Grain & Mortar is a strategy, branding, and design company.
We help businesses reach their goals by working with them to develop a marketing strategy, and create cohesive branding with great design.
Our tried and true process: Clarify, Organize, Design.
Clarify
We get to know you. We invite you to lay your ideas, notes, and napkin scribbles on the table. We research your industry, mission, target market, corporate (or non-corporate) culture, competitive advantage, values, strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and goals.
We ask: Who are you? Who needs to know about you? How will they find out about you? Why should they care about you?
Organize
We find your message. We weed out what's most important to your audience to determine what will ultimately make your business successful.
We utilize our collective knowledge of our current culture, humor, trends, and life experiences to discover what really motivates people to take action.
Design
We create. We use what we’ve learned as building blocks and inspiration to fuel our creative process. Whether it be a small print ad or a company-wide re-brand with multiple deliverables, your unified message will be communicated.
We convert your idea into a real, tangible, visual message.
Your brand with one unified message.
Why is it important to have one unified message? The short answer is brand awareness. To be most effective, all the aspects of your brand should have similar characteristics. They should feel connected and professional.
When your brand is unified, the perception of your brand is more likely to be positive. This makes it easier for consumers to put their trust in you, and ultimately take action. The more your brand awareness increases, the more your consumer confidence goes up. The more your consumer confidence goes up, the more business you have. Life is good.
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Print
Website
Photography
Apparel
Copywriting
Motion
Brand Guide
Logo
Kind words from honest folks.
"G&M designed a brand new site that matched our vision and presented our information clearly and succinctly. Our web leads went from 1 a week to 5 per day."
Ruth Berkowitz
Director of Marketing, Liazon
"Grain & Mortar has a stellar reputation for a reason. They take the time and dedicate the effort to make sure that their product is spot on and high quality."
Steven Michael Kelly
Director of Bus. Development,
Creighton University
"Grain and Mortar knows how to engage audiences through design; they are one of Emspace Group's most valued collaborating partners. And they're fun to work with."
Elizabeth Murphy
President, Emspace Group
