Services / Design
Photos can't fix a bad logo.
You can shoot the best images in your market and still lose the room to a wordmark somebody made in Canva at midnight in 2019. Design is the other half of the job.
Why It's Here
This is where the marketing brain started.
Before the cameras, Gabe spent almost seven years in house as the only graphic designer on a corporate marketing team. Only designer means you don’t get to specialize. Logos, campaigns, collateral, packaging, signage, ads, and whatever else landed on the desk that week.
That’s also why the Altstadt Brewery campaign that ran in Texas Monthly was our design and our photography. One studio concepted it, shot it, and laid it out. Most businesses have to hire three vendors for that and then referee the differences.
So design isn’t a bolt-on service here. It’s the thing that came first.
Design it once. Design it right.
Graphic Design
What we build.
01
Logo Design
A real wordmark or mark, delivered in every format and lockup you'll actually need: horizontal, stacked, icon, one color, reversed. Starting at $450.
02
Brand Identity Kit
The whole system. Logo suite, color palette with hex and CMYK, typography, usage rules, and a guide so the next person who touches it does not wreck it. Starting at $2,000.
03
Packaging & Labels
Product packaging, labels, cans, bottles, and boxes. Built to print, with real dielines, not a JPEG your printer has to reverse engineer. Starting at $500.
04
Print & Collateral
Brochures, guides, menus, rack cards, signage, banners, trade show graphics, and direct mail. Press ready files, correct bleeds, no surprises at the printer.
05
Ad & Campaign Creative
Static ads, social creative, and print placements built as a set so a campaign looks like a campaign instead of six unrelated posts.
06
Pitch & Sales Collateral
Decks, one sheets, capability statements, and proposals. The stuff that decides deals in rooms we'll never be in.
Web Design
A website that loads, ranks, and closes.
Most small business sites fail on the boring stuff. They’re slow, they’re invisible to search, they read like a brochure, and there’s nowhere obvious to click.
We build sites the way we build everything else: start with who’s buying and what they need to do, then design backward from that. Search and AI visibility are part of the build, not a thing you bolt on later and hope for.
Depending on scope, this runs through the studio or through vetted design and development partners we’ve worked with for years. Either way you deal with us, one scope and one invoice, and you’ll know who’s touching your project.
Web design is quoted per project, because a five page site for a boutique and an ecommerce build with a catalog are not remotely the same job.
The Part That Matters
You own the design outright.
Design works differently than photography here, and in your favor. Worth understanding before you compare quotes.
Yours. Actually yours.
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IP transfers to you on full payment
Unlike photo and video, where you receive a license and the studio keeps copyright, design deliverables transfer to you once the invoice is paid. Your logo is your logo.
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We keep portfolio rights
The only thing retained is the right to show the work as ours. If you're under NDA and can't have it shown, say so and it stays off everything.
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You get working files
Not just flattened PNGs. Vector source, every lockup, every color variant, and print ready exports, so you're never held hostage for a business card.
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One agreement covers it
The Graphic Design Services Agreement covers studio-produced and white label subcontracted work alike, so the terms don't change based on who does the work.
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Built to survive handoff
Files named and organized so the next designer, printer, or web person can use them without calling us for a translation.
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Print gets tested, not assumed
Real dielines, correct bleeds, and CMYK conversions checked before anything goes to press. Reprints cost more than getting it right.
Rates
Logos from $450. Identity kits from $2,000.
Packaging starts at $500. Brochures, guides, campaign creative, and web design are quoted per project. Hourly design work runs $75 per hour when a project does not fit a package. Every engagement gets a written scope with deliverables and cost before you commit.
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