Agency News: On the Silver Screen News 🗞️

Agency News: On the Silver Screen

Each August, we blow out the candles and ring in another year of Designsensory. We just turned 23 and this year we’re seizing the opportunity to create an annual campaign, one that celebrates the things we love most as an agency and look back at some of our favorite projects. 

Why? Because we’ve got some big plans on the other side of it. Wish us luck and come along for the ride. And what better way to kick off celebrating our Jordan Year – often claimed to be the most formative year of your life – than to hone in on our love for sports?

Put Me In Coach

Speaking of sports, not too long ago, I only had one team to manage at this office, but now I have two. I’m, of course, talking about our newly founded Designsensory Fantasy Football League and my stacked, soon-to-be championship squad (I’m 1-3 at the time of writing this). Roughly a quarter of the office joined in the fun and is in the race for first place and the massive championship prize.**

**Nobody has approved or discussed this, but it’ll definitely be massive. Maybe.

Our weekly series Vol Club Confidential returned for its third season, kicking off with Tennessee Baseball Coach Tony Vitello, who joined host Austin Price to talk about winning the College World Series. We’ve since gone full swing into football, sitting down with coaches and players from the #5 ranked Tennessee Volunteer football team.

Designsensory on the Silver Screen

Our feature documentary, Let Them Be Naked, has finally been released into the world! The film is an audacious exploration into the presence of toxic and often harmful chemicals in the fabrics and materials used in our everyday clothing. Backed by the Redford Center and from Executive Producer Suzy Amis Cameron, the documentary follows director Jeff Garner around the world as he talks with leaders in sustainable fashion.

After it premiered in London, it returned home to premiere stateside in Jeff’s hometown, Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Nashville Film Festival. Thank you to everyone who celebrated the U.S. premiere with us and joined the sustainable fashion conversation. 

We are so beyond grateful to our partners at PopFizz on this project. We could not have done it without them, from editing to scoring, they brought this to life.

Launches, Launches, Launches ????

If you talk to our tech team, just give them a big, massive thumbs-up emoji for their recent efforts on all of the projects they’ve tackled recently. 

Most notable is the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts’s newly redesigned website. Spearheaded by two-way (UX and graphic) designer Allie Torres-Lopez, the front end of the website accurately represents the new direction the school is headed in. But it’s the registration portal and integration with its CRM and marketing tools that power the site that will help future-proof the site and propel Arrowmont into its next generation.

We also redesigned College for West Virginia (cfwv.com), adding in a few more interactive planning and assessment tools alongside ample resources and a robust student aid management system. 

We also kept it local, helping Winston Eye Care redesign its site to expand its reach within our community.

Team Updates

Please enjoy this photo of Hunter Foster at the Maker City Summit.

The Maker City Summit is Knoxville’s celebration of our local business community. It gathers great minds together and offers up a diverse lineup to foster creativity, business growth, and more. I’m glad that I could help play my part. 

Similarly, our Research team kicked off National Hispanic Heritage Month at the Centro Hispano of East Tennessee’s Latino Awards, a recent partner that has helped us to craft culturally aware and impactful campaigns. 

We’re celebrating two weddings here at the agency, that of one of our founders, Brandon, and our Program Manager, Caroline Duggan. It always brings us a little extra joy to talk wedding planning and delight in the excitement of our co-workers. 

Because you know travel is important to us, we’re always going to keep you updated on where we are in the world. VP of Client Services Kate Ambos is currently off to Croatia, sharing bike rides, azure-colored bays and an octopus counter on her Instagram Stories. Meanwhile, Graphic Designer Jacquline Juneau just returned from an excursion to Hawaii, hitting both the mountains and the beaches. 

We’re delighted to announce Jessica Thompson was recently promoted to Media Director to align with her considerable contributions and the leadership she has provided to the department over the past year. Also over on the media team, Yojna Katre was promoted to Media Analyst to align to her expanded skillset and the value she brings day in and day out to what we do here at the agency. 

And please help us keep the applause going for some DSers who have celebrated some recent anniversaries with the agency:

So, what’s new with you? We’d love to know. Give us a shout.