Clients

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Our clients work in education & research, arts & culture, finance & business, and include a range of community & nonprofit organizations—and some have been with us for decades. Each client has different goals, challenges, cultures, and resources—but across all, we collaborate to foster relationships, increase income, encourage investment, and evolve an authentic and meaningful brand.

Education & research

Many academic institutions—independent schools, colleges, research universities—face increasing demographic, cultural, and financial challenges. By helping define each client’s differentiated place in the landscape—and by creating messaging, visual expression, and materials across media that live their brands—we help prospective students, parents, alumni, researchers, and funders “see myself here.”

Higher education

  • Aquifer
  • Brandeis University
  • Curry College
  • Curtis Institute of Music
  • Endicott College
  • Harvard College
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • MassArt
  • Northeastern University
    • Northeastern Cyber Security and Privacy Institute
    • Northeastern Khoury College of Computer Science
  • Olin College of Engineering
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • Suffolk University
  • Tufts University
  • University of New Haven
  • Vermont College of Fine Arts
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology
  • Wesleyan University
  • William James College
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Independent schools

Additional research institutions

  • Autism Consortium
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Boston Biomedical Research Institute
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Haemonetics
  • Harvard Clinical Research Institute
  • Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center
  • Joslin Diabetes Center
  • Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute
  • McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
  • Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear
  • The Jackson Laboratory
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Arts & culture

Arts organizations face multiple branding, marketing, and fundraising challenges: how the arts are “consumed” is continually changing; there is the constant drumbeat to engage younger, more diverse audiences; and audiences and donors are not homogeneous—a planned giving prospect needs to be engaged differently than a prospective first-time attendee, new donor, teacher, or sponsor. We create brand and communication systems that attract new audiences, make loyal audiences feel at home, keep multiple income streams healthy, and enable each client to realize—and live—its mission and vision.

  • Arts Reach
  • Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
  • Boston Ballet
  • Boston Center for the Arts
  • Boston Public Library
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Celebrity Series of Boston
  • Chorus America
  • Clark Art Institute
  • Dallas Symphony Orchestra
  • Detroit Opera
  • Duke Ellington Orchestra
  • Emmanuel Music
  • Fuller Craft Museum
  • Hartford Symphony Orchestra
  • Harvard Museum of Natural History
  • Houston Symphony
  • Indian Hill Music

Finance & business

For-profit enterprises with a clearly defined mission differentiate themselves within crowded competitive landscapes. Their offerings are viewed less as interchangeable commodities; they forge lasting relationships and instill greater trust in their clients and prospects. We work with businesses to identify and express their value and values, craft strategic messaging to complement the more tactical language of their products and services, and develop visual systems that connect with their target audiences and build value in their brands.

  • Abrams Capital
  • Accenture
  • Bain Capital
  • Bonhams Skinner
  • Boston Corporate Finance Community
  • Bridgespan Group
  • Cabot Research
  • CBT Architects
  • Centerbridge Partners
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Direxion
  • EYP Architecture & Engineering
  • First Realty Management
  • Fuller and Thaler Asset Management
  • GMO

Community & nonprofit

From our earliest days, we have collaborated with organizations who make a difference in our community and our world: those who seek to end hunger, support people with HIV, conserve the natural environment, democratize the web, or promote access to higher education. Each one needs to communicate with both participants and funders, prove their value and impact, and differentiate themselves in a crowded landscape. We collaborate to help these clients start and nurture relationships, build trust—and advance their missions.

  • 2Blades Foundation
  • Access MIT
  • AIDS Action Committee
  • American Ireland Fund
  • American Jewish Committee (AJC)
  • Boston Corporate Finance Community (BCFC)
  • Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC)
  • Community Resource Initiative (CRI)
  • The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
  • Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston
  • Mass Audubon