IOS Tip of the week 06/22/2017 11:25 am First Annual WWC thanksgiving dart tournament. 11/29/2016 9:22 am Going away lunch for Mark. We're going to miss you! #adlife @formerlyafatty 11/09/2016 1:28 pm We are excited that Rob Bogart is joining our team! Looks like he's hard at work already. @r_bogart #adlife #advertising 11/09/2016 12:39 pm #bestoverall #spice2houston @ad2houston #adlife #chili 11/05/2016 3:08 pm Cooking some chili on this sunny day! @ad2houston #spice2houston #adlife 11/05/2016 1:20 pm Apple Special Event: OCT 2016 http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2016/ 10/27/2016 12:34 pm #launchpad 10/18/2016 7:59 am Beautiful weather calls for outdoor eating. Just missing Mr. Whole Wheat himself. #adlife #houstonheights 09/30/2016 1:05 pm Cooling off in this 100+ heat index. #adlife 09/19/2016 1:20 pm When your client's face greets you unexpectedly on 610. Shout out Children's Learning Institute and Dr. Landry! #billboard #adlife 09/16/2016 2:34 pm Our client, VaryActive, will be hanging out at the post race area for the Foam Glow Run tonight! If you are near the Sam Houston Race Track, stop by their booth and say hi! Show them that you have VaryActive installed on your iPhone and you will be entered in for a drawing to win entry to the Bubble Run OR a free workout class of your choice! #run #5K @foamglow @varyactive @bubblerun5k #crossfit #yoga #pilates #barre #workout #swole 09/03/2016 10:21 am Photo shoot day for Sun and Ski. #sunandski #adlife #photoshoot 08/12/2016 5:19 pm Lunchtrip to @torchystacos #adlife 08/05/2016 12:25 pm In Messages in iOS10, if you type the name of a movie, song or TV show, it will automatically become a link to a page with important info and links to view the item in iTunes. Pretty cool! #ios10 #adlife #development #smartphones #beta #messages #tipsandtricks 07/27/2016 2:19 pm Looking for fun games to play on your phone? Check out these five we can’t put down! (no, we didn’t include Pokemon Go). *** Disney Emoji Blitz - a match-three game featuring your favorite Disney/Pixar characters as emojis! The best part is, once you unlock a character, you can use them in text messages (unless you downloaded the beta of #iOS10, cause it doesn’t work for that yet...) *** Sling Kong - fling various animals vertically while avoiding obstacles to try and get a high score. *** Steps - just tap your screen to move a block through a winding course filled with obstacles and traps. VERY ADDICTIVE.... *** Rodeo Stampede - tame wild animals with your trusty lasso and show them off in your floating zoo, which you can upgrade for more money. *** Cookie Cats - probably the best game on this list. Definitely the best game. Feed cookies to hungry cats by making chains of three or more. The best part? The cats sing you new songs at the end of each level, and they are all great. What’s your favorite smartphone game? #ios #android #games #smartphones @cookiecatsgame @disney @pixar #pokemongo @pokemon @nintendo @slingkongphotos #wwcplays 07/21/2016 12:02 pm We downloaded the beta of iOS10 and are having a blast playing with it. Want to know how to easily emojify your texts? Check out the video! #ios10 #emoji #adlife #apple #iphone #tipsandtricks 07/18/2016 11:08 am Client photo shoot this morning for a web project. #adlife #photography #website #webdesign 05/18/2016 8:55 am On January 28, 1996 the Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers and Diana Ross entertained the crowd at the XXX Super Bowl in Arizona. #WWC20years #dianaross #superbowl #halftimeshow #adlife #1996 05/12/2016 4:35 pm Had a meeting at Westlake Chemical this afternoon - check out their brand new company history timeline! Really awesome use of space. #adlife #westlake #timeline #ourhistory #work 05/09/2016 3:11 pm Happy Cinco de Mayo! The Macarena came out in August of 1996 and spent a record breaking 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts! #heymacarena #cincodemayo #adlife #WWC20Years #1996 #austinpowers #macarena 05/05/2016 10:11 am This commercial for @littlecaesars won the Gold Cannes Lion in 1996. Who’s hungry for some