WAX Blog

2013
- June
  - 19th Can a Walrus talk? Quite intelligently as it turns out.
  - 4th DAN SEBASTIAN BACH
- May
  - 23rd Introducing pink
  - 6th While the Walrus might not suit everyone, these t-shirts do
- April
  - 23rd Small Business Wins Big
  - 18th It was always about diamonds
  - 15th A handful of Anvils. And three handfuls of Merits.
  - 12th Red Rover, Red Rover, London calls Monique over
  - 9th The stork brought a girl
  - 5th Another knot tied
- March
  - 28th Cluck. Cluck. Bah.
  - 25th Radio waves of gold
  - 18th Everyone Loves an Alberta Beef Snow Angel
  - 7th They aren’t zombies, they’re Decomposers
  - 6th WAX is Blushing Gold
  - 5th WAX is on exhibit
- February
  - 22nd Better than two gold teeth
  - 7th WAX hits TDC with Cupid’s Arrow
  - 5th MY, YOUR TROUSERS ARE SOFT
  - 1st WAX knows how to get noticed
- January
  - 22nd Hitting all the right notes
2012
- December
  - 21st Luerzer’s Archive and Applied Arts think Calgary Farmers’ Market is a slice of heaven
  - 14th Deck the windows with paintings of reindeer, fa la la la la la la la la
- November
  - 27th Enbridge’s D’Arcy Levesque ranks 13th on Maclean’s Power List
- October
  - 30th She’s not here to judge. She’ll be in London.
- September
  - 30th Capturing the spirit of the ride
  - 7th REPEAT OFFENDERS
- August
  - 10th TRENT BURTON RETURNS TO WAX AS CREATIVE DIRECTOR
- July
- June
  - 22nd WAx LOVES TEDx
  - 18th ZE GERMANS LOVE WAX. WE THINK.
  - 7th DON’T READ THIS
  - 1st WAX IS TURNING 7 TODAY! HOORAY!
- May
  - 24th Executive Creative Director Demoted to Art Director
  - 15th Sheldon likes Pilsner
- April
  - 27th SIX ANVILS. FOUR MERITS. ONE LEG.
  - 25th In like a lion
- March
  - 26th WHERE ENERGY MEETS AWARDS
  - 26th MY, YOUR HANDS ARE LARGE
  - 22nd WAx and TEDx
  - 21st JUDGES’ TALK INSPIRES. JEALOUSY.
- February
  - 14th It’s just a sausage and a bun.
- January
  - 16th Take that Helvetica
2011
- December
- November
  - 23rd You can never have too many cooks in the kitchen
  - 2nd Film festival? Hell yes
- October
- September
- August
  - 12th In case you didn’t save yesterday’s Herald
  - 11th What, no cover?
  - 4th Blogging about blogs—WAX writers get lazy
  - 1st How he got that shot
- July
  - 20th It’s about time
  - 9th Happy birthday Monique
  - 6th Don’t call us city folk—for ten days
  - 5th Conquering headwinds, driving rain and cancer
- May
  - 17th WAX opens daycare
  - 13th One Show, once again
- April
  - 18th We’re winners
  - 8th Creative Report Card Rankings
  - 1st Ideas worth stealing
- March
  - 30th Someone call child services
  - 7th Joe agrees to share his ruthless judging abilities with Applied Arts
- February
  - 21st Sheldon had a baby
  - 16th This heading was going to be so clever. But with coverage like this, it doesn’t need to be
- January
  - 24th Communication Arts “gets” us
2010
- December
  - 21st Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; thankfully that beholder is Communication Arts
  - 21st Lilo didn’t have a great year, but we sure did
- November
- October
  - 5th WAX featured in Business In Calgary for Calgary International Film Festival billboard
- September
- August
  - 25th Hot Dog swap
- July
  - 15th We’re basically professors now
- June
  - 1st Happy Birthday WAX
- April
  - 26th “WAX Cleans Up At Anvil Awards”, says Marketing Magazine
  - 19th Heavy Metal Rules
- March
  - 2nd Aren’t They Adorable?
- January
2009
- November
- October
  - 29th It was a dark and stormy night
  - 16th WAX quoted in Calgary Herald
- September
  - 2nd The WAX team expands, and we didn’t even have to add water; only chairs
- July
  - 14th Applied Arts Magazine Features WAX
- June
  - 19th WAX wins big with Graphis (Please save your applause for the end)
  - 12th WAX in Good Company
- May
  - 15th EDEO in Marketing Daily
  - 15th Not all that glitters is gold. Or silver
- April
  - 27th Lucky 13 for WAX at Anvil Awards
- March
  - 31st WAX wines and dines itself
  - 20th WAX Film Festival work In CA Exhibit, Part 1
  - 2nd CIFF Blindness Invite in STEP
- February
- January
  - 6th Globe and Mail and WAX
  - 5th WAX featured in Business in Calgary
2008
- December
  - 19th If you build it, they will come. Or at least, eat
  - 11th Rebel. Revolutionary. Artistic Administrator. Meet Stephen McHolm.
- November
- October
  - 29th We discovered something new in NY
- September
- August
  - 18th WAX grows by three
- July
  - 28th Looks like silver, better than gold
  - 7th Look what the WAX dragged in
- June
  - 5th Jen struts her stuff in Avenue
- May
  - 14th Gold for WAX, Bronze for WAX
  - 13th Jordan Singer named Marketer of the Year
- April
- March
- February
  - 25th 50 students from Medicine Hat College dismiss vegetable platters
  - 1st Now Boarding: Calgary Airport Authority
- January
  - 30th WAX is in crescendo
  - 28th She will lead us to glory!
  - 12th WAX hires awesome new copywriter
2007
- November
  - 19th All that glitters is not gold for WAX at the ADCC
  - 5th WAX brings warmth to the community
- October
- September
- August
  - 9th WAX appoints Sebastien Wilcox as Associate Creative Director
- July
  - 31st Business in Calgary features AR100 Awards
  - 18th WAX projects selected for Applied Arts Design and Advertising Annual
- June
- May
  - 30th Honens Announces First Surplus
- April
  - 30th WAX Update in Marketing Magazine
  - 15th WAX Wins Big at Ad Rodeo
  - 10th DigiNeg Picks WAX for Brand Launch
  - 4th Business in Calgary Article
2006
- November
  - 15th WAX Featured in Elemente Magazine
  - 6th Applied Arts Design & Advertising Awards
- October
  - 5th Monique Gamache in Avenue
- May
  - 20th Monique Gamache in Avenue
  - 17th One Show Gold Pencil Winners
  - 15th World’s Greatest Advertisers
  - 1st WAX Wins at Ad Rodeo
- April
  - 10th WAX Changes Calgary Advertising Scene
- March
  - 17th WAX Makes Marketing Magazine
2005
- October
  - 6th Shaw Chooses WAX