Start with people.
Conversations, observation, research. What matters to people, and what’s getting in the way?
Find the human truth.
Build the world around it.
I’m Mark Acquaye. I build brands, stories, and experiences that make people feel a little less alone.
GET INTO THE WORK ↙
01 / SELECTED WORK
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
02 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE PERSPECTIVE
MARK ACQUAYE
Mark Acquaye Strategist & creator
I’m Mark. I care about what happens on the other side of an idea. Whether someone feels understood, more connected, or a little more able to be themselves.
As a first-generation Ghanaian-American, questions of identity and belonging are personal to me. I’m drawn to work that gives people room to recognize themselves, and sometimes discover a part of themselves they haven’t quite stepped into yet.
My path started in engineering and consulting. At Accenture, working in recruiting and candidate experience, I found the part I wanted to stay with: understanding people and creating something that mattered to them. Brand strategy became a way to bring that instinct into everything a brand says and does.
BRAND KNEW SOUL
You know that feeling when something just gets you? It puts words to something you’ve been carrying. Makes you feel like there’s a place for you. That’s what soul means to me. I believe brands can create that kind of connection, and I want to help them find it.
HOW I WORK
I like getting underneath a problem, finding the human connection, and staying close as the idea becomes real.
Conversations, observation, research. What matters to people, and what’s getting in the way?
Where does that human need meet something the brand can credibly do? That’s where I look for the idea.
A story, an experience, a different way of doing something. I stay close to the details, test what’s working, and let what we learn shape what comes next.
03 / PERSONAL WORK
AN ONGOING PRACTICERecords, conversations, and creative experiments.
The things I keep coming back to.