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Updated: March 21st, 2023

Collaboration influences structure

Operating since 2021, we are a four-person team, however, we join forces with pre-existing teams or build a bespoke team by drawing upon our network, covering the fields of strategists, engineers, copywriters, marketing and PR, and more. We believe the best work is done together and by having a shared vision, not as a closed interoperability network. This also allows for us to better navigate the ever-shifting landscape we reside in.

If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go farther, go together.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

As a brand experience company, we view and communicate our work as systems building.

Designing as systems is largely metaphorical, than the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day. These systems work in coordination to transform the inputs into output. Rather than everything being segregated, we create a collection of organized offerings via various interfaces; where the products seamlessly sit together. We are constantly finding ways to showcase the breadth of culture, possibility, and history.

Our output consists of primarily three sub-systems: brand, content and digital; that surround the spheres of culture, including but not pertaining to: Architecture, Art, Beauty, Fashion, Food and Beverage, Health and Wellness, Technology, and even Music.

Some of our past and previous collaborators include: Achilles Ion Gabriel, Adobe, BYREDO, Clymdraws, Home Hotel, Leisure Center Vancouver, MMHG (Mume Hospitality Group), Mamahuhu Denmark, Miller Harris, Moda Operandi, Nahmias, New York of Nowhere, SSENSE, Song for the Mute, The Arrivals NYC, Young Thug, and Scarlett Johansson's The Outset, and more.

To learn more about what we do, reach out to us at
office@andassociates.studio.

Products serve as vessels for building community

We believe "products/services" are tools to build community and culture. Design should make individuals feel as if it’s something which ultimately be a place they could explore their own personal space, rather than some unifying social factor that they need to pull towards.

While having a profitable "business" is the endgame for most, we believe in something far more significant—The approach to how we work, and we do, is to create mindful, well-thought-out utilities for both the end user and the next; rather work that is aesthetically focused. We produce work that confirms values and beliefs.

Utilizing modern technology, we constantly adapt ourselves to progressive modes of pushing toward building communities based on trust, transparency, empathy, and equality. This integrated process allows us to explore design and humanity in parallel, from inception to deployment.

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