We build brands to help businesses launch, grow, evolve, and create.

Giving a one-stop shopping app a makeover to capture the spirit of their Gen Z audience.

Buzzcut Brand and Campaign

Work: Evolve

To help Good Eggs expand D2C markets, we called upon the irrational “food-feels” only a kid can have.

Good Eggs Campaign

Work: Grow

Reinventing the job hunt through a consumerized digital experience.

Nike and Converse Career Site Experience

Work: Create

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

Zenefits Brand and Campaign

Work: Evolve

Put a little mustard on it.

Mountain Hardwear Fall 2019

Gearing up a legacy outdoor brand for the D2C market.

Mountain Hardwear Campaign

Work: Grow

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

WGI Program and Brand Design

Work: Create

Preparing a SaaS unicorn for their billion-dollar IPO.

Okta Brand

Work: Grow

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

Oculus Social and Mobile VR

Work: Launch

The process hasn’t changed, but who’s doing the process has.

Creative Outputs can be Better with Great Production Partners

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Brands are global. Clarity is universal. Talent is everywhere.

Brand and Business Without Borders

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A New Way to Hire Emerging Multi-Faceted Creative Talent

World’s Greatest Internship (WGI) Evolves into a Talent Network and Internship Experience to Elevate Emerging Talent

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Virtual Panel of Cannabis Brand Folks Talk About Design

Expand Your Mind and the Definition of Cannabis and Design

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Agency and Clients Aligned For The Future.

Join The Fight, Activate Equity for Equality

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Black Lives Matter. Focusing on education, support and fundamental action.

A First Step Forward

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Simple speaks loudest.

Landing new awards for digital screen work.

Honored by The Telly Awards for Good Eggs and Show Reel

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Guiding an unrivaled AI platform from stealth mode to unicorn in one branding project.

Instabase Brand

Work: Grow
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Updates, information, actions; brands respond to the pandemic.

The Hero Inside Your Brand

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Ten ways to build a clearer path for uncertain times ahead.

Clarity and Smiles During a Crisis

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Creating award-winning brands has always been about the impact, not just the hardware.

Recognizing Our Recognition

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

La Crème, Session 02

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

Paul(ine) Bunyan / Blue Ox Winners 2019

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Uniting the transportation giant’s global employee network around a culture of safety.

Uber Employee Privacy Content

Work: Grow
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Butchershop makes the cut, winning C2A International Creative Awards for Mountain Hardwear, Good Eggs, and At-Bay Projects

Butchershop Recognized by C2A Awards

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Out of all the different models, the one which allows you to consistently build trust and value never fails.

The Best Agency Model During a Recession?

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Impactful creative tools inspired by Montreal’s school of creativity sciences, Factry.

Survival Tools for the Creatively Inclined

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Butchershop, WGI, La Factry assemble to create a partnership with the future in mind.

From Nothing Comes An International Partnership

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Go quickly alone, but far together.

C2 Montreal, the most forward-thinking business event in the world, published an article featuring our serendipitous partnership with Factry and WGI.

World’s Greatest Internship Gets a Montreal Twist

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Minimalist design, splashy copy, and smooth interactions for the win.

WGI named Awwwards Site of the Day

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We took our storytelling to the screen and picked up some new hardware.

Butchershop honored by The Telly Awards

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Optimizely celebrates the power of digital experimentation at their newly designed user conference, Opticon19.

Opticon19 Event Design

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Paulo Simas and Trevor Hubbard talk about the ins and outs of building the World’s Greatest Internship.

WGI x What2Know Podcast

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A graffiti artist and an engineer walk into a boardroom…

The Business of Business and Brand

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About to steal the show.

Inventing new ways to solve old business and people problems.

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

Another Award for Jasper

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If you make it unexpected you make it everything.

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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Solve the right problems by asking the right questions.

The Power of Good Discovery

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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

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

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

Haufe Global Innovation

Work: Create

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

The Halo Effect of Brand Collabs

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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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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

Good ideas speak every language.

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

Haufe Global Identity

Work: Evolve

Designing and building the next-generation fast data platform.

Streamlio Product Build

Work: Create

Defining a strange new land in mental health.

Neurotrack Brand

Work: Launch

Give them a reason to listen.

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

At-bay Brand

Work: Launch

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

Serif Brand

Work: Launch
Tonal Workout System

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

Tonal D2C Launch

Work: Launch

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

432 Press Workshops

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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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Collectively, we consider ourselves ‘dog people’.

Butchershop Volunteers Spring 2019

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Brand is mental real estate. Move in.

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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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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It’s always about what neither of us expected.

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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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Guiding a venture icon into a new consumer spotlight.

Lightspeed Venture Partners Brand

Work: Evolve

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

Creative Confidence: Better Decision Making

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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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Our work for Invo kept it chll in a sea of over-promising coconut water competitors.

The Drum Awards Recognizes Invo OOH Campaign

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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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Agency in name only.

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

LSVP Project Launch

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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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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

A user-conference designed so well, attendance tripled.

Oktane Event Design

Work: Grow
Okta Team in kitchen with Okta branding

Introducing the new Okta for a global audience.

Okta Project Launch

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

Jasper Brand and Campaign

Work: Launch

Repositioning a giant to forever change the subscription economy.

Zuora Brand and User Conference

Work: Evolve
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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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