• Beyonce and Pepsi

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  • MMI wants you to join the Adcademy

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    Yes, you too can pay $180 - $230 (and a $20 application fee) to be taught the business from the talented folks at MMI. Here's what you'll get for your hard-earned money and a weeks worth of your time (actually only 22.5 hours):

    A week-long program designed for advertising, marketing and communications majors, college graduates, graduate students, and anyone interested in an advertising career, ADcademy offers a behind-the-scenes look of the ad industry, along with:

    • workshops focused on branding, creative, PR, social media, digital, research and media,
    • networking opportunities,
    • inside tips for building a successful career in the field, and
    • the chance to complete a project for your portfolio.

    Here's what else you get:

    Brainstorming, writing, designing, branding, concepting, PR-ing, passing the buck, wooing the client, taking credit, assigning blame, showboating, PowerPoint-ing, Keynote-ing, bragging, schmoozing, redoing, coding, proofing, researching, laughing, crying, reaching, getting results, producing, learning, Tweeting, panicking, pinning, posting, SEO-ing, buying, planning, training, meeting, creating, Starbucks-ing, presenting, pitching, social media-ing, scrambling, measuring, thinking on your feet, stretching your creative muscle, and loving every minute of it… all in 22.5 hours.

    Seats are filling up fast, so don't delay.

    http://www.mmiagency.com/adcademy/

  • OiH updates their website

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  • What happens when print designers try to design a "mobile friendly" website.

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    Someone sent this in the other day, and yes it needs some work.

    axiom.us.com

  • Top Houston Graphic Design Firms according to HBJ

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    Ranked by design fees:

    Adcetera - $15.21 million
    70 employees - 60% work is graphic design

    Pennebaker - $4.27 million
    21 employees - 94% work is graphic design

    CMA - $4.25 million
    29 employees - 100% work is graphic design

    Axiom - $3.37 million
    18 employees - 57% work is graphic design

    MMI - $2.44 million
    67 employees - 22% work is graphic design

    Patrick Henry - $2.33 million
    37 employees - 50% work is graphic design

    Newton Design - $844,000
    7 employees - 90% work is graphic design

    Croxson - $775,000
    4 employees - 90% work is graphic design

    Others on the list include:

    SessionsGroup
    Prism Design
    On-Target
    Minor Design
    The Phillips Agency
    Eye Candy
    Douthit Design Group
    Active Imagination
    Keystone Resources
    Spotlight Creative LLC
    S.O. Creative

  • Another new agency in Houston: CHI & Partners

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    So we now have confirmation that another agency has opened in H-Town (see 5 plus 8 post from earlier) thanks to David Law who, based on his Twitter account, is a writer there.

    CHI and Partners, an agency out of London and New York has opened a new Houston office located at the Tribeca Lofts in Montrose. It's got 8 people so far and works with Direct Energy.

    I can't think of any other NY agencies other than JWT that has an office in Houston. I guess Richards Group merging with R/C is kind of close but that's Dallas.

    We have an email into them to get some more information but here's their website

    http://chiandpartnershouston.com

    Here's one of their new Direct Energy commercials.

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