Join our friends at Wells & Company as they celebrate the holiday season and share food, drink and a chance to win over $1,000 in gift certificates and prizes.

December 18th, 2009 from 7-11pm
72 North Dixie Drive, Vandalia Ohio 45377

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It’s wonderful to have so many things to be thankful for. I’m truly blessed in many ways. I hope everyone has an exceptional Thanksgiving day with family and friends.

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Despite some crappy windy wet weather leading up to the party Saturday cleared off for another wonderful Halloween evening. Special thanks to Tom Davis, Andy Nick, Rick Smith and everyone else who always helps to make these parties so special. Enjoy the photos—if anyone has any to add please send them to me via: circa71@gmail.com I’d love to add them to the slideshow below.

H09 Slideshow of photos | H09 invite & poster design: Tom Davis
Invite printing: Oregon Printing Co. | Posters: All System’s Color, Inc.

Dear DCS friend and supporter,

Thanks for all your continued support and well wishes for the continued success of Dayton Creative Syndicate. Every year DCS teams up with our sister-organization, The Greater Dayton Advertising Association and two other groups, AMA and IABC to sponsor a silent auction holiday party to celebrate the season and benefit all the groups involved.

The way it works is easy—each organization seeks out donations of products, services or discounts to be auctioned the night of the party. Then the proceeds from the sales of these donated items go to help to support: on-going education, programming, public service projects, and much more. Your donation not only helps the continuation of DCS, but is good publicity for your company as well.

So that’s our spiel—please help us by contributing what you can. Every items helps. In return we’ll do our best to promote the items and your company and you’ll have our enduring thanks.

The sooner you donate, the more you’ll benefit from the pre-event publicity which includes an item/donor list posted on our Web site(s), e-mail blasts, and more…plus, this year you can follow us on Twitter via: @mmatc As donations come we’ll promote the donated items and who the generous donor(s) are.

To see a list of items that have already been donated

To donate items

This year please mark your calendars for our annual Holiday Party & Auction at the NCR Country Club on Thursday, December 3, 2009. The theme this year is “Meet Me at the Club”, and we intend to bring back the glitz and celebrate the renewed optimism of the late 1930s.

Mark your calendar: Thurs., Dec. 3 at NCR Country Club, 4435 Dogwood Trail, Kettering.
Registration/networking will begin at 6:00 p.m. with the event beginning at 6:30.

To reserve your spot for the holiday party.

If you have any questions about donations or the event, please contact DCS president, Patrice Hall via email: president@creativesyndicate.org or DCS Director, Rob Anspach via email: dcs@cretivesyndicate.org

thanks,
-Rob

For the past 5 years, Craig Neuman has nurtured great ideas into great design as Creative Director at Midwestern creative powerhouse, Barkley. The Kansas City-based, full-service advertising agency has built up an impressive client list and some impressive work. They also have a rocket on top of their building and, among other notable quirks, they are 100% employee-owned.

Clearly, Barkley takes their work seriously, but they don’t take themselves too seriously—and neither does Neuman. Just watch his discussion about Americans butchering the Queen’s English and you can see that he delights in observing and critiquing the world around him. Craig’s work has appeared in The One Show Annual, Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, National ADDYs and POP Times.

DCS will present Craig Neuman at SAA on Monday, November 9 beginning at 6:00PM. That’s coming up very soon and seating is limited, so register online now to reserve your spot.

Details

• Monday, November 9 at 6:00
• School of Advertising Art – 1725 East David Road in Kettering

Pricing

• DCS members: $5
• Non-members: $10
• Students (cash at door only with valid student ID): $5

Register Online

(You will be taken to GDAA’s website for payment and registration)

About Craig Neuman

Craig oversees a talented design group at Barkley that works on strategy and execution of brand identity, packaging and POP displays. His work has been honored by Communication Arts, Graphis, Print Regional Design Annual, National Gold Addys and One Show Design Annuals. Craig has been involved with creating effective communication strategies for clients including 24-Hour Fitness, Sonic Drive-ins, Blue Bunny Ice Cream, L’Oreal, March of Dimes and H+R Block.

Perhaps his proudest moment? Winning a James Beard Award, the culinary equivalent of an Oscar, for best restaurant graphics in the nation.

With Halloween around the corner I thought we needed an image dump with a theme! Enjoy

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An update on some work that is still in progress by my buddy Tom Davis

Tom started this first of 2 American Indians back in July and we’ve just gotten around to a second sitting where we added the gilded frame to the first Indian. We still have a session to add the gold color to the frame and the sepia toned wash to the Indian but as you can see from the picture below I’m real jazzed about our progress.

I knew the addition of the frame would turn a decent sized piece into one that covers the back of my calf but seeing it now I’m really happy with the size and placement, not to mention Tom’s work. If you haven’t looked him up for your next tattoo I highly suggest you do. You can contact Tom via e-mail: tom@wellstattoo.com or give him a shout at Wells Tattoo in Vandalia.

By: Rob Anspach (Bonnie Hollinger, Barbra Minton, Jennifer Romick)

2009 applebutter weekend started off a bit touch-n-go on the wet side as cold October winds and rain greeted my son Dallas, his girlfriend Kate and I as we journeyed back into Mark and Pam Heirholzer’s woods Thursday to set up camp. After setting up mom’s trailer we decided pretty quickly to get a fire started and that we not only needed to get some tarps up to block the rain but that we could also use a few more. After a quick trip to Ansonia Lumber the tarps were stretched out from the trees, we began the process of staying dry and cooking around the fire. As evening approached we were joined by several others throughout the night.

Friday morning rolled around and Mother Nature greeted us with much more of the same weather. After a late morning breakfast Joe Ungericht and I ran to pickup cider and apples at Downings Orchard over by New Madison, Ohio. The apple smell when we walked in the barn at the orchard was truly overpowering. I’ve never wanted to eat an apple so badly in my whole life. All toll this year we used 13 bushels of 4 varieties of apples and 90 gallons of cider. Despite the rain and the cooler temperatures many of our relatives came out Friday night to find the bad weather subsiding for the weekend. Those who braved the elements gathered around the fires and under the tarps to enjoy several massive trays of ribs and other assorted goodies. Festivities continued well into the night and left yours truly as a casualty beside the fire.

Soon after and early Saturday morning the applebutter fires were started and our process of making applebutter began by boiling down the cider, coring, peeling and snitzing the apples. Everything proceeded as if we’ve done this a time or two in the past and around lunch we gathered together for a few announcements, the saying of grace and a wonderful meal compliments of the many generations of wonderful cooking traditions that run through our family. I’m always amazed by the amount of wonderful dishes—the pie table alone is enough to challenge even the sweetest tooth of the group. And of course the chicken spitted and cooked rotisserie style over the file is always a treat.

As day turned into night everyone began lining their crocks up in anticipation of the fresh hot applebutter. This year’ we finished with 38 gallons. Once everyone claimed their applely deliciousness many gathered around the chicken fire-pit for a festive end to a hard day’s efforts. Overall our attendance was a little lower this year than it has been in the past. Thanks to all of those who joined us this year and special wishes go out to all our family members and friends who were unable to join us for this years event. You were all missed.

The Hollinger applebutter reunion is a wonderful event that helps to pass on our families culture, heritage and our traditions. Special thanks to all those who help keep this event going year after year.

Photos from 2009
Please follow this link to view photos from the 2009 applebutter reunion.

If you took photos and would like to add or upload them to this Flickr set simply e-mail photos to this e-mail address: body33social@photos.flickr.com