Remember that time we opened our 2nd office in Greenville? Yeah well, we've been busy since then, so last night we finally had the opportunity to host a formal launch party. Thanks to our new friends, old friends, and of course our moms & dads for stopping by to celebrate with us.
(oh, and looks like our kebo party gifts were a huge hit!)
Martini ice luge? Yes please!
Friends old and new
YOU get a kebo, YOU get a kebo…
Tell your friends, tell their friends, tell random people on the streets with internet-connected mobile devices in their hands: Our very own Will "Man of the People" Bullock has been nominated for the 2nd year in a row as Charleston AMA Marketer of the Year!
Make his momma proud.
Voting is easy as pie; no logins, no signups. Just click the link below, click where it says "Click to HERE learn more about them and cast your vote!", select the little button beside the name of Will Bullock, and hit the button that says "Next".
Boom goes the dynamite.
Hi everyone — thanks to all your votes, I indeed made it to the Marketer of the Year finalists list. It was an honor to be able to represent SLANT and all our clients at the AMA Spark! Awards. Hats off to all the winners this year (check out the pix here).
Though I'm not THE best marketer this year, I'll gladly accept being top 3. And yes, mama is proud.
Cheers,
.w
SLANT is pleased to announce that Davis Barnes has joined the firm as head of Marketing Intelligence.
With over 10 years of marketing and business development experience, Davis will be working with SLANT’s clients not only to maintain relationships but to guide them through each step of their project and make sure their marketing plans are well defined and executed.
Davis comes to SLANT after serving a sponsorship management role at Family Circle Cup, a premier international women’s tennis tournament. She worked with marketing leaders at Family Circle Cup’s parent company, Meredith Corporation, to incorporate advertisers at the company’s various media holdings (Family Circle, Better Homes and Gardens, Fitness, More, etc.) into the Family Circle Cup event platform.
Davis earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Virginia and fully intends to be counted among their notable alumni, right next to Katie Couric. Despite our serious addiction to Clemson, we won’t give her too much of a hard time for being a wahoo.
“The role of Marketing Intelligence at SLANT has developed quite a reputation with our clients, and we’re happy that Davis has accepted the challenge of building on that tradition”, says Will Bullock, partner and head of Graphic Intelligence.
Founding partner and Creative Director Christopher Cecil said: “I just hope she doesn’t notice that’s a cardboard cutout of me in my office down there. I think I forgot to tell her I'm working out of our new Greenville office.”
Despite the unfortunate trend of California defections [exhibit A, exhibit B] we’ve encountered, Davis is an exceptional addition to the SLANT team. We hope you’ll like her as much as we do. Come by and say hello or email her: dbarnes (at) slantmedia.net.
A typical meeting when Lauren is involvedToday marks the end of the “Lauren Era” here at SLANT. While we’re sad to see her go, we’re excited for her and her husband/partner-in-crime Kevin to make a fresh start in San Francisco (which reminds us – what is it about California taking away our marketing managers??)
So in true SLANT fashion, let's send Lauren off with a list of things that made her so great here:
When asked to share a quote about what she'd miss most about working at SLANT she did this:
We'll take that as a compliment.
Best of luck, Lauren & Kevin – we'll see you on Twitter!
Award-winning Christopher CecilOh - P.S. Here's the ad of congratulations we ran in CRBJ's Forty Under 40 print edition:
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Connor Lock, AKA ConManBST43879K…7SLANT officially welcomes Connor Lock to the team!
Those of you who visit SLANT HQ often are probably saying, "Um, behind on your blog news much? Connor's been there since July." You're right - Connor started with us in the summer of 2010 as a Slantastic intern while he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Charleston.
And upon graduating (as Valedictorian - smartypants) he began working with SLANT part time. We keep getting busier and busier (and busier, and busier) and were thrilled to promote Connor to full time status. His title: Artistic Intelligence. What that means to you: Graphic Designer.
Want to get to know Connor? He's energetic, skateboards to work and is an instructor and mentor to teenagers at a local skatepark. He went to high school in Manchester, England and managed not to pick up a British accent. He knows what a proper pint pour is supposed to look like so don't serve him one with too much head... or ELSE. He thinks this video is really funny. He's a BANa believer and his screenname is conman7bst for all sorts of cryptic reasons.
