Little Hands of Stone is an independent advertising and creative agency based in Seattle. Our logo may be dumb, but it holds a few deep hidden meanings. First, we believe in the persuasive power of raw, soul-whacking work. Hit ‘em in the feels. Next, we lopped the pinky off of our little hand because if it’s not useful, it doesn’t belong. To that end, we run with a small, experienced crew of not assholes and build custom teams per project. Lastly, the knuckle smile. If we’re not having fun, we’re doing it wrong.
Our small core team and scalable model allows us to bring on custom teams for each project whose life experiences give us the best shot at meeting our audiences where they are. We call it Empathetic Resourcing. Any creative worth their salt can work their way to empathy. Directly relevant life experience stacks the odds, flattens the learning curve and helps us deliver more effective creative, more efficiently. It works.
Matt was raised by two parents who are better people than he will ever be. A public school teacher, a federal scientist, both hardcore social activists, compulsive world-helpers and adoptive parents to two of Matt’s siblings. Meanwhile, Matt dreamt of being in advertising. So, yeah. Thankfully, Matt stole a few shreds of the deep empathy gene and has duct taped them to his talent for award-winning creative problem-solving. Redeemed.
Michael grew up as the middle child in a Brady Bunch family with mix of step, half and full siblings. He was the “artsy” one and he had an impossibly hard time paying attention in school, and is thankful to have found a career that sees both qualities as tools for success rather than recipes for failure. After working in creative boutiques and the biggest agency in the world, Michael went client-side and was a global ECD at Amazon where he led a brand redesign, the launch of Prime Day, and four Super Bowl campaigns including 2018’s #1 ranked “Alexa Loses Her Voice.”