We use our oldest and newest tools…
to inspire teams, tell true stories, delight audiences, make big ideas happen.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Storytelling
Telling stories is what we do—from documentary-style company and campaign profiles to interviews for market research, user-generated content campaigns, festival promos, and B-2-B innovations series to get your teams imagining new possibilities. Our work together will always begin with learning your story through interviewing you and your team, and learning how to ask better and better questions to reveal new truths to you along the way. See our Storytelling work
Impact Campaigns
Video and Podcast Series
Doc-Style Profiles
Impact Campaigns Video and Podcast Series Doc-Style Profiles
Creative Direction
We believe creative direction should always be informed what is emergent—how your brand or mission is central to the current challenge or program you are working on. During the discovery phase, we create a unique workshop designed to inspire you and your team to imagine a range of strategic possibilities, which are both rooted in the present and look to the future. We then select the right tools and mechanisms for your project to plan and execute with confidence. See our Creative Direction work
Discovery Process
Brand Story
Comms Strategy
Discovery Process Brand Story Comms Strategy
Experience Design
We create experiences: new programming for festivals, engagement events for large companies, pop-ups for libraries, unique exhibits at science centers, and project-based curricula for public schools. Together, we determine the correct scope and roll-out, starting with key questions: Is this entertainment, mostly about wonder, joy and spectacle? Or is this engagement deeply educational? Who is it for, what is it for, and why? See our Experience Design work
Events
Public Art Pop-Ups
Immersive Entertainment
Exhibitions
Events Public Art Pop-Ups Immersive Entertainment Exhibitions
Education
We started as teachers, lesson planners and artists, and it’s infused into everything we do. We bring over 30 years as educators to crafting and leading workshops, design sessions, and curriculum development—co-developing a high school media skills center pilot, leading the accreditation process for a college media department, running design processes that yield results for large public building projects. The process of educating clients, constituents, teams, and audiences sparks connection, purpose and imagination. See our Education work
Workshops
Curriculum
Rapid Prototyping
Courses
Workshops Curriculum Rapid Prototyping Courses
Future Of
The Future Of is a speculative-fiction, human-centered design process in which we connect your mission to the moment—what you believe is for sale, and who your audience is—in order to imagine where you could be in five, ten, twenty years. We’ve worked with clients to dream big about the Future Of science centers, orchestras, libraries, and festivals. We’ve also produced our own Future Of projects to showcase the storytelling possibilities of emerging technologies for public benefit, human connection, and creating economy. See our Future Of work
Future Trends
Art + Technology
Stories of Possibility
Future Trends Art + Technology Stories of Possibility
“Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse”