The Des Moines Girl Gang is a local community of female creatives that I’ve becoming involved with this summer and through this group was invited to photograph the first annual summer music festival, Hinterland. Hinterland – meaning “The land behind...
Summer is just around the corner and things are changing at the Empire once again. We are saying farewell to our amazing spring Interns: Chandler Johannsen left in early May for a three month trip to Europe before her senior year at Iowa State University. Lu Lawrence...
Melissa just returned from a trip to the Tampa Bay area in Florida and summarizes her craft beer experience… Upon arrival just about anywhere, there are two things I tend to do… First, assemble a mixed 6-pack of what largely distributed beer is available in that area...
Things are changing around the 818 office once again, we hired two spring interns! Get to know them with a few This or That questions: Coffee or tea? Coffee. Black or white? Black. Pepsi or Coke? Dr. Pepper. Early bird or night owl? Night Owl. Winter or summer?...
A year ago, Friday we hired Paige Kleckner as a Designer and Director of Awesome. We asked her a couple of questions to recap her first year at 818: Q: Who is your favorite coworker? A: Barb the stuffed sloth because she just likes to hang out (and Melissa is making...
