Guess who’s not a slacker any more? This guy! I finally finished my portfolio, which you can view here. (Well, it’s almost finished. I need to get the writing samples up there.) I decided to tone it down from my last design, which was a little flashy in retrospect.

Any thoughts?

You know how you have to be careful on Facebook because your employer can see what you post? It works both ways.

We’re documenting our Scrabble game at work. We’re playing the project coordinators, and we each get two moves a day: one in the morning, and one in the afternoon. If you send me any trash talk, I’ll be sure to pass it on to the appropriate people.

I was perusing a site reading some management articles today. At the bottom of the page, I saw this. I can’t help but think that with a few articles on appropriate workplace relationships, we wouldn’t need to list this article.

New designs for work.

I got a little rushed toward the end, so I have to go back and standardize the margins (which I just kind of eyeballed), but I’m pretty proud of these two.

It pays to keep tabs on your old projects.

One of my employer’s internal, lead-generation sites had fallen into disuse. We basically weren’t doing anything to send traffic there anymore, so we’d kind of forgotten about it. On the site was a toll-free number that you could call to help you search for a school. Well, when we stopped using the site, we stopped using the phone number as well.

Of course, the site was registered for a number of years, so it didn’t just go away; but the phone number… Well, when we stopped paying for that, it went back on the market. And someone else snatched it up. Now, the phone number (which was, until today, still posted on the website) is a gay sex chat line. So people in California looking for schools got quite a shock when they called looking for help in continuing their education.

So I think a new slogan is in order. Here are some suggestions:

• When we say we’re a full-service ad agency, we mean we are a FULL-SERVICE ad agency
• We bend over backwards to service you
• A full-service ad agency—with benefits
• Gaying up the Internet since 1989

WTF is this picture?

If you don’t know, my work requires me to occasionally create banner ads for schools. Most of the time, these are rather dry, but we ran across a client that actually wants to use some out-of-the-box ideas. Here’s the banner ad I sent them. Yes, that’s right—Zoey made the design for my most recent banner ad. He’s a celebrity now. Get in line if you’d like to shake his paw.

This is what happens when my company lets me write for the company blog.

Patrick: Hey Brandon, are you free?
me: Do you mean in the Existential or Kantian sense?