Brand and website

A brand people feel before they read a word.

Brand, web and search for places people go to. For owner-run retreats, rentals, shops, clinics and restaurants, one location or a few at most, that want to look like they mean it and be found by the people already looking.

AquaTerra Design Co. business cards in cream and navy, laid over pool water and sand

Why brand comes first

50 ms

That's how long people take to judge a website. Before the pitch, before the prices, before a single word. The rest of the visit is them looking for reasons to agree.

Lindgaard et al., Carleton University, Behaviour and Information Technology, 2006

33%

More revenue, reported by companies that present their brand the same way everywhere. The sign, the site, the packaging and the email all saying one thing.

Lucidpress, State of Brand Consistency, 2019, 200+ organizations

What you get

01

Strategy

Who it's for, why they choose you, and the one feeling the brand should leave behind.

Positioning · Naming and voice · Audience profile

02

Identity

A mark, type and color that hold up on a sign, a package and a phone screen.

Logo system · Palette and type · Guidelines

03

Website

No templates. Designed around your place, written for how people search, and built so you can update it without calling us.

Custom design · Copy · Booking, store or forms connected

04

Launch and search

Live with Google set up from day one, so the people looking for what you do find you first.

Search Console · Google Business Profile · Training

The method

People decide before they think.

Someone feels a brand in the time it takes to scroll one screen. The next ten minutes go to finding reasons to agree. We build for that first feeling, using what's known about how people actually choose, not what they say on a survey.

Read about our approach to craft and AI-assisted design↗

Felt first

The brand lands before the details do.

Remembered

People can tell it's you with the logo covered.

Repeated

One good experience becomes the story they tell a friend.

Found

Then we make sure Google sees what people feel.

“They understood our website needs better than we did, and delivered above and beyond expectations.”
Jerol Jackson, entrepreneur and property owner
“Kewl Method is the creative force behind every venture I launch.”
Dan Hodgeman, entrepreneur and property owner
“We now have a digital presence that truly reflects our company's mission and vision.”
Shailo Rao, product design lead

Addy Award, Gold and Silver, logo and brand identity

What it costs

Brand and website projects start at $8,500. After a 20-minute call you get a fixed price in writing, before any work starts. We only take on a few brand projects at a time, so each one gets our full attention. Published prices. No agency runaround.

Brand and Website

From $8,500, fixed after a 20-minute call

We see your place before we design anything: in person when we can, on a guided video walk when we can't. Then strategy and positioning, identity system and guidelines, website design and build, launch support. No templates.

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Design Psychology Audit

How your brand reads in the first few seconds, with the fixes ranked. Credited in full toward a brand project within 30 days. Book the audit

$450

Design Support

Up to 8 social posts and 1 to 3 emails a month, art directed, with reusable templates for seasons, offers and events.

$3,500 /mo

SEO Local Starter

One page optimized a month for the searches people make nearby, Google listing care, technical monitoring, monthly report.

$950 /mo

SEO Growth

One local article and two pages a month, full Google listing care, local link building, live dashboard.

$2,400 /mo

Studio Partner

Design Support and Local Starter together, plus website upkeep and a monthly strategy session. One team for the whole place.

$4,500 /mo

How a project runs

Talk

A free 20-minute call about how you make money, who you're for and what's in the way.

Scope

A written scope and a fixed price before any work starts. No surprises later.

Build

We work in the open. You see it take shape and talk to the people doing the work.

Stay close

Launch is the start. Training, fixes and, if you want it, monthly care.

Free first step

Not ready to talk? Send your website.

Paste your website or Instagram. Within two business days you get a short video: how the brand reads in the first few seconds, and the one fix worth making first. No call, no pitch.

One per business. Real eyes, not a bot.

Got it. Your brand read lands in your inbox within two business days. Keep an eye on the spam folder, just in case.
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Not sure which one fits?

Twenty minutes, free, and you'll leave knowing the next step, even if it isn't us.

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