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For Valor. For Victory. For MACLYN.

For Valor. For Victory. For MACLYN.

Trumpets sound and troops roar as MACLYN Creative Director Jay Paonessa assumes the mantle of Vice President. “Since he came onboard, Jay has completely changed this agency,” praises MACLYN President Bill Murphy. “Each and every one of our...

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Meet MACLYN’s Finest: Erin

Meet MACLYN’s Finest: Erin

Average, beware: Erin Byrne is an artistic badass. “I just feel compelled to create things - I always thought I'd be in the creative world.” And now at MACLYN, she stands alongside a legion of like minds making a stand against Bland. Erin is always...

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Meet MACLYN’s Finest: Rebecca

Meet MACLYN’s Finest: Rebecca

Black: sophisticated. Yellow: happy. Orange: energetic. Green: prosperous. And red… well… …red means war. If art is a war and war is an art, you’ll find MACLYN’s new art director storming the battlefield with an arsenal of colorful inspiration:...

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Musings from the Minds of MACLYN: Rigg Reflects

Musings from the Minds of MACLYN: Rigg Reflects

All my life, I’ve been a sworn Enemy of Average. The foul beast Banality and its minions marched through my village and razed it to the ground. I swore vengeance. I crusaded to be different. Fought to feel fulfilled. Defied despair. I often felt I...

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Meet MACLYN’s Finest: Sam Brahler

Meet MACLYN’s Finest: Sam Brahler

Back in World War II, “Rosie the Riveter” was a symbol of strength, feminism and we-can-do-itness. She was also famous. But was she ever... Instafamous? Meet Sam Rose Brahler. A modern-day Rosie the Riveter, Sam recently graduated from the...

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NOW HIRING: Art Director

NOW HIRING: Art Director

If you struggle against the “good enough,” if you reject the easy and the obvious to seek out the truly original, let’s create together.

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Meet MACLYN’s Finest: Ian Rigg

Meet MACLYN’s Finest: Ian Rigg

When he’s not seeking harmony in the universe through words, Ian Rigg is creating it onstage. A lifetime lover of literature with a deep desire to earnestly engage the universe, Ian has been writing from the time he could hold a pencil. He has a...

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EPRD to have a major rebranding

EPRD to have a major rebranding

Article by: Jonathan Krueger, The Des Moines Register Following the lead of AltoonaNow, the East Polk Regional Development, Inc. has teamed up with MACLYN to help rebrand the organization. The group will unveil its new brand Wednesday, Oct. 19. “It...

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MACLYN Announces the Opening of a Des Moines Office

MACLYN Announces the Opening of a Des Moines Office

Effective July 1, creative advertising agency, MACLYN, will be opening a Des Moines satellite office. “We are pumped about our new MACLYN stronghold. We are captivated by the awesomeness of Des Moines and we look forward to growing our agency in...

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