Our Work
The team at Sonance Studio has decades of experience advising clients and producing stunning, high-impact books and other media for families and individuals, private family businesses, corporations, small and medium-sized manufacturers, health care systems, universities and legacy-driven enterprises of all kinds.
Every project below addressed an opportunity for a client, such as by celebrating a major anniversary, preparing for a leadership or generational change, supporting a brand identity, engaging employees in a revitalized mission, promoting values and workplace culture, or showcasing an extraordinary legacy. Click on one of the featured books to dive in for a closer look! Note that, to minimize file sizes, some images display in low resolution.
Being HNTB conveys HNTB’s identity, celebrates the achievements of its employee-owners, aids recruiting, and reinforces a reputation as one of the nation’s top infrastructure design and engineering firms.
Living Our Values introduces the new story of a sixth-generation, family-owned company, revealing the values and determination that put Menasha Corporation at the top of its industries for 175 years.
75 Years of Innovation in Miniature celebrates the accomplishments of employees of The Lee Company while carrying forward the Lee family's values, culture and commitment to innovation.
Built for All Times reveals how the purpose, value and culture of New York Life have endured at the company’s core for more than 175 years, even as the world has changed.
One Century of Progress showcases the legacy, technological innovation and product line of Progress Rail/EMD, one of the world's largest suppliers of rail and transit products.
A Class of One tells the inspiring story of Donald Sturm, who overcame an upbringing as a poor, Jewish kid from Brooklyn to become the scion of a family-owned banking and real estate empire.
Of Small Towns and Big Dreams is the story of a thriving family business, started by Robert (“RT”) and Dorothy Tracy in a junkyard lot and built into North America’s largest food industry redistributor.
Life Well-Lived, published on WellStar Health System’s 20th anniversary, documents the formation and achievements of the largest integrated healthcare system in Georgia.
Here’s a partial list of the clients we’ve satisfied:
Airstream
Anadarko Petroleum
Appleton Papers
Ball Corporation
Belden Corporation
Booz Allen Hamilton
Bradley Corporation
Choate Rosemary Hall School
Commerce Bank
Consumers Energy
Cook Group
Dime Savings Bank
Dot Foods
Edison International
Elkay
Entergy
Graybar Electric
Greenwich Hospital
Guardian Life
HNTB
Klein Tools
Kohler
KPMG
Lloyd Schermer
Mannington Mills
Menasha Corporation
New York Life Insurance
Omega Institute
P.C. Richard & Son
Pitney Bowes
Progress Energy
Progress Rail/EMD
PSEG
RTI International
Safe Flight Instrument
Second Congregational Church (Greenwich)
Schneider National
Donald Sturm
TIG Reinsurance
USC Keck School of Medicine
Valley Proteins
Xerox PARC
WellStar Health System
Yale University