Our work - Commence Studio® is a bespoke research and design firm ... We craft purposeful brands, products, and eCommerce experiences that turn conscious values into company value. We collaborate with large & small companies that we can inspire to change the world.

Web Design for more conversions

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"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 brochure for international pastry experts

Sea View Grid 1

Numeral design for rooms with personality

Illustrations, web design, and brand identity for The Sea View Inn in Manhattan Beach, California. A small hotel looking to capture the laid-back beach feeling of the area and encourage visitors to live like locals.

Identity, illustration and web design for an inn at the beaches of southern california

Of Getting Lost

Build a Modern Mobile Storefront 

Measures of Success

The Results

A Mobile First Ecommerce Experience

Deso Supply Co. is an outdoor clothing company that appreciates wide open spaces and getting lost in the wilderness. Not because you don’t know where you’re going but because it’s an adventure. 

A Mobile Ecommerce Site for Purpose Driven Retailer

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

NEN Video from Dribble

Progressive Ecosystem

A bold rebrand for The Nevada Entrepreneur Network - we focused on creating a scalable identity ecosystem to further engage the organization’s current audience, and to expand connections across various regions of Nevada.

A new NEN for all of Nevada

Hungry Devils, a popular Reno food truck let us play off of their name and design some serious personality into their brand identity. Their spirit was also reflected in the photography used for their social media.

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2 Full Images, 2 Split Images, 1 full image

Taste No Evil Food Truck Design

3 side-by-side Graphics

Business Card Design

Iconic food photography, illustrative identity, full tear sheet, and food truck design for  Hungry Devils - handmade Greco American food and baked goods in Reno, NV.

Tear Sheet & Food Truck Design

An old dog learning new tricks

3 Column

2 Column

Blind Dog Coffee partnered with us to develop their new brand identity and packaging system centered around community and brewed with core values instilled by founder Mark Berry.

Rebrand and packaging for a community-focused coffee roaster

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

Vast sideways logo assets all colors

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

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.

Web Design and Development

Farmers to the forefront

Video

Grid

Grid 2

Charming packaging design for the Italian olive oil company producing organic and non-gmo ingredients, that illustrates traditional and quality values.

Organic olive oil packaging with an Italian origin

First Grid

A new logo to make that clear

Animation

Building a brand narrative Say what you mean, not just what you do

Illustrations to support messaging

“The new brand identity and illustration assets have brought our professional pressence to the next level. We get many compliments at expos and in emails.”

Putting more focus on user solutions

Comprehensive components

Team

Team portraits that connect with clients

Shall every interaction, be a branded one

Mockups

MessageDesk is a connection-driven messaging company servicing small businesses and teams based in Reno, NV.  

The company came to us for the redesign of their brand identity, website design, strategy, and illustrations.

Putting the message in brand messaging

Work Listing Page

All Projects

French Gourmet

Sea View Inn

Deso Supply Co.

Hey Hey's Fried Chicken

Nevada Entrepreneur Network

Hungry Devils

Blind Dog Coffee

The Virgil

Vast

Covered

Olivaio

MessageDesk