All Work
Sustainable Engineering Sherwood Design Engineers

From commodity
to category of one.

The problem

They were doing remarkable work. Nobody knew it.

Sherwood sits at a genuinely unusual intersection of civil engineering, sustainability, and innovation. More collaborative. More humane. With craft. But their content said none of that.

Corporate. Generic. Forgettable. They were competing as a commodity when they were anything but. The gap between the calibre of their work and how they were communicating it was costing them... in talent, in clients, and in competitive positioning.

Sherwood Design Engineers — Redwoods
The shift

We didn't give them an identity. We found the one they were hiding.

We peeled away the corporate veneer and let their actual uniqueness breathe. Working as genuine creative partners, not vendors with a template.

More than engineers, we discovered that they were industry disruptors. This reveal got everyone excited for what was to come.

Deliverables
Strategy Films Interviews Photography Truth Drops

They already had an audience, people they respected. They just needed to give them something worthy of attention. Truth drops led the charge. Theme films built the deeper narrative. Staff interviews gave the company a human face. Photography threaded it all together.

The work: photography
Sherwood — Los Angeles
Sherwood LA office
Sherwood art studio
Sherwood — Los Angeles
Sherwood LA office
Sherwood study
Sherwood — Los Angeles
Sherwood LA office
Sherwood — Los Angeles
Sherwood — Los Angeles
Sherwood — redwoods
Sherwood — coastal project
Sherwood study
Sherwood LA office
Sherwood — Los Angeles
Sherwood LA office
Not performative marketing. Content that feels as considered, human, and artful as the engineering itself.
The work: films

Company videos built authority through the website and gave eight offices a shared visual identity.

Collaboration

Community Resilience

Indoor Interview

Outdoor Interview

The work: Truth Drops

The true signal behind the company. Founder-led truth drops formed the flagship for the entire strategy, newsletters focus, and social rollout.

Art and Engineering

Collaboration

Nature

Outcome one

Talent became a strength, not a weakness.

In an industry where retention is brutal and salary alone can't compete, Sherwood now has an edge. Content that makes it compelling to work there. People who value sustainability, craft, and collaboration see themselves at the company. They don't need convincing, because Sherwood doesn't shout louder, they speak clearer.

Outcome two

Content that finally matched their artistry.

For the first time, Sherwood had content they could stand behind with pride. When pitching new work, potential clients could feel the essence of what Sherwood would bring, not simply judge line items on a proposal. That's a different kind of trust. In a competitive pitch, that's an unfair advantage.

Bonus outcome

Eight offices. One identity.

What started as external visibility became something deeper, a unified culture that could be felt across every office. The brand lifted off the founder's shoulders. Ownership spread through the team. Space opened for the kind of leadership that only becomes possible when you're no longer the lid on your own company.

"Two of the four shortlisted candidates for our CFO position came to the interview because of the Collaboration film." Sam McGarey, Director of Business Development
In closing

Sherwood already knew who they were. They just needed content to prove it. We found the words, shaped the strategy, and built something worthy of them. Remarkable work. Finally unmissable.

Your turn

You are not a commodity.
Time to prove it.

Uncover what makes you unmissable.

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