The futures that our friends at Mailchimp, Dropbox, and Ogilvy have grown into has kept us in awe—especially when design has been at the center of reimagining their new futures. We’re so honored to have worked with these great teams.
Cheers to our friends and the other honorees for winning the inaugural Type Champions Award by Monotype, which recognizes and celebrates brands from around the world that are committed to excellence in design and typography.
We’re grateful to be invited to some of the world’s forward-thinking conferences to speak on our philosophy of design and creativity.
Below is a list of events that we will be presenting.
Design Thinkers, Toronto, Canada — October 25, 2019
AIGA, Dallas Forth Worth, Texas — October 30, 2019
Web Summit, Lisbon, Portugal — November 3 - 5, 2019
TEDxIndianaUniversity, Bloomington, Indiana — November 8, 2019
RiseUp, Cairo, Egypt —December 5 - 8, 2019.
If you’re attending, say hello!
The evolution of Mailchimp maintained the quirkiness that made them loved while also looking towards the future. Since then, they’ve expanded and launched a podcast, short films, and documentaries following the lives of entrepreneurs.
We’re deeply honored to be recognized in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards 2019 in partnership with our friends at Mailchimp.
Freddie, this one is for you.
How can we normalize inconceivable futures?
In this session, Brian invites Julia Marsh, his SVA MFA Design graduate student, to share how she’s combatting environmental degradation by developing flexible single-use plastics with seaweed based packaging.
For brands to stay ahead of the curve, they must refresh themselves while expanding the edges of who they seek to become. Rebrands are imperative because companies are growing quickly and the future is coming at us even faster.
AdAge generously highlights our work with Mailchimp and shares thoughts from our founder Brian Collins and others about why rebrands are becoming increasingly popular across all industries.
In this personal essay, our founder Brian Collins reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, living in NYC throughout the early ’80s, and how symbols, like the rainbow flag, are used to imagine and install a more benevolent future.
“On a good day, this is the quintessential nature of design: signaling and rehearsing new tomorrows. To craft symbols, stories, and artifacts that ultimately shape hearts and minds for the better.”
Print Magazine reviews the talk Brian gave at this year’s 99U Conference at Lincoln Center.
Writer Ellen Shapiro highlights how we help our clients create a new, expanded vision for their future and then design their way into it.
Design is not what we make. Design is what we make possible for others.
That’s been our mission from the start.
It appears to be working.
We’re honored that AdAge selected us as their first Design Firm of the Year.
Thank you to our teams in San Francisco and New York for pushing us into the future.
And thank you to our clients and partners who give us opportunities to do amazing things - and who make us better, every day.
We’re just getting started.
COLLINS was recently named to Ad Age’s 2019 A-List, highlighting companies that are shaping the future of creativity.
Thank you to our partners who trust us to imagine and create better tomorrows.