pizza? #WWC20Years #1996 #canneslion #adlife #commercial #pizzapizza #🍕 04/28/2016 9:43 am This song came out 20 years ago. #mmmbop #hanson #wwc20years #adlife #music #1996 04/26/2016 10:07 am Check out this vintage ad from Best Buy selling an Apple desktop - ON SALE - for $2,399.99! Times have definitely changed. Shout out to @buzzfeed for posting this a while back. #bestbuy #apple #adlife #WWC20Years 04/21/2016 3:46 pm 20 years ago, Braveheart hit theaters and swept the Academy Awards, earning a win for Best Picture as well as a Best Director win for Mel Gibson. #WWC20years #1996 #braveheart #oscars #freedom #melgibson #crushyoulikeaworm 04/19/2016 10:25 am This spot for Volkswagen by DDB London took home the Gold at the 1996 Cannes Lions. Its a great spot in which the central message and the method of delivery are perfectly paired together to create a memorable and unique commercial. To see the full spot, click the link in our profile.  #WWC20years #1996 #adlife #canneslions #gold #advertising #volkswagen 04/14/2016 9:32 am 1996 was 20. Years. Ago. Think about that. What were you doing 20 years ago? Join us on Facebook and Instagram as we take a look back at what we were doing and what was going on in the world in the mid nineties. On April 12, 1996, Walt Disney Pictures released their adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic, James and the Giant Peach. What was your favorite movie from 1996? #WWC20years #waltdisney #1996 #thisdayinhistory #adlife 04/12/2016 9:41 am Perks of working in a house: you can cook your clients breakfast. #fritatta #paleo #whole30 #adlife 03/17/2016 8:54 am When it's spring break and you gotta bring your kids to work... #springbreak #adlife #dogsarekidstoo 03/15/2016 10:47 am We had a great time last week at the Addy's! We won three! @houstonaaf #addys #tagURit #adlife 02/25/2016 9:37 am I spy two cats in our backyard. #meow #adlife 02/23/2016 12:08 pm Had a great time at the Full of Grace 5K this weekend to raise money for ovarian cancer research at MD Anderson Cancer Center. We were proud to sponsor this year's event and are looking forward to next year's! #HEYcancerBEATit #adlife 02/22/2016 2:38 pm Learning some helpful tips for entering a winning submission to the AMA Crystal Awards this morning. Very informative! @ama_houston #crystalawards #adlife 02/18/2016 8:39 am Let's talk about time keeping. What methods do you use to track hours? #time #whatdoesthispostgounder #timefox #adlife 02/05/2016 12:17 pm Check out Lawton's new ride! #Ducati #creative #adlife #heights 02/03/2016 9:23 am A lot of times, new or potential clients have a hard time with paying an advertising agency BEFORE they see the work they will create. They’ll ask us to create something for them first, and then if they like it they will pay us. Could you imagine doing that at Starbucks or with a personal trainer? Check out this hilarious video by Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo featuring an actor asking real people to provide them with a product or service for free. #adlife #specwork 11/05/2015 9:52 am Exciting times at Whole Wheat Creative. These guys showed up today and started digging up our ditches. I hope no one has to leave any time soon... #adlife #heightslife #houston 11/03/2015 10:17 am @cmkindrick can die happy now. She met @hogglife101 at the Texans game last night. #slimthug #texans #houston #adlife 10/09/2015 8:51 am Lee Wheat introducing @guybom at the #aafd10summit last Friday morning. It was a great weekend of events! #adlife @aafnational @houstonaaf 10/05/2015 9:21 am Celebrating some awesome talent at the Southwest Advertising Hall of Fame gala. #aafd10summit 10/02/2015 7:05 pm Awesome, hilarious, informative talk this morning from @guybom on creativity. #aafd10summit #adlife #houston @houstonaaf #creative 10/02/2015 9:33 am Loving the awesome H-Town SWAG at the D10 Summit #aafd10summit #houstonnolimits #adlife #houston @aafnational 10/02/2015 8:37 am Empathy asks the question. Ego screams for an answer. Great talk from @ryanbooth on empathy with yourself, your collaborators and your