Dayton Creative Syndicate

Stop out and join members from these four fine organizations as we gather to celebrate the holiday seasons with the annual Kris Kringle Mingle.

When: Thursday, Dec. 11, 5:30 p.m. Registration begins @ 5:30 pm
Where: Top of the Market Banquet Center, 32 Webster St.

There is no cost for GDAA Traditional & Company members. GDAA Associate/Student members, IABC, AMA & DCS members are $25 each.  Non-member guests are $30.

A wonderful mix of appetizing finger foods, drinks and networking opportunities awaits you! The Kris Kringle Mingle also gives you a chance to bid on some of the fun auction items shown here, These items and many more are being donated by your fellow creative professionals.

In addition to joining the festivities—help support your favorite organization by donating an item or two to the Kris Kringle Mingle silent auction. All the while—promoting your business, supporting your professional associations and doing your part to bring exciting creative programs to Dayton. All proceeds fund scholarships and/or support quality local creative programming. Donations can be designated to go to the club of your choice and may be made through the GDAA’s web-site here. Items valued at $50 or more are encouraged. After submitting your donation, you’ll be directed back to make your on-line reservation.

If you have questions please contact DCS president, Patrice Hall via: president@creativesyndicate.org or GDAA Executive Director, Sara McCatherine via: director@greaterdaytonadassociation.org

Additionally we will also be accepting gifts and donations for needy children—at this time, on behalf of, For Love of Children.

Tuesday November 11th 2008, The DCS teamed up with The School of Advertising Art and Scott Hull Associates to host our first-ever speaker event.

A crowd just shy of 90 was on hand as Illustrative Designer extraordinaire, Von Glitschka discussed his passion with the group. Thanks to Von for sharing his work and the process of his craft. As well, thanks to Scott Hull, SAA, The Greater Dayton Advertising Association, FourAmbition and all who attended—making this event not only possible but a success.

Stay tuned for more exciting programming of this nature coming soon in 2009! Please visit our membership area and and show your support for the DCS by joining or adding your name to our mailing list. Coordinator and committee positions are still available. Jump on board now and help to design the future of the Dayton Creative Syndicate.

Be sure to check out all the great pictures from the event.

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November 7th 2008, The Get Out The Vote poster contest was the first competition sponsored by the DCS and sought to raise voter awareness and inspire people to vote in this years general election. After appearing in our on-line gallery the top 25 entries were featured on display in the November occurrence of the Downtown Dayton Partnership’s First Friday at the Excelsior Lofts in the historic Oregon District. The use of the Excelsior Lofts was donated, by owner, Tom Tornatore, who graciously opened his doors to the DCS and gave us free rein of his space to create a wonderful urban setting for our show.

Attendance was good throughout the night, despite bad weather conditions. We saw between 50 and 60 people walk through the display as well as having a solid turn out of volunteers and DCS members to help run the event. Special thanks again to our judges; Dan Johnson, Ken Botts and Scott Hull who collectively selected the winner, Cameron Braun’s entry.

Cameron, a Cedarville college graduate, who works at Wilson Advertising, was very excited to win the first DCS competition and was on hand to celebrate his winning entry with a few photos and light discussion.

Be sure to check out all the great pictures from the event via our Flickr slideshow!

November 05 2008, Clint! Runge, a guy so cool, he needed an exclamation mark after his first name, took a break from the hustle and bustle of his cool company Archrival so he could swing into Dayton and speak to the Greater Dayton Advertising Association. Only the DCS members high-jacked and took him to out to The Oregon Express the night before he was due to speak.

I gotta say we really enjoyed having a captive speaker at our beck and call to pose in funny pictures and answer questions about the deep dark secrets, memorable experiences, the industry in general, clients, campaigns, the big dawg competitors they face down and chew up, ideas, trends and marketing strategy geared towards youth markets and audiences.

Thanks Clint! for spending the evening @ OE with the DCS. You’re always welcome in the Gem City.  Also a very special thanks to Joanie Spain who helped transport and host Clint!.

Be sure to check out all the great pictures from the event via our Flickr slideshow!

If this kind of event seems interesting to you, please check out our membership page for more info about joining The Dayton Creative Syndicate.

Just a follow up to the earlier post about the DCS happy hour at Adobe Gila’s at The Greene this past Monday.

For our fifth DCS social event, AG’s proved to be an excellent venue, lots of open area, a nice indoor / outdoor mix that seemed very popular. I think we had an all-time high attendance somewhere in the mid 40’s. Best of all lots of new faces to go along with the many we’ve become accustomed to seeing at our socials. A nice mix of creatives, vendors and members and non-members alike—the crowd also seemed to stay around a bit longer than previous events.

Many of the new attendees were excited and interested and to learn more about both the DCS and opportunities to lend the group a hand. We were also thrilled to have two shirts donated by FourAmbition as door prizes for a couple of lucky winners! Many thanks to FourAmbition. Check out their site and the services they offer.

Be sure to see the photos of the winners and proof of others who were there. Many thanks to every one who attended this event and to all of our DCS board members who were on hand and the efforts they put forth.