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December 20th, 2008

Final Update – Designing a Unique Holiday Gift

We’re pleased to report that we have successfully shopped, wrapped, and delivered all of the gifts over the past week. Here’s a little of the “evidence” shall we say? If you want to see the photos, you’re going to have to click to read more!

To close out our 2008 Christmas Shopping Odyssey, here’s a few photos from our adventures:


Nothing brings the office together like the holidays…


Surveying all of our great finds, and it only took two shopping carts… at this store.


Getting ready to brave the weather…


Our second stack of goodies.


One of our families made us paper cranes!

I’d like to give a special thanks to Amanda for heading up all of our shopping activities this year. Great job, and we’re looking forward to doing it again next year!

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December 5th, 2008

Update #2 – Designing a Unique Holiday Gift

We’ve been holding off to share our latest updates… mostly because a few of the details were still up in the air. So as of this week, Miles Design is officially adopting two families this Christmas. And today is our shopping day!

Both families appear to be single mothers. Our first family listed the mother and two boys (eight and twelve). Our second family listed the mother, two girls (eight and fourteen) and a twelve-year-old son.

Their Christmas lists are mostly just the basics: warm clothes, undergarments, school clothes, and a few toys. It’s yet another reminder of how blessed we all are.

We’re still working on the strategy for shopping this afternoon. There has been talk of splitting into teams for each family – or even splitting up the lists into categories and dividing and conquering in that fashion. Either way, I think we’ll figure it out.

We’ll be hitting some combination of Old Navy, Kohl’s, Meijer, Target, and maybe even Castleton Mall after lunch today. And as requested, we’ll take photos of our shopping trip to share with everyone here on the MD News blog. Watch out Castelton!

Our plan is still to keep the afternoon of December 12th as our wrapping day, and December 18th is when we plan to make our deliveries. And as before, if anyone is interested in joining in on the holiday cheer, drop us a line.

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November 12th, 2008

Designing a Unique Holiday Gift

For those of you who have enjoyed our past holiday cards and fun little excursions like HolidayCow.com, we’re excited to let you in on a little secret. This year, we’re taking a different spin on holiday gifts. We’re giving your gift to someone else.

With the roller coaster news from Wall Street this season, we thought this would be a great year to share with those less fortunate. We’re still working out the details, but we’ve decided to use the money we would have spent on you this Christmas to adopt a family in need. And don’t worry. We’re so excited about what’s ahead in this process, we’re planning to document our excursion and share in the fun here on our blog.

So stay tuned. There are more good things ahead. And in spite of what the media might have many of us thinking, we’re blessed to say, “business is good.” And we’re lucky to have friends and clients like you. If you have any ideas for our adopt-a-family project, we’d love to hear them.

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December 19th, 2007

Holiday Cow

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Some of you are probably thinking, “Uh… a cow?” Others might be thinking “Finally something different this holiday!” And some of my more discerning students may be thinking, how does Holiday Cow relate to the Miles Design brand?

The short of it is, we wanted to wish everyone Happy Holidays in a way nobody else would. And we think, even if you do have an innate fear of cows, you will probably find this humorous on some level. At least we do.

Sometimes doing something a little out of the norm is the best way to get noticed. And other times, it’s not…

Something that veers towards inappropriate, crude or subversive, is bound to get noticed as well, but not necessarily in a good way. Chances are, the most creative way to get noticed is also appropriate for your brand. Doing something outside of the norm just might help a potential customer imagine your company in a fresh, new way. “Hey, did you see that thing with the cow? You gotta see this.”

For us, Holiday Cow is about sending a fun Holiday message to our friends, clients, and vendor partners. It carries on our slightly irreverent sense of humor, our brand look and feel, and just so happens to “moo” occasionally. Hopefully you will enjoy Morty as much as we did creating him for you. (Who knows… maybe next year it will be a Llama, named Ike.)

What have you done with your brand that’s outside of the norm (in a good or bad way)? What can your brand do differently in 2008? How can we help?

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