Design Firms
Design firms and agencies hire us for the strategy that briefs the work — brand strategy, brand architecture, messaging platforms, naming, and the thinking that holds a rollout together. Sometimes our own clients ask us to find them the right design partner, which means we're on both sides of that introduction often enough to be good at it.
How We Can Help
Strategy and copy as part of your team
We work in complex content systems and know how content production actually runs — as strategists, editors, writers, or all three. For an agency, that means a partner who can take the content half of a project and return something that fits the design rather than fighting it.
→ Brand strategy · Naming
Bridging creatives and clients
We’ve collaborated with designers and artists for our entire careers and understand the creative process from inside it. We’re true partners to visual creators, and we often bridge the communication gap that opens up between a creative team and a client.
Rollout support after the hand-off
Most studios aren't staffed to walk a client through implementation, and most clients don't know what to do with a guidelines document on their own. We pick it up from there — sequencing the launch, writing the internal announcement before the external one, building the materials that get people actually using the new brand, and handling the questions that come up when something people were attached to goes away.
“I appreciate their genuine care and concern for each project, they are never satisfied with a generic or ‘easy’ solution. They spend the time to deeply understand what we’re trying to solve and provide detailed rationale around their recommendations.”
— nick spriggs, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, frog designSelect Clients
DeSantis Breindel · frog design · Great Believer · Happy Cog · Hyperakt · Interbrand · L+L Studio · Onethread design · Part+Sum · Pentagram · Sara Hashim Design · Studio Tomo ·
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“I’ve worked with Megan and Rachel for years on digital engagements and have always received consistently thorough and thoughtful content strategies, careful consideration for how content works as a system and valuable collaboration throughout the design process. They are truly part of the team.”
— CLINTON CLARKE, DESANTIS BREINDELStart a conversation.
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