Think tank.
We are a full service creative agency helping the smallest start-ups to Fortune 500 legends. We focus on brand stewardship, long term value, and respecting your customer.
In addition to traditional creative services we have a strong focus on nonprofits and cause marketing.
Based in Portland, Oregon, with clients & collaborators around the world.
services
strategy
Market Research
Brand Strategy
Brand Messaging
Focus Testing Content Strategy
Fundraising
identity
Visual Brand Identity
Visual Brand Systems
Naming
Packaging Design
Collateral Design
Campaign Concepting
Lifestyle Photography
Product Photography
Copywriting
Illustration
Brand Book
web
User Research
Site Architecture
Content Strategy
User Experience
User Interface
Copywriting
Responsive Design
Ecommerce Solutions
Development
Social Media
film
Concepting
Script Writing
Storyboarding
Production
Editing
Motion Graphics
founders
We have been collaborating with each other daily for over 11 years. Strangely, the only thing that unites us is an inexplicable, and possibly embarrassing love of Supertramp, and genuine enthusiasm for great storytelling, and cause marketing.
brenden schild
When Brenden is not behind a camera or keyboard, he is rollerblading, climbing, skiing, or nerding out on video games and despite all that, he is stunningly still married with two kids. He is a graduate of OSU’s illustrious design program and is now our Director of Photography and Director of Web Services. Some might call him a digital craftsman. He is brave enough to take on any task, and for allowing Jeremy to write his bio.
jeremy ehn
Jeremy grew up loitering in Harvard Square and dreaming of writing for Mystery Science Theatre. Realizing that writing for a canceled show had it's limitations, he set his sights elsewhere. Years later he would return to Cambridge and take a single graphic design class at Mass'Art, which was apparently enough. Prior to Active Culture, he was the Creative Director for Kettle Foods, then Founder and Mayor of Ideaville. He has 3 boys, 2 cats and one ghost-riddled Volvo. When Jeremy isn't writing about himself in the 3rd person, he's losing a battle with weeds in his yard.
Folks we've worked with over the past 13 years.
NON-PROFIT / SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Amplio
Ascend Learning
AAAIM
Better Ground
Brian Grant Foundation
Bug Chicks
Canopy Financial
Carpe Diem Education
City Scale
Clowns Without Boarders
Cordova Chamber of Commerce
EcoDistricts
Full Life
Ginger Beds
Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
Ground Up Nut Butters
Happy Cup
Incight
I-SEEED
iHanger
Kairos PDX
King Conservation District
Legal Education Access Pipeline
Mariam Foods
New Seasons Market
Oil Spill Recovery Institute
Paul Allen Foundation
PDX Vox
Portland Development Commission
Prince William Sound Science Center
Roya Recovery Institute
Russell Family Foundation
Snohomish Conservation District
Street Roots
Sustainable Harvest
Sustainable Growers
Question Coffee
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
3C Strategies
ACP LLC
Carpe Diem Education
CMS
Cordova Chamber of Commerce
Cube Hydro Partners
Curate
EcoR1
Forum Law Group
Funnel Pilot
Lucky Records
Maxwell PR
MBank
One Way Construction
Optic Nerve Productions
OPUS 111 Group
Rainbow Tax & Accounting
SERA
Skydive Oregon
The Oregonian
Three Oaks
TLR
TECHNOLOGY
Corum
iHangar
InSoFast
Intel
Life Biosciences
Moovel
Revelation
SimpleWave
VisibilEDI
VMC
Wacom
REAL ESTATE
Bonaventure
LandCentral
FOOD & CONSUMER GOODS
Annata Cannabis
Apex Cannabis
BDE Wines
Bee Local
Better Bean
Blue Roots Cannabis
Cook in Color
Cristom Vineyards
Farmer Brothers
Fatworks Foods
Gaufre Gourmet
Goose Point
Heritage Specialty Foods
Holy Kakow
Sunshine Nothwest Foods
Thomas Kemper
Verde Cocina
RETAIL / CLOTHING
99West
Burch’s Shoes
Camelbak
The Confident Stitch
Gaufre Gourmet
Grand Marketplace
Green Bean Books
Kids Central Kitchen
Manifesto
Man Crates
Modern Domestic
People’s Yoga
The Sugar Cube
The Stitch House
Zumo
HEALTHCARE
Acupuncture Northwest
Bright MD
Keen Health Care
Regence Health Care
