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About the studio:
Forest Forest Forest ™
builds public courses of study through collaborative projects, which appreciate and reflect upon art and media (whether films, sculptures, or viral videos) to help us consider the future ahead and challenge our understandings of craft, story, and culture.
Forest Forest Forest ™
builds public courses of study through collaborative projects, which appreciate and reflect upon art and media (whether films, sculptures, or viral videos) to help us consider the future ahead and challenge our understandings of craft, story, and culture.
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Good to know from the jump:
If you don’t respect queer and trans folks, women, Black people, Indigenous people, people of color, immigrants, neurodivergent people, and people with disabilities, do better.
Forest*** is not the right partner for individuals and organizations that believe that only some cultures and peoples have the right to exist.
If you don’t respect queer and trans folks, women, Black people, Indigenous people, people of color, immigrants, neurodivergent people, and people with disabilities, do better.
Forest*** is not the right partner for individuals and organizations that believe that only some cultures and peoples have the right to exist.
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Meet the Founder:
Travis Kim (he/him) is a designer, media generalist, and perpetual student.
Surrounded by educators all his life, he founded Forest*** to bring a teaching and learning sensibility to his creative work.
Meet the Founder:
Travis Kim (he/him) is a designer, media generalist, and perpetual student.
Surrounded by educators all his life, he founded Forest*** to bring a teaching and learning sensibility to his creative work.
Experience and Identity:
Travis has spent over half a decade working across the media industry, honing his craft within advertising, journalism, publishing, consulting, and fundraising contexts. He has held roles such as creative director, strategist, designer, recruiter, tour guide, researcher, and not all that long ago, ice cream scooper. In other words, he loves to think about media, culture, and communication.
He's also en route to his second master's degree, immersing himself in the humanities to study public scholarship and practice research that engages with and serves communities outside of academia.
As a queer person of color from O'ahu (Kingdom of Hawai'i) who lives in New York City (Lenapehoking), he is forever indebted to the past, present, and future of the cultures and people that have and continue to resist ongoing colonialism and systems of oppression. He humbly recognizes that all that he is able to accomplish today and tomorrow is because of the activists, artists, and organizers who have used their voices, bodies, and minds for our collective futures.
Travis has spent over half a decade working across the media industry, honing his craft within advertising, journalism, publishing, consulting, and fundraising contexts. He has held roles such as creative director, strategist, designer, recruiter, tour guide, researcher, and not all that long ago, ice cream scooper. In other words, he loves to think about media, culture, and communication.
He's also en route to his second master's degree, immersing himself in the humanities to study public scholarship and practice research that engages with and serves communities outside of academia.
As a queer person of color from O'ahu (Kingdom of Hawai'i) who lives in New York City (Lenapehoking), he is forever indebted to the past, present, and future of the cultures and people that have and continue to resist ongoing colonialism and systems of oppression. He humbly recognizes that all that he is able to accomplish today and tomorrow is because of the activists, artists, and organizers who have used their voices, bodies, and minds for our collective futures.
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How the studio moves:
Forest*** asks big questions and explores complex ideas through the stories that exist across culture, time, and form. We celebrate storytellers and study the craft of telling a good story, whether that takes place in a film, novel, vlog, oral history, dance, or even mixtape, in order to support the endeavor of meeting people with new ideas and "brands" with attention.
We pursue partnerships and client work that allow Forest*** to build thoughtful projects and learning experiences that sit outside of industry standard approaches to strategy, research, and brand building.
The studio builds internet (and IRL) artifacts or mementos for organizations, businesses, and artists to share ideas with the public. As the founder of the studio Travis sees it, Forest*** is interested in telling stories that feel like grand and courageous offerings to the archivists of the world, as if every project was an application to the collective time capsule of the internet. We aspire to a creativity that resists the ephemeral "content" churn and generative AI pyramid scheme that have become normalized far too quickly.
Rather than utilizing the artificial creative tools that expedite, obscure and/or eliminate the process behind our creative efforts, our hope is to make it visible and well-loved. Because at the end of the day, the discovery part of learning and making—that which is too often deemed wasted time—is what Forest*** loves doing most. We are committed to documenting the behind the scenes of our projects. Whether a microsite, magazine, or mini-documentary, Forest*** commits to opening up our process of collaboration, creation, and independent publishing for folks who may want to learn and consider craft along with us.
In short, Forest*** tells and studies stories (and the stories behind those stories) on behalf of brands, causes, artists, and our own imaginations.
Forest*** asks big questions and explores complex ideas through the stories that exist across culture, time, and form. We celebrate storytellers and study the craft of telling a good story, whether that takes place in a film, novel, vlog, oral history, dance, or even mixtape, in order to support the endeavor of meeting people with new ideas and "brands" with attention.
We pursue partnerships and client work that allow Forest*** to build thoughtful projects and learning experiences that sit outside of industry standard approaches to strategy, research, and brand building.
The studio builds internet (and IRL) artifacts or mementos for organizations, businesses, and artists to share ideas with the public. As the founder of the studio Travis sees it, Forest*** is interested in telling stories that feel like grand and courageous offerings to the archivists of the world, as if every project was an application to the collective time capsule of the internet. We aspire to a creativity that resists the ephemeral "content" churn and generative AI pyramid scheme that have become normalized far too quickly.
Rather than utilizing the artificial creative tools that expedite, obscure and/or eliminate the process behind our creative efforts, our hope is to make it visible and well-loved. Because at the end of the day, the discovery part of learning and making—that which is too often deemed wasted time—is what Forest*** loves doing most. We are committed to documenting the behind the scenes of our projects. Whether a microsite, magazine, or mini-documentary, Forest*** commits to opening up our process of collaboration, creation, and independent publishing for folks who may want to learn and consider craft along with us.
In short, Forest*** tells and studies stories (and the stories behind those stories) on behalf of brands, causes, artists, and our own imaginations.
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Get in touch:
Media, Brand,
and Business Leaders:
Media, Brand, and Business Leaders:
Forest*** is in search of creative consulting projects (e.g. brand strategy, comms planning) and sponsors to fund our public media.
Learn more here.
Forest*** is in search of creative consulting projects (e.g. brand strategy, comms planning) and sponsors to fund our various media projects.
Learn more here.