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LGBTQ+ representation in marketing is still optional for too many brands. Here’s our standard.

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2026 predictions: what’s actually going to change this year

HAUS

The HAUS holiday party: a very good boy’s perspective

HAUS

Our 2026 goals: B Corp, growth, and staying weird

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AI agents in creative workflows, one year later

COMMUNITY

What we’re thankful for in Long Beach

HAUS

Halloween at the haus: the dogs pick their own costumes

CREATIVE

Why we kill our own favorite ideas

HAUS

Three years of the Code of 24: what we’d add today

TECHNOLOGY

The Amazon settlement is a $2.5 billion lesson in UX ethics

COMMUNITY

Why we’re formalizing our path to B Corp certification

HAUS

Sapphy and Hachi’s Long Beach summer

HAUS

Three years in: what we’d tell the founders we were

HAUS

Summer Fridays and the myth of the 24/7 creative

TECHNOLOGY

The Eighth Circuit just vacated the Click to Cancel rule. Don’t read that as permission.

HAUS

Pride Month and the brands still getting it right

LEADERSHIP

Five UX habits we keep defending, and what they cost

TECHNOLOGY

The real cost of a “quick AI logo”

COMMUNITY

What makes a nonprofit brand worth donating to

HAUS

Hudson and Houston crash a client call (a cautionary, delightful tale)

COMMUNITY

Earth Month before Earth Day: why we’re doing the work early

HAUS

Women’s History Month: the women building this haus

TECHNOLOGY

Why UX debt is technical debt’s underrated cousin

TECHNOLOGY

Building client trust when everyone’s worried about AI slop

CREATIVE

The quiet return of maximalist design

HAUS

Resolutions we actually keep (because we write them down in public)

STRATEGY

2025 predictions: what we think actually changes in branding and tech

HAUS

Winter at the haus: a dog’s-eye view of the holiday rush

HAUS

Our 2025 goals: building toward B Corp and beyond

TECHNOLOGY

AI agents are here. What that actually means for creative teams.

COMMUNITY

What we’re grateful for as a nationwide (but still Long Beach) haus

HAUS

Two years of defiance: a look back at why we built this haus

TECHNOLOGY

The FTC’s Click to Cancel rule just passed. Every subscription business should read this.

TECHNOLOGY

What makes a design system actually scale

HAUS

Two years in: the goals we hit, and the one we didn’t

COMMUNITY

The Long Beach small business scene is having a moment. Here’s why.

STRATEGY

Election-year marketing: how brands can stay bold without picking a side that isn’t theirs

HAUS

Houston’s first photo shoot: behind the scenes with the HAUS pack

LEADERSHIP

Why we turned down a client this summer

STRATEGY

The TikTok ban debate and what it means for brand strategy right now

HAUS

Pride, two years later: are brands actually doing better?

TECHNOLOGY

Mobile-first isn’t a trend anymore, it’s the whole game

BRAND

What the Paris Olympics rebrand taught us about national identity design

HAUS

Hudson learns to “present” in client meetings (sort of)

CREATIVE

Concept first, execution second: how we actually brief a creative team

HAUS

When companies quietly drop DEI, here’s why we’re doing the opposite

STRATEGY

Spring cleaning: auditing your brand like we audit ours

TECHNOLOGY

The EU AI Act and what it signals for every creative business, not just Europe’s

HAUS

Building a team that doesn’t need a culture deck

TECHNOLOGY

Google’s AI overviews are coming for search. Here’s how we’re adjusting.

LEADERSHIP

What “craft over clout” means when everyone’s chasing virality

STRATEGY

Predictions we’re willing to put our name on: 2024 in branding

HAUS

Holiday card chaos: the dogs try to help with client gifts (part one)

HAUS

Holiday card chaos: the dogs try to help with client gifts (part one)

HAUS

Our 2024 goals: what we’re building toward

COMMUNITY

Gratitude, Long Beach style: who we’re thankful for this year

TECHNOLOGY

The generative AI backlash: where creatives draw the line

COMMUNITY

Nonprofit branding on a for-profit budget: what we’ve learned

HAUS

One year in: what we got right, and what we’d do differently

HAUS

The dog days of summer: office adventures with the HAUS pack

LEADERSHIP

Why we don’t chase every client

CREATIVE

The creative review nobody wants to run (and why we run it anyway)

COMMUNITY

What makes Long Beach a creative city

TECHNOLOGY

AI wrote this headline. A human decided if it was good enough.

STRATEGY

How we structure a brand sprint (and why most agencies get it wrong)

BRAND

Threads, X, and the cost of rebranding in public

CREATIVE

The Barbie marketing machine: lessons in brand world-building

HAUS

Pride Month is not a logo change: what real LGBTQ+ support looks like in marketing

HAUS

Sapphy and Hachi come to visit: a Long Beach office field trip

TECHNOLOGY

Google’s helpful content update, one year later: what actually changed for SEO

COMMUNITY

Why we show up for nonprofits the same way we show up for enterprise clients

BRAND

The Twitter rebrand chaos: a case study in what not to do

TECHNOLOGY

Web design trends we’re leaving in 2022

HAUS

What the tech layoffs are really telling us about company culture

HAUS

Valentine’s Day at the haus: Hudson and Houston play cupid

STRATEGY

The market map exercise we run before any client ever sees a logo

HAUS

Setting goals we’ll actually be held to

TECHNOLOGY

The year everyone discovered AI: what ChatGPT means for creative work

HAUS

Meet the Haus Welcome Commitee: Hudson, Houston, and the rest of the pack who run this place.

BRAND

Small business, big brand: what enterprise branding can teach everyone

COMMUNITY

Long Beach is our home base. Here’s why that matters.