Happy Women’s Day!

Today is International Women’s Day, and the women in the HenkinSchultz office have reason to celebrate. With the retirement of Senior Art Director Ken Davis this month, women now handily outnumber men 11 to 9 in our office.

OK, now we feel kind of bad about being so happy about Ken’s retirement. Look, we really made sure he lived it up at his retirement party.

See? There he is, happy in his fishing boat. The gender ratio in the office is not a concern for Ken.

He’s halfway to Margaritaville already. Happy retirement, Ken!

The Dutch Oven Open

So at the last few holiday parties, Joe Henkin and Kirby Schultz have given employees $100 each and told them to go buy a special treat for themselves. This year, Web Designer Karla Hassebroek bought herself a Dutch oven.

Well, it turns out Karla isn’t much of a cook. Almost two months later, she still hasn’t used her fancy pot. To make her feel better about her purchase, we started the Dutch Oven Open. It’s a monthly lunch outing for any HenkinSchultz employee who can make it. Our philosophy is that if Karla’s not using her Dutch oven to make us lunch, at least someone is putting pots and pans to good use.

Here are the restaurants we’ve hit up so far.

Pizza Ranch: During the inaugural leg of the Dutch Oven Open, we pigged out at the pizza chain’s super awesome lunch buffet. Account Executive Assistant Hilairee Griese filled us in on buffet’s best feature: if you request a type of pizza, they’ll specially cook it for you and give you first dibs.

The best part, though? Watching HenkinSchultz’s healthiest eater, Account Executive Justin Fink, surreptitiously look up nutritional information after our outing. And then seeing his face turn really pale.

Old Chicago: Joe could not stop talking about how clean the place was during our January outing. However, the restaurant was oddly empty. We could have fit our entire office, and maybe all of our clients, in there. Maybe it’s because Old Chicago is better known for its beer tours than its lunch buffets? Weird. Regardless, the food was flavorful and they bring you warm chocolate chip cookies at the end of the meal. YUM.

Pictured above is our trip to Old Chicago, enjoyed by Joe, Karla, Amie Van Overmeer, Tanya Christensen and Erik Rodne.

Any suggestions for where we should go next?

Penn and Misspeller

It turns out that even criminals need to be branded. According to a recent CNN story, thieves with a clever nickname have a higher chance of being caught and prosecuted. It’s a long-standing strategy that’s helped law enforcement officials publicize crimes and nab culprits like Pretty Boy Floyd.

More and more, criminal nicknames such as the Barefoot Bandit are given careful consideration so the public will remember them. The methodology to catch branded bandits today is akin to a well-mapped marketing strategy.

This makes me wonder: could branding office mishaps help curb the occasional office faux pas? If I hang some “Wanted” posters around the HenkinSchultz office, would fewer people swipe my writing utensils and more people clean out the microwave?

Nah, that probably wouldn’t work. They’d probably just take away my writing privileges.

Eat Your Brussels Sprouts

We’ll admit it: we don’t know much about Brussels, Belgium. What we do know is that if we ever go there, we want to stay at The Pantone Hotel.

The Pantone Hotel is the stuff of a graphic designer’s dreams. Each room has a different color scheme based on the Pantone color chart, which is the graphic designers’ tool chest when it comes to matching colors. Each room uses Pantone color swatches as art work that set the tone and feeling of the room. The hotel’s overall look embodies clean, European design with lots and lots of beautiful white space. The attention to detail is pretty impressive, too; the bicycles, coffee mugs and even signature cocktails are marked with their Pantone colors.

And, hey, we can even afford to stay at the hotel on a graphic designer’s salary! The only downside of the Pantone Hotel? When we stay there, we probably won’t see much of Brussels.

Embrace Losing, Embrace a Tree

We at HenkinSchultz may be talented at copy and design, but golfing …. well, golfing may not be our game.

That doesn’t stop us from trying, though. A foursome took to the course for the South Dakota Advertising Federation’s annual Golf Tournament on June 25. And while our drives may not have landed anywhere near the green, we took advantage of every photo opportunity. Guess we just can’t leave our mad advertising skillz at work.

