Great branding empowers companies to move forward with intentionality, originality, and authenticity. It builds brand power, brand equity and gives control over how others perceive you. The following client highlights demonstrate what we mean by creating brands that put purpose, people, and meaningful design at the heart of what they do and morph from a commodity into a vehicle from which to accomplish more.
Sometimes our clients come to us with nothing more than an idea, and they need our help making that idea a reality. And if they have come to us, then they have probably "been there and done that," making them fully aware of the benefits branding has to offer. No matter where you are with your "formal" business plan, if you're committed to the task at hand, we'll help make your dream actuality.
Michael J. French successfully taught himself how to build generational wealth, but that wasn’t enough. He wanted others to join him on the life-changing path that an abundance mindset brings. Through MoneyJustFlows, his educational and inspirational thought leadership platform, Michael teaches others the transformative habits that correct the money mistakes we all make because we’ve never been taught how to properly manage money to create wealth.
After successfully developing the brand for his investment company, MJF Capital, Michael J. French was ready to boldly launch an educational platform to share the life-changing financial habits of the top 1%—skills that he himself had discovered through years of independent research and a personal journey rife with highs and lows. MoneyJustFlows is more than his solution to breaking the cycle of financial illiteracy…it’s a platform designed to ignite a financial movement. It’s meant to teach people that, through intentionality and pure grit, we all have the power to reshape our lives. And that through hard work, self-discipline, and an abundance mindset, anyone can build and sustain wealth.
Brand Goal: Appeal to a variety of generational audiences with diverse backgrounds through a bold, energetic, and intriguing visual style—creating a unique, relatable experience to what can often be an intimidating topic, personal finance.
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Brand Launch
Foundational Marketing
Promotional Design
Experiential Branding
Illustration
Website
Photography Art Direction
Content Marketing
Strategic Planning
Purpose: To increase positive life trajectories by sharing transformative knowledge and habits.
Vision: To inspire and guide others to achieve financial freedom and enjoy all life has to offer by igniting a
movement that transforms the traditional concept of money as a tangible “thing” into that of a positive energy – a resource and a tool – that can bring about meaningful change.
MoneyJustFlows’ visual brand has an edgy and rebellious feel to it—an intentional deviation from the traditional and often stuffy financial imagery. Custom illustrations tell Michael’s personal story and bring to life the energy and enthusiasm of both the founder himself and the brand as a whole. The unique visual approach sets the stage for the transformation MoneyJustFlows clients will undergo when
they commit to an abundance mindset.
Brand Application Engagements:
Stationery Suite
Branded Interiors
Promotional Items
Educational Materials
Social Media
Website
Photography Art Direction
MoneyJustFlows is meant to empower, inspire, and guide others to achieve their dreams. The brand itself has to not only convey the idea of a drastic shift in how people view and relate to money, but also become the spark that ignites a financial movement. That’s no small task! We were able to make the intangible, tangible by:
• Establishing a verbal brand that shaped the brand and guided each step moving forward.
• Developing an approach to most effectively communicate the brand to audiences from a multitude of diverse backgrounds and generations.
• Designing all visual brand elements, including digital templates, custom illustrations, and podcast studio interiors, to carry the brand seamlessly across a vast list of non-traditional touchpoints.
• Creating a brand launch strategy and providing collaborative guidance throughout the process.
Beneath the awesome illustrations and bold brand voice, the underlying belief of the MoneyJustFlows mentality is that money is an energy that can be used to create a positive impact in the world. Michael and his team live out this concept daily and aim to meet people wherever they are in life, without judgment, to motivate, empower, encourage, and support them on their journey to financial freedom. Through intentionality, a few hard truths, and a lot of hard work, they help transform lives every day—ultimately changing the world through reciprocity.
MoneyJustFlows has successfully launched and is fully prepared to take on the financial world with its rebellious, unique, and approachable brand. As they continue to grow their brand recognition, follower counts, and client base, Michael and his team will see their dream of reciprocity fully realized—changing people’s lives and spreading the knowledge that will create generational wealth for those who are willing to join the movement and put in the work along the way.
Ducks and Drakes was a brilliant idea when they came to us to develop the brand for their startup children’s clothing company, and we helped bring that idea to life. With tall kids at the heart of their style and designs, they embrace uniqueness and inspire children to be comfortable and confident.
Rebecca Gault is a mom who struggled to find clothes to fit when she was a child and discovered that the struggle continued as she was raising her own tall children. She decided to take matters into her own hands and created a clothing company with long-legged kids at the heart of their styles and designs. We were tasked with developing an insightful name and brand that would set this unique and inspirational company up for success.
Brand Goal: Appeal to the emotions by revealing how proper-fitting clothes can inspire confidence, free movement, and fun, while clearly communicating what makes Ducks & Drakes unique.
