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Create a brand people recognize.

Your brand is what people remember when you are not in the room. We develop the identity, content and visual tools your organization needs to be understood quickly and recognized everywhere it shows up.

Branding · Design · Copy · Photography · Video

Why It Matters

A logo is not a brand, but it is the handle.

Most organizations do not have a design problem. They have a consistency problem: three versions of the logo, four shades of the same blue, a website that sounds nothing like the sales sheet, and photography borrowed from whoever had a phone that day.

We fix that by deciding what the brand is, building the pieces that carry it, and leaving your team with the rules and files they need to keep it intact after we go quiet.

Recognition beats novelty.

A brand earns its value by being used the same way for years. We design for the hundredth use, not the first reveal.

Made to be used.

Identity work is only finished when the people who apply it — staff, printers, vendors — can do it without calling us.

One voice everywhere.

The website, the truck, the trade show booth and the packaging should look like the same company had a hand in each.

What We Make

The pieces that carry your brand around.

Some of this is the brand itself. Most of it is everything the brand has to survive contact with — a printer, a sign shop, a phone screen, a busy trade show floor.

Branding & identity

Naming support, logo systems, color, type, brand guidelines and the rules that keep the whole thing consistent as more people start using it.

Graphic design

Print and digital collateral, packaging, sales material, presentations, signage and the everyday pieces that carry the brand further than any campaign.

Copywriting

Messaging, positioning, website copy, brochures and the plain-language version of what you do — written for your customers rather than your industry.

Photography

Product, facility, team and lifestyle photography made for the places it will actually be used, so a website and a brochure are not fighting over one usable shot.

Video

Brand films, product and how-to video, customer stories and short social cuts — planned, shot and edited so one shoot produces more than one piece.

Environmental graphics

Vehicle wraps, building and wayfinding signage, trade show booths and interior graphics that carry the identity into the places people meet you in person.

Packaging, print, signage and identity work designed by Simple Spark

A few of the brands and pieces we have produced

Our Approach

Decide what it is, then draw it.

Design goes fast once the thinking is settled. We do the arguing early, on paper, where changing your mind is cheap.

  1. 01

    Listen

    We learn how you describe the business, how your customers describe it, and where those two drift apart.

  2. 02

    Position

    We settle what the brand stands for, who it speaks to and what it should never sound like, before anything gets drawn.

  3. 03

    Design

    We develop the identity, the type and color system and the pieces that matter most, then test them at the sizes and materials they will really live on.

  4. 04

    Produce

    We shoot the photography, cut the video, build the files and work with printers and fabricators so the finished thing matches what was approved.

  5. 05

    Hand over

    You get the files, the guidelines and the templates your team needs to keep applying it — plus us, when something new comes up.

Selected Work

Brands that hold up outside the deck.

A logo looks fine at any size on a presentation slide. These had to work on a machine, a building, a shirt and a phone.

A Viper compact track loader on a job site
01Viper Loaders

Equipment & Manufacturing

Viper Loaders

A rugged identity applied across the website, a product brochure and a trade show presence that had to hold up next to national brands.

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Start Somewhere

Ready to look like one company?

Whether you need a full identity, a single piece produced properly or photography you can finally use everywhere, we will help you identify the right starting point.