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.”
Eyes Up, Phone Down: Discovering The Joy of Art Begins by Looking
Every day I bump my way through Baltimore encased in a mobile box of aluminum and rubber, so numb to my surroundings that I can’t remember one such journey from the next, regardless of where I went or when it happened. The only distinguishing feature on these slogs...
Eyes Up, Phone Down: Discovering The Joy of Art Begins by Looking
Every day I bump my way through Baltimore encased in a mobile box of aluminum and rubber, so numb to my surroundings that I can’t remember one such journey from the next, regardless of where I went or when it happened. The only distinguishing feature on these slogs...
Creative Managers: Changing Your Relationship to Time
To continue his Creative Managers series, Steve Smallman, CEO and co-founder, shares three suggestions for how to change your relationship to time: get in, listen carefully, and offer input to creative teams. When I first started as a creative professional, I...
Creative Managers: Stop Feeling Threatened and Start Hiring
In his Creative Managers series, Steve Smallman, CEO and co-founder, shares what it means to start hiring people that are "better" than you and why it's crucial for the success of your team. Who’s More Talented Than You? “Hire people who are more talented than you.”...
The Creative Manager’s Challenge: Moving from Doer to Enabler
To kick off his Creative Managers series, Steve Smallman, CEO and co-founder, shares why moving from creative professional to creative manager is the only way to scale yourself and your creative vision (and why you will find a lot of joy along the way). Every creative...
Manifestly Digital
Manifestly Digital was originally published at manifestlydigital.com. We are Digital. A sense of reverence for print will live on for years, but ultimately we are living in a post-print society where information is communicated and consumed digitally....
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Every episode of the branding world's greatest podcast: The Design of Experience.
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