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Culture

We co-create the world we want to
live in through craft, impact, and soul.

Craft

Principles over pixels

We combine aesthetics and functionality to create art in service of life. Every detail is thoughtfully considered so that each pixel and line of code serves a purpose.

Impact

Enhance life—don’t distract from it

We align social impact with business success and accept our social responsibility to create a more open, resilient, and optimistic world.

Soul

Great work comes from great lives

We do our work through the lens of life, celebrating our lives in and outside of work and cultivating well-being, fulfillment, and belonging.

Creating a different kind of agency

Area 17 name origin

In a time when the internet was still grappling with its identity, Arnaud Mercier and George Eid met and quickly realized that their ideals were aligned: apply modernist design principles to the web, treat our craft as interdisciplinary, and recognize that good work comes from living good lives.

Arnaud was a trailblazer in interactive design and development. George was a strategist, storyteller, and technologist. Together, they challenged the artificial distinctions between brand, experience, and technology, seeing them as one. This still holds true today.

Inspired by the world around us and united by our values, we come together to do good work and live great lives.

Leadership

Strategy

Partnerships

Design

Engineering

Production

Operations