Spring. It’s one of my favorite times of year. Fresh flowers are blooming, the temperatures are slowly rising, and the sun is shining longer. It’s as if fresh new beginnings are happening all around us. As we shake off those winter sweatpants and start soaking up the sun, a new sense of springtime motivation arises. […]

From cuneiform tablets to pictograms to hieroglyphs, signs and symbols have always evoked a certain meaning and a message. I’ve been tearing through Miranda Bruce-Mitford’s book The Illustrated Book of Signs & Symbols, and it’s been fascinating to learn how these signs and symbols have been used throughout time and how many still retain their original […]

If you’ve looked at any content over the last few weeks you’ve likely seen memes and headlines hyper-focused on the one-year anniversary of our “two-week” quarantine. If you’re like us, you’re a wee bit triggered by them. It’s hard to believe that it has been 365 shimmies around the sun since we’ve actually danced any […]

It’s hard to believe it, but we finally made it to 2021. And with the New Year comes a whole new set of major trends. ICYMI (in case you missed it) bike shorts are out, which honestly, thank goodness. Fashion trends aside, here at R&R we love staying on top of the latest color, font […]

A few weeks ago, I watched the UPS and FedEx trucks roll out of a Pfizer shipping facility in Michigan. It could have been any other day, shipments coming out of a pharmaceutical company’s big warehouse isn’t all that unique. But now, there are essential workers being vaccinated by the day because of quick-thinking and fast-acting […]

I know when the clock struck 12:01 on January 1, 2021 we didn’t have delusions of grandeur, but there was a small exhalation of breath, a bit of cautious optimism and a few glimmers of hope. And don’t get me wrong, January hasn’t been all poop emojis and doom scrolling, but as an agency founded […]

The Fraternity’s First Virtual Award Ceremony Available Now For Streaming Atlanta, GA (January 4, 2021) — Sigma Pi Fraternity leadership felt it critical that they pivot methods of member connection, education and engagement in 2020. Headquarters staff focused on innovative ways to connect using various mediums, and as a result, they partnered with Rhyme & […]

The year 2020 has been one for the history books. So far we’ve had a global pandemic, a presidential impeachment trial and election, a worldwide movement for equality and, maybe the most wild, Tiger King. Pop culture has had plenty of content to post about this year and, unsurprisingly, social media has been at the […]

If you haven’t read “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This” by Luke Sullivan and Edward Boches, stop what you’re doing and head over to Amazon.com to Prime this book to your door because you are missing out. This book is an advertisers dream guide full of examples and how-to advice. Whether you’re selling a product, an idea […]

What we DON’T say matters. What we DO say matters. When it comes to marketing and communications, the words we use, the photos we share, the tone we take all speak volumes. They have the ability to define our organizations – to create perceptions, right or wrong. Now more than ever, we need to decide […]