So we ran a 20,000 Rewards Points giveaway a little while ago. The deal was the winner gets 10,000 points and they have to give 10,000 to another Moosejaw customer.
The contest winner was Rob B and we give those 10,000 away today.
So here’s the deal - we’ve got a bunch of old catalogs sitting in the warehouse that we need to do something with. We love our catalogs and want to do something amazing with them.
Post your best idea as a comment on this blog and at the end of the day Rob B. will pick his favorite idea and that person gets the 10,000 points. Ready. Set. Go.
Love the Madness,
Gary Wohlfeill
Creative Director
Email me: gary@moosejaw.com
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Make a Moose Lodge. Like the “Bud Light” house made out of can’s, only with MJ catalogs. You could have a moose fridge, a moose bed, heck, even a moose toilet…
You could park your little hut right out side of HQ! Genius!
You should make a giant pirate ship out of them (like those ones kids make…except big and awesome) and attach narwhals to the front of the boat to pull it out into the ocean
I worked at Lands’ End for 3 years; they lined their tornado shelter hallway / dist. center underground passage w/ all of their old creative catalogs. Then Sears bought them and their catalogs were not as cool – so they stopped hanging them. So, use your catalogs as company pride / decoration. And don’t get bought by Sears.
I think you need to make a moosejaw paper mosaic thing…in a huge field or the side of a mountain….and that way people in the sky or the aliens in space can see a big moosejaw logo on the earth. You might be able to pull off a world record for biggest billboard or something…You should look into that.. like beaver dams…
“It’s a unique phenomenon,” he said. “Beaver dams are among the few animal-made structures visible from space.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100505/sc_afp/canadascienceenvironmentanimalbeaver
Ch-Ch-Ch-Check it out!
Crumple each page up, throw them all into one or those big pools you can buy at Wal-Mart, and…. Instant Ball-Pit!
I think you should completely cover a wall with them somewhere within the vast Moosejaw empire!!! That would be awesome and keep them out of a landfill.
Bane
Taking into consideration your Love-of-The-Madness that is your leftover magazines, I think there should be more of a proper tribute to them.
My solution is to hire a team of origami artists (interns) to craft oodles of dandelion-like creations, whereby you could send one with each new order to everyone who promises to 1) backpack to the nearest summit (or mall) and blow the ‘seeds’ out over the landscape (similar to spreading their biodegradeable ashes — a fitting tribute indeed) and 2) donate a buck to the super-green foundation of your choice. You’d be making an impact in two ways: Super-Awesomeness AND supporting a great cause.
If nothing else, it would allow us all to feel like winners for a day, even if the cute boy who sits in the cubicle next to us is to shy to ask us out for coffee.
make a boat like they did on mythbusters and use it to go to canada for cheap drugs and live the life of a pirate
chad h.
1. Take them
2. Make paper beads out of them
3. Turn those beads into beautiful necklaces
i.e (http://www.astorybooklife.com/how-to/paper-beads/)
4. Distribute them to girls in Africa
Give them to a local elementary school for the kids to use in projects, art, and educational activities like identifying different trees etc…
Pull a Pottery Barn and send a few copies each day to Cosmo Kramer.
Bury one of each in a time capsule to preserve the Madness on Earth and blast the rest into outer space to share the Madness with the rest of the universe.
I think they should be distributed to nursing homes and women’s shelters. Also homeless shelters, as these places would love to have new reading material, or materials for arts and crafts.
Cover them all in thick Lacquer so they are rigid and board like.
Then use them to construct random pieces of furniture for use at Moosejaw shops.
We’ve all seen benches and chairs made out of old skis and snowboards, but don’t no one have a bench made out of clear coated old Moosejaw magazines.
Save the whales. Recycle them.
You guys should make as many pinatas, out of papier-mache, as possible and fill them with candy. Then when ever you guys make a good sale or something cool happens at the store you could pull out a pinata, beat the stuffing out of it, and have fun.
Hire some interns in different areas to distribute catalogs to customers walking into REI locations (and other competitors).
If your feeling really generous add a coupon to go online to Moosejaw.com and save more than what they would spend at REI.
If you make a papermache plane, then you can enter the Red Bull flugtag!
Roll one up, smoke it, and see what happens. You could be sitting on marketing gold.
Mail them to the Prez so he can use them to rewallpaper the White House.
You could make a huge mural out of all of them that says “Moosejaw” and put it in your next catalog! Or send them out to ranom people in the mail.
Moosejaw!!
I think you should send them over to me here in Caracas, Venezuela to open your branch in South America…we love the madness! Have you not seen our president?
Maurizio H.
Dear Gary,
Clearly these magazines mean more to you and the MooseJaw Staff than any outsider at an Art School or Nursing Home. So my suggestion would be to keep them and use them in-house. Why don’t you build chandeliers or party poppers out of them to boost staff morale, because honestly every time i use to the help button to chat with the MooseJaw staff their response seem to indicate they’ve been drinking heavily. Or perhaps the staff is intoxicated because work is so fun? In that case chandeliers and party poppers would only add to the lively spirit of the office.
