http://www.adventcreative.com Blog Feed Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:05:05 MST en-us http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Advent Creative is seeking an experienced account executive with a truckload of skills that will blow the socks (and shoes) off of current and prospective clients. The position would include acquiring and managing stellar clientele, writing strategic proposals, flaunting your branding and marketing expertise, and all other client services responsibilities. You will work alongside the CEO, Creative Director and other Adventers to wow and re-wow clients locally and internationally.Advent Creative ... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem114 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:47:21 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Advent Creative is in urgent need of an experienced writer with enough creative spark to singe the eyebrows of some exciting, yet impervious clients. The position would involve writing creative and strategic copy for print collateral, online interactions and website optimization. You will work alongside the brand director, creative director and other Adventers as well as clients locally and internationally. <br><br> Advent Creative is a group of 14 strategic designers, developers, videographers... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem113 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:54:18 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Advent Creative is a group of 14 ultra-creative designers, developers, videographers and marketers. We are young, innovative, and constantly striving to redefine innovation. We have clients across the globe from Marriott Hotels in Hong Kong to hip new restaurants right here in Logan, Utah. Advent is growing quickly and seeks only the best talent.We are in urgent need of a skilled web developer for our team. This position will involve working together with other advanced web developers and the cr... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem111 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:04:13 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog You may have heard some buzz that we were looking for a stellar print and web designer to add to the team of Advent hipsters. Well, we found one, and Emily is a perfect fit. But one addition just isn't going to cut it. We're growing too quickly and are now anxiously in search of another just-as-stellar designer. Do you know anyone who may be interested? Please pass this link on to them ... we'll give you a big fat kiss if you do! Oh, that's not motivating enough? Well, how about we just send you... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem110 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:58:38 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Lunch is on us.You've been to free lunches before. They always include high pressure pitches and ask you buy something at the end. We hate those situations as much as you do. Awkward!Instead, we'd like to invite you to our studio to meet our team of creative professionals for a complementary hour of food, discussion and brainstorming focused entirely on your organization.Think of it as a free sampling of our creative juices. We get a creative workout and demonstrate our design thinking skill... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem109 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:29:31 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Last night was the annual spring fiesta at Advent. It was held in the ol' countryside in Nibley where the grass is green, the air is ... sometimes a bit methane filled, and there are baby animals for the lil' tots to pet and taunt. It was a great success, and we couldn't help but pull out some of the games you may have seen on TV lately ... and as you can see here, there are a few key people who are true champions at these crazy human tricks! ... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem107 Fri, 28 May 2010 10:04:51 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog You've probably heard of H.264, the dominate video codec used by YouTube and just about everyone else these days. It has the backing of big companies like Apple and Microsoft, so what's the big deal surrounding this technology? Why are some people opposed to it being adopted like Mozilla (think FireFox)?The answer to these questions is actually more complex than some make it out to be. Apple and Microsoft both have patents wrapped up in H.264 and so many have speculated that both these compan... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem106 Thu, 20 May 2010 18:08:42 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Today our child was born and I planted a garden. Mankind seems to have an innate yearning to build, to create, to design. As artists and designers, we are inevitably drawn to mimic nature – to create something as intricate, extraordinary and beautiful as mother nature provides. It’s the ultimate achievement. Michelangelo’s David, for example, is virtually a perfect recreation of man’s figure (large scale), and thus is considered one of the greatest works of art in history.Many of the processes o... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem105 Fri, 14 May 2010 10:31:10 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Do you know where and when your customers interact with your company? You should. Mapping out the trail of interaction between your customers and your company is a crucial first step to creating a powerful communications strategy. Like a perfectly staged and written drama, a point-of-contact strategy sets up the characters of your play, blocks the stage and builds, scene by scene, a story for your company. Your customers-to-be are given an enticing introduction -- just enough to get their atten... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem104 Wed, 05 May 2010 16:13:53 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog We’ve often been asked what the best delivery or style is for online videos. Many people out there have great products or excellent content but just aren’t sure how to best display it through online video. Sadly, the answer to this question isn’t so cut and dry. First, you really need to understand your audience. Who is your video geared towards? Once you understand who your target audience is you will be more educated to make such presentational decisions. There are several types of video... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem103 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:20:17 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog ... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem102 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:01:21 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog You probably already heard of HTML (HyperText markup language) and know that it's used to describe the data that makes up your website. When combined with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) you can make all that HTML look pretty fancy. Take it one step further using JavaScript and you'll be following in the footsteps of some of the greatest interactive websites out there including facebook and Gmail.So then what's this thing you've been hearing about called HTML 5? Basically this is the next versio... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem100 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:19:31 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog This weekend Advent Creative participated in the 2010 Cache Chamber of Commerce Business Expo at the Cache Valley Mall. It was a great atmosphere for networking and showcasing the awesome stuff we do! Our thanks go out to the Cache Chamber for their efforts in building the business community in Cache Valley. Hopefully you had a chance to stop by and check out our very cool touch screen demo and sit in the always popular Advent LoveSac. If not, feel free to stop by our offices anytime where t... