a5 Branding & Digital

a5 Branding & Digital is a brand and digital agency based in Chicago, with an additional office in Tampa at 915 N Franklin St. The agency describes itself as design-driven and pairs strategy with creativity and account management across advertising, social media, public relations, branding, digital communications, outreach and engagement, and video and animation.

Its work centers on healthy, sustainable communities, and it works with both the public and private sectors. Since 2007 it has co-produced GreenTown: The Future of Community together with Seven Generations Ahead, and it also helps planners, architects, landscape architects, government agencies and nonprofits develop better environmental practices. John Harris is a principal and co-founder of the agency.

Clients have ranged from municipalities, libraries and park districts to museums, transit agencies, universities and housing developers, including the Chicago Transit Authority, Johns Hopkins and Glenview Public Library. Florida clients have included Downtown Tampa, Fifth Avenue South in Naples and Florida Southern College, and for Trinitas Ventures the agency supports outreach for new housing and mixed-use developments in places such as Orlando.