The Elevation Blog

Welcome, adventurer! The Elevation Blog is where we share our expertise and experience to help you unleash your creativity and soar higher. Learn about the techniques, strategies, and skills that are needed to take your creative to the next level. Create content that engages your audience, furthers your goals, and elevates your brand.

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Art + the Brain: How Mental Health and Creativity are Connected

For creatives, we may not be thinking about how the art we are creating or engaging with ...

Reasons Why Company Culture Matters For Your Branding

The world of branding and marketing creativity is pretty special. Since we deal in the ...

Brands and Marketing in the Metaverse - Part 4: Brand Activations

In part two of our series, we covered commerce in the metaverse. In part three, we talked ...

Brands and Marketing in the Metaverse - Part 3: Community

Right now, we are building the infrastructure for the metaverse. Not just the hardware ...

Brands and Marketing in the Metaverse - Part 2: Commerce

The rise of the digital age has brought with it massive growth in countless industries ...

Brands and Marketing in the Metaverse - Part 1: Overview

Welcome to the first installment in our 4 part series on the metaverse, and how it’s ...

A Brand Walks Into a Bar - The Use of Humor in Branding

The Funny Thing About Funny Things Humor is one of our most fundamental forms of ...

In Brand Building, "Moments" Still Matter

There’s a great essay called “1,000 True Fans” that makes an interesting point: as a ...

How To Set a Project Up For Success

The First Law of Mentat: “A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding ...

Is Audio Taking Over Social Media

What’s That Sound? It would appear that the newest technology flooding the internet, and ...

What is Integrated Marketing?

Advertising is Based On _____________ Integrated Marketing is a bold, amorphous term (an ...

How to Promote Your Brand on TikTok

It is becoming increasingly clear that TikTok is taking over the social world. Although ...

Designed with LOVE: Love, Kindness, and Cranes

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. — MLK

Why Storytelling is Always the Future

If there’s anything true about people, it’s that we love stories. We eat them up. They ...

A Guide to Brand Archetypes

Anyone involved with branding knows that we are well past the era where knowledge of a ...

The Strategy of Style

To paraphrase Charles Bukowski, “Style is everything.” It is the non-verbal clues that ...

Designed with LOVE: Uplifting one another

The need to connect with others has never felt stronger, not only on a creative level, ...

Creating 3D Environments in Game-Changing Speed with Unreal Engine

As designers, it’s crucial for us to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to new and ...

Designed with LOVE

A lot has happened this year that has shocked and challenged the world. Throughout these ...

6 Storytelling Strategies from a Screenwriter

Storytelling has become a trend. With books like Storynomics, Stories That Stick, and ...

Uncertainty Calls for Empathy and Creativity

How to shift your strategy in uncertain times.