Playing to our strengths.

Builders of trust.

Smart, informed, telling, compelling, entertaining, uplifting — these are the kinds of stories that stay with you. And that’s what your brand needs to build trust.

With deep roots in journalism, we obsess over your audience to tell your brand stories with editorial excellence. Whether in a magazine or online, a well-told story can be the difference between apathy and zeal.

You can trust us to be your official storytellers because experience tells us that experience matters. And we’ve been doing this work for decades.

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A catalog for connection.

We sell strategy and storytelling in (almost) all its forms to help you build trust with your audience, from prospective and current customers to employees and investors.

Custom publications

A magazine is the 30-minute conversation you’d love to have with your audience and the respite they’d love to get from their always-on lives. We can do it all — editorial strategy, writing and editing, fact-checking and proofing, art direction and design, original photography and illustration, and production and distribution.

Editorial strategy, aka ‘the blueprint’

The strategic start to any custom publication. The collaborative process includes gathering intelligence on your business and audience to distill into a magazine brief; exploring content themes and design elements to formulate an editorial vision and mood board; and developing a starter kit for your publication, inclusive of a style guide and distribution recommendations.

Magazine redesign

Thanks to a half-century’s worth of experience making — and remaking — magazines, our editorial and creative teams like nothing more than rejiggering and reinventing them. Knowing that audience is everything, we assume the role of your ideal reader before reimagining your publication, from the foundation to the flourishes. Naturally, we gain your buy-in along the way.

Original photography & illustration

Our network of artists is deep and wide. We have long-standing relationships with photographers and illustrators of all kinds, who create on behalf of the nation’s top publishers and corporations. We also seek out fresh talent, depending on the assignment and budget.

Long-form digital content

Our process for creating digital content is just as rigorous as print because your standards are just as high. Even if we didn’t build your online hub, we are happy to keep it flush with content, published at a cadence based on your company’s goals and your audience’s appetite.

Content hubs & websites

Your content deserves a prized position within your digital experience — whether it’s the online expression of your print publication or a destination unto itself. Guided by your readers’ wants and needs, we can architect, design, and develop a site reflective of your editorial brand and business objectives.

Content audit & strategy

You need content but don’t know where to start. Or you have content but it’s not working the way you want. We put on our thinking caps to map out where your brand’s identity meets your audience’s mindset. Your core message lives at that intersection. From there, we can audit your current content, advise on how to improve it, and help you create new content that gets your desired results.