Quint & Quint is a visual storytelling and impact marketing agency based in New York City. We use an artful blend of documentary photography and video production to help select institutions and nonprofits wildly surpass their fundraising and brand awareness campaign goals.
It’s so important to keep your eyes open, look for inspiration everywhere, and collaborate with people from different creative mediums. The typeface Movement was created from a collaboration between designers and choreographers to stunning effect. Watch the choreography and see how it inspired this unique typography at AIGA’s Eye on Design blog.
After telling people your story, you have to tell them what you want them to do next. This is the essential role of your call to action. HubSpot has put together this useful list of great CTA examples, highlighting samples with great call-to-action phrases, CTA’s that balance using multiple buttons on one page, and simple and effective CTAs.
We applaud these young people taking a stand for climate change. In the words of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, “Adults keep saying, ‘We owe it to the young people to give them hope, but I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.” Read the full story about how young people across the world took action on the issue of climate change this past Friday at nytimes.com.
We love this guide from HubSpot breaking down the importance of customer retention and relationship marketing. It’s so much simpler to keep people engaging with your brand rather than starting from scratch with new relationships (as the saying goes -make new friends, but keep the old!) Learn more about how to cultivate deeper, more meaningful relationships with customers with this guide at hubspot.com.
New York City continues to draw new tech talent, for companies as big as Google and Amazon all the way down to a booming startup culture. We love being at the center of it all. Read the whole story from Medium.com.
We love these little vignettes written for the New York Times. It’s amazing how much story you can get into so few words. See for yourself at nytimes.com.
Just because you’re not feeling the impacts of air pollution, does not mean that it’s not a problem. This new study shows that “air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans' consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans.” Read the full story at npr.org.
Consumers know the difference between companies who are backing a social issue to stay relevant and those that actually do care. Authenticity is paramount, but so is owning your brand’s history, and looking forward with an eye to actionable steps your company can take to make a difference. Entreprenuer.com has the full story.
We’re glad to know something beyond good looks is keeping these buildings standing! Learn more about how design keeps skyscrapers in the sky from Vox.com.
It’s past time that we include protections for transgender people and their families. The Equality Act has been introduced by a bipartisan group of members of Congress. This legislation would “explicitly and strongly extend civil rights protections to cover LGBTQ people nationwide.” Learn more about the important protections it would provide on medium.com.
This video spot does a wonderful job focusing on the positive and spreading joy while spreading an important message. Check out the ad on thedrum.com.
Sometimes it’s tricky to trace back the origins of an idea, or navigate the line between “inspiration” and appropriation. A good rule of thumb: if someone tells you it’s appropriation, take them seriously. Here’s an interesting case laid out on entrepreneur.com.
Thinking about your next up-cycle project? Neither are we. But! Ikea has us super inspired (and wishing we were more handy with a hand saw) with these beautiful “wildhomes” they produced in partnership with Mother. Learn more about the partnership on thedrum.com.
The College Scandal Case reminds us of the important work that must continue to take place at American universities to ensure equal access to education, regardless of applicants privilege. As put by the US Attorney Andrew Lelling of Massachusetts, "There can be no separate college admission system for the wealthy, and I'll add that there will not be a separate criminal justice system either.” Read more about this developing story at cnn.com.
We’re constantly inspired by the myriad of cool ideas coming out of TED conferences. Here’s a list of top 10 TED talks from the past year, covering everything from astronomy to social justice. See the full list on inc.com.
As self-proclaimed documentary junkies, we’re excited for the film “Float” which introduces the world to an indoor sport that involves building and flying self-propelled model airplanes. Niche enough for you? The planes are beautiful, and also surprisingly soothing to watch float through the air. See for yourself at thisiscollossal.com.
Whether you are for or against the death penalty, we should all be aware of the ways that willful and unconscious bias affects felony convictions, as the death penalty is applied more often to people of color and those with mental disability. Read more about California is grappling with this issue on npr.com.
Bruce Friedrich used to tell people about the lives of livestock animals in hopes that they would give up meat out of moral obligation. Now, he wants to sell them better alternatives. Not sure he’ll be able to replace our daily pastrami on rye lunch order, but we’ll give him a chance. Read his full story on nyt.com.
We’re glad to see Dick’s sporting goods CEO Ed Stack continue to act on his commitment to sensible gun practices. Stack recently signed a letter supporting a universal gun control bill that recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives and joined the business council of Everytown. We hope more businesses join Dick’s Sporting Goods in taking responsibility for how the products they sell are used out in the world. Learn more at adage.com.
These powerful photos by Rosalind Fox Solomon demonstrates the important role of photography and visual storytelling in facing our country’s past. “Finely attuned to dog whistles and soul claps, to the space between self-image and self-awareness, Fox Solomon reveals the majesty of the mundane, the campy insouciance of sincerity, and the queasy recognition of the darker forces of American life at play.” See the full story at featureshoot.com.