Smith Robinson begins, as so many worthy ventures do, on a college road trip - Andy and Dom discovered they shared an affinity for unscripted, unplanned expeditions through unknown lands and meticulously plotted and clever click adventure games.

At that intersection of the chaos and complexity of the real world and the carefully curated interactive story they established their creative philosophy: serious stories can also be silly, and the most abstract concept can be deeply human.

That shared language of humor and adventure is still baked into how we work today.

Dominic Smith is a Multimedia MacGyver - an Emmy-winning director, designer, and kiteboarder who can turn a decade of research into five unforgettable minutes of video. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, STAT News, Inside Climate News, PBS Nova, and more. He’s equally at home behind a camera, inside an edit suite, or deep in After Effects, forcing the software to do things it probably shouldn’t.

Andy Robinson is a Story Sleuth - a writer-producer who digs through chaos until he finds the heartbeat underneath. Once on the scent, he devours research at a pace his wife once described as “Grad school for every gig.” He’s documented everything from Velvet Revolver’s rock chaos to drones that hunt landmines in Ukraine, with work screened on PBS, at Comic-Con, and in classrooms around the world. If he weren’t making documentaries, he’d probably be an international art thief - but a very ethical one.

Together they are Smith Robinson - a multimedia production company powered by aquamarine-hued optimism, unreasonable love of story craft, and the belief that media should make people care. Their work has taken them across continents, through forests and fire zones, across oceans and into labs, collaborating with nonprofits, brands, and publications from Save the Redwoods League to Cartoon Network, PBS, and the Pulitzer Center.

Whether it’s journalism, branded storytelling, or something entirely new, we approach every project with the same mix of humor, precision, and stubborn humanity - because real life is weird, cool, complex, ephemeral, silly, beautiful, gross, surprising... and occasionally, awesome.