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CorTrust — Best Bank in South Dakota

Our friends CorTrust Bank won the honor of being named Best Bank in South Dakota for 2019 and 2020 by Forbes Magazine. We helped them with a little humble-brag including new TV, stickers for customers and fans, banners for their lobbies, and feather banners for outside the branches. We’re proud to say they’ve been our…

CorTrust Bank — Split Personality

CorTrust is a community bank that’s locally owned and is quite proud of its outstanding customer service. (That’s probably why Forbes magazine named them The Best Bank in South Dakota in 2019 and again in 2020.) But just because they’re small doesn’t mean they don’t have the all the cool new technology people expect from…

CorTrust Bank — Lighten Up!

After a couple of years of running image building ads, CorTrust needed a campaign that would put mortgages on the books and drive new customers to open checking accounts. They called ADwërks. We created a new simple, clean, graphic look that used their strong purple, green, and white color palette. What started with billboards, a…

CarHop — Logo and Brand Work

We worked with CarHop for a long time. How long? Well, since before we were ADwërks and they were CarHop. We helped them chose the name, created their logo, their jingle, their point-of-sale materials, website, and TV since the beginning. And for many years, their on-air spokesman The CarHop Guy was played by our very…

DGR Engineering — Rebrand

DGR Engineering consulted us for help with rebranding their company. The first item on the agenda? A name change. For 60 years they had been known as Dewild, Grant, Reckert and Associates, named after their founding partners. Since those names no longer had a connection or relevance to clients and the employee-owned engineering firm, we…

CorTrust Bank — Mortgage

As the mortgage market was heating up, CorTrust needed some fresh creative to stay in the battle. We responded with a pair of 15-second spots and a 30-second spot. All ran on television and digital and helped keep the CorTrust Mortgage team busy through the peak season. The only problem with this campaign? CorTrust likes…

Washington Pavilion — More Space Campaign

File this under “Oldie, but goodie.” When you were a kid, all it took to be a rocket-flying spaceman was a pasta strainer on your head, an empty cardboard box, and a little imagination. When the Washington Pavilion opened its Air and Space Exhibits at the Kirby Science Center, we knew a vintage-themed commercial reminding…

McDonald’s® — Mountain Man

Were not trying to brag, but we’d put this locally-produced (!!) spot for Cold Days, Hot Deals up against any national work out there. We made it back in 2007 and it ran for seven years. That’s a lot of burgers. Just sayin’.

Pioneer Bank — Check-Ching!

Who doesn’t love the sound of money? Check-Ching! When Pioneer Bank wanted to let their customers know how their high-tech bank with friendly local bankers could give their new customers checking accounts that paid them back, they needed a catchy new name for their checking accounts. Check-ching! We created this snazzy logo, some fun radio,…

Falls Park Farmers Market — Imported From Campaign

For many years the Falls Park Farmers Market has challenged us to get big impact with very small budget. One season, we created a series of print ads, animated internet banner ads, and email blasts to remind everyone that the produce they sell at the Market is all grown within a hundred miles of here.…