This Sunday marks our 10th anniversary as a business. Here’s to a decade of making, thinking, writing, building, laughing, changing, imagining, learning, designing, feeling, listening, connecting, envisioning, believing, and telling stories—together.

What better way to celebrate our 10th anniversary as a business than with good friends, a mission-driven pizza truck (shoutout Lion’s Fire), and a little kickball? Big thanks to all the fun people who joined us in having a fun time! 🎉🎉🎉

Morning creative huddles in the office: sharing screens, sharing ideas, sharing feedback.

Congrats to our friends at Riverbridge on an energizing Endurance Summit yesterday. It was a privilege to partner with them for a community exploration of what it means to invest in what lasts. Check out the last photo for a peek behind the scenes!

We have a new opening on our team for an Office + Operations Administrator. We're looking for a problem-solver who finds joy in providing cheerful service and supporting admin tasks. Learn more and apply at teamopenbook.com/careers.

We're excited to share a new website we made for Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, MN! CPC seeks to be a people and a church open to how the Gospel moves, so we made sure to make motion a core aspect of the site. Check it out at cpcedina.org.

We love the power of a great script and a voiceover that nails it. Fortunately, we’re in great hands with these two. Recording session now underway for the latest TOB video! #bts

We love this quote from Rick Rubin, and while it speaks about the power of songs, we think it's true of any vehicle for story—websites, videos, conversations, events, even emails. The key is to go deep. Evoke emotions. Touch the soul.

The Open Book team is growing! We are looking for three people to join our team in the following roles: Messaging Director, Writer + Creative Strategist, and Office + Operations Administrator. Learn more and apply at teamopenbook.com/careers.

Here are a few spreads from the 2023 Impact Report we made for our longtime partner Veritas Forum. Stories of growth & transformation from the Veritas community are highlighted throughout the report, and we're privileged to serve an organization that makes those stories possible.

We're pleased to share a new website we made for Little Hospice in Edina, MN. For 27+ years they have provided personalized care for those at the end of their lives, and we’re grateful for the opportunity to help them tell that story. View the full site: littlehospice.org

For this year’s Christmas card, we created this illustration of the building our team has long called home. From in here, we’ve been privileged to shape thousands of stories we hope have shaped lives and organizations in meaningful ways. Happy holidays from our home to yours.

You may see scribbles. We see a story in development. #newbrand #procreate #bts

As part of our work with CPC in Edina, MN, we used a visual mark of two brackets to help tell the church’s new core story of “Open to how the Gospel moves.” Because the brackets aren’t just brackets. They are a reminder of a big idea that people can grab hold of for themselves.

Serving in complex & high-stakes environments can involve trauma, which can erode program impact and employee wellbeing. Greenleaf Integrative works to equip organizations to better handle trauma, and their new website we developed helps tell that story. greenleafintegrative.com

Greenleaf Integrative helps organizations serving in complex and high-stakes environments look upstream and proactively respond to the trauma. We created a video to help them tell this story.

When we make videos, we strive to make every frame beautiful so that no matter where you pause, you can be delighted by what you see. Here are a few frames from our video we created for SmallCircle that we hope bring a bit of delight to your scrolling!

We call this room in our office the Blue Sky Room. Because great ideas get dreamed up here. Carey is a new member of our team based in NYC — but when she’s in the Minneapolis HQ, she knows exactly where to settle in.

We're always looking for opportunities to create moments of delight. In web design, small web animations (called Lotties) have become a vehicle we utilize to create these moments of delight and enrich the overall user experience. Here are just a few Lotties that we love.

As an important part of our partnership with Empower School at Valley Dream Farm, we created a website to help introduce Empower to the world. The website is anchored in the story of growth “from the ground up.” empowervalleydreamfarm.org