thought leadership
Welcome to our blog …a space designed for Fifteen4 news, advice, commentary, storytelling, and well, how our entire team of leaders think. Here is where we keep all the content that gives you a clearer picture of who we are, what we do, how we think [about the industry we love] and the many ways to tell a brand story, without resorting to buzzwords like “data-driven paradigm shift” or “brand story.”
Motionographer Crystal Ball
Buckle up, because we're about to dive face-first into a rabbit hole of keyframes, bezier curves, and enough industry jargon to make your old Flash animation professor weep. If you're part of the motion design and animation community, chances are you know...

Motionographer Crystal Ball
Buckle up, because we're about to dive face-first into a rabbit hole of keyframes, bezier curves, and enough industry jargon to make your old Flash animation professor weep. If you're part of the motion design and animation community, chances are you know...
How a Small Creative Agency Went to Space (and How We Stay Interested in Everything Else)
Fantastic Voyage In our 17 years of business, we’ve been asked to do some pretty interesting work. We’ve branded craft beer, a food truck, and a farm-to-table operation in the Hudson River Valley of New York. We’ve done piles and piles of content and design for B2B...
Direct to Consumer
This one's about: Premium frying pans that come in soothing earthy colors, Ginsu knives, the Ron Popeil revolution, and snake oil. The allure and wonder of direct-to-consumer products. Are vegan gummies going to fix your anxiety? What about artisanal distilled...
How to Take Feedback Like a Champ
Feedback. It’s part of every creative process, and in the early phases, that means copywriting. In between rounds, everybody stands over the script and cross-talks about what they do and don’t like, and in the end, the writing improves (theoretically). It’s the nature...
Rediscovering Wonder
This article was originally published by Matthew DeVille on Medium. Spring is a time of renewal and rejoicing for many. For some, however, it is a time of turmoil. Why? Maybe it has to do with pollen, but it likely has more to do with expectations. After hunkering...
How We’re Changing: 5 Ways We’ve Adapted to a New Business Model
This post was originally published on LinkedIn by Will Smallman, VP of Business Development. Here, Will shares how Fifteen4 confronted the past year's challenges by evolving our business model for the better. When I was twelve years old, my father gave me a book...
What Human-Focused Interior Design Can Teach Us and 5 Ways to Get Started
I recently learned about Ilse Crawford through the Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design and was immediately taken with both her way of viewing the world through interior design as well as how much her perspective makes equal sense in the world of user experience...
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