clients. #creativemornings #creativemorningshou 09/30/2015 10:42 am Congratulations to Lee and @sweetsuewheat as their daughter Paige got married this weekend! #adlife #houston 09/28/2015 11:10 am Did you know we had a weekly newsletter? You can see what projects we've worked on in the past, what we are currently working on and our thoughts on the creative process. You can sign up by tapping the link in our profile. #newsletter #adlife #houston #advertising #appdevelopment 09/22/2015 11:32 am New #appletv before its out? Why, thank you. #devperks #adlife #apple #tech 09/21/2015 9:24 am We all had fun playing with the new Snapchat update today. @sweetsuewheat @cmkindrick @formerlyafatty #adlife #houston #snapchat 09/17/2015 4:41 pm We are hard at work on a brand new fitness app called VaryActive. It should launch early 2016 and we think it's gonna be a pretty big deal! #watchoutclasspass #app #programming #adlife #fitness 09/16/2015 8:54 am Working so hard that we melt cords #Apple #charger #adlife #houston 09/08/2015 11:38 am Two things we are excited about today: 1.Being able to post landscape and portrait pictures to Instagram. It’s about time! 2.UTHealth launching the School of Dentistry website, which we designed. We loved working with their internal communications team to come up with a design that looks great and functions even better. You can check it out by searching “UT Health School of Dentistry” #advertising #adlife #website @myuthealth 09/02/2015 11:07 am @cmkindrick and @formerlyafatty went to a Creative Mornings Houston event this morning. Learned a lot about empowering others through action. And they also learned how to take a #smilebooth picture. Or didn't... #houadv #advertising #creative #houston 08/28/2015 1:51 pm #truelife #programmers #creative #houston 08/25/2015 12:01 pm @cmkindrick got @formerlyafatty back by filming him eating his lunch. #turkeydogs #bald #creative #officepranks 08/21/2015 12:24 pm @cmkindrick spent a while making her desk feng shui, including putting only 7 coins in a dish to boost creativity. So naturally @formerlyafatty secretly adds more coins when she isn't looking. #fengshui #officepranks #creative #advertising 08/20/2015 10:51 am We had a special guest in the office yesterday. Bring him back soon, @cmkindrick 08/11/2015 11:56 am #transformationtuesday Our client, The Children's Learning Institute, just launched their brand new website. We had a blast working on this project and think it looks great! Check it out by visiting childrenslearninginstitute.com. #web #webdesign #advertising 08/04/2015 10:58 am If you are reading this, then this information is especially pertinent to you. Want to know some handy dandy #Instagram tips and tricks? Check out our new blog post - link in profile. #socialmedia #advertising 07/10/2015 11:50 am #tbt to when our racially diverse emoji keyboard, iDiversicons, was featured on the #Apple App Store homepage for four weeks! You can read more about it on our blog (link in profile). #advertising #houston #iphone #appdeveloper #emoji 07/09/2015 11:57 am Someone is a little camera shy... So we had a stand in for his interview. #thankyouverymuch #elvis #advertising #houston #meettheteam 07/08/2015 11:47 am Meet Travis Beck, developer, reluctant runner and Apple Watch wearer. #Houston #advertising #meettheteam #heights #applewatch @instarunners #runhouston 07/07/2015 11:31 am Meet Mark Pereira, account manager extraordinaire. We'll be posting short teasers all week leading up to our big Meet The Team video. Enjoy! #advertising #batman #whereishe #creative #houston @formerlyafatty 07/06/2015 10:09 am We think it's time you get to know us a little better. We're working on a fun interview video, but in the meantime, here's a teaser featuring the one and only @cmkindrick #advertising #houston #meettheteam #design #heights #hillaryduff 07/02/2015 11:05 am SEND HELP. #advertising #help #ahhhhh #spider #houston #sos 06/19/2015 10:23 am Franklin Delano Heimlich Roosevelt, we will miss you. #flyfree #butterfly #caterpillar #monarch #rip #advertising #houston #heights #design #creative 06/15/2015 