Instead of hitting the green, Justin’s ball hit this tree.

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A Quick Grammar Break: Brought to you by The Oatmeal.

It’s no secret that Post Haste is written, for the most part, by copywriters.

So, it should come as no surprise that the brains behind Post Haste are really into punctuation and words and things like that.

That being said, if you’re a copywriter, or if you’re into words, or if you have an excellent sense of humor that doesn’t mind a little randomness, you should be checking out the cartoon charts at The Oatmeal, especially the ones about grammar.

Need to learn how to use a semi-colon? An apostrophe? Want to know the 10 words you should stop misspelling? Done x3.

15 things you need to know about coffee? Also done.

It’s worth checking out, if only because you’ll actually learn something and you’ll have some funny things to post in your cubicle.

That’s all. Carry on with your work week.

The OFFICIAL 2009 Gingerbread Man (Or Woman) Decorating Contest

The Great Gingerbread Cookie Decorate-off is over, and with a bevy of bejeweled bakery goods scattered amongst our break room tables, we have made our difficult but oh-so-satisfying decision.

But first, the cookies. Be warned – there are a lot of images after the jump.
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David Feherty’s Veterans’ Hunt

David Feherty, former PGA Tour golfer and current CBS Sports analyst, loves the United States. And, he loves the troops that help defend it.

While this may come as a surprise – after all, he is Irish – it only takes a look at his feverish progress at becoming a United States citizen (and his adoption of Dallas as his official hometown) to understand a passion as foreign to the ex-pat lifestyle as grasping American football.

He simply loves this country.

It’s this love – and his undying support for the country’s military personnel – that prompts Feherty to reach out to injured and disabled troops year after year with a once-in-a-lifetime pheasant hunting trip in South Dakota.

Our own Kirby Schultz was fortunate enough to tag along and document this year’s trip, and it was nothing short of monumental. Sure, there was emotion. But there was also a feeling of accomplishment.

And, there was a hidden agenda – one that strikes at the heart of what a disabled veteran goes through: offering a slice of normalcy to someone who now lives life differently, all in the name of defending freedom.

The goal wasn’t to treat veterans with kid gloves. On the contrary – Feherty wants to treat these veterans like real people, offering the roughness of hunting without holding back, challenging the vets to work hard, just as they did before, just as they’ve always done, giving them a reason to feel strong again.

The trip is designed for fun. It was created to give back to vets who laid their lives on the line – and left a little behind in the process. But it’s also a way to dispel any feelings of hopelessness. To put control back in a disabled veteran’s court.

To feel human. To feel free. Which, at the center of it all, is one of the things our country strives to offer every day.

No wonder Feherty has adopted this place as home.

So, there’s this thing called Facebook…

As a service to you, the loyal reader, the devoted fan of Post Haste and the people behind it, The HenkinSchultz Facebook Page is now open.

You’ll find all of the usual stuff you’ve come to expect from a Facebook page - blog posts, videos, sample radio spots, awesome pictures, hilarity from Corey the copywriter, witty comments from the legions behind the big white building, etc.

I guess, while we’re at it, we should remind you that we’re constantly Twittering, too. We have been for a while, actually: @henkinschultz. And, for even more awesomeness, we’re compiling all of our video spots in one easy to access location on YouTube.

So become a fan. We’ll be here, waiting to Facebook-it-up.

Cinco de Mayo and a Side of Beans

You know, if it was always just great ideas and fantastic design around here at HenkinSchultz, our brainmeat would turn to mush. Seriously. Mush. It would be eerily similar to those awesome Hulu commercials (shown here, somewhat ironically, on YouTube).

So, whenever we can, we turn to the concept of overeating to help assuage our throbbing minds.

Yeah potlucks!

So, in honor of the Mexican army that overcame a much larger French army back in the mid-1800’s, assuring a victory that countless Americans without any connection to Mexico celebrate each year on May 5th as “Cinco de Mayo,” we ate heartily in the spirit of Mexican cooking.

I’m still trying to digest all of those beans. (Ohh… the beans…)

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Happy day after Cinco de Mayo! (Seis de Mayo?)

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