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Notes on strategy, media and craft.

Field notes written from inside client work, not theory.

Why Brand Strategy Has to Come Before Brand Identity

Logos, colors, and fonts are the easiest part of branding. They're also where most founders start. Here's why that order gets expensive.

Most teams split budget by channel because that's how the org chart is drawn, not because it's how customers actually behave. There's a better way.

Most content calendars are dead by week three. Here's how we structure ours so they flex with culture instead of breaking against it.

Holding company trading desks aren't wrong for every brand — but their incentives aren't always yours. Here's the difference in plain terms.

The best creative work we've shipped came from the most boring part of the process. A look at the brief that starts every campaign we run.