Logo Design
The Chicago Climate Charter is a first-of-its-kind international charter on climate change signed by more than 40 global mayors at the North American Climate Summit where President Barak Obama was a featured speaker.
Rebranding & Website Creative Direction
Chicago Sister Cities International celebrates cooperation and understanding through citizen diplomacy.
Rebrand designed in Partnership with Simple Truth
Naming, Logo Design, Brand Positioning, & Website
Play, Enriching Environments, & Relationships (PEER) facilitates harmony in the home by helping parents interpret & transform the inevitable difficulties that arise while raising children.
Naming, Brand Creative Direction, & Website
Current is an innovation platform for Chicago’s water industry to leverage its strengths for global environmental and economic impact.
Logo Designed in partnership with Eileen Lopez
Rebranding & Website Creative Direction
World Business Chicago works to ensure all Chicagoans prosper. Read more about the process of this rebranding.
Rebrand of identity designed in partnership with Marc Dostie.
Brand Creative Direction
Chicago Venture Summit helps you meet your next deal.
Brand designed in Partnership with Marc Dostie
Naming, Logo Design, Brand Positioning, & Website
Mashit is a record label producing body-moving genre-blends on vinyl and digital.
Logo Design, Brand Positioning, & Website
Wolfson Design Build is a purveyor of spacial design, renovations, and real estate project management.
Naming, Logo Design, Brand Positioning, & Website
Metabolize engages audiences by digesting business complexities into concise brand stories that resonate.
Logo Design, Brand Positioning, & Website
DJ C is a music curator and party rocker for whom no genre is off limits as long as the music is magic.
Naming, Brand Positioning, & Website
ChiMusic35 challenged the public to help determine 35 great moments in Chicago music history as part of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago’s 35th anniversary and the Year of Chicago Music.
Naming, Logo Design, Brand Positioning
Mood Bling is an online publication featuring writings on music in the liminal space between underground & mainstream.
Brand Creative Direction & Website Design
ChicagoMade highlights the city as a global hub of creativity and innovation full of diverse and unique makers.
Brand designed in partnership with Simple Truth
Naming & Logo Design
ChicagoNEXT is a dedicated effort to drive inclusive economic growth and opportunity in Chicago’s technology community.
Brand Creative Direction
Chicago Anchors for a Strong Economy is a network of prominent anchor institutions committed to collectively impacting neighborhood economic development through local purchasing, hiring, and investment.
Naming, Logo Design, Brand Positioning, & Website
WhosWithUs encourages fans to invest in musician's careers and help determine who's next.
Naming, Brand Positioning, & Logo Creative Direction
Unifest: One Globe. Many Cultures. A summer event series along the Chicago River in celebration of Chicago's 28 sister cities, with food, drink, and music.
Logo designed in partnership with Eileen Lopez
Naming & Brand Creative Direction
SimpleGrowth was an online lending marketplace built to help small businesses quickly discover access to capital.
Logo designed in partnership with Eileen Lopez
Brand Creative Direction
The 1000 Jobs Campaign was a workforce development program that placed 1,000 job seekers on career pathways in manufacturing.
Branding designed in partnership with Marc Dostie
Chicago Sister Cities International website celebrating cooperation and understanding through citizen diplomacy
Developed in partnership with Simple Truth
ChicagoMade website highlighting the city as a global hub of creativity and innovation full of diverse and unique makers
The Arts & Business Council of Chicago's ChiMusic35 Challenge asked the public to help celebrate their 35th anniversary during the Year of Chicago Music by voting on great moments in Chicago music history and helping them in their work to support the talented creatives who will keep Chicago a vibrant city for the next 35 years and beyond.
Basil Consultants helps build effective organizations by identifying and developing innovative talent.
World Business Chicago website showcasing Chicago's attributes for business, and WBC's initiatives
Developed in partnership with Palantir.net
The Site Selector mapping app for facilitating business location in Chicago won an International Economic Development Council award and helped Chicago maintain its spot as the top metro area in the nation for corporate relocation and investment for 7 years in a row.
Developed in partnership with Palantir.net
- ChiMusic35
2M
Social Media Impressions
200+
Public Votes
45
Traditional Media Hits
35
Great Moments in Chicago Music
2020 was the Year of Chicago Music and also the Arts & Business Council of Chicago’s 35th anniversary.
To celebrate, we invited the public to vote on 35 great moments in Chicago music history by taking part in the ChiMusic35 Challenge. The final list was published in the Chicago Reader and on ChiMusic35.com.
“Super stoked to be a part of this! Thank you.” – Martin Atkins (drummer for PiL, Ministry, and NiN)
“Honored and humbled …” - Vince Lawrence (co-producer of the first house music record)
- ChicagoMade
3000+
Attendees at SXSW ChicagoMade Music Showcase
175
Media stories
700+
Attendees at SXSW ChicagoMade Industry Leadership Reception
35
High-level meetings facilitated
To support Chicago's creative economy and elevate the city as an innovation hub, Chicago's economic development, tourism, and cultural affairs agencies partnered to bring ChicagoMade ambassadors like Chance The Rapper, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and J.B. Pritzker to SXSW.
Hand-Bound Book
Highlighting Chicago's business attributes
Magazine Ad
Appeared in the Fortune 500 & Inc. 500 editions
“A DJ expanding his curatorial role … and a Chicago producer of growing influence.” – Time Out Chicago
Jake Trussell's Discography includes more than 50 records on labels including XL Recordings, Ninja Tune, and Soul Jazz, sharing production credits with the likes of Diplo, Quincy Jones, M.I.A., and Gregory Isaacs. His own Mashit label has released over 20 records on vinyl and digital formats, and was featured as a “Label of the Month” by legendary BBC Radio 1 host John Peel.
Trussell aims “to explode stagnant musical categories—an approach he describes as ‘extreme genre-blending.’” – XLR8R Magazine
He’s toured globally as a DJ and musician performing at house parties, night clubs, weddings, holiday parties, underground raves, and festivals, alongside artists including Lupe Fiasco, Rhymefest, Squarepusher, Four Tet, Flosstradamus, and DJ /rupture (with whom he co-founded the Toneburst Collective).
“[Trussell] brings life-giving daring to his hybridized dance music” - Chicago Reader
Mashup
Chris Isaak and the Supremes meet Switch and Stereotyp
Original Track
“DJ C’s spin on dance music is innovative … his blend of dubstep, tropicalia, and electro-pop is clever and sounds futuristic, but he’s not trying too hard to impress you with it.” – Miles Raymer, Chicago Reader
Chi-Town; Chi-Raq? No. This is The Go! Read more about this mix over at Huffington Post ->
Adult contemporary serotonin for the 21st century. Read more about this mix over at Medium ->
