Archive for March, 2010

by Matt3/29/10

Matt

A Moment To Clear My Head

After working through the snow and what looked like 5 weeks of 7 day a week working, I needed a break. I unfortunately personaly work under my old Chiat/Day motto. If you don’t come in Saturday, don’t bother coming in Sunday. I don’t like running my company that way, but I work that way in the winters when frankly there isnt much else to do anyway. I love what I do anyway, so I suppose its not work. But, when…

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by smithgifford3/18/10

SmithGifford Wins Big And Best At Washington DC Addys. Or.. The Mouse That Roared

Thanks to some amazing clients, and an equally amazing staff, last night we took home roughly 17 awards. Pound for pound the big ad winners of the night. Other big winners. Arnold, and Design Army. We are honored to be in there company. But even more honored to have one best of Broadcast for our Identity Guard campaign, and Over all Best of Show for ID guard as well. Other winning work was done for The Virgina Lottery and national…

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by smithgifford3/16/10

conROOM

More Space.

We are almost complete with the beauty makeover of the space next door. The hole is in the wall, with a special fire door. We have moved 4 of us in there with a nice big leather sofa. The conference room is now being used daily and life is good. We have also taken over the basement now of that space and have created a fun workshop for hobbies and wood working til the time comes that we will need…

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by Fred3/15/10

DriveRight

Falling out of love . . . with your car

So, here are a few of the recent spots we created for our client, Lindsay Automotive. What was the inspiration behind these ads? Well, it started with the notion that you need a car that is “right” for you, and that most of us fall out of love with our cars, and that our cars are no longer “right” for us. This led us to the concept of “the right car, the right dealer, the right price.” It’s all very…

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