Welcome, Teemu! Prior to joining Collins, Teemu served as Creative Director at Wolff Olins. Before Wolff Olins, Teemu was a Founding Partner of the Helsinki and New York-based full-service agency, Kokoro & Moi, working across the strategy, brand identity, and design sectors. To read the full announcement, click here.

We’re excited to announce that our Spotify work was featured in Design Week’s list of “Designs that Defined 2015.” Have a look at the full article here.

We are honored to have our work selected as Fast Company’s Best Branding of 2015. To see the seven programs from around the world that made the cut, click here.

Brian Collins will be speaking at his alma mater, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, on Thursday, February 11.To register click here here.

Richard Baird placed our redesign of Target’s Room Essentials among the five best projects of 2015 on BP&O. Very honored to be included on the list.

Design Week just named our work with Spotify as one the most influential identity and design projects of the year. See the full review here.

Collins President Amber Guild chats with Laura Dunn of the Huffington Post about leadership, challenges, mentorship and what we hope to accomplish in the next year here at Collins. Read the full article here.

Happy Holidays from all of us here at COLLINS! See you in 2016.

Leland discusses with NPR the emergence of the hot holiday gift this year and how it’s fires have been linked to new manufacturing processes in China. Read the full article here.

In response to PepsiCo executive Brad Jakeman’s spirited presentation at the Masters of Marketing conference in October, Amber writes “Amen, Mr. Jakeman” in an op-ed featured in ​Monday’s issue of Ad Age​. Amber​ ​writes about ​the beginnings of her career in advertising, and witnessing the best and worst of the industry over the course of her 17 year career. She joined Collins in the fall of 2014 after an energizing conversation with Collins founders Brian Collins and Leland Maschmeyer who were trying to answer the same question she was: “Why should​ ​an industry tasked with building​ ​brands have a talent base that​ ​in no way reflects the diversity of​ ​the world we live in?​”​ Hear, hear, Amber. Read the op-ed here.