AD2 Roanoke

Are you looking to gain experience in the real world and have the time of your life? Are you trying to find an internship that’s just a little different than all the others? Apply for the Marketing Internship at the Roanoke Civic Center. While here you will help the Marketing Department plan, promote and sell shows that come to the Roanoke Civic Center Coliseum, Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre and the Special Events Center! Learn about developing marketing plans, placing advertising, PR, online campaigns, grassroots marketing, and everything else we do to promote a show! Send your resume and a brief cover letter on what would make you stand out as a big fish in the intern pool to jobs@ad2roanoke.org! Currently looking for interns for the fall concert season to start in Aug/early Sept. through March. This is an unpaid internship but the experience is priceless!

AD2 Roanoke is your premier source for all internship and job leads!

No truer statement will you hear today.

Taken from Hyperactivitypography From A to Z, “an activity book for typographers illustrated in a nostalgic vintage style to give it a sweet and childlike look”, it’s the mantra they recommend cutting out and tacking up someplace you’ll see everyday. I’d suggest nothing less.

Click here to flip through the rest of the book, and don’t forget to visit it’s creators, Norway’s Studio 3.

[via Neatorama]

Ad2 Roanoke is excited to offer this year’s first social at 202 Market in downtown Roanoke. This is a great networking opportunity for all people interested in advertising and learning more about the industry!

www.202market.net
202 Market Square, SE
Roanoke, VA 24011

We’re sprucing things up around here. The first thing to go is our outdated “Ad II Roanoke” Facebook profile. Below, you can see the new activity for our brand new Ad2 Roanoke Facebook page. If you’d like to stay connected with us, this page will be the one we update for future events and all of the latest news from us.

Tomorrow 3 of the current AD2 Roanoke board members along with several incoming board members for our senior club, AAF Roanoke, will fly down to Sunny Orlando, FL for the American Advertising Federation’s National Conference.  This will be my 4th conference and I couldn’t be more excited!  It is a time to grow professionally and network with people from all across the country both experienced and a little green like me.  At the professional level we have the opportunity to attend seminars by top industry executives on topics such as “Truth in Advertising, Can you Handle It?” and “Around the Water Cooler, What’s Your Professional Reputation?”  At the club level there will be several round tables with opportunities to hear from members across the country on their programs, public service initiatives, and communication strategies.  There are also planned social outings during the long weekend allowing for time to relax and hang out with other like-minded individuals.  The conference concludes with the National Addy Awards Gala, which always leaves me awe-struck at the sheer creativity that exists within the advertising industry.  I never leave this conference without feeling rejuvenated and inspired to be the best advertising professional and club leader possible.  I can’t wait to come back this year and share all this new knowledge with Roanoke!

“Creativity can solve anything.”

We’re excited to present Art & Copy for a limited engagement to the area. You’ll be able to see it April 6th at the Grandin Theatre in Roanoke or April 7th at The Lyric in Blacksburg.

Seating is limited, contact ad2@ad2roanoke.org for advanced ticket sales.

Film Trailer after the jump.
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For anyone who can’t make it to the official Addy Gala (or who didn’t want to fork out $90 for it) Ad2 is having a separate event just for you!  Come to Center in the Square in downtown Roanoke Tuesday, March 9th from 6-8 pm and walk through our special Addy Gallery of winners.  See who the best of the best is from both the professional and student entries.  This event is free and open to the public.  We hope to see you there!

Welcome to Ad2Roanoke’s first installment of “Career ADvice from…” a series of enlightening interviews with local (and not-so-local) creative professionals.

Our questionnaire was written in order to get helpful information for the big questions we all have as students and young professionals in the advertising industry. Hopefully, you’ll learn a bit more about what to do after graduating, what you can expect from your first job and get a personal look into the minds of some seasoned professionals. You’ll definitely want to come back and check out advice installments from art directors, interactive designers, copywriters, photographers, more creative directors and even a celebrity or two!

With that said, we’re kicking off the first edition with the big wigs, the masterminds behind most of the work that gets out of the door and, you’ll read, the people you’ll be getting coffee for your first six months: the Creative Directors.

In this article:

Tony PearmanJohn GreissmayerChris Henson

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"Telemachus, your margins are spot on, but you need to watch your kerning."

In February, Ad2Roanoke is kicking off the first year of its mentorship program, and we’re looking for students and fresh graduates who are interested in getting a head start in the advertising industry. We’ve hand-selected a talented group of local advertising veterans who are happy to serve as professional resources and cheerleaders. The participating experts range from the creative to the strategic, so regardless of whether you want to be a creative director or an account supervisor, we’ve got someone ready to give you some one-on-one career advice.

Eligible participants must be:

• Current or recently-graduated students in the advertising industry
• Available the evening of February 16th for the pairing event in Roanoke
• Accessible by email
• A current member of Ad2Roanoke

This is a great opportunity for those looking to get a leg up in the field, but seats are limited! If you’d like to attend, please send an email with your name, the name of your school, your (estimated) graduation year and where you’d like your career to take you, to ad2@ad2roanoke.org. We’ll be selecting participants first-come, first-served based on eligibility and professional goals, in order to find the best match, so feel free to elaborate on your professional plans. Event details to follow.

If you are not a member of Ad2Roanoke but wish to participate, you may join the club at http://ad2roanoke.org/membership/join/

There’s an old adage that says “A good director/coach/designer works with what he’s given”. So, what if that’s self imposed palette limitations in a low resolution environment? Today, take some time to be inspired by a few games that come out of the neo-8-bit movement.

Canabalt

Play online | Put it on your iPhone for $3

Canabalt really just needs to be experienced, but I’ll try and describe it anyway. Your city is being decimated, and you have to escape. See how far you can get as you bound your way to freedom in the parkour platformer. For a game that takes only one finger to play, I almost hate to admit how much time I’ve spent jumping from rooftop to rooftop, crashing through plate glass and scrambling to avoid the falling engines. Play this one with speakers up or headphones on.

Play more games by Adam Saltsman

More games after the jump.
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