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Natural Product Expo: Product Reviews

by Shift Collaborative, December 12, 2017

The amount of free samples and giveaways from the Natural Product Expo loaded us with lots of strange and wonderful treats. As an opportunity to challenge our Writing Team, we all took a product and found creative ways to write a product review. Have fun reading some of the interesting ways we decided to review […]

PUMP Brand Refresh: Elevating a Storied Brand

by Shift Collaborative, September 27, 2017

At Shift Collaborative, we love creating brand identities because it’s a chance for our whole team to get together and contribute to something meaningful that will be visible in our community. We were especially eager to work on a new brand identity for the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project, or PUMP as it is known to […]

Do Good

by Shift Collaborative, January 25, 2017

Most large corporations have a Community Relations or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) department, which focuses on giving back to the communities where they do business, where their employees live and where their customers are. According to a Time Magazine article, in 2002 only about a dozen Fortune 500 companies issued a CSR or sustainability report. Now […]

Be Creative Every Day: Tips From the Non-Creative

by Shift Collaborative, May 12, 2016

Creative: Having the quality or power of creating. Resulting from originality of thought, and expression. (Dictionary.com) If you consider yourself a non-creative type, then this article aims to provide a few creative tips custom-tailored to you. As you can imagine, a creative agency like Shift Collaborative is full of creative professionals. I am not one […]

From Local Attention to National Acclaim for Smallman Galley

by Shift Collaborative, April 15, 2016

A virtuous PR path for the country’s first restaurant incubator Since we started working with Smallman Galley just over a year ago (has it really been an entire year?!), we’ve been on an adventure to collaborate with the owners, the chefs, and the bar program manager to bring their passions to life: four aspiring chefs […]