Firm Overview
TELLIT is a strategic brand design firm whose team has developed brands for products, places and organizations ranging from startups to fortune 500 companies. Our success has been defined by our ability to ensure that your brand’s story is powerfully told in the marketplace – across an array of experiences. We believe that a well told story has the ability to inspire employees, engage audiences and ignite the emotions that build loyalty. Our success is a result of our commitment to ensuring that your strategic investments are realized by helping you achieve real business results.
This is Storytelling that moves people and business.™
A virtual team for a virtual world.
Access to the Best in the Business
Now more than ever – with many agencies and businesses scaling down their internal marketing and design capabilities – a virtual team of experienced experts is your most effective strategy.
Proven Success
From large scale initiatives to the individual time-sensitive project, we’ve been a virtual team that has driven client success. For over 10 years our model has delivered insightful strategies that drive effective design to repeatedly achieve desired business outcomes.
More Than Solutions – Identifying Opportunities
We get the call when there is a problem to solve. We listen, we learn and we collaborate to make the most of the opportunities that every problem presents. Going beyond the ask is in our DNA. Inspired thinking is the result.
Russell Banks | Founder, Executive Creative Director
Founder and Creative Director Russell Banks brings defining leadership, thought provoking creative vision and a rare depth of experience to his role at TELLIT. His ability to merge both the creative needs of a brands’ market position with its real-world, real-time business goals makes him an ideal strategic partner and a refreshing voice within the advertising and marketing landscape. Effective engagement with both customers and employees drives Banks to help companies tell their most authentic stories through brand development, identity systems, multi-media communications including both the virtual and built environment. A brand must be more than aesthetics; it must do the heavy lifting to deliver an experience that people consistently return to and believe in. It is this philosophy that has built client relationships spanning over 25 years, with an understated trust that Banks will always do the right thing for a clients business, even when it’s not the easiest thing.
As a designer in Boston & NYC, Banks began his career working on a diverse range of marketing initiatives and had influential roles at Siegel & Gale and Gensler before founding TELLIT.
Gail Brackett | Director, Brand Strategy
Throughout her 30-year career in marketing, advertising and branding, Brackett has been helping clients to bring fresh perspective and ideas to the forefront. She brings a deep experience in brand development, having helped a wide range of premier global brands across many industries including automotive, hospitality, retail, entertainment, education, airlines and technology.
She is an inspiring leader who is skilled at directing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a broad range of successful design and communications solutions for clients. As an accomplished professional, she has outstanding leadership credentials in many business areas and a proven track record of creating strategic vision to drive growth.
Brackett began her career at Team One Advertising as a part of the team that launched the phenomenally successful Lexus brand. After a decade of running pieces of the Lexus and Toyota advertising accounts, she joined the senior leadership teams at Siegel & Gale and then Gensler Los Angeles, prior to joining TELLIT.
Alexa Chigounis | Brand Strategist and Writer
Distilling complex client stories into engaging, distinct and memorable branded experiences and communications. Drawing upon more than 15 years of experience, Chigounis crafts compelling, cohesive narratives for experiential environments, interactive, video and social media campaigns, corporate identity and naming projects, as well as print, digital marketing and web programs. She has worked with leading consumer and B2B brands across a broad range of categories, and is well-versed in all aspects of brand and content strategy and writing.
Janelle McGlothlin | Communications Strategist
Putting words to work! For 20 years McGlothin has been marketing to consumers and businesses, she has developed product and corporate names, built creative strategies, and written extensively for a variety of companies. For the past 20 years as a branding consultant and copywriter, McGlothlin and her team of writers have helped leaders in the technology, healthcare, entertainment, financial, and educational fields establish differentiated marketing strategies and distinctive creative executions. For all of her clients, she focuses on getting the greatest possible brand impact from every written and spoken word.
Kelly Tamaki | Design Director
With over 25 years of design experience in the areas of brand and identity development, marketing collateral and advertising, Tamaki has brought her creative expertise to a diverse range of marketing initiatives and industries. She began her career in New York City as a Designer. For almost a decade Tamaki successfully managed all phases of project design and development. Prior to joining TELLIT, she founded Tamaki Design, a graphic design business in Los Angeles from 1995–2012. In addition, she has enjoyed teaching at Otis College of Art + Design and being a visiting critic at the Art Center College of Design.
Patrick Dinkfeld | Director Motion Design
Patrick brings over 20 years of experience in motion graphics, video production, and brand storytelling to his role at TELLIT. His work bridges the conceptual to the real world – from foundational brand positioning to final-frame delivery. Patrick is adept at helping companies create highly engaging, omni-channel narratives. He began his career at Siegel + Gale, Los Angeles. For more than a decade he has partnered with international agencies, startups, and world-class brands like Amex, ASML, East West Bank, Lexus, and Verizon to name a few.
Patrick Mahoney | Digital Producer
For 20 years Mahoney has been bringing beautiful digital experiences to life. He leads integrated service offerings which includes design, custom development & integration, digital strategy, advertising, SEO/SEM, and all ancillary support services.