Since 1965, The Society of Publication Designers (@spdesigners ) has championed the future of visual storytelling within the publishing world. For this latest award season, we are medal finalists *three* times over, for our work on the @teamrubicon annual report, and twice in the “Redesign: Entire Issue” category for @sciencenewsmagazine and Missouri Baptist University(@mobaptistu ). 🙌🏻
Redesigns are both thrilling and meticulous, and our publication team is so proud of the work they invested into these thoughtful, colorful, energetic projects. ✨ To see more from them and other redesign projects, visit: /spd-61-medal-finalists
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Big news. And we couldn’t be more excited to share it.
@metaleapcreative is joining @yesandagency .
We’ve long admired Metaleap’s bold design and fearless storytelling. Now, together, we’re combining our teams to deliver even more powerful brand experiences.
Most importantly, this move brings together people who believe in the same thing: creativity that makes a difference.
We’re energized for what’s ahead. & grateful to leap into it together.
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Metaleap is 20! This year we are celebrating 2 decades of relentlessly working to solve creative problems to leave the world more beautiful. We are so thankful for 20 years of getting to work with the most remarkable clients. Together with them, we’ve had the opportunity to focus on elevating brands, launch magazines, innovate digital and live experiences, package delightful products, and inspire the world with more beauty and craft. Take a minute to check out our reel on our site, and may it inspire each of us to leave the world more beautiful.
What we do: Integrated Brand Campaigns. Book, Catalog, Annual Report and Publication Design. Environmental/Conference/Experience Design. Web, Social, Interactive. Identity Development. Naming and Copywriting. Print Campaigns. Packaging Concept and Design. Product/Campaign Photography and Video. Communication Planning. Creative Consulting and Auditing.
We came to Metaleap looking for design direction across our app-based product, website, social and print materials. What we found was a partner who cared as deeply about our brand as we did. The time spent entering with us into the imaginative process and discovering a visual landscape in which we now live is what sets Metaleap apart from the rest. Anyone can design, but few can truly create." —Tripp Prince, Head of Product, Dwell Bible”
Over the last 20 years, Metaleap has completed 43 redesigns, and designed nearly 500 issues, spanning 23 titles, across 28,000 printed pages. Our work has won over 25 gold and silver awards at the Society of Publication Designers Awards including Best Redesign, Best of Genre, Best Cover and Magazine of the Year as well as awards and accolades at the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), the City and Regional Magazine Awards (CRMA), the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), The Evangelical Press Association (EPA), Print Magazine, Cover Junkie and more.
Hosted by husband/wife life and business partners, José and Nikolle Reyes @rightmindatwork examines the messiness and exhilaration of being leaders who happen to be creatives. It’s where conversations rooted in the belief that grit, optimism, transparency, daring, courage, fear-busting, and real-talk can shape the future of creative businesses and lead to a life of purpose, mission, and fulfillment. Listen now on Apple, Google, and Spotify or visit RightMindatWork.com to read and hear more.
“Prior to connecting with Metaleap, I had worked almost exclusively with the big box Madison Ave agencies. I honestly did not know what to expect initially from this local but clearly talented team of creatives in Atlanta. We briefed them on a CPG brand identity and packaging redesign project that would touch our entire line-up at national B&M retailers and online. From day one, Metaleap was incredibly impressive with their level of energy, quality creative outputs, and project management discipline. Both the creative and account teams were highly diverse, both in background and thinking, and simply a blast to work with. What I appreciated the most was the team's ability to understand our business objectives and combine them with a creative approach that would wow both our stakeholders and consumers. The end result speaks for itself—we love where we landed, but more importantly our retail partners and our consumers did too. I would not hesitate to recommend this hometown team for local or global projects for any brand looking to revamp their visual identity.”—Jimmy Jia
VP, Operations & Innovation, Walker & Company Brands
We craft clear, compelling, strategic brand systems across digital and print that further a user’s engagement with a brand. From logos to packaging, identity systems to environmental graphics, every visual touchpoint must speak to your audience and pay off the promise you've made them. This includes the digital expressions of your brand—app, website, social media, motion graphics, and video. Comprehensively communicating your mission, vision, and values to the world is what we do day in and day out. When that happens, you remain on brand and on message at every touchpoint—for every user, every time.
We leave no rock unturned in our pursuit of creating beautifully engaging and bespoke coffee table books, consumer catalogs, national magazines and more that are worth a publisher’s investment.
At last count, we have completed 45 magazine redesigns and over 500 individual issues across 24 different titles. As you must assume, we love publication design in all of its forms. Creating physical artifacts that endure long after they have been seen or read, artifacts that are experienced over and over and remain fresh and exciting with each interaction, is one of the highest creative challenges we face.
At Metaleap, Creativity and Relationships mean everything, and you can’t have one without the other, not really. We listen, we challenge, we push, we pull. We are relational over transactional. Long-term over short-term. Community over the individual. Real over easy. In-depth over shallow. We are intentional in all that we do.
When we work together, you’ll feel it. We’ve witnessed agencies come and go selling trends and measurable achievements as proof of success. We’ll never do that because we know who we are.
Our lodestone is our practice of investing in the hearts and minds of our clients, vendors, collaborators, and most importantly, our team. It’s not for everyone. It can get dicey. But we aren’t interested in preserving what’s come before. We’re interested in producing outstanding creative that accomplishes so much more.
That doesn’t happen by chance. That’s us.
Our people are everything.
Regardless of an agency's creative output, the experience of getting there is only as good as the process of working with the team. We’re daring, optimistic, courageous, and gritty. Relentlessly working to get better. Just like you. Not just for us, but for the world.
We’ve got more than experience. Some call it determined courage. We call it pluck. You will certainly need the former in a great team, but the latter makes for a great journey.
There’s an old line in a David Whyte poem where he says, “You live best as an appreciator of horizons.” That’s what we love to do with our clients; we see the horizon together and then move towards it. A horizon stands at the furthest point of our vision; the edge between the old and the new; the transition from darkness to light. Over the last 20+ years, we have partnered with the most amazing clients to look at the horizon together–imagining what’s possible and then moving towards it with creativity and strategy. Our clients invite us to explore and reimagine together the things most important to them–the look and feel of their work, their products, and their ideas. We sit together, dream together, laugh together, and challenge each other. Together, we make the work more beautiful and more meaningful. It has been our greatest joy.