Verbal Brand
Naming
Partial Visual Brand
Brand Launch
Foundational Marketing
Promotional Design
Experiential Branding
Packaging Design
Website/ eCommerce
Photography Art Direction
Content Marketing
Strategic Planning
Purpose: To unleash human potential by giving others the confidence to embrace their individuality.
Vision: To eliminate anxiety created by clothes that don’t fit well and to nurture, confident happy children who can unleash their potential with clothes that fit just right.
Ducks & Drakes’ visual brand symbolizes the combination of all the brand has to offer – simple, comfortable clothes that build confidence through their flawless fit. The colors are bright and fun to represent the positivity the brand creates.
Brand Application Engagements:
Ducks & Drakes believes that each confident child can make a big difference in the world, so we helped them maximize their influence by:
Clothes are empowering. When clothes fit well, kids have the confidence to speak up in class, try something new, or test out a sport. Ducks & Drakes celebrates these differences, so while wearing their clothes, long-legged children are confident and ready to unleash their full potential.
Ducks and Drakes has successfully launched their business with a consistent brand that embodies their spirit at each touchpoint. Customers can clearly understand what they are about and why they exist, inspiring an authentic following. With a strong brand in hand, Ducks and Drakes is poised to meet challenges and grow intentionally.
Two friends started a side hustle of cleaning commercial property and Airbnb's. Before they knew it, their business had grown so rapidly that they could both quit their day jobs and focus on growing their thriving cleaning business. When they came to us, they had plans of entering the residential cleaning arena, as well as big ideas of potentially creating a line of cleaning products. We set them up with the visual brand they needed today, with the brand components that afforded them the opportunity for continued growth. The sky is the limit for these ladies, and we’re excited to see where their solid brand helps take them into their dynamic future.
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Illustration
These guys stepped way outside the real estate box, abandoned the status quo and took a leap of faith with the creation of Pintail. The name has significant meaning in both their personal and professional lives and unites the company through "a passion for excellence."
Verbal Brand
Naming
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Promotional Marketing
Website
Tamarack Investments is an ambitious commercial real estate investment firm and the quiet leader behind significant deals, including the development of Axis 85 located in Gaffney, SC. Their brand captures the understated strength of the company and is quietly bold and confident.
Verbal Brand
Naming (Axis 85)
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Promotional Design (Axis 85)
Website
Video (Axis 85)
If you've suddenly found yourself swamped with customers or are planning to expand, that means you're doing something right. But before you pat yourself on the back, let's make sure you have everything in order. Now is the perfect time to solidify your identity and streamline the way you portray your company so that as you continue to grow, you stay true to who you are.
MJF Capital™ is an investment company that is anything but conventional. They dare to challenge the status quo through not only their financial strategies, but by putting people and doing the right thing ahead of the dollar, while also teaching their clients to grow through an abundance mindset.
Unconventional. Bold. Confident. Empowering. These aren’t just buzz words, they were the vision of Michael J. French for his financial management and investment company, MJF Capital. His client-first, people-focused company was a breath of fresh air in the financial world. In an often self-wealth seeking industry, Michael believed in reciprocity and worked to help others achieve an abundance mindset that would propel them to positive financial change. Our task was to build a brand that conveyed their genuine intentions in a bold and unique way, setting them up for success and continual growth.
Brand Goal: Communicate MJF Capital’s capabilities with clarity and authenticity, play up their strengths, and showcase their unique approach to investing in a way that would be anything (and we mean anything) but the typical investment firm experience.
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Website
Content Marketing
Photography Art Direction
Promotional Design
Strategic Planning
Experiential Branding
Brand Training
Packaging Design
Purpose: To increase positive life trajectories by sharing transformative knowledge and habits.
Vision: To help others achieve financial freedom and enjoy all life has to offer by making the overwhelming approachable, the unimaginable tangible, and the impossible actionable–or better yet–achievable.
Not your typical investment company, MJF Capital’s visuals don’t follow the typical stuffy financial branding stereotypes. They are confident and modern, just like their vision to empower their clients to financial freedom.
Brand Application Engagements:
We conveyed MJF Capital’s confidence in their proven methods with their unique approach to building financial freedom by:
MJF Capital wants to change the world by putting to work and teaching their abundance mindset, ultimately fueling positive financial change. They put people and doing the right thing over the dollar every time. By supporting and empowering their clients and employees to improve their lives through a growth mentality, MJF Capital helps them achieve what they never thought possible.
MJF Capital now has a brand that clearly reflects every aspect of who they are, why they exist, and what makes them unique. As they grow and expand, they can refer to their verbal and visual brand to guide their actions and visual choices. Their consistently authentic brand lends credibility and builds trust in their company and intentions. MJF Capital is poised for success, and Michael’s goal of helping others get both their mind and their money right has begun.
