Looking for a unique, locally made chocolate bar for February 14th? Trouvaille Goat Milk Chocolate is a tasty new ACEnet Food Ventures Center tenant. Available in Athens at the Village Bakery & Cafe, and in Columbus at The Butcher & Grocer, Trouvaille chocolates are stone ground & hand poured, with cacao beans being sourced from Ghana, Vietnam and Peru, and using goat milk from their own farm here in Athens, OH. Trouvaille is currently processing, packaging & labeling her chocolate here at ACEnet!

This logo became the victim of a process that many graphic designers come to experience in their careers. Over the years, it was ripped off and repurposed multiple times without credit or payment. From rappers to clip art pages, this little guy found itself in a variety of places around the world.

Having your designs spread near and far may sound good by itself, we all like exposure. But being ripped off aside, when attribution is stripped it can prevent a designer from connecting with new clients.  So when a client does track down the designer of an old logo they like, you don't want to miss that call. You never know what could happen.

In early 2017, Tim received an email from someone in California asking if they could buy the old bee logo. Tim couldn't sell the original but offered to make a new variation.  All Tim knew at the time was that someone in California wanted a bumblebee logo for a project. When he sent out the final invoice, he found out that this project was actually for Paramount Pictures.

Check out Red Tail's blog for the whole story!

Are you looking for office space or warehouse space? ACEnet has some openings in both our Athens and Nelsonville facilities! Call 740-592-3854 or email info@acenetworks.org for more information!

Sky Pettey is an attorney in private practice with the Athens law firm Lavelle and Associates, which he joined in 2001. He engages in a general practice of law focusing on criminal defense, civil rights, personal injury, and probate matters. Attorney Pettey earned his B.A. in English from Oberlin College and his J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. After law school he went to work as a Staff Attorney for Ohio Legal Rights Service, an independent state agency that was the State of Ohio's federally-designated protection and advocacy agency for people with disabilities.

Attorney Pettey volunteers his time as the Chairman of the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Legal Education, and as an active member and past president of the Kiwanis Club of Downtown Athens. He is grateful to be able to make a living and raise his family in Athens, where he grew up, and hopes his service on the ACEnet Board will help others in the region do the same. He lives in Athens with his wife Beth and two daughters.

Join ACEnet's Leslie Schaller at 1:00pm on February 11th to learn what you can make in your home and where you can legally sell it in Ohio!

You can register here:  https://tinyurl.com/ACEnetCottageFoods or by clicking on the above picture.

Melissa, ACEnet's AmeriCorps VISTA, will be presenting a FREE webinar on crowdfunding to share information on Indiegogo, Kickstarter and GoFundMe! It will be Friday Feb. 15th from 1:30-2:30pm. Please register here: https://tinyurl.com/ACEnetCrowdfunding101