10:03 am It's Friday! Did you do anything exciting this week? Lee and @sweetsuewheat hiked the Grand Canyon! #hiking #grandcanyon #advertising #houston 06/12/2015 4:33 pm Brainstorming session for a project. Sometimes you just gotta get it all out and see what sticks. #advertising #creative #livingwater #websites #houston 06/10/2015 8:50 am Couldn't find Frank anywhere today... Then we realized he made himself a cocoon! Look at the awesome gold detailing. Can't wait to see him as a butterfly. #frank #advertising #Houston 06/09/2015 8:14 am #apple just made a ton of #watchOS2 announcements at #WWDC. Click the link in our bio to read more! 06/08/2015 3:46 pm Frank says happy Monday! #frank #advertising #Houston #creative #houstonheights 06/08/2015 11:20 am Is the #applewatch worth it? Check out our final impressions on our blog. #Houston #advertising #Apple #creative #developer 06/05/2015 2:34 pm Check out the latest in our #applewatch impressions series. Perfect timing for those of you who eat lunch at your desk! Link is in the profile. #apple #creative #developer #Houston #houstoncreative 06/04/2015 11:41 am Day two of our #applewatch impressions is up on our blog. Click the link in our profile to see what we do like about the wearable device. #advertising #Houston #developer #Apple 06/03/2015 1:18 pm We decided to break up our #applewatch piece into four separate pieces. Today: what we don't like about the Apple Watch. Link in profile. #apple #developer #Houston #advertising #apps 06/02/2015 3:40 pm @formerlyafatty is working on a post about his initial Apple Watch impressions. Look for it tomorrow! #⌚️ #applewatch #advertising #houston #developer #design 06/02/2015 1:43 pm @cmkindrick got some flowers a few days ago. Turns out there was a caterpillar on them! Meet Frank, the official Whole Wheat Creative insect mascot. #advertising #Houston #houstonheights #frank 06/02/2015 9:20 am Looking for your next favorite iPhone game? Here are five that we love: 1. Daddy Long Legs - simple controls, difficult to master. Make a spider with two legs walk as far as you can without letting him fall. Each finger tap controls one leg. 2. Bonza - a unique crossword puzzle game that is actually a puzzle. 3. Brickies - did you ever play Alleyway? It's a brick breaker game with paddles on each end. 4. Commute - help everyone get to where they need to go during rush hour without making anyone crash. 5. Monument Valley - navigate a person through an MC Escher type structure. What games do you like to play? #monumentvalley #commute #bonza #daddylonglegs #brickies #iosgames #iphone #apple #games #apps #houston #advertising #developer 05/28/2015 11:49 am Web design, graphics, smart phone app development, aquatic search and rescue. We do it all at Whole Wheat Creative. We hope you and yours are safe after the flood last night. #Houstonflood #houston #flood #marketing #advertising 05/26/2015 10:30 am Just had the kickoff meeting for a new project for a new client. Very excited to be working with the UT School of Dentistry on their website redesign. We'll post more pics throughout the entire process. #ut #dentistry @myuthealth #website #advertising #houston #cupcakes 05/22/2015 4:22 pm As everyone gets to work and makes their morning cup of coffee, here's a good little primer on all the social media outlets and what they are good for. I'd add "Watch me drink coffee right this second" for Meerkat/Periscope; "Here's what everyone else thinks about my coffee drinking" for Tumblr and "Look at me drinking with crazy eyes and hair but only for seven seconds" for Snapchat. #socialmedia #advertising #marketing #instagram #twitter #facebook #periscope #snapchat #houston #coffee 05/22/2015 7:36 am Truly a great night. Just wait until what we have in store for you next year! @amahouston #crystalawards #thisishowicrystal 05/15/2015 7:59 pm We are so excited about our Crystal Awards win! We had a blast working on the rebranding campaign for Family Services of Greater Houston. @amahouston #crystalawards #thisishowicrystal #marketing #advertising #houston #awardwinning 05/15/2015 7:42 pm