As SLANT's Artistic Intelligence, he has contributed to tons of projects from storyboarding to package designs and logo ideation. And while he knows his way around a computer, he starts his creative process with pencil and paper - the kid can draw!
So as you can tell, we know Connor pretty well by now. We hope you get to know him too - say hi next time you're in the neighborhood!
Booming announcer's voice: The BatterySense by Philips Consumer Lifestyle app is live in the Apple app store! Now you can be in control of your iPhone, iPod or iPad's power destiny... estiny...estiny.
OK, for real. It's totally gratifying to see this labor of love finally come to life so the rest of you can download it for free. (Please, let us know what you think!)
How did all this get started? SLANT worked with Philips Consumer Lifestyle to concept an app that would be relevant to their mobile power products. So we got to work and the result was BatterySense.
Our goal when designing Battery Sense was to reveal the most pertinent information right away and leave all the other details hidden until you need them. And since it will live on a sexy touchscreen device, we organized the interface with big, giant buttons and gorgeous graphics. That makes it easy to use and fun to look at.
But wait, there's more!
The real genius of BatterySense lies within the "What If" feature. Just slide your finger up the interactive battery meter to tell BatterySense how much more time you need for say, Internet Use, and voila... BatterySense will make some recommendations on what battery-hogging iOS settings you can turn off to help you get there.
And if you get a little greedy over how much extra time you need your battery to last? Well, Philips has some power products to help you with that power boost. (We don't want anyone running around with Dead Battery Anxiety now, do we?)
So after concepting, defining the app's feature, designing the interface, programming with our rockstar development partner Relium, and testing (and testing, and testing), BatterySense is approved and in the App store. Now go download it and cure yourself of Dead Battery Anxiety!
He's smart, he's successful and he opened SLANT six years ago when he was just 25. (We won't mention that brief stint in the slammer)
And if all that wasn't enough, we just heard that Christopher won a spot in the Charleston Regional Business Journal's "Forty under 40" class of 2011. This CRBJ distinction "recognizes 40 local business and professional leaders living and doing business in the Charleston region who are making their mark with professional and community involvement and are under 40 years of age."
The Forty under 40 winners will be interviewed and photographed for the April 25th issue of the CRBJ, and they'll all be celebrated at Alhambra Hall on Tuesday, May 3. (Grab a ticket and come toast the man of the hour!)
Cheers and congrats, Christopher! Now don't use this accolade as an excuse to phone it in for the next 9 years. We still expect big things from you. What's that? You're busy opening a Greenville office? Well then... carry on.
Official CRBJ Forty Under 40 winner list announced
The CRBJ made their official #FORTYU40 announcement on Friday - check out the list to see who will forever be known as the Class of 2011 alongside Christopher.
Congrats to all of the winners. We're looking forward to the party!
... to the Upstate! (For all you northerners, we don't mean New York - that's what we call the Greenville area of SC).
Before you panic, the Charleston SLANT office you know and love is still going to be home sweet home on King Street. We're just excited to announce that we're expanding to Greenville.
That's right, two SLANT offices. Double the pleasure, double the fun!
Why Greenville?
So, Christopher has hit the road to stake out SLANT's Greenville home. If you want to meet up, make friends or get something started, give us a call at 
or email us: projects (at) slantmedia.net. It's a great time to be growing!
foto providedSLANT Greenville has moved into our new digs at the NEXT Innovation Center. Stop by and say "hi" sometime, or at least show Christopher where to get a good cup of coffee around town.
Photo by Shutterpunk, LCHR photographerIt's with mixed emotion that we say farewell to our resident LCHR rollergirl and Studio Intelligence extraordinaire, Megan DeCamilla.
We'll miss the heck out of Megan but are excited to see her kick off a new job as a technical writer.
Megan, we love your humor, edgy influence and darn good work. Stop by the ol' King Street office anytime - we'll talk about kiwis and otters and sub sandwiches and bear stuffs. And we'll see you throwin' mad booty at the Lowcountry Highroller bouts.
It's been slantastic working with you!
Now off to pick out our next unsuspecting victim... ;)