The Media Foundry
The Foundry Journal

Notes from the floor.

Writing on craft, production and the studio's way of working — new pieces roughly twice a month.

StudioMay 2026

Why We Don't Outsource Production

The case for keeping strategy, design and the camera in the same building.

4 min read
CraftMarch 2026

The Cold Seam Problem

What foundries taught us about what happens when a project loses heat between hand-offs.

6 min read
ProductionJanuary 2026

Casting Real People, Not Actors

Notes from The Feminist Cohort activation on why we pointed the camera at the real room instead of staging one.

5 min read
BrandNovember 2025

A Brand System Built to Flex

What it actually takes to design an identity that scales across markets without a redesign every year.

7 min read