Creating Meaningful Brands

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Our Contributions

Brand Positioning, Visual Identity Update, Website Design, Website Development, Copywriting, Digital Sales & Outreach Tools

If you happen to live in Austin, TX, you’ve likely seen the work of Chris McCray and Grace Hall, founders of McCray & Co. The studio has a well-earned reputation for visionary, concept-driven work, and a thoughtful, collaborative approach to design.

While McCray & Co. is often recognized for their hospitality design, residential spaces are a significant component of their business, and their work reaches far beyond Austin city limits. The studio was founded in 2011, and it had been a minute since they’d revisited their website to showcase the breadth of their work and expertise. They asked the DesignGood team to help redefine and update their messaging and reintroduce their brand to Austin and beyond. Exploring and achieving brand clarity takes effort. At DesignGood, we first developed Foundational Brand Language, which serves as the touchpoint for brand messaging and communications. For McCray & Co, we drafted a brand clarifier, “Residential & Hospitality Design,” to their name to clearly communicate what they do – so right away, a future client knows if they’re in the right place. For their new website, Chris and Grace wanted to show off those spaces in separate home and hospitality portfolios that would convey the full range of their capabilities. Side-by-side portfolio images demonstrate the range of their capabilities. The individual portfolio pages we created include images and descriptions that provide detail on the process and approach McCray & Co. takes for each project. And the custom-built website was designed to make it easy for the studio to add projects to their home and hospitality portfolios as they’re completed.

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Our Contributions

Brand Positioning, Visual Identity, Website Design, Copywriting, Sales & Outreach Tools, and Branded Email Marketing

Have you ever just wanted to pack a bag and take off, solo, en route to your dream destination?

If you're like us here at DesignGood, you're still making up for all those getaways you missed during the height of the pandemic. Awakened Solo Travels founder Diana Zatynaychenko knows the feeling. As a trip planning expert and veteran solo traveler, Diana loves helping other women discover the life-altering magic of solo travel. When she realized she could hone her superpowers to help other women plan solo trips of their own, Diana asked DesignGood to guide her in building her brand and business.

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Our Contributions

Naming, Brand Positioning, Visual Identity, Website Design, Sales & Outreach Tools, Social Media Feed Design, Branded Email Marketing

Neathery Falchuk came to DesignGood with a vision: To create a brand that would reflect the warmth and inclusivity of her therapy practice while feeling big enough for future expansion beyond a single office. With a growing team of therapists, Neathery knew it was time to make the shift from a personal brand to one that would provide space for every team member to define their own niche within the business.

We began our work with developing the name and the clarifying language that would serve as the foundation of the new brand. “Ample & Rooted” grew out of Neathery’s belief that each of us is whole and beautiful and that therapy provides a way to become grounded and connected to ourselves and one another. The logo and overall visual identity sprouted from the name and serve as a symbol of the healing and growth clients experience through counseling. The visual identity was extended throughout the new website, with a calming, grounded color palette and imagery that reflects the tone of the brand. Website copy was mindfully developed to acknowledge the diverse audience of the practice and convey a sense of affirmation and belonging. The expanded site gives space for each therapist to showcase their individual approaches and areas of expertise, as well as the company’s growing meditation and yoga offerings. For clients and therapists alike, Ample & Rooted serves as “A Home for the Whole You.”

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Our Contributions

Brand Positioning, Visual Identity, Branding System, Website Design, Copywriting, Signage, Apparel

The new owners of Darling Farms in Old Snowmass, Colorado, have a vision: To make eco-friendly harvests standard practice. They’re converting a commercial farm into an organic one, and creating a destination where hiking, animal therapy and weddings take place alongside the harvest. When we were asked to brand the new incarnation of the farm, we were delighted. It’s all the good things we love: green spaces, organic practices, animals and a sense of place. As native Texans, the owners wanted to give a nod to the Western tradition of branding, without the heat. We developed foundational brand language and created a brand identity that speak to ranching history and the core belief that land is the most essential resource we’ll ever have. It’ll take time and commitment for new crops to come in and the owners of Darling Farms to build into their vision. For our part, we’re glad to have delivered a brand they can grow with.

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Our Contributions

Brand Positioning, Visual Identity, Website Design, Branded Email Marketing, Photography Art Direction

As one of New York’s premiere custom costume studios, Eric Winterling came to DesignGood ready to update their look. In three decades of creating costumes, Eric’s business had grown into one of the largest and most well-regarded studios in Manhattan. But along with the sartorial trends of days past, he’d left his branding and website far behind.

Eric heads up a team of master drapers, dressmakers and stitchers who construct each costume by hand. And while their completed costumes are seriously impressive, we took a fresh approach to showing off their work, telling the story of their craft through a highly customized portfolio experience that includes design sketches, detail shots, works-in-progress, performance photos and video. The customized portfolio treatment, along with a separate showcase of details, demonstrates how the studio’s unwavering attention to detail and quality plays well to camera and stage alike. Like his studio, which grew from 400 square feet in its earliest days to more than 8,000 square feet today, we updated and expanded Eric’s brand through a new visual identity, website design and copy to tell his story in bigger, brighter, more colorful fashion.