HONEST is an award-winning studio dedicated to creating unconventional content in all forms. Based in Soho, New York, and with a decade of experience crafting compelling visual, narrative, and interactive media, we are positioned at the forefront of the new archetype in advertising and brand identity - ready to distill a client's message into its most intriguing and dynamic aspects and deliver them over the web, over the air, and straight into millions of unsuspecting brainpans.
HONEST has collaborated with top agencies including Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, BBDO, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Publicis, Leo Burnett, Wunderman, Mullen, and JWT, to name a few.
HONEST's work has been recognized with multiple projects short listed at Cannes, Webby Awards, FWA, being featured in Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors and Shots New Directors Showcase, Vimeo Staff Picks, CA Web Picks and winning an ADC Young Gun Award. The work of HONEST has been featured in design books such as Infiltrate, IdN Flips 8 Moview, Canceled Flight, and in numerous magazines (online and print) including, Creativity, Shots, Communication Arts, Print, STEP, and other magazines.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES:
INTERACTIVE REPRESENTATION:
A'ARRA
James O'BrienCREATIVE
- Branding
- Layout Concept
- Layout Design
- Flash Development
- Design implementation
- Interaction Design
- Strategic planning
- Game creation
- Motion graphics/animation
- Sound Design
- Music
INTERACTIVE
- Front-end and back-end development
- Flash animation
- Mobile development
- Video encoding and integration
- Mobile and tablet applications
- CMS development
- SEO
- Analytics
- Facebook Applications
FILM & VIDEO
- Writing
- Concepts
- Treatments
- Storyboarding
- Producing
- Directing
- Editing
- Sound
- Music
- Post production
- Motion graphics/animation

