Operating with a freeform approach and collaborative posture, Former Colleagues is an evolving network of brand strategists, researchers, designers, artists, writers, producers, technologists, architects, and musicians.
We help organizations excavate their truths, shape their identities, and explore new modes of creative expression that awaken the power of their brands.
Founded in 2020, Former Colleagues is the result of a decades long friendship and colleagueship that originated in one of Chicago’s most respected design studios.
In the time since, Former Colleagues has gained widespread acclaim among clients and partners for our extreme creative versatility and strategic thinking across a range of contexts.
His previous work includes global brand activations for Make-A-Wish Foundation, McDonald’s, and Ace Hardware.
Former Colleagues is the firm we couldn’t find, but wanted to exist.
Our working philosophy and motivation is to expand perceptions of how brands can be understood and experienced on the human scale. Every human scale.
This journey, sometimes taken for clients and sometimes for ourselves, leads us in wildly experimental directions including brand-building initiatives, spacemaking and environments, production, and everything in between.
We have offices in Chicago, Illinois and Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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