Striped Horse

Branding Agency Built on Strategy and Craft

A strong brand gives people a clear reason to notice, trust, and choose your business. As a strategic branding agency, we help companies define what they stand for, where they belong in the market, and how they should communicate with the people they want to reach. From research and positioning to messaging, creative direction, and brand development, we build brands with the clarity and consistency to stand apart today and grow with confidence tomorrow.

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Our Branding Services

Strong brands are built from connected decisions, not isolated creative assets. Our branding services bring strategy, positioning, messaging, creative direction, and design together to create a brand that is clear about what it stands for and consistent in how it shows up.

Brand Strategy

We define the strategic foundation behind your brand—your audience, market context, competitive landscape, purpose, and priorities. The result is a clear direction that guides how your brand communicates, evolves, and makes decisions.

Brand Positioning

We clarify where your brand fits in the market and what makes it worth choosing. By identifying your strongest points of difference and the value they create for your audience, we build a position your business can communicate clearly and own with confidence.

Brand Messaging & Voice

We shape how your brand communicates through clear messaging, key value propositions, and a distinctive tone of voice. The goal is to make what you say as recognizable and consistent as how your brand looks.

Creative Direction

We translate strategy into a clear creative direction for the brand. From the overall mood and personality to the principles that guide visual and verbal expression, we establish a creative territory that keeps every execution connected.

Brand Identity Design

We turn your strategy into a recognizable visual system that gives your brand a distinctive and consistent presence across channels. From core identity elements to the wider visual language, every part is designed to work together.

Brand Rollout & Support

A brand has to work beyond the presentation deck. We help carry the new direction across websites, campaigns, marketing materials, and other customer touchpoints, with ongoing creative support as your business evolves.

Our Branding Process

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Discovery & Brand Audit

We start by understanding your business, audience, market, competitors, and existing brand. Through discovery and research, we identify what is working, where the gaps are, and where the strongest opportunities lie.
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Brand Strategy and Positioning

We define the strategic foundation of the brand, including its purpose, audience, market position, points of difference, and value proposition. This gives us a clear direction for how the brand should compete and what it should be known for.
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Messaging & Creative Direction

With the strategy in place, we shape how the brand should communicate and feel. We establish key messaging, tone of voice, brand personality, and creative direction so the verbal and visual sides of the brand move in the same direction.
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Brand Development

We bring the strategy and creative direction to life, developing the core elements needed to make the brand distinctive, cohesive, and usable across real customer touchpoints.
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Brand System & Guidelines

We organize the work into a practical brand system your team can use consistently. Clear guidelines establish how the brand should communicate and show up across channels while giving it enough flexibility to evolve.
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Rollout & Ongoing Support

We help put the brand into practice across your website, marketing, campaigns, and other key touchpoints. As your business grows, we can continue supporting the brand so new applications stay connected to the original strategy.

Strategy, Design & Development Under One Roof

Your brand should not lose its direction when it moves from strategy into execution. Our branding, web design, and website development teams work together, helping create a consistent experience from the first strategic decisions through to the digital products your customers actually use.

Strategy Before Creative

We do not make creative decisions based on preference alone. We start by understanding your business, audience, competitive landscape, and goals so the work has a clear strategic reason behind it and supports the position you want your brand to own.

Built for the Real World

A brand has to do more than look good in a presentation. We think about how it will work across websites, campaigns, sales materials, social channels, and other customer touchpoints so the direction we create can actually be used day to day.

Experience Across Industries

We have worked across eCommerce, SaaS, healthcare, education, nonprofits, professional services, and more. That cross-industry experience gives us a broader perspective while allowing every branding project to be shaped around the realities of your particular market.

Experience With Brands at Different Stages

From established organizations to growing businesses and startups, we adapt our approach to the challenges in front of us. Whether you are building a brand from the ground up, repositioning an existing business, or preparing for the next stage of growth, the process starts with what your business actually needs.

Support Beyond the Launch

A brand continues to evolve after the initial project is complete. We stay available to help with new applications, campaigns, digital experiences, and future brand needs so the direction remains consistent as your business grows.

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Why Choose Striped Horse as Your Branding Agency

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

"They're great in every category, and not only the work they do is great, but they are very accommodating and communicative. I was very fortunate to have Danielle leading the web development team-- it was no easy task to take over a year-long project along with a bunch of new devs to work with into a working product in less than two months' time. One of the challenging project-wise for our university website project and she got the team doing good work and managed to get where we need to be. I will continue to work with her!"
Bryce Chapman
Bryce Chapman
Marketing Communications Director, Gallaudet University
"They helped to make our website redesign a success. Danielle was a very quick communicator and patient with our team throughout the entire process. She was knowledgeable and always able to clearly answer my (many!) questions. Our team is very happy with the outcome of our new website. I would recommend Striped Horse to anyone looking for web design services."
Whitney Novellino
Whitney Novellino
Director of Marketing, Magview
I can't say enough good things about working with the Striped Horse team in designing a new website for our Center at Stanford. They were fantastic -- really responsive, creative and solutions-oriented, hard-working and on-the-ball in all aspects of managing and executing a complex project like this. Their rates are quite reasonable given the incredible value you get from the work. And the outcomes are terrific - they created a great-looking, user-friendly site designed to optimize for our goals. My strong recommendation is: do not delay, and try to get the Striped Horse team to work with you on your project! You can't do better, and you won't regret it.
Jason Solomon
Jason Solomon
Executive Director, Stanford Center on the Legal Profession
“They ask all the right questions, understand the requirements and put forth their excellent design skills and problem solving to deliver above expectations. Would be thrilled to work with them again!"
Bianca Penaloza
Bianca Penaloza
Pledge 1%
“Danielle was fantastic. Quality, knowledge, customer service and communication exceeded expectations. I would recommend her in a heartbeat and will be using her again at some point in the future.”
Maxwell Hogan
Maxwell Hogan
League Commish
“They produced a beautiful landing page, were very quick to respond and really made the whole process very simple. They will be re-doing my entire website shortly. You won't be disappointed when you hire them.”
Joshua Johnsonc
Joshua Johnsonc
Paul L. Johnson Interiors inc.
“The team did everything wonderfully!! Talented and creative professionals, exceptional communicators and efficiently worked, I really hope to engage with them again.”
Charlie Skinner
Charlie Skinner
CEO, EMSI
"The team rocks! They're super efficient and gets things done, is highly knowledgeable, and taught me quite a lot about the process of building my site. I'd recommend them to anyone in a heartbeat."
Alec Holcomb
Alec Holcomb
Owner, AlecHolcomb.com
"The team is amazing. Filled with visionaries and helped problem solve for all our our company needs. Will definitely use them again."
Nirav Patel
Nirav Patel
Owner, Complete Balance Solutions
"They have a can-do attitude that makes the process much easier & effective, it was a pleasure to get quick responses and support for all our issues and needed changes to the new website. I will definitely approach again in our next project!"
Yoni Eyal
Yoni Eyal
Sequoia Life Settlements
"The team delivered a fantastic design. The designs not only looked good but they actually performed well. They produced tangible results (ie. more conversions)."
Devon Charles
Devon Charles
Lead Marketer, Bluebearry
"Amazing in every sense! Worked with me to get exactly what I wanted, even when I changed my mind; was patient; took initiative; was creative. The list goes on and on. I will definitely hire again for future needs!"
Blakely Hull
Blakely Hull
Blakely Hull, Realtor

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