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Curiosity Day: Mammoth Cave
What: Intro to Caving Tour Where: Mammoth Cave – Kentucky Description: For a few years now I’ve wanted to make a trip to Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, and my Curiosity Day finally...
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Phriday’s Phenomenally Phrentic Phenomenon
Ever feel like you’re the only one that doesn’t know the words to a song?: Just a fun video — http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jRICTGmnM Suggestion for something to do this weekend if you have...
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How to be a Curious Person
I was recently asked by our leadership team to present a lecture on “How to be a Curious Person”. This is one of several lectures in a series that employees and interns take part in here at Curiosity....
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I Was Curious About the Hobo Life (and Left it for Curiosity)
04044, 4/1/13, 10:42 AM, 8C, 4164×5441 (284+773), 100%, Custom, 1/100 s, R64.7, G48.3, B75.5 What: Using AirBnB.com to create a “curious” lodging experience Where: Shaumberg, IL Description: Just in...
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Jeff Jones’ Curiosity Day
What: Using AirBnB.com to create a “curious” lodging experience Where: Shaumberg, IL Description: Just in case you aren’t familiar with AirBnB, it’s a technology you can use to find places people are...
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My Curiosity Day: Social Media and a Lumber Sale
Here at Curiosity, every employee is given an extra day off each year to go out and try something new, adventurous or just plain crazy. This day is appropriately named “A Curiosity Day”. As a digital...
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Curiosity Company Portrait
To celebrate our growth over the past three years, we thought it would be fun to put together a company portrait paying homage to the Mad Men agencies that have gone before us and paved the way for...
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Account Team Learns A New Skill
At first glance, this photo doesn’t look out of the ordinary—the cutting table is a regularly populated location in our office as items are produced for various client meetings and deliverables....
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10 Things I Learned On My Curiosity Day
One of the great things about working at Curiosity Advertising is the fact that each employee is given an extra day off each year. It’s called a “Curiosity Day,” and it encourages us to go out and...
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Everything You Need to Know About Curiosity
How does that saying go again? Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten? Well as I learned last week, that phrase especially holds true when it comes to curiosity. I recently set off on an...
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Curiosity Day: April Martini
As many of you know if you keep up with the Curiosity blog, employees are allowed one day per year to participate in something they are passionate about. Initially, my Curiosity Day was going to be...
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Holiday Traditions and/or Obsessions
The holidays are always a busy time of year, and it feels like every year it gets worse. This year, I have been trying to remind myself to take a moment and embrace the season. This includes noticing...
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Curiosity Abroad
This is admittedly a very long post that I’m certain violates Brownell’s Rule of Optimal Blog Post Lengths, but indulge me for once. I’m going somewhere with this one. It’s a few days after Christmas,...
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Basement Explorations
I was recently going through some old files in a box in the back of my basement. There was manila file folder simply titled “poems.” Inside the folder were pages of poems and other narratives that I...
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Biltmore Estate Wine Design Competition
My mom deserves all the credit on this one! She discovered the contest and begged me to enter it. Thinking it would be a waste of time due to past labels all being fine art style, I quickly dismissed...
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Basement Poetry Round Two
This is the second edition of Poems from Yesterday. Here are two more poems from the “folder found in the basement” containing a number of poems written more than 30 years ago, when I was between 15...
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Basement Poetry Round Three
Old Man From the North whence he comes to slap your face, not caring who you are. Causing crimson cheeks with a stinging force, you cannot raise a hand. Just turn your back and let him by, his whisper...
View ArticleI Learned Everything About Advertising From “What Women Want”
Mel Gibson starring opposite Helen Hunt in a romantic comedy based in an advertising agency. That was it. That was my introduction to the advertising world at the age of 10. The thought that I could...
View ArticlePROFESSORS VS. PROFESSIONALS
At the University of Kentucky, I had a number of professors who worked as creative directors or copywriters at big-name agencies—some of whom have been out of the business for 20 to 30 years. In...
View ArticleWhat does a Media Intern do at Curiosity?
Dear curious readers, My name is Oliver Mauk—I’m heading into my junior year at DePauw University, where I study communication and media. This summer at Curiosity, I’ve been interning with the media...
View ArticleCreativity From a Non-Creative
My name is Ben Schloss—I am a sophomore at the University of Cincinnati studying marketing and finance and am now interning as an assistant account executive for the summer. Account executives focus...
View ArticleBoxed Brownie Surprise
Creole chef legend Paul Prudhomme once said, “You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food,” and I could not agree more, especially when it comes to dessert. If you don’t like chocolatey,...
View ArticleInternship: A Curious Experience
I always thought an internship was an opportunity to maybe learn something valuable while running between the copier and the coffee machine. When I stepped through the front door of Curiosity marked...
View ArticleTruMoo Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
It’s hard to fail at cake. When you add TruMoo Chocolate Milk, peanut butter and…more butter, it’s practically impossible. With a perfect frosting-to-cake ratio (50:50) plus extra toppings, this cake...
View ArticleCorporate vs. Creative: Finding Your Fit
Here’s the deal—I am a confused 20-year-old college student. I don’t know what I want to do in life. I can identify parts of working that I like, but I have seemingly no idea of what I really love....
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Canva: Making design easier done than said.