If you want to play with the big boys, you must first get in the game. With Mavin, that meant taking their brand and communications–both internally and externally– to the next level.
Mavin is a young Greenville, SC-based construction and maintenance company praised for excellent customer service and a culture that values people, knowledge, and relationships. However, as they continued to grow and new competitive challenges arose, owners Todd Malo and DJ Doherty knew it was time to “raise the bar.”
Brand Goal: Elevate the Mavin brand to compete with nationally recognized construction companies in order to win more contracts with large scale clients.
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Brand Launch
Foundational Marketing
Promotional Design
Experiential Marketing
Packaging Design
Website
Photography Art Direction
Content Marketing
Strategic Planning
Brand Training
Purpose: To enhance the lives of others through value-rich experiences.
Vision: Redefine the complex journey of building, push the limits of what’s possible, and constantly strive to be better, wiser and more valuable, leaving everyone better for having done so.
Mavin’s visual brand captures their confidence, approachability, and high standards of excellence through the use of bold colors, high contrast, crisp lines, creative thinking and simplicity.
Brand Application Engagements:
Mavin firmly believes in creating a great experience at every turn, so we helped them put their money where their mouth is by:
Mavin’s Key Beliefs:
Culture Building Engagements:
Piedmont Landscaping & Maintenance (PLM) is a business-to-business landscape design, construction, and maintenance company based in Upstate, South Carolina. With a deep-rooted drive to provide a place for employees to flourish, owner, Will Ayers, wanted to create a unique standardized experience, starting with an apparel system. We created a comprehensive apparel guide for corporate employees and laborers that will aid in employee onboarding, management, and the overall brand experience of having PLM team members onsite at jobs across the Upstate. In addition, we designed standardized fleet and equipment graphics that you'll soon spot all around the upstate!
Verbal Brand
Visual Rebrand
Foundational Marketing
Apparel
Environmental Graphics
Alex and Ellis Crigler are anything but your typical real estate team. They're fun, forward-thinking, witty, and above all, they care deeply about their clients and team. When they took ownership of The Chet and Beth Smith Group, they wanted to create a brand as unique as the experience they provided their homeowners and sellers. By getting to know them and their vision for the new Crigler Group, we were able to help them build a new brand that would set their team apart in the industry and connect with their audiences on a deeper, more personal level. Because, let's face it, buying or selling your home is a deeply personal thing.
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Website Design
Promotional
Apparel
Prodoh is on a mission to get kids outdoors. It's where we get in touch with nature and make memories that last a lifetime. While we can't take credit for the logo, we helped these headstrong entrepreneurs take their brand to the next level and seek new ways to connect with moms and kids all over the country.
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Promotional Design
Illustration
Website
Change is inevitable, and change may be the difference between success and failure when it comes to your business. When ownership, leadership, structural, or generational shifts occur, a change in your brand may need to follow. We can help you navigate this change and arrive on the other side better than ever.
Don’t fix something that isn’t broken, right? Well, not in the case of an established dental practice run by a dynamic husband and wife team. Each one brought such inspirational and innovative strengths to the industry, and we realized that a whole new dental brand was in order.
Overview
When opposites attract, they not only build a strong relationship, they also provide the perfect building blocks for a killer dental group. Adam and Neely Carraway took over an established dental practice with a loyal patient base and tons of local street cred. However, their innovative dental approach and exceptional patient care were getting lost in translation. Adam focuses on preventative and restorative care, providing patients with positive dental experiences by preventing tooth decay and gum disease before it becomes an issue. Neely brings her warm and energetic personality into the mix, making each and every patient feel like family. The combination of these qualities resulted in a sophisticated brand that is equal parts innovative and welcoming – a match made in dentistry Heaven.
Brand Goal: Spread Cove’s message of preventative and restorative dentistry far and wide by focusing the branding around protection, warmth, innovation, and the confidence a person has when their teeth look and feel amazing.
Verbal Brand
Naming
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Purpose: To increase joy by nurturing a positive sense of self in others.
Vision: To develop and provide a preventative model of dentistry with the capacity to positively impact the entire world. We envision a better future for our patients and dentistry as a whole. The more we prevent oral pain and problems now, the more smiles and happy people there will be in the world around us–now and well into the future.
Cove’s visual brand marries the two different strengths the dental practice offers its patients: the welcome and comfort of home and the protection and trust offered by their unique approach to dentistry. Soothing colors and flowing letterforms evoke feelings of calm and welcome, while contrasting tones and rich, bold elements layer in the energetic, innovative focus.
