Creative Services
for Creative People
ISM (Image Sound & Motion) acts as an internal creative services department for your company. Many of our clients come to us with an existing brand and know how they want to be represented. Working with a large firm can be expensive and it’s often difficult to be a priority when opportunities arise. We fill that middle ground by offering immediate availability as if you’re working with an internal department and representing your brand accurately. As an extension of your company we communicate with vendors across print, a/v and web, providing technical guidance and allowing you to focus on your core business. You just hired a creative director, web developer & post supervisor by working with us, not bad!
Who We’ve Worked With
About
Derek Lipman
FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Derek Lipman is the Founder and Creative Director of ISM Agency, a Santa Monica-based creative services agency that helps organizations communicate through design, presentations, websites, video, and digital experiences.
With nearly three decades of professional experience, Derek has built his career at the intersection of business, creativity, and technology. He spent the first ten years of his career working in graphic design, web development, audio engineering, video editing, and post-production, building creative and technical systems for entertainment companies, recording studios, production facilities, and consumer brands before joining William Morris Agency in 2006.
At William Morris Agency, Derek was a founding member of the Creative Services department and later became its Department Director. During his nine years there, he helped build the department into a central creative resource for the agency. He led multidisciplinary creative teams and helped shape the agency’s branding, communications, presentations, websites, advertising, live events, and digital initiatives during a period of tremendous organizational growth and change.
In 2015, Derek founded ISM Agency to provide organizations with the capabilities of an experienced in-house creative department without the overhead of building one internally. Today, ISM partners primarily with nonprofit organizations, foundations, educational institutions, entertainment companies, and purpose-driven businesses, producing annual reports, fundraising campaigns, websites, presentations, event branding, social media, print collateral, and other strategic communications.
Derek’s experience spans graphic design, web development, video production, live events, presentations, and creative operations. His ability to bridge the gap between executives, marketers, developers, designers, and technical teams helps complex ideas move efficiently from concept to completion.
Outside of client work, Derek is an independent songwriter and software developer whose projects continue to explore the intersection of creativity and technology. He is currently developing software that helps songwriters organize, create, and share their work more effectively.