Posts under ‘Origin Culture’

Caption Writing Contest!

Today, we debut the Origin caption writing contest, a social media project that has 2 aims.
1. To crack us up.
2. To discover the quippy copywriting talents lurking out there in cyberspace.
Showing off some of our favourite photography is an added bonus.
How it works? Write quippy caption in the comments section below. If we choose your [...]

Passion and Risk – the most thrilling combination of all.

Farewell from Origin’s fashionista Account Director Kevani Macdonald.
Everyone please raise a glass to Passion, as I embark on a new future in retail management and fashion collaborations.

Passion. For all of us who choose to call Whistler home, we know what it’s like to follow a dream because it feels right in your heart, [...]

How to Train an Intern, with Tom Sachs

If we were to draft our own script for an intern training video, it would contain these bullets:
1. Do not EVER make the coffee. You will make it too watery, too weak, or too washed out to properly fuel production here. Leave that to one of the 3 designated team members who have been pre-qualified [...]

Moodboard Monday – Anticipation for Winter

We know that – for a lot of people out there – fall is just a bummer season… summer is over, it’s dark going to work, it’s dark leaving work, it never stops raining and depression sets in. But for us Originers, fall is something totally different. We are in full anticipation for winter! OK, so [...]

Moodboard Monday – Giving Thanks

Today the Origin team are giving thanks for:

Fallen trees and fluffy snow
Stem Cells and Stem Cell transplant research
My girls, dirt, rocks, stumps, roots and full-face helmets
RAIN! It brings snow AND hero dirt, my two favouritest things!!
People watching the fact it will always be so entertaining
The fact that winter is on it’s way and that [...]

Moodboard Monday – Summers Not Over Yet

Thanks Giving may only be a week away but we’re still being blessed with the occasional summers day, office dog Nixon certainly seems to be enjoying himself.

Salomon’s fall creative heads out of the park

When you labour over creative campaigns, you can start to lose Big Picture perspective and obsess over the granularity, (fullstops or no? is there enough mud on that shoe? does the blue pop enough?) so it’s fun to pull back up and look at a finished approved ad, like this fall in-store display that our [...]

Lessons on the creative process, gleaned from Sherpas Cinema

In the studio across the way from us, Sherpas Cinema have been holed up all summer, editing the feature film All.I.Can in time for its world premiere in Whistler on September 23 at the 2000–seat Conference Centre.

All.I.Can. Official Teaser from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.
The scale of the project is mammoth – the feature was shot over [...]

Happy International Bacon Day!

Via: Restaurant Coupons