Sometimes client meetings should end with a friendly game of darts. #advertising #clientmeeting #marketing #houston #creative 05/14/2015 5:20 am Mark, one of our account managers, was used in a photo shoot for a client recently. Living Water International has a group that runs the Houston Marathon together to raise money to build water wells in South America. Team Living Water jerseys are now available for sale on their website (water.cc). Mark asked our graphic designer to take a little off the midsection before putting it on the website. He responded by adding at least 30 lbs. #graphicdesigner #marketing #advertising #houston #running #houmarathon #runhouston #livingwater #teamlivingwater 05/08/2015 9:20 am Some people go to work every day in a multi-story tower. Not us. Home sweet office. #Houston #houstonheights #advertising #marketing #creative #appdevelopment #webdevelopment 05/06/2015 5:54 am We are building a website for one of our clients, The Children's Learning Institute. One of the pages needed a chart, which required some fancy HTML work. The section of code on the bottom half of the picture represents just the first row of cells. The finished site launches very soon - we can't wait to show it to you! #marketing #education #uthealth #advertising #html #website #houston 05/04/2015 9:37 am Sometimes inspiration hits you in unexpected places. So one of our shower curtains comes complete with Whole Wheat Creative pencils. You never know when you'll get your next big idea. #advertising #inspiration #shower #houston #houstonheights #marketing 04/30/2015 8:30 am Two ad agencies, four Crystal Award Finalists, one Buddha. Congrats to @satori_marketing on becoming a finalist in three different categories! WWC is a finalist, too! #amahouston @amahouston #branding #marketing #houston #advertising #crystalawards 04/29/2015 7:09 pm Some people have buildings, cityscapes or freeways to gaze at out their office window. We have flowers and tigers. One of the benefits of working in a house in the Heights. #advertisinghouston #marketing #officewindow #houston #houstonheights 04/28/2015 3:04 pm It's #AppleWatchWednesday!!! Check out our blog to learn about an Apple Watch App one of our developers created. #Houston #Apple #applewatch #advertising #diet #weightloss #developer 04/22/2015 1:10 pm Reading Bandit is an interactive iPad application we developed with Sarah Ford, who has dedicated her entire professional life to helping children with learning disabilities. The application is a game geared towards teaching children (both with learning disabilities and without) how to read and write. Bandit is a hilarious and encouraging cartoon raccoon who takes kids on an adventure through the alphabet. They journey through each letter learning about upper case and lower case versions of the letter, pronunciation, how to write it using their finger and the touch screen, and how to put sounds together to form words. Bandit also teaches kids helpful sight words to look out for when reading more complicated sentences. We had a ton of fun creating (and pla…testing) this application, and at only $4.99, it is a fantastic tool to help teach - and entertain - children and their parents. #ReadingBandit #App #iPad #education #games #Apple #developer #Houston #advertising 04/21/2015 10:00 am Today’s post is a short case study on good social media marketing versus bad social media marketing. This weekend, one of our employees (@formerlyafatty) two very different encounters with brands on Instagram. Both provide important lessons on how to successfully (and unsuccessfully) interact with people if you are a brand. Here’s the good example: I use #DollarShaveClub for razors to shave my head. I got new blades over the weekend, and i cut my head shaving (it was totally my fault). I took a picture and posted it because I thought it was funny, and within a couple of hours Dollar Shave Club’s official Instagram account messaged me apologizing and asking me to email them so they could make it right. For a mistake that I made. *** What’s the lesson to be learned here? Social media accounts