Join bluemedia™ and over 500 key players in the greater Phoenix marketing and advertising industry on September 17th for a righteous networking get together of epic post-recession proportions! F1 Race Factory is the venue and kart-racing mayhem is on the menu. Whether you just want to enjoy a couple beverages and make some new, valuable connections or strap on a helmet and put someone into the wall, there will be something for everyone. We hope to see all of you there so we can put our best foot forward towards 2010 as this economy turns around! Be sure to check out our facebook event page for more details and let us know you’re with us.

We’d also love to hear from you if you have any success stories you’d like to share about your company from the past year. Hit up the comment board here, facebook or tweet us with your recession-smashing anecdotes. Don’t forget to include your name, title and company name as we will be printing some cool signage based off of your stories to showcase at the event. Better times are right around the corner, let’s kick it off!

Hickman’s Egg Ranch is like the coolest egg ranch on the planet and we are lucky enough to have them as a client! This Friday the 14th they are holding their “Breakfast for Dinner” Night from 5pm – close at participating restaurants.  This event collects new pajamas and donates them to the Arizona’s Children Association Foster Care Program.  Anyone who attends and brings some pajamas will receive a FREE dozen eggs from Hickman’s and a chance to win a breakfast party for 65 friends.  You can find the list of paticipating restaurants on their website http://www.hickmanseggs.com/. This is a great cause put on by great people!

Based in Arizona, i/o Data Centers designs, builds and operates highly reliable and efficient data centers for some of the world’s largest corporations and web properties. The data center solutions provider offers a variety of innovative and flexible colocation options including colocation cabinets, colocation cages, data center suites and containerized data centers.

The ThermoCabinet™ is an innovative high-density colocation cabinet that provides power capacity up to 2,500 watts per square foot. The sealed cabinet design optimizes thermal management and provides an additional layer of physical protection.

According to the company’s president and founder Anthony Wanger, “the ThermoCabinet was designed to increase server and power capacity while reducing both the physical and carbon footprint.” “We listened to our customers and developed a solution that would address their economic and environmental concerns – the ThermoCabinet is the Swiss army knife for colocation.”

bluemedia prints awarding winning tradeshow graphics!

bluemedia escaped the heat for a few hours and hosted some clients & friends on Saturday June 13^th in the Ridenow Pool  @ Chase Field. The D backs played host to the Houston Astros – and we enjoyed some D Backs hot dogs !

We all cheered loud for a 9^th inning rally – but in the end the D Backs fell short of a win.

Thanks to the D Backs staff and everybody on the blue crew that helped make this an awesome event.

bluemedia is honored to be an official partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Chase Field has really become a magical place this season with all of the new branding and sponsorship signage that has been  incorporated into the ballpark.

With a team that pushes their limits everyday, The employees over at Chase Field, along side bluemedia, work very hard to make the ballpark the most remarkable fan experience for everyone. This year it paid off for the Diamondbacks! They were  awarded the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

“We are thrilled and honored to be hosting this amazing event,” said Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. “Even if you were here for the 2001 World Series, you’ll hardly recognize the place. We’ve got a brand new Convention Center, a new downtown hotel, 20-miles of light rail, and a sea of Sedona Red. It’s a very special time to be in Phoenix, and MLB is adding the exclamation point to everything that’s going on.”

“This is an exciting day for the Arizona Diamondbacks,” said D-backs’ President and CEO Derrick Hall. “This franchise, its great fans and wonderful state deserve the honor and recognition. We pride ourselves in being the most fan-friendly team in sports and for providing a wholesome and memorable game experience, and now the entire world will have the opportunity to witness it from this grand stage. We thank the Commissioner and all of Major League Baseball for the selection, and for allowing us to showcase our beautiful ballpark, our welcoming city and our first-class fans.”

The 82nd All-Star Game will be held at Chase Field in Phoenix on July 12, 2011.

After working at bluemedia for over two years; I have always wondered why our clients respond to us the way they do…. A recent study broadcast on NPR helped me fill in a few of those blanks.

The study explains why previous research has produced conflicting results about how red and blue affect thinking, Mehta says. Either color can provide an advantage, he says, but only if it’s matched to the right kind of task.

read more here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100301582

Yes, the Cardinals are heading for the championship game in Tampa.

Capitalizing on Larry Fitzgerald’s three first-half touchdown receptions, then coolly marching downfield to Kurt Warner’s 8-yard scoring pass to rookie Tim Hightower with 2:53 left, they beat the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 Sunday for the NFC championship.

“I want to say Arizona Cardinals and Super Bowl in the same sentence,” a jubilant Warner said. “The Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl. How about it?”

Arizona (12-7) will face AFC champion Pittsburgh in two weeks in Tampa for the NFL title. The Steelers beat Baltimore 23-14 later in the day.

“To make it to the Super Bowl and to have a chance, an opportunity to win it, you relish those moments in your career,” said safety Adrian Wilson, the longest-tenured Cardinal. “This being my eighth year, and to be in this organization at this time with these players and these coaches, it’s a great moment.”

 This is the 2008 holiday card we sent out to our clients. I wouldn’t have bothered posting it but we have gotten so many emails telling us how funny they thought it was so I decided to share it here as well. Happy Holidays and a prosperous 2009 to you all!