The Issaquah summer season starts up the first Friday of May with the first of five Issaquah Art Walks. This year Artitudes Design is sponsoring the Kids Art Center at the Historic Railway Station, however for the first art walk we will be chalk drawing with the kids on the pavement in Artist Alley on Alder Street next to Vino Bella and the UpFront Gallery. Come out and help us color the street!
This year marks the 11th anniversary of the Issaquah Art Walk and 
Artitudes Design is proud to be a ongoing sponsor. The popular monthly art walk is held each Friday of the month May through September. Visitors are invited to meet local business owners, enjoy live music, watch artists in action, shop and dine in downtown Issaquah. Art Walk draws hundreds of visitors into downtown Issaquah each month by placing dozens of artists into local businesses. The monthly art walk enhances the already vibrant arts scene in Downtown Issaquah including artEAST Art Center and Artist Alley, Museo Art Academy and ArtByFire glassblowing studio.
For more information visit the Downtown Issaquah Association website.
Olive Crest is a leader in the prevention and treatment of child abuse, with approximately 600 employees serving nearly 5,000 children and families each year throughout California, Nevada, and the Pacific Northwest. Each year Artitudes donates design services to Olive Crest for their fundraising events, the largest of which is their Annual Gala Auction.
This year the auction featured local entertainer John Curley as auctioneer and raised a total of $375,533 to benefit the foundation. Artitudes created the theme “All Aboard” as a nod to the glamorous allure of mid-century travel, but also to remind our donors to “get on board” to help fund the needs of Olive Crest’s families and kids.
For more information visit the Olive Crest website.
We had our Annual Artitudes’ Client Appreciation Party on October 6th, held this year on the top floor of the Symetra Financial Center at the Bellevue Harbor Club, which has a lovely view overlooking downtown Bellevue. The night was filled with delicious food, great company, and of course a whole lot of fun (including a box full of silly props and a photobooth). Thank you to everyone that attended our party, as our evening’s success would not have been possible without you. We would also like to extend a tremendous thank you to all of our wonderful clients for making this year a fantastic one.
We’re the Best Small Business to Work For in Washington! Earlier this month we were notified that we’d been selected as a finalist in the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Best Places to Work competition, and were excited as usual! (This marked our third time as finalists!) Nearly the whole office turned out to the event at Safeco Field, where we met other finalists, ate fantastic stadium food, and got more than a few pictures of us sliding into second base.
We had a wonderful time, and at the end, discovered that WE WON! The gold medal was the best possible shock we could imagine. We all had such a wonderful time with PSBJ and it’s great to feel that having fun at work and having close relationships with your coworkers means as much to so many other great companies as it means to us at Artitudes. Here’s a few pictures of us having a great afternoon at the celebration.
Artitudes extends our congratulations to all the other finalists and winner, and a big thank you to the Puget Sound Business Journal for putting on a fantastic event and reminding us all that business is about more than getting work done.
Gourmet Game Night from Visual Quill on Vimeo.
Hot off the presses: our trailer for Gourmet Game Night, a fantastic new cookbook by Cynthia Nims, a local Northwest writer, magazine contributor, and culinary blogger. Cynthia received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, but her lifelong love of food and two studies abroad to France peaked her interest in turning her hobby into a career. After college, Cynthia spent two years at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine in France, launching her career as both a chef and food writer. Cynthia has been a fixture of the Seattle food scene for decades, from six years as Seattle Magazine’s Food Editor to writing the Northwest Homegrown series of cookbooks to judging SPAM cook-offs at the Puyallup Fair.
Gourmet Game Night blends Cynthia’s loves of cooking and games with a collection of delicious, mess-free recipes that will bring a gourmet spirit to your next get-together. Visit www.gourmetgamenight.com to find out more about the book and Cynthia, along with additional game-night tips!
Trailer by Visual Quill. Visual Quill creates captivating video trailers for authors and publishers to reach a wider audience of readers through a cinematic representation of the written word.
