Agency Journal

Taking inspiration from our friends at home

It’s been a full week with all of us working from home, and it’s easy to feel a little bonkers from the disruption, the stress, and simply feeling stuck indoors. One lovely side effect though is it gives us more time to bond with our little friends at home. Hopefully…

Keeping our clients up and running during COVID-19

What a weird time. We’re all still coming to grips with understanding the reach, risk and impact that the global COVID-19 pandemic will have on us, our loved ones, and our economy. While we get through this, we want to ensure our clients that they will recieve uninterrupted continuity of service…

It only took seventeen years

During the holiday break I decided to finally put a sign on our building. Our doorway has traditionally been a little scuzzy, and although I kinda liked the humble anonymity of not having a sign, it sort of made our building look unoccupied, and the locals would assume our doorway…

Hello, we have more jobs

Well, what started as a need to fill in for a designer on maternity leave has turned into a need to hire two new permanent, full-time designers! We want to hire someone who is a problem solver, a thinker, and a storyteller. We want to hire someone that understands that advertising…

Looking for a designer

Hello! We’re looking to short-term hire another designer while Whitney is out on maternity leave! Sound interesting? Good. Here’s what you’ll be helping out with: assisting in design and production of print and digital advertising, marketing, and brand assets working with basic html for email campaigns retouching images assisting with staging…

Things I didn’t know before working at EMRL

I have been working at EMRL for almost 3 years. Although it certainly does not feel like that much time has passed, I have learned so much while working here. 10 Things I have learned at EMRL: When someone says “I heard them say that the stock market is going…

Forgotten, but not gone

Many years ago Stephen and Floyd let me store my drum kit up in the EMRL attic. We all played them now and then, but eventually they became forgotten. Time passed and I rarely ever thought of my drums. During the forgotten years pigeons broke in to the attic. In…

I’ve got a fever

I love running shoes. I have seven pairs. I don’t buy them for running. I buy them for comfort, and for style, and for how they make me feel when I wear them. I’m not a shoe whore by definition, but I am regularly distracted by thoughts of buying more.…

Is it summer yet?

The pressure is on, we have challenged ourselves to write a blog post every week for the shop and naturally mine came after everyone else. I’d like to ask a question, where does inspiration come from? My muse is travel and opening myself up to new experiences, talking to new…

Get Stuff Done™

One of the greatest things in life is enjoying satisfying work. Something you can come home from and feel good about doing or completing. For some this might involve volunteering where there is a need, or running a business focused on a passion of theirs. And of course it doesn’t…