Profile

Box Crib is a strategy and brand studio for the built environment.

We help architecture, design, and development firms define what sets them apart and express it through visual identity, websites, and marketing systems.

Work that holds.

Profile

Box Crib is a strategy and brand studio for the built environment.

We help architecture, design, and development firms define what sets them apart and express it through visual identity, websites, and marketing systems.

Work that holds.

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Beliefs

Do good work with good people.

The brand should be as good as the practice behind it.

AEC fluency and outside perspective both matter.

Strategy gives every decision a reason.

Attention to detail is how trust is built.

The team should be stronger after we leave.


Beliefs

Do good work with good people.

The brand should be as good as the practice behind it.

AEC fluency and outside perspective both matter.

Strategy gives every decision a reason.

Attention to detail is how trust is built.

The team should be stronger after we leave.


Who We Are

Chris Jasinski

Chris Jasinski

Founder, Head of Strategy

Founder, Head of Strategy

Chris brings 16 years of experience in brand strategy, marketing and business development for AEC firms. His work spans positioning, go-to-market strategy, and growth, often using formats other strategists overlook: documentary storytelling, strategic events, and fundraising campaigns.

At Box Crib, he leads strategy across positioning, communications, and new business.

Chris brings 16 years of experience in brand strategy, marketing and business development for AEC firms. His work spans positioning, go-to-market strategy, and growth, often using formats other strategists overlook: documentary storytelling, strategic events, and fundraising campaigns.

At Box Crib, he leads strategy across positioning, communications, and new business.

Nick Hoag

Nick Hoag

Partner, Head of Creative

Nick brings 17 years of experience leading brand, marketing, and digital work. He founded The Future Forward, where he worked with numerous firms including Studios Architecture, Morris Adjmi, Fry Reglet, and the Novogratz on brand systems, websites, and marketing strategy.

At Box Crib, he leads creative direction across each engagement and shapes the studio’s point of view on design.

Nick brings 17 years of experience leading brand, marketing, and digital work. He founded The Future Forward, where he worked with numerous firms including Studios Architecture, Morris Adjmi, Fry Reglet, and the Novogratz on brand systems, websites, and marketing strategy.

At Box Crib, he leads creative direction across each engagement and shapes the studio’s point of view on design.

Story

A box crib is a stack of timbers that holds weight while complex work gets done. Practical, deliberate, built for the moment the structure needs support.

That's where the name comes from, and what we do for the firms we work with.

We partner with companies in and adjacent to architecture, engineering, and construction at points of growth, transition, and rising ambition. The work has grown. The brand hasn't kept pace. The website undersells the portfolio, every pursuit starts from scratch, and the firm's story shifts depending on who's telling it.

We've worked inside firms and alongside them, so we know the real conditions: proposal deadlines, leadership review, stretched marketing teams. We pair that with outside perspective from premium brands, hospitality, and cultural work, so the result reads sharp instead of generic.

We clarify the strategy, build the identity and website, and hand the team a system they can actually run. Then the brand keeps working after we leave.

Support while you build and strength that carries forward.

Story

A box crib is a stack of timbers that holds weight while complex work gets done. Practical, deliberate, built for the moment the structure needs support.

That's where the name comes from, and what we do for the firms we work with.

We partner with companies in and adjacent to architecture, engineering, and construction at points of growth, transition, and rising ambition. The work has grown. The brand hasn't kept pace. The website undersells the portfolio, every pursuit starts from scratch, and the firm's story shifts depending on who's telling it.

We've worked inside firms and alongside them, so we know the real conditions: proposal deadlines, leadership review, stretched marketing teams. We pair that with outside perspective from premium brands, hospitality, and cultural work, so the result reads sharp instead of generic.

We clarify the strategy, build the identity and website, and hand the team a system they can actually run. Then the brand keeps working after we leave.

Support while you build and strength that carries forward.

Two people focus on a laptop screen in a collaborative office setting.

Capabilities



Capabilities



01Brand Strategy & Messaging
We clarify who the firm is, what it does best, and what sets it apart from firms that look the same on paper. Sharp positioning gives principals a clearer story in pursuits and interviews, and gives everything else a foundation to build on.
02Visual Identity Design+
03Collateral Design+
04Web Design, Build, & Support+
05Content Creation+
06Marketing & BD Strategy+
01Brand Strategy & Messaging
We clarify who the firm is, what it does best, and what sets it apart from firms that look the same on paper. Sharp positioning gives principals a clearer story in pursuits and interviews, and gives everything else a foundation to build on.
02Visual Identity Design+
03Collateral Design+
04Web Design, Build, & Support+
05Content Creation+
06Marketing & BD Strategy+
01Brand Strategy & Messaging
We clarify who the firm is, what it does best, and what sets it apart from firms that look the same on paper. Sharp positioning gives principals a clearer story in pursuits and interviews, and gives everything else a foundation to build on.
02Visual Identity Design+
03Collateral Design+
04Web Design, Build, & Support+
05Content Creation+
06Marketing & BD Strategy+

Creative Network

We collaborate with a creative network built over two decades: senior designers, developers, writers, and photographers we've worked with for years.

For each project, we bring in the right people for the specific need at hand.

The team is built to fit the project, not the other way around.

Design:
Evan Baum
Jonathan Sandridge
Chris Partelow

Web Development:
Jacob Frederiksen
Michael Vestergaard
Luis Bajana

Photography:
Grant Stewart
Matt Carbone
Brad Feinknopf
George Gray

Film:
Daniel Kwon
Pablo Signori
Tony Tsamourtzis

…and many more


Two people focus on a laptop screen in a collaborative office setting.