The only constant is change.
Let’s build brands that are ready.

To help Good Eggs expand markets, we called upon the irrational “food-feels” only a kid can have.

Good Eggs Campaign

Work: Grow
Tonal Workout System

Tonal launches 300% ahead of target by bringing the digital into the physical. And vice versa.

Tonal Digital and Retail Launch

Work: Launch

Launching the most important insurance brand since the birth of the internet.

At-bay Brand

Work: Launch

We partnered with Oculus to pioneer VR’s mobile and social future.

Oculus Social and Mobile VR

Work: Launch

Guiding a venture icon into a new consumer spotlight.

Lightspeed Venture Partners Brand

Work: Reinvent

We created an award-winning program designed to prep interns 3x faster for the creative profession.

WGI Program and Brand Design

Work: Create

A $4.5B HR Tech startup and the biggest brand comeback of 2017.

Zenefits Brand and Campaign

Work: Reinvent

A graffiti artist and an engineer walk into a boardroom…

The Business of Business and Brand

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Inventing new ways to solve old business and people problems

Inventing a New Way to Co-Create People Solutions

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Making a bold neighborhood experience is the work of many hands

Craft Collabs and Designing Spaces

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San Francisco’s parks are beautiful, and we’d like to keep them that way.

Butchershop Volunteers Summer 2019

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We helped San Francisco’s oldest distillery reinvent itself and create a runway for the next 30 years.

Hotaling & Co. Brand and Packaging

Work: Launch

A speaker series, a friendly competition, and an occasion to rise to the top.

La Crème, Session 01

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Good ideas speak every language.

The SF Business Times recognizes Jasper as ‘Best New Rental Development’.

Another Award for Jasper

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Implementing Okta’s winning Pre-IPO strategy

Brand Building Before and After the IPO

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Getting scrappy with data and unexpected research methods

Becoming Outdoor Industry Experts

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Like a good neighbor, Butchershop is there

Cityscape Design from East Cut to Mid-Market

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Leveraging data to make our media placements unmissable

Getting Loud with Good Eggs

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Mountain Hardwear Fall 2019

Gearing up a legacy outdoor brand for the D2C market.

Mountain Hardwear Campaign

Work: Grow

Put a little mustard on it.

Solve the right problems by asking the right questions.

The Power of Good Discovery

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Designing and building the next-generation fast data platform.

Streamlio Product Build

Work: Create

Helping CEOs find the billion-dollar idea inside their company with a first-of-its kind OS.

Haufe PeopleOS Brand and Product Design

Work: Create

Inventing a global design system for the past, present, and future.

Haufe Global Identity

Work: Reinvent

Co-creating the future of work across the globe with one of Germany’s oldest business leaders.

Haufe Strategic Partnership

Work: Create

You can do it alone, but it’s easier with a friend.

The Halo Effect of Brand Collabs

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Stare too long and you’ll start to love it.

Cyber insurance is a complex and evolving category, and At-Bay’s team knows it better than anybody.

A Brand for the Complex World of Cyber

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Defining a strange new land in mental health.

Neurotrack Brand

Work: Launch

A user-conference designed so well, attendance tripled.

Oktane Event Design

Work: Grow

Using design to build social value at the world’s largest social network.

Facebook Environmental Designs

Work: Grow

Lightspeed’s big opportunity on Hollywood’s biggest night.

Lady Gaga Oscar Campaign

Work: Grow

Go quickly alone, but far together.

Butchershop Wall Illustration

Ten years of making amazing taught us a lot. So we put it into a manual.

The Butchershop Culture Manual

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A name can make or break your brand’s positioning. Do it right.

Don’t Be Lame in the Name Game

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2018’s winners of our most prestigious culture awards.

Paul(ine) Bunyan / Blue Ox Winners 2018

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Designing San Francisco’s first and only hotel-residential experience.

Serif Brand

Work: Launch

Book your company or team for a one-of-a-kind bespoke printing press experience.

432 Press Workshops

Event

We sent 2 lucky interns to 6 agencies in 6 cities around the world. Here’s what happened.

WGI: Edition 1 Wrap Up

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Give them a reason to listen.

Collectively, we consider ourselves ‘dog people’.

Butchershop Volunteers Spring 2019

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Building an agency for the future of culture and commerce requires a big vision.

20/20 Vision

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Reminiscing on the best moments, big and small, that made 2018 so great.

A Fond Farewell to 2018

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Jeremiah Miller joins us at the office to teach the fundamentals of creating exceptional experiences.

Creative Confidence: How to Wow

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There’s no training that prepares you for running a successful company, because personalities are not curriculum.

Kill Your Problems with the Pre-Mortem

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If you can’t find a door, break a window.

Rethinking the internship experience and the tenets of creativity in business, a new internship model was born.

Announcing the World’s Greatest Internship

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Truck outside C2 Conference

Opportunity is endless. And no one has it figured out, except for Snoop. He was there.

Key Takeaways from C2 Montréal 2018

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Michael Veltri teaches you how to make the most of your daily 35,000 decisions.

Creative Confidence: Better Decision Making

Event

There’s always a place for analog in a digital world.

Meet our Vandercook Letterpress

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2017’s winners of our most prestigious culture awards.

Paul(ine) Bunyan / Blue Ox Winners 2017

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Butchershop At Sundance Film Festival

Telling stories in the future might be really great.

Sundance 2018 Recap

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Alter the form, not the essence.

QA for the every day with Neuroscientist, Dan Pardi.

Creative Confidence: Optimizing Your OS

Event

SAHA Homes and the most memorable holiday cards we ever made.

Butchershop Volunteers Holiday 2017

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Trevor Hubbard goes over his 30 tips for starting a creative agency.

Design Gurus Summit 2017 Recap

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A night of cinematic adventures with adventure photographer, Chris Burkard.

Under an Arctic Sky Screening

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Several women with several thought-provoking ideas.

Crossbones, a Butchershop Zine

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We partnered with a top VC firm, Lightspeed, to reflect its growing consumer portfolio and changing trajectory.

LSVP Project Launch

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It’s always about what neither of us expected.

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Alphabet’s Verily helps healthcare get a new start.

Baseline Project Launch

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The white-label hospitality platform changing guest experiences.

Revolutionizing hospitality software with Sonato

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Creator Jacket

The creative process in a jacket. You can wear it too.

The Butchershop Creator Jacket Story

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Serving the underserved communities of San Francisco at Glide Memorial.

Butchershop Volunteers Holiday 2016

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Microsoft for Startups kicks off with a first day field kit worthy of envy.

Microsoft for Startups Project Launch

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Unlocking the creative process through interactive learning.

Creative Confidence: a Hyper Island morning

Event

FinTech companies set on changing the way people have relationships with their money.

The Unshackling of FinTech

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Insights from Butchershop, Allbirds, Airbnb, and more. By Uncharted Mind’s Rob Goodman.

Five Lessons in Brand Thinking for Startups

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Creating the best 60 seconds of a CEO’s day with a glimpse into the future.

Haufe VIC Campaign

Work: Grow
Okta Team in kitchen with Okta branding

Introducing the new Okta for a global audience.

Okta Project Launch

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Preparing a SaaS unicorn for their billion-dollar IPO.

Okta Brand

Work: Reinvent

Using the magic of noir to help Jasper sell out before its opening.

Jasper Brand and Campaign

Work: Launch
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Zuora’s transition to leader of the subscription service economy.

Zuora: the brand for the subscription economy

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Put me in coach. Butchershop launches coolest members-only club for the SF Giants.

Gotham Club Revealed

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