Billy Strayhorn, beyond the familiar tune.
Marlon Martinez’s research became an eight-part series inviting students, educators, and jazz fans into Strayhorn’s life and music.
Stories We’ve Created
A selection of projects that bring strategy, storytelling, and creative craft together.
From the studio
The big top, in the lesson plan.
Nine educator guides made the performance a starting point for students’ own questions, discoveries, and creative work.
Six stories. One shared starting point.
A story workshop helped board and leadership find a shared starting point in young people’s belonging, confidence, and development.
The Experience Behind the Studio
Explore the work that continues to inform our approach.
A new voice for Chevron.com.
Research-heavy material became focused pages, clearer language, and a consistent voice, with different ways in for different readers.
Patrick Kirkland · Creative Director and Copywriter at Elephant
Movie lovers, meet the MPA.
A shared love of movies introduced audiences to the people behind the films, giving an institution known for ratings a human face.
Patrick Kirkland · Creative Director and Copywriter, through Imaginary Forces
Airtable: This is How.
Four fifteen-second stories showed what teams could make happen together, making the software’s possibilities clear without a product walkthrough.
Patrick Kirkland · Associate Creative Director, Conscious Minds