There is a version of your work people feel immediately.
We help you find that version, then build everything around it. &Associates is a creative and strategic office for founders and brands. We shape ideas that move culture, challenge convention, and hold up over time.
Our Story
- 1976: As Special Representative for Medical Assistance Programs, Larry speaks in churches and on college campuses across America. The road comes before the press room.
- 1978: Larry takes General Motors into school gyms with 2,000 pounds of science equipment, a talking computer named Socrates, and a format somewhere between education, demonstration, and broadcast.
- 1981: Before Billy Graham, there is Joe DiMaggio. Larry helps manage media around Bowery Savings Bank’s famous spokesman.
- 1984: Larry begins handling major media moments for Billy Graham, the start of a relationship that would span more than 70 domestic and international crusades on five continents.
- 1984: Across the pond, Larry uses hist first mobile phone to coordinate Billy Graham interviews back to the States. The phone bill was $7,500. That’s about $24,190 adjusted for inflation.
- 1986: The Fax Sent ‘Round the World <br/> At a hotel in Switzerland, Larry sends his first fax. A document that would have taken days to arrive is suddenly across the ocean in seconds.
- 1994: A. Larry Ross & Associates, Inc. begins at home, with Billy Graham as the first client, borrowed seed money in the account, and the spare nursery doing double duty as headquarters.
- 1995: A. Larry Ross & Associates is invited to share office space, then runs roughly 70,000 pages through the copier and wears out its welcome earlier than expected.
- 1995: After five months in a shared office, A. Larry Ross & Associates moves into its first standalone space. The agency is growing. The copier is recovering.
- 1997: With The Prince of Egypt as its first project, A. Larry Ross & Associates opens it's entertainment division.
- 2003: A. Larry Ross Communications helps run media for The Purpose Driven Life, the book that carried one question to more than 50 million readers: What on earth am I here for?
- 2004: A. Larry Ross Communications works media for The Passion of the Christ, the R-rated, subtitled Jesus film that became a global box-office event.
- 2005: Newsweek gives the job a nickname. After decades behind the curtain, one headline makes the role visible.
- 2008: A. Larry Ross & Associates becomes A. Larry Ross Communications. A modest change on paper. A useful one in public.
- 2014: A. Larry Ross Communications builds a digital division as media moves further into search, social platforms, comment sections, and the new daily work of being found.
- 2024: A. Larry Ross Communications turns 30 with a paper trail that runs from press clips to platforms, crusades to campaigns, and fax coversheets to feeds.
- 2026: After more than three decades as A. Larry Ross Communications, the agency becomes &Associates, a design office for message, media, identity, and public life.
What We Do
- Brand Identity
- Public Relations
- Narrative & Messaging
- Social Media & Advertising
- Creative Direction
- Graphic Design
- Brand Voice & Tone
- Web Design & Development
- Crisis Communications
- Campaign Development
Who We Are
A small office of writers, designers, and strategists. We care about ideas, the way they get made, and the way they are eventually understood.
Where We Work
- Brands
- Nonprofits
- Founders
- Ministries
- Arts & Entertainment
- Education
- Publishing
- Venture Capital
- Film and Television
- Artificial Intelligence