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One Shoe Moment: The Story of North Carolina’s Jaw-Dropping Air Jordan Wall

The entry to North Carolina's basketball locker room features a storytelling piece for the Tar Heels’ greatest legend, a jaw-dropping gear display, a moment for Jordan Brand and the backdrop for countless hype videos. Not bad for a wall full of sneakers. After more than a year, the Tar Heels’ display of each of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan shoes has

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How to Stay Humble with 115 Trophies: Inside Stanford’s Home of Champions

Stanford’s trophy case could be the most impressive in college athletics, but only if the Cardinal wanted it to be that way. When Stanford’s men’s soccer team won its third consecutive title on Dec....

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Fannie Battle Day Home for Children Joins Advent for first SEE615 Project

For more than 125 years, the Fannie Battle Day Home for Children has provided invaluable care for children and families facing economic and educational hardship. An organization dedicated providing...

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4 Questions with Spirit of Advent Award winner Kyle Mayes

For some, an internship is a foot in the door. For Kyle Mayes , an internship was a chance to kick the door down. Kyle joined Advent in 2014 as a sales and marketing intern and quickly moved into a...

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Advent Team Tabs 6 of Their Colleagues as Mantra Medallion Winners

At Advent, each team relies on every other department. None of Advent’s work can come together without design, fabrication, operations, project management and client relations working in concert. In...

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Free Job Interview Tips from Advent: No Questions Asked (video)

Let’s face it: The job interview is no one’s idea of a great time. It’s a grueling, anxiety-filled experience packed with challenging questions and the anxiety to find the perfect answers. On both...

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Advent Designs Experiences That Move … Us Across The Street

Does anyone know someone who can help move a few dozen Nerf guns, a Tron arcade game, a ping pong table, a Starbucks machine and some markers? So many markers. Asking for a friend. After a couple of...

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How the Dallas Cowboys Immortalized the first Hail Mary

Among many innovations the Dallas Cowboys brought to the football world, one of the most dramatic has been the Hail Mary — or rather the name for that desperate pass to win or tie a football game in...

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Advent congratulates Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Jerry Jones

For nearly 30 years, Jerry Jones has been the man behind the numbers the Dallas Cowboys hold most dear — three of the franchise’s five Super Bowl victories, 10 division championships, 14 playoff...

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Video: NDSU Shows Off New Football Locker Rooms

For the first time since 2011, North Dakota State enters preseason camp with unfinished business. As practice starts in Fargo, the journey back to the top of the FCS will begin in a brighter and...

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The Must-See Part of a Facility? The Place that Shows off a Program’s Strengths

College recruiting isn’t a science. No school is the same. Teenagers are fickle, and some will say they base their college decisions based on feel rather than cold, hard data. Trying to steer...

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USC’s All-American Walk Moves New Class of Trojan Greats

Four years ago, star USC receiver Marqise Lee taught us a lesson about tradition and inspiration. On his walkpath from the locker room to the practice field , he passed by the All-American plaques of...

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Designing a Comforting Facility for Former Athletes at Tulane

With a highly specific audience and mission, Tulane’s Institute for Sports Medicine presented Advent a number of unique design and branding challenges. The Institute is one of a few facilities in the...

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