We design unique & beautiful websites, prints and packages; We develop outreach programs and policy guidelines for the non-profits that hold our communities together; We see that the small (and large) businesses we work with become indispensible to their communities and markets. We tell the kinds of stories that we'd like to hear, stories that offer more substance than they do volume, more earnestness, aspiration & invitation than cold ambition, and stories that can justify their place in the conversation. If you and your projects are interesting, we'll make them happen. If you want them to be interesting, we'll make that happen. Easy. Enjoyably. Affordably.
There's a great difference between grabbing a consumer's attention, and earning and rewarding that person's mindfulness. We're keen on the latter, and believe whole-heartedly that it's better for your business, and better for the community.
Website Design
Unique, hand-crafted, memorable experiences that represent the substance of your business and vision. Built to last and built to be shaped, our websites are as well-coded as they are well-considered, shaped to your own needs, respectful of your ambitions. We're not pushing templates here, we're finding solutions.
Print Design & Packaging
All-encompassing visual identities - postcards, book covers, posters, business cards, brochures - that tell stories not easily forgotten. The kind that are put on the refrigerator, in fact. Working with the finest printers & letterpressers, printing on beautiful, affordable, recycled papers, we set out with every design to make the viewer feel something, to befriend them, and to persuade. We make sure those designs work hard for you, and we make sure they work.
Brand Design
With strong backgrounds in marketing, graphic design, and website development & user experience, we're capable of telling the full story of your brand in campaigns as multi-faceted and decisive as they are delightful and evocative.
From writing for more than $2.5 million in grants, to designing and launching small businesses from Seattle to Slovakia, we're keen on strategizing, positioning, and guiding organizations of many sizes. We would be glad to discuss your options & opportunities with you.
Operations
Building powerful, extensible business plans, researching and acting on comprehensive SWOT analyses, and creating workflow systems as respectful of efficiency as they are of experience: We bring more than a decade of office management, business development, high-level research and analysis, and a fairly honed instinct to making sure the foundation of your business is as sound as its signage.
Outreach
An intelligent, dynamic, direct outreach campaign is as critical to an ambitious non-profit advocacy as it can be to a small business. Designing municipality-wide energy efficiency campaigns for the City of Seattle, cross-market outreach for restaurants throughout Chicago, and polylingual educational programs in Poland, we're practiced in effectively reaching diverse communities with complex needs. Whom would you like to reach? How can we help?