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We create visual brands that stand out, build trust, and add bottom-line value. Let us help you reach your goals.
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Our strategic process gets you to the finish line faster.
Have an initial meeting to understand you, your audience, and your competition.
We get to work exploring concepts that best represent your brand and fulfill your goals.
Flesh out the concept and fully integrate your brand into the design materials.
We take pride in collaborating with our clients to ensure we’ve fulfilled their expectations.
We take extra care to ensure that files are finalized correctly with minimal errors.
For stress-free implementation, we provide all of the design assets the way you need.
When it comes to facing the challenges of creating designs that embody your company, many people are overwhelmed, not knowing how to take their brand to the next level. In a world of temporary design gimmicks, Light Up the Dark helps you create your brand assets in a way that timelessly captures the core message of your business, helping you stand out in the marketplace with excellent web design.
For the last eight years, we’ve helped small to large organizations accelerate their branding with compelling design that revitalizes their marketing materials. We create designs that connect to their target audience, convey the brand message with greater clarity, and have cutting-edge relevance.
Working with us in design includes three simple and easy steps. First, we sit down to understand your brand’s needs from the perspective of the company and the customer. Secondly, we get to work creating stunning design assets that reflect the core message of your organization. Finally, we deliver the final design in a way that helps you unify your brand across your channels and accelerate your brand engagement.
We provide professional design services for; branding, logos, illustrations, print materials, digital graphics, and UI/UX.
We know that there are a lot of businesses competing for your audience’s attention. We help you stand out from the crowd by creating brands that embody who you are, connect with your audience, and project authority.
When a brand isn’t cohesive across all channels, its impact is diluted and becomes less effective. We can help strengthen and optimize your marketing efforts by uniting your brand across all your audience touch points.
Not only does a great brand increase the bottom-line value of your organization, it builds trust that facilitiates a greater level of engagement with your audience.
Branding includes clarifying your messaging and target market. This informs your name, tagline, logo, and visual aesthetics.
A logo articulates your organizations visual identy and embodies your value proposition.
From icons to hand-drawn elements, illustrations are a great way to present abstract concepts in approachable ways.
We provide experienced design services for booklets, covers, albums, packaging, cards, mailers, presentations, and more.
We create results-driven graphics for banner ads, eblast design, social media, websites, mobile apps, and more.
We craft interfaces that enhance user experiences by delighting them visually and designing optimized user flows.
We create map designs that effectively help navigate users while engaging them with your brand and messaging.
We can help integrate your brand in a physical space and draw attention to where it matters most.
Make a memorable impact in your business interaction by enhancing your business cards, letterheads, envelopes, and other stationery.
Our new website is easier to navigate, easier to view information quickly, easier to purchase a ticket or a membership, and has a wider array of information right at your fingertips…
A selection of projects that we've brought to life.
In need of a brand refresh, we helped strategize and create a revision of the Kansas City Zoo brand that updated their logo, introduced a fresh color scheme, new typography system, and set them up for success with a brand guide and strategy to unify their messaging.
A unique and challenging project, we redesigned the Kansas City Zoo map to be more intuitive, easier to understand, more accurate, and more effective at providing guests with relevant information. Using GPS data, we created a highly accurate map for both their in park materials as well as an online, interactive version.
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When your logo isn’t up to date, you won’t be able to convey your brand value as effectively.
When a brand isn’t unified across all channels, its impact is diluted and becomes less effective.
When marketing materials aren’t designed well, they diminish the impact of your messaging.