are a great way to interact with your customers. And social media campaigns are easy and cost effective. But sometimes they just don’t work, and that’s ok. It might take a couple of tries to get some success. Low response doesn’t mean you don’t follow through, though. Do that, and you will alienate your fan base, and lose followers quickly. Also, monitoring certain hashtags is of utmost importance for your brand, as is engaging with your followers. @DollarShaveClub for the win. We know a little bit about social media marketing at Whole Wheat Creative. In fact, we are launching a pretty sweet campaign in one week - winners could win a brand new Apple Watch. Stay tuned, true believers. #socialmediamarketing #marketing #advertising #campaign #contest #houston #applewatch #apple #goodideabadidea 04/20/2015 10:05 am Today’s post is a short case study on good social media marketing versus bad social media marketing. This weekend, one of our employees (@Formerlyafatty) had two very different encounters with brands on Instagram. Both provide important lessons on how to successfully (and unsuccessfully) interact with people if you are a brand. First the bad. *** I won’t say the account’s name, because I don’t think that is cool, but last week an Instagram account I follow posed a contest. All you had to do was follow them on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, and repost their picture using a certain hashtag on all three social media outlets. The next day they were going to pick a random winner who would get an iPhone 6+. It’s a standard tactic to get people to follow you and get people talking about you, and it’s effective. I wouldn’t have followed them on all three channels if I wasn’t trying to win a phone. The thing is - they didn’t pick a winner the next day because their response was really low, just about 20 or so people participated. Even worse than that, they removed the picture announcing the contest completely, as if it never happened.  #socialmediamarketing #marketing #advertising #campaign #contest #houston #applewatch #apple #goodideabadidea 04/20/2015 10:03 am We had a great time at the #aefhscholarshipluncheon this afternoon. It was an honor to be a judge. Congrats winners! @ad2houston #aefh 04/17/2015 1:32 pm Nothing like a hot cup of coffee to start your day. Helps us start fresh and gets the creative juices flowing. One more day till the weekend! #coffee #advertising #Houston #marketing #creative #houstonheights 04/16/2015 7:46 am #Applewatch is coming soon. And we are getting one. Check in every Wednesday as we break down various features, capabilities, apps and possibilities. Visit the link in our profile, and navigate to the blog. #thefutureisnow #applewatchwednesdays #advertising #houston #development 04/15/2015 9:31 am For our first #transformationtuesday, we take a look at the rebranding work we did for Family Services of Greater Houston. You can read all about our work by visiting the link in our profile. Long story short? Make sure you are always communicating the organization (company); not the category. It makes a huge difference. #advertising #Houston #branding #marketing 04/14/2015 10:25 am This Apple II Apple Watch is pretty great. Are you thinking about getting an #applewatch? Which one do you think you will get? #sport #edition #apple #smartwatch #advertising #apps #houston 04/13/2015 12:29 pm Susan brought in some delicious Easter treats. Yep - they are edible bird's nests. #advertising #houston #communications #marketinghouston 04/10/2015 3:22 pm One of the perks of working in a two-story house in the Heights. We all sound good singing in the shower, Elvis. #advertising #houstonheights #hoffice #marketing #houstonadvertising 04/09/2015 9:19 am #AMA Luncheon was awesome this month. The speaker was from #Shiner and he talked about the importance of knowing who you really are as a brand and hanging your hat on that. If you don't know who you are, your customer won't know what to think about you. Can't wait for the next one! #amahouston #marketing #houston #advertising #houstonadvertising 04/08/2015 1:38 pm