Bring your brand to life.
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
What do we actually do?
We draw our greatest strength from our diversity, our willingness to explore the unknown, and our ability to see the bigger picture and apply it to every detail of our work. Our purpose is to solve friction points that all businesses face, giving our clients an edge over the competition in a challenging, ever-changing digital marketplace.
Strategy.
All great design begins with strategic thinking. Whether the end result is a functional asset like a website or a set of tactics to help you carve out your place in the market, the right strategy is what sets you confidently on the right course.
A good strategy is adoptable, effective, and success-driven. It takes a collaborative environment where both freedom of expression and honest critique are welcome to create one. Our passion lies in creating those environments and honing the strategies born from them so our clients don’t just stand out in their markets—they shape them.
Services
- Art Direction
- International Logistics
- Team Structure
- Go-to-market
- Partnerships
- Competitive Analysis
Go-to-market
Your go-to-market strategy is your plan to deliver your unique offering to your best-fit customers, all while setting your brand apart from the competition.
It’s about discovering what makes you special and how to share that with your market. It touches everything from defining your brand to choosing the right marketing channels to cast your message out wide, and everything in between.
Partnerships
In most cases, it’s not possible to become a pioneer in your market on your own. But, finding the right partners who can support you in the long haul can be tricky. We can help you identify potential brands to team up with for mutual benefit and build those relationships to last.
Competitive Analysis
Standing out from your competition first requires that you understand their process, business model, and tactics. We can help you understand your competitive landscape while holding the vision of what makes your brand unique the whole way through so you never compromise on what’s important to your brand along the way.
Art Direction
Branding is about so much more than aesthetics, and art direction is where the broader strategic elements and their visual representations meet. Well-designed functional assets like websites or packaging tell a story about who you are and why it matters. Our art direction support is what brings it all together.
International Logistics
It takes a village to manufacture and deliver a great product. In many cases, different parts of the manufacturing and packaging process happen across country lines. We have years of experience sourcing reliable partners internationally and interfacing with customs every step of the way to ensure on-time delivery.
Team Structure
Whether you’re just getting started and are ready to grow a new team to help grow your business or you already are working with some collaborators, having the right people in the right roles is crucial to achieving your goals.
We have experience both with helping existing teams evolve to meet their goals and with building brand new teams strategically. Let us know what you want to achieve and we’ll help you get the support needed to take you there.
Branding + Marketing.
At Garde, we’ve developed a simple, reliable, and empowering process for helping our clients hone in on the essence of their brand. It starts with a series of discovery conversations to better understand your company’s core values.
Then, it’s time to translate those abstract concepts into tangible representations of your brand. That’s where our strategic design experience comes in. Our goal is to deliver a brand identity that feels like an authentic representation of who you are through a process that feels effortless.
When your brand is ready for its debut, we’ll develop marketing strategies that target your unique goals rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach. Together, we’ll select the right marketing channels to reach your target audience where they are, delivering the right messaging at the right time—all in alignment with your brand’s identity.
Services
- Brand Naming & Development
- Logo & Icon Creation
- Social Media Management
- Email Campaigns
- Print & Digital Advertising
- Brand Management
Brand Development & Naming
The name of your brand is the first impression you’ll make on your market. What values do you want to communicate? How do those values influence the visual identity of your messaging, packaging, and more? Developing your brand and its name is the core of our brand discovery process.
Logo & Icon Creation
Translating your nuanced brand identity into a logo and icon set that’s simple and beautiful can be a challenging distillation process. Our designers keep both your values and aesthetic vision in mind to arrive at a logo that authentically represents your brand.
Brand Management
Social Media Management
Reaching your potential clients and community requires a social presence across a variety of channels, each with its own culture and best practices to adhere to. Posting regularly and strategically is paramount to a successful social media strategy that drives engagement and fosters loyalty to your brand.
Email Campaigns
Delivering the right message to the right person at the right time via email is a complex artform. But, it’s worth engaging in—billions of your potential clients use email every day, and this channel has the potential to deliver a strong return on your investment.
