On a beautiful spring day, my small group of friends and I found ourselves passing through Sandpoint, Idaho on the way back to Spokane. It’s such a quick stop off the highway so we quickly made our way to Evan’s Brothers Coffee. Located in the Granary Arts District, this locally owned coffee shop and roaster […]
A client called this week wanting to know why his LSA ad was featuring the wrong phone number. The short answer – it’s a tracking number Google is using on our behalf – but in reality, it only opened Pandora’s box to more and more questions. It’s never a problem to explain these things –
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To ring in my birthday and another year around the sun, I boogied down to Portland for a truly magical trip. Nestled in the heart of the Pearl District, I experienced Portland as a tourist for the first time. I normally travel for work, or family and friend-specific events. So this time around I very
The Woodshop landed on Bang Energy Drink for our monthly redesign! Bang is such a delicious energy drink and we thought they could use a little spruce up. The packaging for Bang is so colorful and energetic already, we wanted to make sure that we kept those aspects in this redesign. We also kept the
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This month we chose Little Caesars for our monthly logo redesign! The Woodshop is known for our love of pizza, so naturally, a pizza-themed logo redesign was definitely in our sights. We wanted to choose a brand that had been around for a while and had not seen many updates on its logo. The Little
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This month we decided to rethink and redesign the Eastern Washington University logo. We were inspired by NFL logos such as the Philadelphia Eagles and the Arizona Cardinals. We wanted to create a more visually dynamic logo while still keeping the original composition of the “EWU” being formed from the shape of the wings. The
This is the episode where we learned a valuable lesson, always listen to your Lyft Driver when it comes to pizza spots. Tony, Jeremy, and I spent the week in sunny San Diego with our friends at Zerorez, and of course, there was going to be some pie time! On the first day of the
He was a complicated man, with very few traits that I’d hope to see in my children. And his antics will forever require me to explain myself at parties. “Oh, you work in advertising, are you like Don Draper?” — “Yeah, just like that, but without the smoking, womanizing, and only some of the day-drinking.”
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Just like about a million other companies, the word ‘trust’ appears in our handbook and graces our walls as one of the 4 Core Values at The Woodshop. And yes, it’s absolutely the most cliché one we have. But recently its meaning has grown deeper, and become more important to me than even before. I
Statistics show that around 75% of internet users don’t look beyond the first page of search results. And while SEO is a fabulous tactic for gaining organic search impressions, Paid Search marketing is the fastest way to get your business to page one. With money spent though, you’ll want to keep a keen eye on
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