ABOUT
The Gory Details
Partnering with Open Coffin means you’ll receive a solution that utilizes problem soliving, a diverse knowledge of creative styles, and the unique ability to look at the bigger picture. We work like we’re stitching together Frankenstein’s monster—meticulously piecing together the best parts of our expertise and your vision, until we create something truly alive.
WHO WE ARE
Open Coffin Creative and Strategy is all about putting you center stage – the fearless entrepreneur, the spirited individual driven by passion, and the businesses that hunger for inventive, passionate, and brilliantly clever solutions. The best part? We do it with an unpretentious, welcoming atmosphere.
PURPOSE
Humans have the innate desire to explore and create, but sometimes it’s hard to get past that wet ball of gray matter floating around in our skulls. Open Coffin Creative and Strategy is here to be your biggest supporter, your not-so-secret admirer, and your burly bodyguard with a sick mustache, protecting you from your own brain trash.
Open Coffin Creative and Strategy lives to help bring your brand to life.
mISSION
Our mission is to provide our clientele with pleasantly unexpected solutions to their creative obstacles and have fun doing it. Don’t get it twisted, that doesn’t mean we won’t take your project seriously – we’re just here to ensure that your final product doesn’t smell like it’s been marinating in a vat of dread and desperation.
VISION
Open Coffin Creative and Strategy fully embraces failure.
You read that right, but why would we say that to you, a possible future client? How many times have you hesitated to wear that daring outfit? To try that new hobby? To ask that person on a date? What have we missed because we treat failure like a grotesque creature that lives in our basement?
Our vision is to create a place where you can let that weird, freaky little creature out of that mental basement—slimy skin and all.
VALUES
Human Authenticity
We’re all just trying to circle the sun on a giant rock in a sentient meat sack. Let’s live life as our most authentic, best selves.
Problem Solving First
9 times out of 10, the best solution is not the first thing that comes to mind. Creativity should always be driven by the end solution.
Respect Other’s Passions
Don’t yuck other people’s yum. Sometimes, all someone needs is a cheerleader in their corner to encourage them. Pom-poms are optional.
Look at the Big Picture
If you’re treating your projects as a single piece, you’re missing the whole puzzle. Every project fits into a grander scheme—we just have to figure it out.
Do Good
Every day, we make small decisions that alter the course of history—whether we know it or not (re: every time travel movie ever). What’s the meaning of any of this if we’re not trying to make the world a better place?
BEHIND
THE MASK
Hi, I’m Sophie Rogers, Founder of Open Coffin Creative and Strategy. I could tell you all about how when I’m not helping clients as a visual problem solver and creative strategist, I spend time with my friends, family, and two Pomeranians, Beowulf and Agitha (named after Princess Agitha in Twilight Princess) – or – I can answer a few ridiculous questions.
If your life had a theme song, what would it be and why?
If you haven’t listened to DJ Cumberbunds’s remix of Rob Zombie’s Dragula, Brittney Spears’s Toxic, and the B-52s’ Loveshack, give yourself a little listen here. This is probably the most accurate representation of someone who thinks they’re a hard-ass but, in actuality, goes about as hard as the B-52s. It also represents my inability to find a consistent aesthetic, so I jam them all together, and (in my opinion) it all weirdly works.
If you could only speak in movie quotes, which movie would you choose?
OK, Ms. DumBum ain’t your teacher today, I am, and I have a headache and the runs. So I say, time for recess.
– School of Rock, 2003
– Me, in 5th grade, to the horror of my mother, 2003
If a household appliance could talk back, what would it say?
My stove, after I successfully burn water on the stovetop for the 8,792nd time,” Bless your heart, you haven’t got the sense God gave a goose”
What’s the most important task you’ve ever successfully avoided doing?
I have four fully erupted wisdom teeth. I have been running from the dentist for 20 years like they’re the law and I’m a wanted man. I’m actually doing the world a service because I cannot commit a crime with my teeth because I’d have such a unique and identifiable tooth impression.
You’re welcome, society.
What is the weirdest fact you know that comes in useful surprisingly often?
Most people don’t have all four wisdom teeth; therefore, it’s a bad idea to commit a crime where you might leave bite marks because you’d have a unique and identifiable tooth impression.