Next Thursday, May 28th, AD2SD will be host a great educational event called “Startup or shutup” which will be moderated by Treeline’s own Jake Fields. You can find the event details below…

Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009
Time: 6-8
Venue: AC Lounge in North Park

Have you ever thought about being your own boss and growing a successful business?
Learn exactly what it takes to fuel a cutting edge agency blasting into the future. You can not afford to miss out on this night of practical first-hand experience.

“Start-up or Shut-up” is an exclusive opportunity to hear “the real deal”. Join AD2 and a panel of San Diego’s finest agency execs at this closed door event inside the AC Lounge in Northpark. Our Panel will share, behind the scene stories of what it takes to bring a startup to reality.
Key Points include:

* Recession is an opportunity to invest in success.
* Partnership strategies and startup capital.
* Planning and execution, execution and execution.
* Frontline success stories from the panel.
* Management styles from mom & pop to top notch shop.
* Where does all the time go?
* Cheap technologies that will enhance your business.

Panelist:

* Craig Macdonald, Covario
* Chuck Longanecker, Digital Telepathy
* Micha Mikailian, eBoost Consulting

We would like to thank everyone that was involved and we will be keeping you informed as the site continues to evolve. For anyone that doesn’t already know, AD2 is a national networking group for young professional in the advertising and marketing industry.

We're not sure where to put these things yet so we figured we would have them pose naked outside the office.

Friday night was the 2009 San Diego Addy Awards at the Coronado Marriott, it was a great evening of top notch wining and dining. All of the major agencies were there and the Ad Club did a awesome job of pulling off a fabulous show. There was a ton of impressive work displayed and all of the winning entries were quite remarkable.

Treeline Interactive came home with three awards, a bronze and a gold in the interactive categories and more notably the Judges Award. Apparently the Judges Awards is not given every year, rather it is an extra award that the judge can present for works that truly knock their socks off. In this case it was the interactive mountain bike map we did for Northstar at Tahoe resort. Here is what the judges had to say about the piece…

“The Northstar mountain bike trail map.
So many moving parts.
So many details.
So many opportunities to do it wrong.
And yet, everything was just right.
It just worked, exactly the way you’d want it to.
When something is designed this well, it feels effortless.
Like it wasn’t designed at all.
You’ve got to work really hard to make it look that easy.
Kudos.
That’s not just smart design. That’s stupid smart.“

Our entries will now advance to the regional competition next month. Big thanks to everyone who helped make this happen and to Northstar at Tahoe for keeping the fun projects rolling in! It is hard to not do a great job when you are dealing with clients and subject matter that you love so much.

We would also like to thank, the beautiful Heather Myers from San Diego 6 for doing a great job as the show MC. Tonya Mantooth for the awesome visuals. MJD interactive for all web work behind this event. Brent Altomare of Groovy Like a Movie for hosting the Addy’s Raid and putting together a great slideshow of that event.