Are you a creative, media savvy, advertising genius who loves competition? Do you enjoy high socks, shin guards, sweat and soccer balls? If your answer is “yes”, then 160over90 wants your team to compete in the Agency World Cup! Advertising, branding, design, media and interactive agencies in the Philadelphia area are invited for a soccer [...]
Hey, remember that movie Space Camp, where the kids get accidentally launched into space? Well, I came close to that cinematic glory on my recent vacation to Florida, when I went to (watch) the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch in Cape Canaveral. It was the perfect experience for an ex-Space Camp Nerd-turned-writer, and a sad send-off [...]
I was a freshman design student at Kent State when Bush announced plans to have American troops invade Iraq in 2003. Many protests materialized around campus; bull horns, blocked off streets, peace bandannas we hand screened in the studio— yup, this was our chance to experience the power of counterculture and revolution. Or so we [...]
Yesterday morning when most of the sane world was still sleeping, 30,000 runners, including five of us from 160over90, congregated in North Philly at the top of Broad Street to race ten miles in muggy 80 degree heat. We organized the team as a part of our efforts to encourage sustainability and health, and to [...]
I’ve written before about the NFL’s ability to expand what is essentially a four month season into a year long engagement. This past Tuesday they again managed to turn coal into diamonds and they didn’t have to squeeze that hard. In the midst of the NBA and NHL playoffs the NFL managed to get two [...]
Forty years ago, on April 22, Earth Day began as a massive grassroots movement (please excuse the pun) to raise awareness about environmental issues. The original demonstration attracted nearly 20 million people who engaged in marches and teach-ins. Today, Earth Day is a global phenomenon. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. Perhaps you’ve even used phrases like “carbon footprint” [...]