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New Silk Roads knows what happens after the grant
Across Cairo, Tunis, and Amsterdam, this consultancy helps good intentions survive contact with funding, institutions, and everyday work. Its most useful product may be the connection between them.
Virginia Martino and the Art of Starting Over
A design studio, a city magazine, then a deliberate restart. Virginia Martino built BRAND in Las Vegas by bringing the business of attention closer to the people it serves.
Tessitura: The arts organizations that built their own software company
An opera house authorized $5 million to make ticketing and fundraising talk to each other. Seven arts organizations turned the result into Tessitura, a nonprofit technology cooperative serving more than 800 institutions.
The Publicists Who Treat Culture Like a Live Wire
Scott & Co sells no paintings, builds no museums and curates no biennials. Yet it has learned how to move all three through the world - by treating public relations as an editorial act, and culture as an argument worth making.
The Most Valuable Thing in Chicago PR Is a Memory
The Silverman Group built a 27-year business around an unfashionable advantage: remembering who matters, what happened before, and which story belongs in which room.
Cooke PR knows the hardest part is getting people into the room
Elizabeth Cooke’s communications practice connects corporate announcements with a dancer’s interest in the audience. Her career offers a useful question for any brand: what would make a stranger care enough to come closer?
MiresBall and the art of making the complicated clear
A rejected Intel pitch taught John Ball to look past the pretty picture. The San Diego agency’s work shows what happens when design starts with the decision a customer needs to make.
The 107-Year-Old Campus House Selling Something Students Can’t Download
Hart House is part gym, theatre, gallery, restaurant, grantmaker and Gothic living room. Its next act is harder: modernize a century-old landmark without renovating away the social friction that makes it useful.