Where creation meets connection — through collaborations, experiments, and shared work.

Anatomy of a Love Song [Case Study]

An exploration of why some love songs don’t just play — they stay.

For Motown Records, we ideated and produced an original series that explores the anatomy of a love song – both sonically and lyrically – and the memories it evokes.

→ Watch the series

Red and pink abstract background with the text 'ILY PRESENTS Love in Translation Issue 001'

Love In Translation: Issue 01 [Collaboration]

The debut issue of Love in Translation, ILY’s print series unpacking how we express love across language, culture, and memory.

Through essays, interviews, photo stories, and poetry, the issue invites us to ask: What gets lost — or found — in translation?

→ Buy the issue

Love in Translation [Collaboration]

Love, reinterpreted across generations.

Our debut podcast explores how love is understood — and misunderstood — between first-generation Americans and their immigrant parents.

Through candid, cross-generational conversations, host Erika Ramirez explores how customs surrounding courtship, commitment, and care evolve across cultures — and how love can serve as both a bridge and battleground.

→ Listen to the show

Map of Manhattan, New York City with five numbered red markers indicating points of interest.

Where to Cry in Public Safely [Collaboration]

A collaborative editorial guide mapping places to feel and fall apart in public.

Co-created with local contributors, the project spans Google-friendly maps and essays, forming a soft geography of emotional release.

→ View the project 

A couple stands close together at an art gallery, viewing framed artwork on the white wall in front of them. The man has long hair in a bun and wears a black coat, while the woman has shoulder-length dark hair, a black top, and beige pants.

I Used to Love Us [Collaboration]

A love letter turned photo exhibit. A gallery of ghost stories told through the objects they left behind.

Curated by ILY, this NYC pop-up featured nine artists reimagining household items that still carry the weight of past love.

Because sometimes, even in your safest space, memory finds a way in.

→ View the gallery

What About Your Friends? [Case Study]

Pop culture, platonic chemistry, and the many lives of friendship.

For The Ringer, we ideated and co-produced a podcast that explores how friendship is portrayed on screen — and what it reveals about real-life friendships. Through conversations with fellow creatives on connection, conflict, and coming of age, we ask: What does it truly mean to show up for one another?

→ Listen to the show

What’s Love? [Case Study]

An archive of unscripted reflections and surprising definitions of the four-letter word, from those who sing about it.

In partnership with TIDAL, this original series follows ILY founder Erika Ramirez as she meets artists where they are — to ask one tender question: What’s love?

→ Watch the series

Rap Therapy [Case Study]

Real people. Real questions. Rappers respond with love.

For ELLE, we ideated and co-produced a series where rappers offer love advice to everyday people, turning bars into romantic breakthroughs.

→ Watch the series