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The Jewelry Brand That Built a Factory Without Walls
SOKO began as a marketplace for Kenyan makers. The founders found that beautiful one-offs were hard to sell at scale, so they built repeatable jewelry collections and a mobile system that lets independent workshops act like one factory.
Visceral and the expensive art of saying no
The creative agency builds brands and websites for organizations trying to change the world. Its own turning point was deciding which work to turn away.
The Nest knows what to do when the garden party gets rained out
A Los Angeles creative agency joins brand strategy, community building, and the unglamorous work of making things happen. A New Orleans retreat explains why those jobs belong together.
AM PR Group’s business is the next move
Vanessa Anderson’s Los Angeles agency works where celebrity, commerce, and culture meet. Its relationship with Issa Rae offers a useful lesson: the next opportunity may require a different job description.
9B Collective Is Drawing Hollywood’s Next Cast of Creators
The Black-owned concept art studio helped imagine Blue Beetle’s world. Its bigger project is changing who gets hired to imagine the next one.
Gravillis Gives Hollywood Something to Stare At
From hip-hop sleeves to Zendaya’s sunglasses, the Los Angeles agency turns stories into images that invite a second look. Its harder job has been persuading Hollywood to see the people behind them differently.
Red Rabbit
Red Rabbit is the largest Black-owned K-12 school food management company in the United States. Founded in 2005 by former Wall Street trader and MIT graduate Rhys Powell, the company runs full-service cafeteria programs that cook made-from-scratch, culturally relevant meals for students in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania - treating good, diverse food for children as an act of social justice.