This® is an independent design studio with a decade of experience providing brand strategy, design systems, and campaign production.
Forged in friendship™
by Denis Kegler
& Toby Grubb.
We leverage art, technology, and empathy to transform cultural and brand needs into modern business drivers.
Creative Inception
Qual & Quant Research
Brand Strategy & Positioning
Communications & Messaging
Creative Execution
Brand Identity & Guidelines
Retail & Environmental Design
Campaign & Media Development
Art, Photo, Video Direction & Creation
Interface & Experience Design
Website Development
Packaging Design
Clients
We work with visionary brands who seek to prolong and protect access to nature and propel human activity.
Industries
We primarily serve the Outdoor, Hospitality, Fashion, Technology, Sustainability, and Automotive Industries.
How we do it
We sherpa brands through complicated processes to operationalize their dreams. We seek partners who are equally obsessed with the final product and who believe in collaboration at their core.
We wield a multidisciplinary core of six with +40 international collaborators. Our business model is designed to address typical pitfalls and avoid the overhead of large-scale agencies. We scale with ease to accommodate your wildest aspirations and loftiest financial goals, making our services more curated, more effective, and longer-lasting. We know that good design paves the way to happiness, and occasionally, early retirement.
This is gonna be great.
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Hood River & Portland, Oregon
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