Bruce Beach & Inkweell

Being an LA-based agency, it so important that we uncover hidden history in Los Angeles. We took a snapshot of Black history in beach communities throughout Los Angeles.

ABC Stay Home with Me

ABC Stay Home with Me is a children’s alphabet book about the pandemic. We worked with 13 Canadian illustrators who each illustrated one spread. Each letter represents a different element of our new reality in a light-hearted, fun-to-read way. Each page has its own style, and one of the illustrators defined the color palette for the rest to follow to provide cohesion. The illustrators volunteered their time and skills, and all proceeds went to an organization called The Home Front which supports frontline healthcare workers. So far we have donated over $10,000. Zoe Share and I knew each other from the Toronto agency community, and at the start of the pandemic, we were both volunteering for The Home Front.

Every Waking Hour

Between 2009 and 2017, rates of depression among kids ages 14 to 17 increased by more than 60% and in 2017 more than one in eight Americans ages 12 to 25 experienced a major depressive episode, a study found.