Packaging Design EPHEMERA The Graphic Responsibility of Good Design Fred Richards CMO & Partner February 7, 2022 Every career has at least one defining moment. For me, it was reading Graphis Ephemera. I was stunned! Not bound in the standard minimalistic black,...
Brand Strategy HOW LONG CAN YOU SCREAM? Fred Richards CMO & Partner June 22, 2021 Standing out for being different is not as easy as it used to be. Once upon a time all a brand needed to do was attract attention to itself by pointing out the frailties of any given...
Brand Strategy DISINFECTING BRAND BEHAVIOR Fred Richards CMO & Partner March 24, 2021 “Uncertain times call for extraordinary measures,” a deep-voiced fatherly figure intones as slow piano music plays. Stock images pan across the screen of families hugging each...
Brand Strategy IN DEFENSE OF DESIGN WHEN ASSETS OFFEND Fred Richards CMO & Partner Septemeber 16, 2020 Before the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the wave of brand responses that followed, Land O’Lakes quietly and with little fanfare removed the Native...
Thought Leadership IT’S SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE Fred Richards CMO & Partner February 19, 2020 Vegetarianism or plant-based diets are commonplace these days: being an herbivore is no longer as challenging or stigmatizing as it used to be in Western society....
