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We couldn’t help but fall in love last week. Not only with the incredible city of San Francisco, but also with the little gem of a shop called Al’s Attire in North Beach, which made us feel all warm and swoony inside.

Filled with incredible custom-tailored men’s and women’s clothing—and even shoes and hats—we found ourselves lusting over bolts of fabric, stacks of hat boxes, vintage spats, and these incredible shoes that would have so perfectly matched a certain copywriter’s ever-popular Purple Rain coat.

*Sigh.*

Coming home, we’ve continued talking about the amazing things we wanted to bring home from Al’s. And just to put us back in our dreamy stupor, Patrick stumbled across some great YouTube clips that reminded us just how lovely Al’s Attire is.

We were smitten with all of the great fabric and buttons, and vintage-inspire hats, and the custom footwear that left us practically speechless. Still, it doesn’t beat the real thing, so do yourself a favor and drop by next time you’re in San Francisco. Rumor has it, you might just bump into Tom Waits.

It seems that everybody in advertising knows what a game changer the Apple 1984 ad was during the Super Bowl, and that since then, the ads are as much of a part of the buzz as is the actual game. So in the spirit of phenomenal advertising, we couldn’t have been more excited to stumble across this little gem just in time for the big game. Kick back and enjoy the world’s largest archive of Super Bowl commercials over the years.

And while we’re talking about it we’d like to make it clear—we have reason to root for the Colts since our lovely Lauri Smith is an Indy native and die-hard fan. Being the dedicated deepster that she is, Lauri will be spending her Sunday at an undisclosed location in San Francisco rather than surrounded by her Colts family. With that said, we’re giving her—and her team—all of our support.

Go Colts!

We couldn’t be happier to announce that Springfield’s own Liberty Bank has selected deep as its agency as they looks to differentiate themselves and truly stand out in the local banking market.

Liberty Bank was originally built as a bank that was hard-working, honest and full of integrity, which is why they were a natural fit for deep. “They know what it takes to work one’s way up by one’s own efforts, because that’s where they came from,” explained our lovely writer, Lynn Biederstadt. “That gave us a really great starting point; it’s a mindset we understand very well.”

Art director Mike Dockery agreed. “They seem to really appreciate good, original, on-strategy creative. That is a very welcomed quality in my book. I personally look forward to helping build the original, sexiest, fastest-growing bank in history.”

Since we always enjoy making our work sexy, we’d like to thank Liberty Bank for giving us a challenge and allowing us to shine. Here’s to our future together.