Clare Morris sent us this handy release full of stuff you'll want to know if you attend Famously Hot New Year Tuesday night -- and you will want to attend, so we pass it on: Lineup order Gates open at 6:30 p.m. and festivities wrap up at 1 a.m. Weaving the... read more →
Dec
27
Dec
19
Buzzfeed turned us on to this inspiring story of a man embracing life as it is, regardless of his previous expectations.. Josh Gates, host of the SyFy channel’s Destination Truth ordered a T-shirt from Amazon. What he got instead was a pair of hamburger earmuffs. He was utterly delighted with... read more →
Dec
17
Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald are feeling like pretty important guys (just ask 'em; they'll tell ya), especially since they finally got one federal judge to agree with their view of NSA surveillance programs. But as far as Google is concerned, they're not all that interesting. At least, they don't... read more →
Dec
05
Here's an interesting study we ran across: Sex is used to sell practically everything today, from personal hygiene products to sport utility vehicles. But ads featuring models wearing come-hither looks run a certain risk: Some women find them offensive, and their negative attitude can rub off on the product or... read more →
Dec
04
For true connoisseurs of original local art, there is nothing quite so pure and good and fine as an Ernest Lee painting. Our own Brad Warthen has two of them in his entrance hall, either side of his front door, and this makes him inordinately proud. They are both from... read more →
Nov
26
ADCO's done it again! This year, we won six awards at AIGA South Carolina's InShow awards in Charleston earlier this month. The awards were for our work across several different platforms and media, performed for a variety of clients from different industries, providing a cross-section of ADCO's versatility. We won... read more →
Nov
26
The announcement will be at 5:30 p.m. next Thursday night, Dec. 5, in the Lucy Hampton Bostick Auditorium at Richland Library downtown. We got into last year's book -- A.J. Mayhew’s novel, The Dry Grass of August -- in a big way. In the above photo, our own Brad Warthen --... read more →
Sep
13
This urgent appeal went out today from the University of South Carolina Police Department: It's Friday the 13th...someone needs to find us another follower pic.twitter.com/JfdHFPCLqV Yikes! If it wasn't for bad luck, they wouldn't have no luck at all...
Sep
12
Alexandra Petri, who writes The Washington Post's ComPost blog, offers some good advice in the wake of the firing of Business Insider's CTO over his offensive Tweets. In a nutshell, she notes that your online existence isn't some alternative to real life; it is real life, and you should treat... read more →
Sep
12
One strategy for maximizing eyes on ads has worn out its welcome. For us, anyway. One of our highly skilled professionals at ADCO was momentarily distracted this morning with a pop-up come-on that it insisted was "just for you." It led to a feature at Business Insider headlined, "13 Things... read more →
