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Discovery + audit
We start with what's already working, what isn't, and what the team actually reaches for. We collect every live asset, interview the people who use the brand daily, and inventory before we reinvent anything.
Design · Brand Identity
Your brand, with a system behind it.
Logos, brand systems, rebrands, and the asset library that makes them stick across documents, websites, and signage. Calm editorial design, not template marketplaces.
What's included
A system, not just a logo.
Logos are one deliverable. The system around them is what makes the brand keep looking like itself five years later, across every document, website, and sign that carries your name. A brand identity engagement covers the mark, the rules, the files, and the rollout that gets all of it into daily use.
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Logo + mark system
Primary, secondary, mono, and mark-only versions, drawn for screen, for print, for embroidery, and for the favicon nobody remembers. Each lockup comes with clear-space rules and minimum sizes so it reproduces cleanly anywhere.
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Color + type system
A defined palette with hex, RGB, and CMYK values, contrast-checked pairings, and a type scale with real fallbacks. The same colors and fonts whether the asset lands on a billboard or in a browser tab.
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Asset library
Logos, colors, type, spacing, photography rules, and an icon set, organized in Figma, in Notion, and on the shared drive, wherever your team actually looks. Named, versioned, and easy to grab without a designer in the loop.
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Brand guidelines
A short, usable guide that says what to do and what never to do, with examples. Voice, logo usage, color, and layout rules written for the intern and the agency, not for an awards jury.
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Rebrand rollout
A phased rollout plan, a vendor list, and asset migration across web, print, and signage. Not a coffee mug handed out at a single offsite. The new system reaches every touchpoint on a schedule you can plan around.
Most rebrands fail the day after the launch.
The logo reveal happens, the deck circulates, and within a quarter the marketing team is using the wrong colors in the Word template because nobody updated the template. The rebrand is the easy part. The system is the work, and the system is what falls apart first when no one builds it deliberately.
We build the system first and the logo second. By the time the brand launches, the document templates, the website, the signage, the email signatures, the social profiles, and the proposal deck are all in the new look. The change is invisible because it is everywhere at once, not because it was loud. A brand identity that only lives in a presentation file is a brand identity that has already started to drift.
Because we also build websites and document templates, the system does not stop at a PDF guide. We can take the colors, type, and logo straight into the places your brand actually shows up, so the rules are enforced by the files themselves rather than by someone remembering them.
"The rebrand wasn't the moment. The moment was when our new sales rep opened a perfectly correct proposal template on her second day."
How it works
From audit to rollout.
A brand project is a sequence, not a single reveal. We move from understanding what you have to defining the system to getting it into daily use, with a checkpoint at each step so nothing surprises you.
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Audit
We gather every live asset, talk to the people who use the brand, and document what is consistent, what has drifted, and what the team quietly works around. You get an honest read before any design starts.
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Define
We design the mark, the color and type system, and the rules that hold them together. We review in flat mockups against real use cases, a proposal, a sign, a homepage, before anything is final.
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Build
We produce the full file set and the asset library: logo variants, templates, an icon set, and a usable guide. Everything is named, versioned, and stored where your team already works.
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Roll out
We migrate the system into web, print, signage, and email on a phased plan, then hand it off with the documentation to keep it correct. The launch is the start of the work, not the end of it.
Who it's for.
Brand identity work fits established businesses that have outgrown a logo someone made years ago, companies that merged and now carry two visual systems, and firms heading into a funding round, an acquisition, or a market expansion where the old look no longer fits. It also fits teams that have a decent logo but no system around it, the ones whose every new asset is a small argument about which blue is correct. If your marketing, sales, and operations materials no longer look like they came from the same company, this is the engagement that fixes that. We work with businesses across Jacksonville and the wider Southeast, and we are candid in the first call about whether a full rebrand, a refresh, or just a tighter system is the right scope for you.
Questions
Common questions about brand identity.
What's the difference between a logo and a brand identity?
A logo is a single mark. A brand identity is the system around it: the logo variants, the color palette, the type, the layout rules, the photography direction, and the guidelines that keep them consistent. A logo by itself drifts within a year. The system is what keeps everything looking like one company across your website, documents, and signage.
How long does a rebrand take?
A focused identity refresh runs roughly 6 to 10 weeks. A full rebrand with a phased rollout across web, print, and signage usually takes 3 to 6 months, most of which is the rollout, not the design. We scope the timeline in the first proposal based on how many touchpoints carry your brand and how fast you want them migrated.
Do we own the files when the project is done?
Yes. You own the final logo files, the source files, and the asset library outright, with no licensing strings. We hand over editable formats and organized exports so you are never locked into us to make a small change. If you want us to keep maintaining the system, that is an option, not a requirement.
Can you keep our existing logo and just build the system?
Often, yes. If the logo still works, we will say so and focus the work on the color, type, layout, and template system around it. We audit before we recommend changes, so you are not paying for a redesign you do not need. Inventory before reinvention is the rule.
Will the new brand actually get used after launch?
That is the whole point of building the system first. By launch day the website, the document templates, the email signatures, and the social profiles are already in the new look, so using the brand correctly is the path of least resistance. We pair the files with a short, usable guide so new hires and outside vendors stay on system too.
Schedule a call
Let's talk for 30 minutes.
Let's talk for 30 minutes.
No slides.
Send us your current brand guide, or the lack of one. We'll come back with what works, what doesn't, and a 90-day rebuild plan.
- 30-min discovery, no slide deck
- Free written assessment, yours to keep
- A clear proposal, no pressure
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