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem99 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:38:07 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog If a picture paints a thousand words, get it right. The right photos will aid your marketing and advertising campaigns as much or more than any other element, so it is essential to plan, create and execute a photo shoot that will yield the results you so badly desire. Planning a photo shoot can be a lot of work, but proper planning of all the necessary elements will aid in achieving the best photos for your campaign.Probably the most overlooked element of a successful photo shoot and yet the mos... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem97 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:15:55 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog In the next few months and years, you can expect the web to get a lot more interactive. Besides the ever-increasing processing speed and hardware advances, there are some amazing changes going on in the world of web browsing that many may not even notice. One of the more exciting trends is a movement toward JavaScript, a dynamic programming language that is interpreted directly by web browsers. What does that mean? It means that, in general, JavaScript can provide more dynamic functions on websi... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem95 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:18:51 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Advent Creative is a bubbling laboratory of creative ideas, and it’s quite common that those outside of our walls never get to see some of those brilliant ideas. We decided it’s time to start releasing a monthly Advent Mashup. A “mashup” is a term that refers to a conglomerate of various elements all mushed together – in this case, the most interesting things that have happened at Advent during the month. These are designs, videos, photos, ideas and the like that have materialized out of the vis... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem94 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:48:42 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Adam and Cami had the chance to attend the Altitude Summit in Salt Lake a few weeks back. It focused on blogging, social media and design. There were quite a few valuable gems from the conference and we thought we’d try and throw them into a quick vlog for you. This is part one of two. The second video we’ll get up as soon as it’s done.... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem93 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:19:46 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog For many of us, the Super Bowl is a few hours of top-notch commercials interrupted periodically by large men in helmets and shiny tights playing some sort of a game with an oblong ball. As usual, there were lots of entertaining commercials along with some big missteps (I'm talking to you, Go Daddy). But there were also some anomalies that deserve a closer look.First off, where was Pepsi? Pepsi has been shilling their fizzy cola during the Super Bowl since 1987, but this year they decided to take... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem92 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:52:02 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Meet Jake Steele, the newest member of the Advent Creative Team. He has a great background in graphic design in Utah. In fact, you may have even seen some of his work on the Martha Stewart show, but I'll let him tell you about all that.... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem91 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:11:23 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog The field of search engine optimization has been one of the fastest growing areas of expertise. It's a skill that has been overhyped at times, but is still a necessary component to any sort of online marketing or communications strategy. At Advent Creative, we've been talking lately about what the future has in store for SEO. In one way, this is the future of SEO: http://www.mastertrafficbuilder.com/ This group contacted one of our clients a while back. The client passed it along to us asking if... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem90 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:59:21 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Unless this is your first visit here, you might have noticed that we just had a makeover. Our web development and web design team team worked like Christmas elves in Santa's sweatshop get the site done before the new year and we're all pretty excited about it. Personally, I really liked the old website, too. It was easy to navigate, it looked cool, and it was very search engine friendly. We used it for about a year and a half, however, and it was starting to look a little bit old. We're one of t... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem89 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:34:43 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog A client once asked me if he could store important documents on his website. “You mean using it like a hard drive?” I asked.He said yes. He wanted to store all his important documents on his website securely without keeping any backups anywhere else. Well, you can guess what I told him.But just in case you can’t guess, I’ll tell you: No. No way. No way in hell. As a general rule, you should back everything up, even your website itself. It is possible to lose your entire website and never get it ... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem87 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:04:52 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog LOGAN, Utah — Utah Business Magazine released its list of the top 25 advertising agencies in Utah on Monday and Advent Creative, a local firm, earned a spot with over $4.8 million in capitalized billings in 2009.Advent Creative beat out several Salt Lake City firms to take the number 20 spot. The only other top agencies that weren’t from the Salt Lake metropolitan area were two firms from Park City and St. George, numbers 24 and 25 respectively. The honor reinforces Advent Creative’s goal to pro... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem84 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:53:37 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Today is a red-letter date for Advent: we have our first limey on staff. Paul Fleming McCullagh, who’s Irish but was born in England, is our new front-end designer. He’s had years of experience working in print design and web design, and this multi-disciplinary background fits in perfectly at Advent. How in the heck did he end up in Logan, Utah? Well, it’s a long story. Come in sometime and ask him in person. We’re just pumped to have him on board. Also, his cool accent makes our meetings much m... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem83 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:51:09 MST http://www.adventcreative.com/blog Last week, the <a href="http://www.utahsocialmediaawards.info/">Social Media Club of Utah</a> held the first ever social media awards in Salt Lake City. From what I’ve heard it was an amazing event. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be there because I was making a pilgrimage to Franz Kafka’s grave in the Czech Republic. (Not only did he write some crazy good novels and short stories, but he also invented the hard hat.I’m happy to announce that one of our clients, the <a href="http://www.standard.net/">S... http://www.adventcreative.com/weblogItem82 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:46:48 MST