Something crosses my mind every time I get a pizza from Papa John’s.
I’m just fascinated by the fact that with every single pizza, they include a pepperoncini pepper in the box.
I know, I know…the marginal cost of this is probably a penny per pizza- but it goes a long way for [...]

Death by Powerpoint. If you’re not familiar with the disease, you know some of the contributing factors:
1) reading from slides
2) multiple ideas per slide
3) all text
I could go on (clip art). Suffer through enough of these, and you understand why some audience members leave laptops open (not really, stop that). At any rate, there are [...]

Hi Gang! This is a first blog for me – but I just had to post this. At the beginning of every New Year it seems we all find a little time to look to the future with a few goals to set and live by. One priority of mine was to slow down and appreciate all the good in my life.

When my brother sent this to me today I couldn’t forward this fast enough.

Every day beauty, talent and creativity get missed. We’re surrounded by it, but we’re always just too busy to even see it. We “RAF-ers” are the people who inspire, foster and promote creativity so…. SLOW DOWN and take a minute to read this … and comment. Enjoy. (btw: Snopes confirmed this as a true experiment)

Here’s a look at the trailer for “Beautiful Losers” starring Thomas Campbell, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee, Mike Mills, Stephen Powers, Ed Templeton, with Cheryl Dunn, Peggy Honeywell, Aaron Rose, and Deanna Templeton.

The RAF joined together with AIGA Upstate New York, ArtAwake, Rochester Artech, The [...]

while i love my iphone am not afraid to show it, i have to wonder what my new email signature says about me. on-trend early adopter? check. but as a freelancer, it also admits to any client e-mail recipient that i am definitely not in my office. which is exactly where i should be, busily [...]

It turns out RifRaf is read by Scott Wolf, my mom, AND Jeremy Schwartz of RAF member Partners & Napier. Thanks Jeremy, for the snappy response and the great work for Kodak Entertainment Imaging. (Click on the image to see the ad bigger.) The film vs. digital argument has been raging for some time [...]

helloooooooo…is anybody out there? just wondering cuz it gets pretty lonely in here. if you’re listening, i got a proposition for ya. done any good work lately? something you’ve been itching to show off? well, let’s have it. honestly, i’d (heck, we’d) love to see it. and post it here for the other two people [...]

if you heart mad men, then you probably caught this clip on SNL over the weekend. and while jon hamm could peddle the pants off anyone, it got me thinking. about the strangest product i’d ever worked on: an estrogen replacement therapy aptly named femring. it was no john ham, and you couldn’t eat [...]

It’s not often you see commercials that continue to make you laugh long after seeing them, but I’d definitely file this spot for Vault Energy Soda under that category.

Hilarious. I’m not sure who’s responsible for the creative, but I do know the first few commercials for Vault (owned by Coca-Cola) were done by Publicis New [...]