JACASSEUR: (n.) chatterbox

We are a creative matchmaking and design management agency. We match and manage artists with projects and people in their local and global communities, specializing in digital content creation and micro-influencer relations.

Have you ever tried hiring an artist then started to fantasize smashing the keyboard with a meat cleaver as you try to express to them, for now what seems like the beginning of time, that your brand sells to moms, doesn’t use the color blue, and therefore, their “creative” shoot they did with college girls only wearing blue gauze shot against the sky holding pacifiers like a martini glass needs to be trashed no matter how “great” they think the toddler alphabet cubes in the foreground look? Have you ever tried working for a small business and started wondering why they thought you had your own 2.5 million trust fund production budget, 50-person team, and 5 hot air balloons on standby, when it clearly stated in your contract that they had picked the “basic” package for 1 hour and $150?

We’ve been around the block. We’ve hired talent, been the talent, and managed the talent. We founded JACASSEUR, short for chatterbox, because we like having the hard conversations. Call us masochists, but our happy space is between the design room and the boardroom. Think of every conversation you’ve dreaded having. Well, that’s the one we want to take over for you so you can go back to the thing you like doing that you do well. We mediate content production and talent management, a liaison between corporate and creative, providing both talent and brands with curated representation and a global community.

Brands hire us to create multimedia content and mange the relationships that come along with content creation. Artists hire us for portfolio consultations, creating websites and branding collateral, and to act as representation to their corporate clients negotiating rates and contracts. From brand identity and consultation to content creation, our team scales with yours to foster a sustainable marketing partnership. We work with you to curate a package of visual media marketing services tailored to your budget and industry.

BLACK RABBIT MAGAZINE

The literary and art magazine BLACK RABBIT is produced by our community of international artists. If The Economist and Adbusters had a kid they were afraid to take out in public, we'd be it. The best of papa's seamless narrative voice with mamma's punk streak.  

Our international team of visual artists and writers lend their voices both in English and their native languages to our text, and there are no image ids until the index. We aim to enhance and streamline international and local underground artistic and literary communities, providing various services to our models and photographers including collaborations, referrals, text and image editing, model-photographer contracts, poetry and prose translations, video and audio interviews, editorial shoots, headshots and portraits, and image consultation. 

Cory Rice is our contributing photographer based in Brooklyn. Vitaliy Dobrynin (fine art) and Alexandros Emmanouilidis (photography) are contributing creative directors representing St. Petersburg and Athens. Letizia Iman (photography) and Matteo Domenichetti (fashion design) head our Italian creative team. The founder, Amy Cotta, has designed, managed, and produced all digital content and print publications since BLACK RABBIT'S initial publication in 2013.