Salience First
We craft our messaging to engage people’s attention and keep it. The greatest risk is creating work that lacks an ability to spark interest. That's a risk we're never willing to take.
Pertinence > Relevance
Understanding the consumer isn't enough. Brands that connect more meaningfully have a bigger impact on decision making. We use insight driven storytelling to deliver these connections appropriately at each step in the consumer journey.
Science of Surprise
Unexpected creative is not easily forgotten. We design strategies, ideas, stories, and experiences that earn double takes and stay with consumers long after the media buy is over.
Participation Driven
We’re smart enough to know that we don't know everything. That's why we embrace courageous collaboration in our development and execution process. Engaging clients early and opening our doors to the audience throughout the process leads to more engaging, surprising, and exciting work.
SEE THE WORK
We’ve partnered with some of the world’s most iconic brands. We’ve helped brands launch, grow, tell stories, connect to consumers, find their voice, define their Identity and redefine themselves.
Reach out for a full list of our past brand and category experience.
Services
We offer all of the services you might expect from a large agency without all the headaches of working with one. Our full-service offering is also delivered with a unique approach that breaks down traditional agency and client silos for a more integrated, efficient and accelerated process.
It's a win, win.
Strategy
· Brand
· Campaign
· Social
· Content
· Comms planning
· Marketing ecosystems
Creative
· Brand advertising
· Campaigns
· Content
· Social
· Digital
· Design
· Experiential
Brand
· Brand Identity design
· Brand Identity refresh
· Digital experiences
· Packaging
Production
· Film & Video
· Photography
· Business Affairs
· Digital & Social
· Animation
· Illustration
· Motion Design
Media
· Integration consulting
· Added value ideation
· Measurement
· Analytics
At the helm
Our crew of passionate collaborators, strategic thinkers, and creative innovators hail from an ever-growing variety of experiences. Always curious. Forever pushing boundaries. Inspired team-building unites insightful voices into unique problem-solving collectives led by the Here Be Dragons founders.
Eric Dunn
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Over the past 20 years Eric has defined his career by being a zealot for creatively driven brands. His skill at balancing brand- building needs with business-driving activation have delivered exceptional results across a diverse range of categories. He has worked with organizations ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to the U.S. and foreign governments. For Eric the most exciting work comes from the size of the challenge, not the size of the client.
Ken Hall
Co-Founder & Executive Creative Director
Ken is a passionate and strategic creative thinker, storyteller, designer, innovator and collaborator. He brings extensive hands-on experience across a wide range of disciplines and is responsible for challenging conventions and inspiring unexpected creative thinking across the agency. Prior to launching Here Be Dragons in 2019 Ken spent 20 years in some of the worlds most recognized ad agencies building brands, teams, relationships and businesses.
Our team’s talent has been recognized by some of the world’s leading award shows.
