Let's Eat

Stanfords has been a Portland institution for several years. When you walk in through the front doors you can see the wood stacks they use for cooking. This campaign celebrated their good eats!

Tektronix Printers

Tektronix made such high quality printers they were eventually bought by Xerox. This campaign capitalized on how easy and reliable their color printers are. It seems like every time you're in a crunch to get something ready for a meeting is the time when your printer starts to head south and leave you high and dry. Not the case with these. Just hit print. In fact, many of them are the work horses of design firms, ad agencies, and in house publishing departments.

Jantzen Heritage

I love working on old brands. And they don't get much older than Jantzen. We wanted to celebrate this fact with a heritage campaign that spoke of their early innovations, controversies and how they changed the way America views the swimsuit. This was one of four campaigns we presented the rest were far more hip and modern. The funny thing about this campaign is the client didn't really like it and killed it. Fortunately the Rosey awards this year had a "wipe out" award for best ad campaign that was killed by a client. Our Jantzen heritage campaign won. Which was all fun and good, but what made it great is the Jantzen client who killed it was retiring and was named "Ad professional of the year" at the same award show ceremony and had to go up to the podium right after us to accept his award.

Mt. Hood Relocation Project

When I first met Carl Coffman his excavation business was doing about 18 million dollars a year. Not bad for a guy who started out with a dump truck and back hoe. He wanted to do something to get his company noticed by architects, city planners and of course, big developers. In one of our early meetings I remember him saying "I don't care if it's a big project or little one, we can do it." It was his can do attitude that lead to our Anythings Possible campaign. We thought it would be neat to send out a full sized blueprint with an ambitious project featured on it. Our first one was the Mt. Hood relocation project. The day we mailed it out his phone began to ring off the hook. The peiced was so successful in generating attention and leads we ended up creating 7 different new projects. In 4 years time Coffman Excavation was doing over 50 million a year in business.