Our focus is on modern, usable, effective design that leaves a lasting impression on your visitors. The possibilities are endless in this arena, and we test the edges as much as possible.

Scalable Branding

A Full-Service Solution 

Logo Design & Scalability

Custom Beer Cans

Cans features

Second Cans features

Brewery Web Design & Development

Artist Highlights

Merch Design

Hat features

Photography

Cost Savings

Commence Studio's collaboration with Lead Dog Brewing Company, a vibrant craft brewery, goes beyond the scope of traditional branding. Aspiring to cultivate a unique blend of rebellious humor, unorthodox styles, and uninhibited creativity, we helped rebrand this brewery with logo design, beer label graphic design, website design, and brewery website development. 


Brewery Branding for Lead Dog Brewing

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Notebooks Mockup

“The site enables customers to identify their financial challenges and receive personalized service offerings, bringing ease to qualifying leads.”

Video: Mobile Scrolling

Promoting Continued Success

Landing Page (Still)

Laying the Paths

Video: Start, Fix & Grow Interactions

Expressive identity system, interactive web design and development for Vast - a consulting group offering financial expertise and virtual accounting services to small businesses, primarily in the food i

Identity, Web Design & Development

A brand that resonates with students and faculty

“The identity draws on Pharos Academy’s values to create a modern design system that reinforces the school’s bold, intellectually curious positioning.”

School crests built for a crew

Charter schools have mascots too Let’s go Gulls!

Showcasing the brand to the web

Web GIF

For the Bronx

“Unconventional layouts bring a refreshing look to the educational institute’s website without compromising usability, legibility, and professionalism.”

School merchandise design

Brand systems for the halls

Institutional identity and web development for the K-12 public charter school in the Bronx, New York, that draws on the extraordinary, forward-thinking vision the school executes.

Bold in the Bronx

Communicating a Strong Identity

Scalable Brand Collateral 

When our designers created this custom website design, they wanted to take visitors on a journey. The bold headlines act as a storytelling feature, reciting mantras that the company believes in.  The first animation of a bar chart shows the journey of leveling up a business while featuring rock climbers reaching for new heights.

The little details on this website tell a story - that parallels how Stoncipher uses data to help guide their clients on a journey to a more successful business.  

Website with a Story

Website with a story

Faster than the speed of sound

Our team is ready to help you build a brand that communicates clearly and attracts the customers that you want.  Work with us to create a website that captures leads and builds an online presence that works for you.

Branding & Website Design

Stonecipher Consulting Group is a strategic financial, operational, and management consultancy partnering with non-profit organizations in the cultural arts and education space.

Modern Logo and Headless Website Development

Breaking from tradition

Family

Happy and helpful

A diverse lineup

Couples

Animations

“Commence’s award-winning designs consistently result in an increase in customer engagement. Along the way, they’ve been highly responsive, thoughtful, and engaged with the success of the project.”

An online marketplace

Accounting for all types of insurance

Nav (Video)

A crafted experience for partnerships

Colors

From their beginning, we’ve helped Covered across all levels of their brand and product: comprehensive brand identity, web development, illustration, and UI. Based in Denver, Colorado, their mission is focused on simplifying the insurance process.

Branding InsurTech Company from Startup to Acquisition

Need Modern Solutions

Guides Website Changes

Down to the details

Graphic Designs

Clear Capital's success story serves as a valuable example for other organizations looking to modernize their online presence and achieve tangible, impactful results.

Clear Capital has been helping real estate investors evaluate properties since their creation in 2001. What started as a small technology company out of Truckee, California is now the leader in the space. They needed to take their online presence up a notch and Commence Studio obliged.

Modernizing A Marketing Website for B2B Tech

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Reno eNVy has been a hometown hero of a brand to our little city since 2005 but also carries vibrations throughout our state.

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We started by creating a look for the identity and seeing how it would play out on products, on the web, and in various promotional applications.

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“We wrote the visual narrative behind this brand. Providing perspective and abstracting the land where I grew up was challenging for the whole team to let go of Northern Nevadan bias.”

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With any fashion brand, you often have the brandmarks appearing in a multitude of ways.

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When thinking of Nevada, two very different things come to mind.

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After the initial brand identity was approved for both print and digital, we moved on to prepare to unveil this new look to the world.

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The next big thing

The big thing

New store

"This is something that we’ve brought up before, its a huge step to move into a new world. Without the thoroughness of the L&M team, the brand may have very well not launched."

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Stepping into a new future, working with HMNV Co. has been exciting and deeply gratifying

Reno eNVy came to us with a challenge, how do you take a beloved hyper-local brand, and elevate it into a state-wide brand? The answer is rooted in strategy, updated apparel, and an overhauled online shopping experience that anyone— not just Nevadan’s, can be proud of.

