Caroline Casey’s independent advertising practice brings comedy and commercial writing into the same room. Its range offers a useful lesson: a brand voice has to survive being spoken aloud.
Dark Matter Media built its reputation in music publicity. Its clearest trick is also its most transferable: listen for the audience complaint that is secretly a product brief.
For 20 years, Jameka S. Whitten has built publicity the old-fashioned way: by knowing which story matters, who needs to hear it, and why Charlotte is often the perfect place to begin.
Dave Getchel can turn an idea into a website, a prototype or a tool for his own workbench. His more revealing design lessons come from the things he made before finding anyone to buy them.