Speak less than you know.
—Shakespeare, King Lear.
IDENTITY & BRANDING.
Your mark is more than your logo; it’s each potential client’s first impression and the starting point for every relationship and exchange associated with your company name.
When you allow us to design and craft this cornerstone of your image, you’re ensuring this impression is actively curated to maximize the delivery of your brand, personality, and key market strengths/differentiators.
Each turn in this process is critical, from selecting the typography and color pallet to styling supporting imagery, text, and original artwork/photography.
PRINT DESIGN.
Just because the process of printing has evolved so dramatically over hundreds of years doesn’t mean its progress has stopped—or even slowed. Print production, instead, demands rigid tolerances while offering unlimited options for enhancement and optimization.
If it can be printed, we can perfectly design and execute it—and we have perfectly designed and executed it before. Our print design specialties include business cards, advertisements, corporate stationary, brochures, flyers, postcards, posters, newsletters, magazines, book layouts, cover designs, interior office artwork, and more.
WEBSITE DESIGN.
A solid website design is a must—not just due to its visual appeal (e.g., this), but due to the information it conveys to both potential clients and search engines.
We take into account all of this, giving your site a customized architecture in terms of styling, layout, navigation, and coding—along the way, of course, optimizing all of this for both clients and search engines (seo).
ILLUSTRATION & FINE ART.
Oftentimes, as painter Edward Hopper wrote, projects require more than letters and pixels: “If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
Our team is classically trained in fine art and illustration, empowering us to deliver not only digital artwork, but artwork from any medium including hand-drawn illustrations, paintings, ink work, and fine art photography.
WEB MARKETING & ADVERTISING.
Clients shouldn’t just reach your website—your website should reach your clients (and capture information to help analyze and maximize traffic).
Your think-tank and coder, we’ll build web campaigns that perform by creating the right angles and messages—and then communicating these messages via seo campaigns, banner advertisements, landing and squeeze pages, HTML emails, social media campaigns, and visual media.
COPYWRITING & EDITING.
There is such a thing as a perfect passage, but it doesn’t come easy. To be effective and cohesive in terms of clarity and branding, your text should be as highly strategized as the rest of your site—and kept continually fresh and accurate.
Our nationally published and award-winning in-house writer will create the text you need (or polish the text you have) to ensure each stroke of the pen is reflective of your brand and aspirations.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
Simple stock photography has its place—but so does original photography (e.g., this).
Kafka once wrote, “a book ought to be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us," and we think the same ought to be true for a photograph (and the seas, as well, within your clients).
We offer professional product photography, food and restaurant photography, fine art photography, and, of course, custom portraits on-location in Connecticut, New York, and Virginia.
DOMAIN & HOSTING SUPPORT.
Sites need names, domains, commerce agents, hosting plans, and email addresses.
We’ll develop your website and host it, taking on your back-end and bandwidth responsibilities to allow for hassle-free ownership.