Or if your willing to pay to have them recycled and de-inked i would definitely make toilet paper for the staff bathrooms out of them. And depending on how many catalogues you have, you could make the toilet paper 2,3 or even 4 ply and really make your staff happy.
Well there you go, those are my thoughts! Whatever you do with it keep it eco-friendly!
Step 1: Convince someone in the warehouse you’ve built a time machine.
Step 2: Convince them to go through it and stand there for 2 minutes in an area that happens to have a bunch of current catalogs lying around
Step 3: Every time they go through put a different catalog out and convince them they’ve traveled through time.
Step 4: If it doesn’t work, run out of the room and blockade the door with the rest of the catalogs.
Step 5: Recycle!
Throw them into the heart of the ‘Lost’ island and see what happens. Who knows, maybe a Moose will blast out of the crevice.
Okay, so you have loosened the stranglehold of many of the pet mascots within the great Moosejaw organization as of late. I think a paper mache moose would be quite fitting for an organization such as yours. If it looked even remotely cool, which it will… you should have one of your models in the next catalog wear it. That kind of creative thinking will keep you a-rollin’ – PLUS, you are being mad eco-friendly. Recycle-reduce-reuse-remoosejaw
I guess this doesn’t really solve your current magazine problem but it’s related. I think it would be loads of giggly fun if you went through your old Moosejaw gear and prints (t’s, sweatshirts,etc.) that you’ve discontinued over the years and put together a special throwback edition catalog. Extend it for a limited time and offer some of your more popular prints and gear that isn’t available anymore. I know it doesn’t really take care of your current magazine problem, so if you only want to throw me between 9,995 and 9,998 points I would understand. LTM!
decoupage a Detroit-made automobile with them and cover with a clear coat.
Geo-cache them at Big Ten College campuses nationwide. Be sure to include UW–Madison.
1. Make a comprehensive list of all the models that have ever appeared in a Moosejaw catalog.
2. Find them. Meet them. Have them sign they’re favorite pic they’re in.
3. Cherish for life.
turn the magazines into a shopping/carry bag that’s laminated/waterproof! I would carry one around, & it’s great advertising!
K….so you can make these awesome bowls and baskets out of old magazines. Cut the magazine pages into 3″-wide strips and roll them into a stick shape. Tack down the end with some glue so it looks like a straw. Make around 40 of them and set aside. Get an old bowl, with the mouth wider than the base, and put it face down. Start wrapping your magazine ‘straws’ around the bowl, hot glue gunning them as you go. For the bottom of the bowl, add magazine straws to a small roll, continuing outward until the size of the bowl’s base, and then attach to the bowl. When done, remove bowl and polyurethane spray it and you’re done!
I don’t know why you would consider making anything other than a fort with them.
I mean “Makeout Room.”
Turn them into plantable seed cards. See link for example.
http://www.seedcards.com
Send them all to high ranking government officials!
i’ve seen your office in MH, what about figuring out a way to fashion them together and then use them as curtains….
End the era of wobbly coffee tables.
OR
Step 1. Old catalogs,
Step 2. And the stunning Moosejaw Girls
Step 3. ????
Step 4. Profit!
Take digital pictures of them, and then send them of to recycle!
Cut each letter out individually and then make ‘anonymous love note kits’ to sell on ebay and/or give away as prizes on Moosejaw.
Welp, I only saw this at like 3 am Costa Rican time since I have moved out of the states. You should send the catalogs to me, in San Jose, and I will drive them down to Jaco on the pacific coast and burn them on the black sand beaches in front of 2meter waves. Pictures to come. BTW we are having a bachelor party here august 15th, so if you want to come down that weekend, cough cough. . .
I’m sure you all could get some girl to adhesive them into a skin tight outfit to pose in.
Mail the catologues out to people but cover the models heads with pictures of gorillas and zebras. Can’t get stranger than that
Make a fleet of paper mache kayaks. Hot and eco-friendly.
Eat them – just like ancient warriors of the past who consumed their victims to grow stronger, you too can inherit those old catalogs strengths and become even more powerful.
How about making some revenue by selling it (or no revenue by donating) to a party supply store? And they can make confettiout of it
Donate them to the first 50 public elementary school teachers and 50 College Marketing instructors in Michigan with the task of making the most creative go to market plan for the magazine content.
Yes, you may end up with paper doll cut-outs with tab fit on clothing or a paper mache moose head hat. It’s all about the madness created!
Take the winners and incorporate them into the next catalog. I see a Moosejaw Class of 2010 picture coming in your future.
Take them and make a giant paper mache moose!!! I’d be something awesome to have around the office for cocktail parties and when you want to impress the ladies
ORIGAMI!!!!
You could actually send them all to John Oliver over at the Daily Show. Individually of course.
Roll them up, tie them with twine, and toss them in every order till your out of them. labeled “Free fire starter” that would make me happy.