Cove Dental Care is on a mission to increase joy in the world by instilling confidence in each and every patient they treat. We were able to show Cove as the market leader in dental prevention as well as a provider of exceptional patient care by:
The thing about “going home” is that you always know what to expect. Our family of team members, dedication to personal relationships, and genuine desire to make our patients feel like they matter, is what makes our “home away from home” environment possible. Whether you are a team member or patient, everyone makes an effort to listen and understand both your hopes and fears up front. Our safe, comfortable atmosphere allows for vulnerability, open communication, and creates a space for trust and positive change.
Cove is set to officially roll out its new brand later this summer. They are currently soft launching with their patients and team members. We're so excited to see where their new brand takes them!
Two seasoned attorneys were joining forces to start a new law firm. They were looking to create a brand as unique as they were to convey their uncommon law perspective and exhibit their emphasis on relationships.
Chris King and Michael Kozlarek had discussed combining forces and opening a law firm together for years. When they finally decided to pull the trigger, they wanted to get the firm started on the right foot with a foundation of strong branding. Both Chris and Michael brought a unique perspective to the practice of law—they prided themselves on providing exceptional legal counsel, strong relationships, and a desire to help others. These qualities allowed them to propel their clients and community towards success, ultimately leading to maximum efficiency and the best possible outcome for their clients.
Brand Goal: Display King Kozlarek’s quest for clarity in helping others achieve their goals by elevating their clients and community toward success and opportunity, while also revealing their vision to bring to life a new, modern way of practicing law.
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Promotional Design
Experiential Branding
Website
Photography Art Direction
Purpose: To generate positive motion in the world around us by providing others with a clear path forward.
Vision: To bring to life a new, modern way of practicing law whose primary intent is to positively contribute to the communities around us by providing our clients with the best solution and experience possible, creating environments where people thrive, relationships grow, and clarity always rises to the surface.
King Kozlarek’s visual brand demonstrates upward motion and clarity, as well as representations that symbolize clear paths forward for its clients and the communities it serves. It also reveals the different unexpected perspective that embodies King Kozlarek’s approach to practicing law
Brand Application Engagements:
Stationery Suite
Promotional Items
Website
Photography Art Direction
King Kozlarek believes when you prioritize people and their needs—both inside the firm and out—forward motion and successful paths naturally follow. We were able to demonstrate that King Kozlarek does things a better way, opens doors, and solves problems by:
Some industries naturally evolve into the modern world. While others—such as the field of law—not so much. King Kozlarek’s delivery of expert counsel is a given, but what truly differentiates them is their dedication to eliminating long-standing obstacles that can break down the ability to achieve a strong client/attorney relationship, ultimately limiting possibility and progress. They prioritize relationships over every transaction. Rather than being about prestige or accolades, King Kozlarek prides themselves on the relationships they form and what they have to offer the entities behind them.
King Kozlarek immediately utilized their brand elements while sponsoring a major golf tournament. They were not only prepared visually, but after having gone through our process, they were also able to effectively communicate who they were and what they were about to potential clients. When people arrive at their website and encounter King Kozlarek through other touchpoints, it can immediately be seen that they are different than other law firms. With closer examination, clients are able to fully understand what makes them unique and the benefit their approach offers.
Indigo is a pediatric dental practice who takes individualized care and the pursuit of happiness to a whole new level. In the beginning, however, their biggest hurdle was creating and communicating the newly acquired practice was now, in fact, a completely new company and brand.
Brand Goal: Create a meaningful, purpose-driven brand that is distinct from the competition and previous ownership, that embodies the practice’s values, and which creates a memorable, fun experience for all.
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Brand Launch
Foundational Marketing
Promotional Design
Experiential Branding
Touchpoint Study
Touchpoint Marketing
Packaging Design
Brand Workshop
Strategic Planning
Brand Workshop
Let’s be real. Just the sound of “4-0-1-K” makes you a little sleepy. Carson and Tripp knew that in order to stand out amongst other retirement investment firms (and not put people to sleep), a new angle was necessary and now was the time to get it right. Proper branding was the path to take, but reigniting a love for what you do? That was a bonus.
Brand Goal: Create a brand with depth, intrigue, and clarity that stands out amongst the rest, makes retirement planning a little less intimidating, connects with clients on a personal level, and is, of course, memorable.
Naming
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Website
Never stop improving. A motto we should all strive to live by. But when you’re an online training organization, this message is amplified tenfold. After successfully operating as an industry leader for many years under the Proficientz brand, company founder, John Mansour, wanted to shake up the client experience—starting with a new, more straightforward brand name, Product Management University (PMU). The new university experience was designed to help clients gain fresh perspective, greater confidence, and ultimately become more successful through the professional courses and certifications offered. We visually conveyed this innovative experience by infusing the logo, website, and foundational materials with high-energy colors and graphics that inspire motion—representing the forward momentum or trajectory clients experience in each phase of the PMU educational process.
Verbal Brand
Visual Brand
Foundational Marketing
Website
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