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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.

Kudos to Domino’s Pizza for listening to feedback from consumers in order to make a better pizza. After hearing pretty blunt feedback like, “the crust seemed a bit lacking,” “mass produced, boring, bland pizza,” and “Domino’s pizza crust to me is like cardboard,” they took action. They both reinvented their pizza and hired Crispin Porter + Bogusky Boulder to help people fall in love with Domino’s all over again.

It takes guts for a brand to really listen to what people are saying about them. But this campaign is so intriguing that we’re actually considering running by Domino’s ourselves to see if there’s truly a difference. Learn more about the story yourself at PizzaTurnaround.com, or read more from CP+B’s Dave Rolfe.

Imagine our delight when, while flipping through a month-old issue of Fresh Cup magazine, we stumbled across an article about one of Springfield’s favorite local coffeehouses, The Coffee Ethic. The article, written by Springfield local/t-shirt king Shawn Matthews, offered fantastic business insights on how small coffee shops can be successful. All based upon the business model The Coffee Ethic has used to become one of Springfield’s favorite coffee destinations.

Part of that success, Shawn said, was that The Coffee Ethic prides itself on giving local artists an outlet for their creativity. And a piece of that outlet, which was featured in the article, comes from our own Mark Leicht, whose collaboration on a comic book called Hive, is on display at The Coffee Ethic, as well as other Springfield locations like The Moxie and Barnes and Noble.

So congrats to Mark, all of the artists featured in Hive, and especially our friends at The Coffee Ethic. We’re proud to see you recognized—albeit somewhat embarrassingly tardy on our part—in a national publication.

If you’re wearing sweatpants or have a tendency to walk slowly in comfy clothes, you may be really, really ill—or at least that’s what you might think if you watch drug commercials. Sarah Haskins has the phenomenal ability to make fun of ads and TV shows by simply pointing out the obvious. And we sort of love that about her.

When our über talented siblings over at Marlin crafted the Political Critter website, it was to be expected that John’s head would eventually end up as the mascot for a political party. Sure, we already pretty much consider John’s head a mascot over here at deep, but quite honestly, we think that a vote for Captain Democracy would be pretty mavericky of you. So please, exercise your freedoms and help our cause by voting for John’s head. And most importantly, stay tuned for more in the coming days, because we might just have more John’s head surprises up our sleeves.

Ed Rodthaler has a few things to say about the oddities/idiocies of the English language. And he was 102 when this was shot, so that’s the voice of experience speaking. The strange, funny, smart, almost-dirty-for-just-a-second voice of experience.

An explanation might help here, but I don’t think there is one. Star Wars, meet the Little Lad.