Head down to Craftland and help kick off a revival of last year’s popular ‘Nothing’ campaign to benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Andy Smith interviewed Food Bank CEO Andrew Schiff for the ProJo, Schiff said the original campaign in 2010, created by Nail, a Providence advertising agency, made $39,000 from can sales and …
Well, I’m a day late, but happy birthday to Dr. Seuss whose work in advertising pointed clearly to the artistic path he was soon to take. The image on this beer tray might have illustrated some wacky children’s story that I sort of wish he had written. From the folks at Narragansett Beer, Before his …
[youtube]9FYtYkAZGpM&NR=1[/youtube] Back in the 50’s, innovative improv duo Mike Nichols and Elaine May were charting new comedic territory. They both went on to great success screenwriting and directing, but apparently had some bills to pay early on. With this often bizarre ad campaign, Narragansett Beer was staking its claim to the young, kookster demographic (and …
Editors Note: Promoted from the Side Blog, and image added during promotion: Only Angel Taveras would keep the ‘Creative Capital’ logo. I like the ‘P’. Besides that, it cost $100,000 and taking down all those signs an making new ones is not how I want the next mayor to use my tax dollars…
One great bit featured on the old ‘SCTV’ television show was a ‘commercial’ for a business called Logos ‘R’ Us. The logo for this business was of course an over-designed tangle of illegible scribbles and letters. I suspect the designers of the ‘P’ sign did not see that particular episode, but they did have this …
A quick promo for RI Threads, from Myles Dumas: Need a sweet new t-shirt even though its 10 degrees and snowing out? Well then check out a new t-shirt collection called RI Threads, created by Providence locals Myles Dumas and Róisín McGettigan. The shirts aim to help promote Providence and Rhode Island, as well as …
The third season of Mad Men premiered Sunday night on AMC and the huge and unexpected plot twist that has everybody talking is that Ken Cosgrove scooped the Dunkin’ Donuts account from Pete Campbell. And, oh yeah, Don really is a Dick.
Yippee. For the second year in a row the Providence Daily Dose has been selected as the Readers’ Choice ‘Best Local Blog’ in The Rhode Island Monthly Best of 2009 poll. Thanks to everyone who voted. We are humbled when we consider the quality of our competition to whom we link — and from whom …
I know Beth and David are the official Dose Scrabble fans, but I thought I’d post this neato new animated commercial for the game: [youtube]h3ul3q1PexA[/youtube] The ad people gave the singer thirty words and then told him to make a song out of them. Incidentally, his name is C4 and the Art Brut accent is …
Loud night #6 May 31st 8pm $7 / $5.75 in advance at www.torjohnsonrecords.com @ Firehouse 13 41 Central St Disappearer (on Magic Bullet/Trash Art) Sick Electric Gods & Queens (from Philly, on Robotic Empire) Millions (from Chicago, x-Small Brown Bike) Hollows
This month’s Nerdsday tweet-up and work session features Wayne Franklin of Office Lab, DJs Tim O’Keefe and Ted James. Come out and be anti social with us. Bring your 20-sided die, laptops, projects and homework. Free.
We’ve received several inquiries after our last post about Bonniedale — people would like to help out, and here’s an email from the State Senate that explains the situation, and what you can do to lend a hand: Some of you may have read Bob Kerr’s article in the Sunday, March 29th Providence Journal about …
There’s a new sound taking over the town known as Boston. If you’re by the banks of the Charles River as the moon glows over the muddy waters you very well may hear some thick, groovy beats banging out a trail for raw guitar licks and a soul-drenched Hammond organ. Yes indeed, ladies and gentleman …
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IndieArts/RI, Live Downcity, Tazza Caffe and DJ Ted James present NERDSDAY: Providence’s first DJ’d Tweet-Up and Work Session. Come down to Tazza Caffe on Thursday night (9:00 PM) and meet your fellow Twitter users. No Twitter account yet? Sign up here: http://twitter.com NERDSDAY is a different kind of social event, encouraging you to go and …
Update: Colbert reminds us that Xenu is Scientology’s evil Galactic Overlord. Original Post: Beth- Does “Xe” play? Blackwater is trying to re-brand, henceforth to be known as Xe. And it doesn’t even stand for Xenon. “As many of you know, because we focus on continually improving our business that Xe is in the process of …
But I’m still happy they chose in state design professionals for other areas of the project. when you are looking to generate creative executions that prove just how creative your city is, you decide that there is no firm in your city creative enough to do it. So you hire a company 1,066 miles away. …