Grady Britton

Much like a good margarita, our recipe for top-notch creative juice is always open to tweaking. An addition there, an experiment there. That’s why we’re participating in an innovative internship program via the Portland Ad Fed called the COLABORATORY. For six weeks, we’ll have three different interns in the nest, as they learn the agency ropes and prepare a pitch to a local clothing design company.

We’ve already been following our first intern, Bryan Davidson, but …continue reading ‘Mixin it up in the COLABORATORY: fresh juice’

Trying to pick which local charitable organization is going to get your commitment of $25,000 of in-kind marketing services isn’t easy. But the winner of our first annual Grady Britton Grant has been picked… just not announced. Yet.

June 12 and 13 brought a flurry of applications for our way of giving back to our community. That type of last-minute drive brought a smile to our faces here; so very reminiscent of, of, of ourselves, really. We knew it would be hard to go wrong with our choice.

But choose we did, with the grand proclamation to come very soon, as early as even this week. To all of the applicants, thank you. You showed what a wonderful community we live in, one lucky enough to be served by you, and we hope to work with all of you someday soon.

Oregon Business just ranked Grady Britton as one of Oregon’s Top 100 Companies to Work For in 2008. But not just one of… number FIVE!

And to think we were satisfied with being #8 last year. Psssshht.

*W+K London gets credit for this headline. (Although they were ranked #31 out of their 100 companies…ahem…which is great. But we were, you know, #5 in ours. Just saying.)

Funny, AdRants didn’t say “edgy” either. But maybe they didn’t have to.
Check out the tasty review they gave the work…

When a long time client sees some of your latest work for another client and says that, you can’t feel a bit–what’s the word I’m looking for?–oh, right: mortified.

For lots of reasons. Don’t need to go into all of them here.

But I bring it up because this happened a few weeks ago, and it hasn’t left me since. The work is for ICS, an Oregon company producing concrete cutting chain saws; super-niche products in a uber-narrow category aimed at general contractors. Not your mass market stuff.

Love the campaign, but hadn’t thought of it as particularly edgy though, until I heard it mentioned that way. Smart, attention-getting (in a category utterly devoid of anything provocative), relevant, unusual, memorable, intriguing–all designed to pay off ultimately as EFFECTIVE–and maybe way down on the list of descriptors, maybe edgy.

But edgy was his word. His first word. Is that a good thing?

Edgy. Hmmm. DISCUSS.

The videos, meant to get your jaded construction guys talkin:

–and–

Click on thru to the companion sitelet, mmm-bacon.

Earlier this summer, we were baffled by these boards:
Baffled has morphed into a strange sense of wanting to nail someone to the wall for this. Who–where–okay’s this? I cannot let this one die. Thankfully a few others can’t either. A recent submission punched up the headline so it makes more sense:

And now all is right in the world.

This is maybe the best way to think about the work world’s most annoying necessary evil app ever.

You can use fewer words, better pictures, tweak the transitions all you want, but until you think of it differently from the start… you might just have a less bad PowerPoint screen. Use it fundamentally in a different way, and keep the focus on your overall presentation and YOUR thoughts. You know, where it should be anyway?

Check out the article and the author’s demonstration of the technique. Mighty compelling way to set up a room.

This is pretty much how Grady Britton rocks the softball.

See previous post if there’s any doubt.

We use words for a living here. And for this, there are none.

Softball. First game of the season. 3rd inning. Line drive to the gap between first and second…stopped by Becca G.

*GRIFFIN DOWN!*

Someone should start a blog with the season’s softball injuries (like, say, this one). But swollen knees and pulled hammies won’t get nearly the traffic this pic does. Say it with me: V*I*P!