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A Decade of Hooks, Slices and Dreams
The Dallas Society of Visual Communications invites you to tee up for the 10th Annual D.C. Stipp Memorial Golf Tournament on Friday, May 2, 2008 at the Grand Oaks Golf Club in Grand Prairie. Your swings can help kids go very far – all the way to college, in fact. For the past several years, we’ve not only had a lot of fun, but we’ve been able to give increasingly valuable college scholarships to deserving local high school grads. To continue this fine tradition, we need your help. Even if you don’t know a chip shot from a zip file, it’s a great afternoon out with prizes and plenty of fun with your colleagues. Plus, it commemorates a great friend who’s gone and celebrates the bright future ahead of some promising kids. So mark your calendar and we’ll see you at the tee.

DATE: Friday May 2, 2008
LOCATION: Grand Oaks Golf Club, Grand Prairie
CHECK IN: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
LUNCH: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
TEE OFF: 1:00 pm
DINNER: After golf including Awards Presentation

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I have wanted to delve into grammar with my ExcitingWriting Advisories for some time but had many reasons for not going there. How much can I cover in one EWA? Would my readers like me to cover the subject? In some areas of grammar, there are disagreements on proper usage. After publishing 67 issues of my EWA, I have come to these conclusions: If I do not set out to be inclusive, no one can fairly accuse me of being incomplete. My readers would like me to cover grammar subjects. Of course, there are disagreements on usage issues, but I can weigh in with my thoughts. So, here goes.
–Chuck Lustig

Rising Above the Common Comma.

Commas are to writing what fire hydrants are to dogs; they break up the walk, I mean, the writing, into easy portions.

Here are a few things I know about commas:

1. Use of serial commas (or, if you are writing a screenplay, you could call it, “No Country for Old Commas.”): What do I mean by serial commas? “I like X, Y and Z.” “We covered subject A, B and C.” The rule in the AP Style Guide and many other style guides: Use commas between simple serial items but omit the comma between the next-to-the-final item and the word “and.”

If the items in the series are complicated, do not omit the last comma. For example:

The issues in the campaign are the value of the dollar, the rule of law, the failure of foreign policy, and the separation of church and state.
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by Stan Richards from TalentZoo.com

Stan has been honored as one of The Wall Street Journal’s “Giants of Our Time,” an Inc. magazine “Entrepreneur of the Year,” and an Art Directors Hall of Fame inductee. The Richards Group was named America’s Best Creative Agency by the American Association of Advertising Agencies in 1997. In 2006, Graphic Design USA ranked it one of the six Most Influential Agencies in America.

First, the cliché: Creatives are restless. On good days, they have the attention span of a caffeinated finch.

Now, the problem: For too many people who hire creatives, the above rings true.

Ask anyone faced with building a team of terrific, committed creatives, and you’ll hear the same theme played back:
Attracting top talent is hard enough. But keeping it? Next to impossible. The siren song of higher profiles, newer challenges, and greater opportunities will have today’s star hire following her muse out the door tomorrow.

And yet, through decades of building a thriving agency, an amazing client roster, and several dozen feet of trophy shelving, what makes me proudest about The Richards Group is our unheard-of staff loyalty. The creative tenure here sets industry records; our 24 group heads have been here an average of 16 years. Better still? We’ve several young teams with growing profiles who have yet to be poached. And it isn’t for lack of trying. Read more

Join us for the first TRIBEZA Experience, co-sponsored by AIGA Austin and celebratng the April Visual Arts Issue, which features the work of legendary photographer Dan Winters. Winters, who has captured telling portraits of everyone from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Angelina Jolie, will join us for conversation and a lecture, in which he will share his thoughts on his early work and his ever-developing sensibility behind the lens.

TRIBEZA Experience with Dan Winters
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
6 - 8 PM
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
1800 N. Congress Avenue at
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
3rd Floor

Download the 2007 San Antonio ADDY Winners Book  and see what San Antonio has to offer. Good work!

About the American Advertising Federation (AAF) San Antonio was established in 1920 as the San Antonio Advertising Federation. Our mission is to enhance the advertising industry in San Antonio by providing quality support to the diverse community of individuals dedicated to their advertising craft and by communicating the advertising quality in San Antonio to local, regional and national audiences.

Join AIGA Houston & Ad2 Houston for a field trip to the CAM for a FREE guided tour of the Design Life Now: National Design Triennial exhibition and a social following at Absinthe.

DATE & TIME

Thursday, April 10, 2008

6pm Tour at the CAM - Contemporary Arts Museum

7pm Social at ABSINTHE

COST: FREE

LOCATION 

CAM - Contemporary Arts Museum

5201 Bayard, Houston, Texas 77006

ABSINTHE

609 Richmond, Houston, Texas 77006

For more information, contact

Robin Parrish at 713-942-7959 or robin@brandextract.com