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We provide professional services to organizations looking to sharpen clarity, coherence, and continuity in what they deliver.

Strategic Alignment

Visual and Spatial Communications

Design and Deployment Standards

For Business

For Place

Three things and extras...

Five

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Systems thinking first.

Foundational work that connects to what you’ve built.

Each project carries more than a deliverable. We establish a shared language for design and decision-making inside the systems you already use, adding structure where it prevents creep. In environments shaped by multiple perspectives and distributed responsibility, that clarity keeps creative work aligned across phases, transitions, and handoffs—without losing sight of who it’s meant to serve.

There’s a method—and it adapts.

Progress shaped around your needs.

A working vision needs somewhere to land. We translate direction into clear articulation—defining what the work is, what it isn’t, how success is measured, and who decides—so creative opportunity can move forward with certainty. Simple models guide the work from early direction through articulation and into production, keeping responsibility clear and delivery steady.

The density of it.

Sustained across organizations, environments, and years.

Partners matter.

Mutual alignment guides how we work.

When direction and accountability are shared, the work moves. We partner with organizations building intentionally, strengthening how they operate while contributing meaningfully to the people they serve.

A single blended rate of $170 per hour covers strategy and production equally. The work shifts between thinking and execution as the project requires, no rate change, no friction.

Strategic and creative rigor should not depend on scale. For clients who meet specific criteria, our initiative structure offers a 5% pricing reduction per qualifying category. Categories can combine, often landing near 15% total.

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Bioregional Initiative

For organizations headquartered within the Cascadia Bioregion or projects operating within other targeted bioregionals.

Exurban/Rural Design Initiative

For organizations or businesses operating outside of primary metro areas and adjacent suburbs.

Emerging/Small Business Initiative

For business less than five years old or with ten or fewer employees.

Non-Profit/Government Initiative

For organizations whose structures and missions are formally dedicated to collective, public, social, or environmental benefits.

Women, Minority Owned Initiative

For organizations owned by women or members of LGBTQ or BIPOC communities.

Certified Initiative

For state-, federal-, or third party- certified organizations like B Corp, Oregon's COBID, or Washington's OWMBE.

Partner count reflects the percentage of active clients in a given year that meet each initiative's criteria.

Together, we make…

Services built for the long game.

For Business

  • Emerging and small businesses
  • Established brands
  • Mission-driven businesses
  • Cooperatives and member-owned enterprises

For Place

  • Public agencies and institutions
    Place-based and community organizations
    Urban design and architecture firms
    Destination management organizations

Strategic Alignment

  • Brand foundations and evolutions
  • Community, place, and destination identity
  • Ongoing internal and execution support

Visual and Spatial Communications

  • Voice and visual identity development
  • Publication design
  • Marketing collateral and brand websites
  • Cartography and mapping
  • Navigation and wayfinding planning
  • Environmental art

Design and Deployment Standards

  • Brand standards and style guidelines
  • Design systems and templates
  • Wayfinding and signage systems
  • Design intent and production coordination

Selected Partnerships

Ambrosia Natural Foods, Arcadis, CIBC, Destination Management Advisors, First Forty Feet, GreenWorks, Nike, OnPoint Community Credit Union, Oregon Heritage, Oregon State Parks, Rockaway Beach Oregon, Salmonberry Trail, Satis&Fy, Spruced Up Design Company, Uppercase, City of Vancouver Washington, and Willamette Hazelnut.