Post by: Lydia Tissandier, Curiosity Advertising Design Intern Modern American designer Charles Eames once said, “Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” In other words, it isn’t...
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned about Diaper Rash Cream
Post by: Maggie Groff, Curiosity Insights intern Thanks to my internship in Curiosity’s Insights department, I now know way more about diaper rash cream than any average college student should. I also...
View ArticleHarnessing Creativity When You Really Don’t Want To
If you’re anything like me, then you’re creative! And probably good looking! But this gift of creativity probably means that you have trouble motivating yourself. Some days the most creative thing you...
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Spotlight: Laura Mason, Director of Strategy & Insights
Explain your childhood obsession with Evil Knievel. At age 9 or 10 I, was fascinated with stuntman/daredevil Evil Knievel and wanted to be like him! I religiously watched his antics on ABCs Wide World...
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Great Night for Curiosity’s Open House!
Last night (April 14), we celebrated our new space with 200 clients and other agency friends. The party featured three Cincinnati artists “painting” chalk walls throughout the night, which allowed...
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A Sneak Peak at Curiosity’s Photo Shoot!
Here are a few shots from Curiosity’s annual agency photo shoot! Every year, we put together a themed portrait of the entire Curiosity team. In the past, we’ve put together a rocket launch, a Mad...
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Week One of an Agency Internship
They Let an Intern Do This? It’s my seventh day at Curiosity Advertising for my agency internship, and they’re already letting me, an intern, speak on behalf of the agency publicly on the Internet....
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3 Things to Know When You’re Starting an Internship
THIS JUST IN: Intern Lasts Whole Week Without Breaking Keurig It’s been one…(I’m really sorry if that caused the Barenaked Ladies tune to burst through your subconscious)…month since I began my first...
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Three Ways to Make the Most of Your Summer Internship
When I was younger my dad, a small-business owner, would wake up for work every day at 5:00. I would never see him in the morning. I would only see him get home late in the evening to kick off his work...
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9 Things You Didn’t Know about Alex Dellis-Harcha
We love having Alex Dellis-Harcha as a Creative Director at Curiosity. She’s extremely talented and a whole bunch of fun to work with. But, what do we really know about Alex? We sat her down between...
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The Results Are In: Internships Can Be Life-Changing!
Why are internships important? What do they even do for people? If you have ever asked those questions, you are not alone. This is my first internship, besides a few job shadows here and there, and it...
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If You Can Be Anything, Be Curious
I may not be an expert in advertising, research, or knowing what I’m doing with my life, but I am exceptional at being curious. You may be thinking, “How cliché of you to write a blog on curiosity at...
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8 Resources for the Advertising-Obsessed
If you’re reading this, I can only assume that you’re the type of person who is more interested in the ads than the Super Bowl. This post is for you if watching the full ads on YouTube before your...
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Elevator Chats: The Simple Way to Connect
BREAKING! Millennial looks up from phone, appreciates value of human interaction. Networking has been around since the beginning of time. Cavemen interacted with each other through intricately painted...
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Take a Walk.
As the summer’s wrapping up like a Chipotle burrito, so are many summer long projects at Curiosity Advertising. From our traffic department to the production team, the agency is all hands on deck. It’s...
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A Southern Girl Takes on Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio. A lively city filled with adventure, tasty food, rich history and architecture: just the first few things you’ll notice when first exploring this Queen City. Eight weeks ago, I moved...
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Curiosity’s Summer Interns Get Creative on Instagram
The summer is wrapping up, and so is our intern program. For their last group project, we thought it would be fun to capture their perspective of the Curiosity experience! We were curious about what...
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On the World’s Stage: Getting in the Heads of the Athletes in the Summer Games
“Give me one word that describes how the Summer Games make you feel.” I posed that question to the team here at Curiosity Advertising and the results were strikingly optimistic. The word that stood out...
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Introducing Curiosity’s 2016 Staff Portrait!
Each year, we take a team picture to document our curious culture and how our agency has grown and changed. We always have a different theme: we’ve been astronauts, characters from Mad Men, world...
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Curiosity Creative Director Guest Author for MNI
Our very own Creative Director Ried Cartwright was invited to write a guest blog post (below) for MNI, a group that allows agencies to place national, regional and local advertising to very targeted...
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9 Things to Know About Allie
We’re happy to have Allie in our account department this summer! 1) Tell us a memorable story of yourself when you were a kid. When I was in elementary school, I took a trip to Disney World with my...
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7 Things to Know About Yvonne
1. What is your favorite movie genre to see in a theater, specifically? Romantic, chick-flick types of movies. There’s something about being in a theater, hopelessly romantic with a wad of tissues and...
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8 Things to Know About Elizabeth
1) What is something you get unreasonably excited about? Pugs. It doesn’t matter what mood I’m in; they always make me happy. If my doctor ever has to deliver news that I have a terminal illness, they...
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Camp Curiosity
Dispatches From Camp Curiosity: This past Sunday we Curiositeers enjoyed our annual company picnic. Styled as a sleep-away summer camp, the party boasted camp-themed games, crafts, food, and some...
View ArticleA Curious Holiday Video
The holidays make everyone go a little bananas, but this year we decided to embrace it and made a video to celebrate. So enjoy as agency partners Matt Fischer and Greg Livingston talk about staying...
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