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Brand and Design

Visual systems that make your business look as credible as it actually is. Identity, interface, motion, and video, all built by one team.

What We Do

Most businesses do not have a design problem. They have a consistency problem. A logo here, a slide deck there, a website built by someone else, social graphics made in a hurry. Each piece looks fine on its own. Together they look like four different companies. Customers notice, even when they cannot name what feels off. Brand and design work fixes that by building one visual system instead of a pile of one-off assets.

Running Start Digital treats brand and design as infrastructure, not decoration. We start with the decisions everything else hangs on: how your brand looks, how it behaves, how it holds up across every screen and surface. Then we build the assets. Logo systems, interface design, graphics, motion, and video that all trace back to the same foundation. The result is a business that looks deliberate and recognizable whether someone meets you on a phone screen, a trade show banner, or a thirty second ad.

Everything we design, you own. Source files, color codes, type specifications, usage guides, and editable project files all get handed over at the end. No proprietary lock-in. No holding your brand hostage. The work is yours to use, extend, and build on.

Why Running Start Digital

One team for identity, interface, motion, and video. No handoffs between vendors.
Every asset traces back to one visual system. Nothing looks off-brand.
You own every source file. Full handoff, no lock-in.
Chicago-based designers, not a rotating marketplace of freelancers.
Design rooted in your audience and market, not trends that age out.
Published pricing on every service. No vague creative retainers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Start with brand identity or a logo system. Those decisions, your marks, colors, and typography, become the foundation every other asset references. Once the system exists, graphic design, interface work, and video all stay consistent because they pull from the same source.

It depends on how visible your business is. A logo system works if you mainly need a clean mark across a website and a few documents. A full brand identity makes sense once you are producing regular marketing, pitching for larger work, or trying to look established in a competitive market. We will tell you honestly which one fits.

Both, and that is the point of keeping it under one roof. UI/UX design and graphic design done by separate vendors drift apart fast. When the same team handles your product interface and your marketing assets, the experience stays coherent from the first ad a customer sees to the app they log into.

Everything. Editable source files, exported assets in web and print formats, color codes in HEX, RGB, and CMYK, font specifications, and a usage guide. You own all of it. If you ever work with another designer, they will have everything they need.

Both. Video production and motion graphics are part of this category because moving content is no longer optional. We produce video for ads, social, and web, plus motion graphics for explainers, interface transitions, and social content, all built from the same visual system as your static work.

Every service in this category has published pricing, so you can see the cost before you talk to us. Larger or combined projects are scoped and quoted as a fixed price after a short discovery conversation, so there are no open-ended creative retainers.

Ready to get started?

Tell us about your project and we will build the right plan for you.