Print & Digital Advertising
The world of advertising is constantly evolving, and it can be tricky to stay on top of the tactical best practices that ensure your messaging will be seen by potential clients who are interested in what you have to offer. Don’t waste your advertising budget on placements that won’t deliver results.
Content Creation.
Marketing your brand and products requires copy, images and videos, and digital assets tailored to each platform and channel of communication.
We specialize in creating sophisticated, beautiful representations of your brand and products that are positioned to help you achieve your goals. We believe marketing content can be a pleasure to engage with, and this philosophy has resulted in award-winning photography and more for our clients.
Services
- Product Photography
- Product Copy
- Architectural Photography
- Video Production
Product Photography
A lot of hard work goes into designing, developing, and manufacturing your product. All of this behind-the-scenes effort is invisible to your consumers, but appropriately staged and lit product photography with the right equipment ensures the final result looks impressive and appealing.
Product Copy
At Garde, we believe product development is an exciting way humans adapt to our rapidly changing world. Every product tells a story, but conveying that in just a few words can be a challenge.
Architectural Photography
Capturing the scale and feeling of three-dimensional space in two-dimensional photography can be a big challenge. Our team has the skills, vision, and experience to authentically represent what your space is like.
Video Production
Videos are becoming the way most consumers prefer to receive information. We produce sophisticated, professional videos that tell your story in exactly the way your clients want to receive it.
Web Dev.
Creating or updating your business website can be a daunting task. At Garde, we believe it can be one of the most exciting and enlightening processes we do.
In today’s digital world, it’s not enough to let your brand, products, and skills speak for themselves. Your digital solutions must match and exceed the competitive environment you’re in.
Services
- Web Design
- Web Management
- UI Development
- UX Development
Web Design
The idea of creating a beautiful, functional website that effectively communicates your brand’s story can be intimidating. After all, your website is likely to be your most important marketing asset. Web design is when it all comes to life.
UX Development
Developing your user experience, on the other hand, is all about making the functionality of your app or site as easy and intuitive as possible to use. It takes creativity, empathy, and lots of foresight to stay connected with how you’d like your audience to engage with you every step of the way.
UI Development
Keeping your website running optimally and effectively requires maintenance on a regular basis. This work can be tedious but requires specific knowledge about the best practices for running your site and troubleshooting if issues arise.
Product Dev.
From developing a concept through designing the product and packaging, manufacturing the components, bringing it to market, and everything in between, developing a product requires a wide range of skill sets and experience.
Our product development services are all about taking your product idea from an abstract concept to something you can visualize, touch, use, and eventually, market and sell to your customers.
At Garde, we are skilled at designing both products and the packaging that delivers them, rendering products in 3D, and designing print materials that showcase your work in a sophisticated, beautiful way.
Services
- Product Design
- Package Design
- Product Rendering
- Book Design
Product Design
Understanding your customer and their challenges are the key to successful product design. We take a human-centered approach to product design, which means your customer is at the forefront of our minds as we evolve your concept into a tangible, beautiful new product.
Package Design
Modern consumers make a lot of assumptions about product quality based on packaging. What do you want to communicate about your product in its first impression to your potential customers?
Product Rendering
Visualizing your product in three dimensions can help iterate on its design, showcase the product for marketing and advertising purposes, and help potential clients discover your product, even before creating a prototype.
Book Design
Do you think of book design as a type of print marketing material? Something different? Should we also add print marketing material as another category here?
What’s distinctive about the book design process and what value does it deliver?
Media Relations.
The current media environment is more robust than ever before in human history. We can help your brand establish a well-positioned media strategy to reach your target audience in volume.
Our team has years of experience working with some of the most prominent news and media outlets and the most influential personalities in the world. Our reach is at your disposal.
Services
- Global Media Relations
- Public Relations
- Publicity
Global Media Relations
Our team is well-connected with numerous news outlets around the world, so we can help you share your message and story on a global level.
Public Relations
Whether you’re looking to launch your brand or control a shift in its reputation or public image, we can leverage our connections and creative storytelling skills to help.
Publicity
When launching a new brand or product, getting attention to your story can be a challenge. With the right media connections, though, anything is possible.