Born to be Dusty

Companies Page Interactions (Video)

Large 'g' small wordmark mountain background

A logo system that scales

A branded house for investments

An iconic accent

A website designed to focus on the individual experience

Homepage (Video)

Page Transitions (Video)

A diversified growth equity and advisory firm with a storied history of success, Cingulate Group came to Commence for their unique brand identity and website development.

Brand identity for the leading global investment group

The Generator has a diverse selection of members. Seriously.

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Design is Play.

“We wanted the look and feel of this page to be a fun, interactive place where individuals come to create.”

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The site practically invites you to play around.

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize.

As well as showing off the access to tools and resources, it was important to the Generator to demonstrate the most important value of becoming a member — access to the community.

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Do What You Love, Love What You Do.

In a community of makers, creators, and innovators - The Generator stands out. With a growing number of well-known projects around the world, from Burning Man to the Smithsonian - it leads the way in community maker spaces. However, their website didn’t reflect that . While gearing up for a large member push, they reached out to see if we would help with a landing page. We did one better - here’s to creating an interactive scroller in line with the other printed elements. Work began in March 2018 and the site is now live in May 2018.

A Hands on Place to Create

Web Design for more conversions

product photos

"Our overall brand impression has improved so much since the launch of our new site."

Optimized Mobile Experience

French Gourmet provides high-quality dough and pastries to businesses across the world with consistent flavor. Commence studio modernized their website with a focus on fast-loading pages with a luxurious feel and accessible product information for B2B customers. Brochure design and on-site product photography helped elevate the shopping experience.

B2B Web Design and Marketing for International Pastry Manufacturer

Custom Serif Logo

Photo Grid

Featured services shown in style

Services start at the website

The Virgil coworking and events venue wanted to make luxury accessible. Commence created the venue’s brand identity and website with community-oriented elegance. Now The Virgil has become a hub for collaboration.

The Virgil – Coworking Space Identity and Website Design

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Theme & Palette

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Sustainable Recognition

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A Site you don't want to miss

Check it out

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Dayton Valley Aquaponics partnered with us to create a brand that represented their bio-fueled take on farming that provides fresh produce year round in the High Desert of Nevada

Rethinking Produce through Aquaponics

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Throwing it Back

The Impression of Color

Out of this World Experience

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Don’t Just Drink It, Sport It

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But, wait… there’s more. Prepare for a website beyond your imagination.

Vast and Encompassing

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Bringing the coffee buying experience to the next level. Introducing a subscription system for legends.

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Coffee Forever

Mobile + Coffee = Love.

Become an Expert

Swipe for More

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RetroRocket Coffee is a purely web based coffee brand that has it all. Starting from step one, we created the color palette, brand, packaging and website for this intuitive company. Packed full of space exploration references, sweeping design and unique web experiences, you'll want to know every detail of the rise of RetroRocket.

Launch The Day 

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L&M was tasked with bringing new energy to Off Beat, a grass roots music festival in Reno, NV. It’s a citywide, multi-venue festival that’s all about discovering the amazing new things being created right here in Reno – music, food, drink and more. 100+ performances are at a mix of 17 venues from small bars to large theaters, from art galleries to restaurants and even shops, where you can see over 40 bands at different venues around the core of Reno.



Reno Is For Creatures

Brand Assets

It’s important to translate a visual identity from the streets to a brand’s online presence. Hey Hey’s website was build on Sanity.io a content system that is easy to use and creates structrued content that is extremely customizable. It’s easy for the client to use and perfectly pairs with the illustrative design systems that Hey Hey’s is known for.

Built with user experience in mind, we made it easy for customers to learn about the pop-up, see what’s on the menu today and to contact Hey Hey’s to see where they can find the amazing fried chicken recipe next. Quick and easy-to-use are essentials to a pop-up food truck experience like this one.

Illustration in Web Design

Food Truck Design

Our friends at Hey Hey’s requested a brand identity that pops off the page and stood out from other food trucks in the market. They also needed a website that makes it easy for their customers to locate them and is simple enough to use while they’re standing in line waiting to order.

Brand illustrations and identity for Reno Food Truck

How it started

Generate sales and migrate customers easily

The Results

Shopify & E-commerce Agency

Death Wish Coffee Co. leads with an alternative point of view, providing bold, smooth cups of coffee to their people. They find fresh ways to enjoy coffee and foster community along the way. They're all about disrupting the status quo which you can see in their edgy, sarcastic content. They live to rebel against blah beans—and a boring, lackluster life.

Web Development