Storytelling is the most effective tool for designing our world. Throughout history we have cultivated knowledge, imagined the future, and codified values by sharing stories.
In today's digital communications landscape, photos and videos play a more vital role than ever in telling the stories that will determine which future we chose to build.
TOWARD A
SERVICE ECONOMY
As a winner-take-all economy continues to advantage large retailers, a Phoenix small business entrepreneur adapts from a product business model into a service model, which strengthens community bonds and lessens negative impacts on our environment.
STUDIO
PORTRAITURE
When photographed with dignity, portraits reveal everyday people as heroes.
SAVE WATER,
DRINK BEER
Through an innovative business design that helps restore water levels in central Arizona's Verde River while maintaining farm productivity, a social entrepreneur's benefit corporation unites private and public goals.
SMoCA
PRESENTS:
WASTE NOT
Design Transfigured / Waste Reimagined exhibition and artist panel discussion about sustainable approaches to design.
Ryan DeMenna
A Dream Realized
With his passion for skateboarding rekindled during the COVID pandemic, a businessman and father of two fulfills a childhood dream of staring in a skate video as he turns 40
ENVIRONMENTAL
PORTRAITURE
Highlighting some of Phoenix's creative community, this series invites the viewer to have a peak behind the curtain with glimpses into personal creativity incubators.
STORYTELLING
FOR CHANGE
Sustainability strategist and professor, George Basile, describes the role that storytelling plays in reframing sustainability issues as opportunities for innovation rather than as insurmountable problems.
SCIENCE, TECH
AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
This short video aims to inspire children from diverse backgrounds to pursue science, technology, and policy educational pathways.
CIRCULAR
CLASSROOM
Responding to Microsoft and Net Impact's community pitch-off competition, graduate students from ASU's School of Sustainability develop a project that teaches children about technological innovations and circular economy principles.
KIANA SWATZELL
GIRL CRUSH COVER
Studio production of singer Kiana Swatzell's rendition of Girl Crush by Little Big Town.