DESIGN SERVICES

we blend art, science, and empathy to help you attract, inspire, and cultivate business .

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Our focus is helping your business/organization attract and inspire customers.

Whether you’re at the very beginning of your business journey with a sketch on a scrap of paper, or holding the reins of a legacy, our focus is helping your business attract and inspire customers. Drawing from our expertise in digital strategy, visual design, copywriting, web design and marketing, we create consistent, high quality work, with measurable impact.

Our main focus is the design and development of websites for hotels, food + wine brands and architects. We ideate, strategize, art direct, write copy, illustrate, and animate, to get your brand in front of your audience with beauty and elegance.

Our resident e-commerce guru Matt Reed brings his expertise earned from running his own very successful online business. Using data analytics, and a highly refined grasp of user experience techniques, we turn window shoppers into long term brand enthusiasts.

A fantastic website begins with a solid brand foundation. We work with brands from the beginning to create a cohesive suite of identity design elements like logo, typography and photography direction, as well as developing key messaging and copywriting. Often the process of creating a website reveals weaknesses in a brands identity, we work from the elements you have to restore, or create your vision.

Photography and video are both key to creating an immersive digital experience. We help clients select the right photography professionals from our trusted network of creative partners. Our long standing relationship with these professionals ensures we get fantastic imagery that aligns beautifully with our work for your brand.

Building a website is often just step one in the process of attracting, inspiring and continuing to excite audiences. We work with clients to develop blog strategies, and create posts, emails campaign calendars and monthly marketing.

Creating a vibrant digital presence takes ongoing attention to performance metrics. We work with clients to gather and analyze web traffic analytics. Tracking pages and content engagement is an important way we can listen to your audience, and continually improve the impact of your brand online.

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OUR PROCESS

Our proven-process begins with understanding your brand context, our data insight is clutch.

Understanding the context of your brand is key to our creative process, and you are always at the center of this. We’ll ask you questions, a lot of questions. We’ll also do rigorous data research to understand your market space, your competitors, and how your audience is searching for what you have to offer.

WE TALK WITH YOU
Our process of understanding takes several forms. We take the time to listen and understand what matters to you, learning how your daily business unfolds within your world. Through our conversation with you and data research, We are outsiders who become insiders and our perspective is just right to uncover opportunity.

WE GATHER & INTERPRET DATA
We gather internet data, taking stock of your current position and prospects in the digital sphere. Observing this information provides us with key insights into your audiences and their desires and needs.

BRAND STRATEGY
Based on insights from our initial discovery, we develop a strategy to guide our creative work. Our goal is to create an expression that feels aesthetically authentic to you, and resonates with your audience, while also enhancing your search engine (Google) visibility.

SEO STRATEGY
An important part of our thinking is formed and driven by data insight. We use data tools to identify the words and phrases your audience is using to find the services or products you offer. It’s often the case that we find discrepancies between the vernacular you might use as an insider, with the plain spoken terms of your audience. This allows us to craft copy and content that both contains the language your audience is using, and also often to kindly introduce them to terms used within your industry.

BRAND DESIGN
Using color, typography, illustration, photography and compelling language, we create the core visual and written foundations for your brand.

WEB DESIGN
We bring your brand to life beautifully online, art directing photography, storyboarding videos, and creating graphic elements that stand out.

E-COMMERCE
We use Shopify to create e-commerce sites that guide users simply to shop your wares.

ANAYLTICS METRICS
We use Google Analytics and Google Search Console to measure the impact of our work. By measuring the response to content we can see what’s working and continue to build out in those directions.

EMAIL CAMPAIGNS
We design emails worth opening that foster ongoing connections with customers.

CONTENT CREATION
We create search engine optimized blog content that answers the questions people are searching for directly and indirectly related to your business.

AREAS OF SPECIAL FOCUS
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Hotels & Hospitality

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72% of guests find lodging and make their travel plans online. We help make it easy for guests to see you, and choose you. From brand identity graphic design, beautiful photography and video, to strategic website design, booking engine and OTA operations, we’ve got you covered.

OUR CLIENTS

Adrift Hotel
Bowline Hotel
Campfire Hotel
Costanoa Lodge

Hood River Hotel
Inn of the White Salmon
Jupiter Hotel
Lake Creek Lodge
Lake Siskiyou Resort

Mountainfield Farm
SALT Hotel & Pub

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Food & Wine

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We’re not only food and wine lovers, we’ve worked in-house at some of the finest. We know how to meet the challenges and mine opportunities to help you attract and inspire consumers and guests.

OUR CLIENTS

No Bones Beach Club
Nutreat Superfood
Oregon Berry
Owen Roe Winery
Pickled Fish Restaurant
RD Winery
Tamale Boy

Shopify responsive web design for Humble Brands

E-commerce

SEE OUR WORK

We help our brand partners bring their work to life with elegant, visual simplicity and e-commerce experiences that turn window shoppers into long term brand enthusiasts.

OUR CLIENTS

Bibhu Mohapatra
Blüm Floral Design
Craft Homes NW
Humble Brands

Lighthouse Architecture
Robert Evans Company
Soderstrom Architects

Curious about us? We’d love to talk with you.

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