And just like that, another year is in the books. Our 7th year in business was one to remember with new team members, amazing clients, inspiring projects, and too many cat gifs to keep track of. Let’s hop into the time machine and take a look back at the past 365 days.
10 Plants Thriving / 9 Games of Scribble.io / 3 Games of Among Us / 1 Office Party / 28 Team Lunches Eaten / 1,688 Meetings / 68,217 Slack Messages /
2021 was a big year for our designers and developers. We enjoyed working with 9 unique clients to establish their web presence and launch sites that will help them grow their business and connect with their community.
Wrapping up projects that our clients love is all we could ask for, but getting recognized by the greater design community for our work is just icing on the cake. Our team is honored and proud to have received multiple design awards this year for some of our favorite projects.
From top 1,000 to top 100 design firms! Commence ranks amongst the best creative agencies.
Read MoreFrom lifestyle photos in Las Vegas to beautiful product photos of cannabis in the studio, we’ve had our work cut out photographing anything and everything we can get our hands on.
View Photo ProjectsThis year we really developed our writing chops and we’re eager to share more of our ideas and knowledge with the world, so we started a blog.
We love branding projects and we got a lot of them done this year (including our own). From kelp-based food to boutique fitness gyms in California, we always welcome the challenge.
As a team and creative agency, we have big goals. It’s important to us that our identity can support those goals and give us the space to grow our team and expand our reach.
What started as a branding and web project turned into a whole lot more. We had a blast scripting, directing, and shooting a purpose-driven commercial for MessageDesk as we expanded our video service offerings.
You can’t have a hair styling product that doesn’t have style. Beyond just the branding for Gravallese, we also designed their packaging and Shopify e-commerce experience. We might be biased, but it’s got style.
Nothing makes our hearts fuller than designing for our community (and eating fried chicken). We loved creating the branding, illustrations, website, and food truck design for Hey Hey’s Fried Chicken. Almost as much as we loved their food.
Sometimes a rebrand doesn’t go the way you want. That was the case when we changed from Laxalt and McIver to Logos and More. As a rebrand it was not successful. As an April Fools joke, however, it was very successful.
We are honored to receive not one, not two, not even three, but SEVEN awards this year for the work our team has created and we appreciate the wonderful clients that brought us those amazing projects.
Illustrations might be just pretty pictures but when they work together they can make a brand identity system that much stronger. This year we made more illustrations than you can count on the fingers and toes of 10 people.
Why go through a rebrand and build a new website, you ask? Because you want to grow your business, that’s why. Design helps us connect with our audience and good design can boost conversion rates, customer LTV, and all those other fancy metrics that we want to see an increase. Need to see more? Just look at how our work with Barnacle helped them grow.
We love our community of designers, and there's none better than the Dribbble contributors we rank amongst. We utilize the platform as a snapshot of our works-in-progress alongside some of our more refined portfolio pieces.
Join our CommunityWe love our home. And by home, we mean Earth. This year we took big steps in lowering our carbon footprint and making sure we follow the most up-to-date practices in sustainability so we can leave this planet better than we found it.
We love design and we love hot sauce. So we made a label, perfected our recipe, and with a bit of magic, we now have our own hot sauce. Made with love and dedicated to friends, family, clients, and everyone else who supports what we do.
View Packaging PortfolioWe pride ourselves on being a team of lifelong learners and we really leaned into that this year. We got dedicated strengths coaching to learn how to be our best selves, taught each other what we know, and attended workshops to hear from experts in various industries. Our minds are growing but our team is growing as well and we’re more excited than ever to put our newfound knowledge to the test.
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