pipitone — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:23:34 +0000

August 19, 2010
7:00 pm	to	8:00 pm

Another fantastic advertising mind is coming to Milwaukee! Please welcome experiential marketing guru, author of Brand New World and Director of OuterActive at Crispin Porer & Bogusky, Max Lenderman!

Date: Thursday, August 19th
Time: Doors open at 6:30, presentation at 7:00 pm
Location: MIAD in the Todd Wehr Auditorium (located at river level)
Cost: $10 for Members / $15 for Non / Students FREE (pay at door)

Discover new ideas, branding tactics and practical strategies to take with you to the office the next day. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Save the date, June 17th. UAW Golf Outing. Hire a swing coach now.

Nick Pipitone — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:30:52 +0000

You’ve got a few personal days coming right? Your boss won’t mind you taking a day off. Hey, you’ve earned it. Grab your sticks and a funny looking hat and sign up now for the Adworkers golf outing. 18 hole best ball free-for-all at Mee-Kwon park in Mequon. There’ll be great prizes — I heard a rumor going around that we’re giving away an iPad, but confirmation could not be had by the date of publication.

Submit your work to be showcased on our site. You know you want to.

Nick Pipitone — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:18:49 +0000

The Milwaukee 99 only comes once a year. But creativity, as you know, happens all year round. That’s why we added the big picture area above to show everyone the Milwaukee ad goodness. Now all we need is your submissions. Send jpgs of print stuff, screen grabs of web sites, and mpegs (16×9, H.264) of your TV/ video work. This may be the new adworkers web site, but everyone’s a part of it.

Ah, that new website smell. Kind of a cross between a sharpie and spray mount.

Nick Pipitone — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:31:53 +0000

Welcome, members, friends and transients to the new site for the United Adworkers Local 208, AKA the Milwuakee Adworkers, AKA a club that if you don’t belong to it, you should. We’re the premier advertising/marketing club in Wisconsin and host the Milwaukee 99, the most prestigious award show in the state. Which, by the way, is September 17th — have you started putting together all the great work you’re going to enter? We alos have a little thing called a Golf outing at Mee-kwon golf course on June 17th. We’d really like you to blow off work on that day and join us. You were going to waste the day on Facebook and Twitter anyway, right?

As for the new site, it marks the dawn of a much needed internet overhaul for the Adworkers. For starters, we are dedicated to showcasing Milwaukee’s great creative work year round on our main page, as you see above. Please submit work and we’ll get it up there on a regular basis — once every month or so we’ll change stuff out. You’ll also find links to our Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr pages too. Are you not our Facebook friend? Not following us on Twitter? To stay up to date on all things Adworkers, you need to. As new stuff gets posted here, we’ll let you know. Thanks for visiting.

Trivia Night Update: Rules and Registration

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:18:17 +0000

Those of you who attended the summer edition know the drill. For those who did not, here’s the skinny:

As you may have guessed, the operative word in “Team Trivia” is “Team”. A team, by our definition, consists of 3 to 5 people, three being the minimum, five being the maximum. Four is perfectly acceptable. For further breakdown of this simple matter and all the other rules, download the rule sheet PDF.

If you’ve managed to work out that team bit and still want to play, please download the 2010 trivia registration form and turn it in to Heidi. Her contact info is on the form.

Speaker – Steve Bassett

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:10:45 +0000

April 22, 2010
6:30 pm

Steve Bassett, Creative Director at the Martin Agency will be at the Eisner Museum at 6:30 pm. Steve is the lead creative on teh Geico account and will gladly remind us all of the place cavemen and gekkos have in the world of advertising.

Cost: $10 for members, $20 for non-members

Spring Trivia

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:07:16 +0000

April 13, 2010
7:00 pm

We will hold the spring version of our oft-heralded Trivia Night at Club Garibaldi. It’s always fun. Start putting your trivia team together now.

Cost: $60 per team for members, $75 for non-members

Speaker – Edward Boches

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:03:19 +0000

March 25, 2010
6:30 pm

Edward Boches is coming to the Eisner Museum to give his brilliant presentation “Creativity in Social Media.” Edward is the Chief Creative Officer and Chief Social Media Officer of Mullen in Boston. To learn more about Edward, visit edwardboches.com. You don’t want to miss this.

Cost: $10 for members, $20 for non-members

Bowling 2010 Update

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:19:02 +0000

There is still room for bowling!!! We’ll be rolling at the AMF Lanes, 7505 W. Oklahoma. Games start Tuesday, January 19 at 6:15 pm and continue every Tuesday night until March 23. Questions, please email heidi@adworkers.com.