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Creative strategy

Creative strategy in San Diego.

I'm Jefferson Vance. I help small businesses and product brands decide what they stand for visually and how that shows up everywhere: the logo, the packaging, the photos, the website and the campaigns. It is strategy that ends in finished work, not a slide deck.

White Rabbit Coffee bags and mug on a wooden table
  • Direction backed by real production
  • Brand, web, photo and 3D together
  • Built from co-founder experience
Services

What I work on

Creative direction for brands that need a clear visual position and a plan for applying it.

Positioning and direction

Working out who the brand is for, what it should feel like, and what it should stop doing. This is the part that decides everything downstream.

Art direction

Setting the visual rules: type, color, photography style, layout. The same rules I then apply when designing the identity, shooting the product or building the site.

Launch and campaign planning

Pulling together the assets a launch needs, in the order they are needed, so packaging, photos, site pages and social posts land at the same time.

Brand and marketing assets

Producing the actual work: labels, packaging, event collateral, social graphics and promotions, art directed to stay consistent.

Strategy that becomes a brand system

Direction only matters once it is applied. I take the positioning straight into the identity work, so your logo, type and color come out of the strategy rather than being decided separately.

Brand design
Process

How a creative strategy project works

  1. 01

    Free call

    A conversation about your business, your customers and what is not working about how the brand currently looks.

  2. 02

    Fixed quote

    You get a written quote covering the strategy work and any assets that follow from it.

  3. 03

    Discovery and direction

    I look at your product, your competitors and your existing materials, then put together directions to react to.

  4. 04

    Apply to real assets

    The chosen direction is applied to the things you actually need, like a label, a page or a campaign set.

  5. 05

    Handoff

    You get the finished assets plus the rules for keeping them consistent going forward.

Work

Case study: White Rabbit Coffee

White Rabbit Coffee bags and mug on a wooden table

Complete creative direction for a coffee brand

I co-founded White Rabbit Coffee and was responsible for its creative and marketing direction: the brand identity, brand graphics, merchandise concepts and marketing assets across social platforms, events and local activations. The project connects visual direction with everyday production.

See the White Rabbit Coffee project
Pricing

How much does creative strategy cost?

Every project gets a fixed quote after a free call, so you know the full price before work starts. The price depends on:

  • Whether you need direction only or the assets produced as well
  • How many touchpoints are involved, like packaging, web, photography or events
  • Whether the brand identity already exists or needs building
  • How much research and competitor review the project needs

For ongoing creative work, compare the available monthly plans. See the monthly plans.

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FAQ

Creative strategy questions.

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Learn more about how I work and how I can help you and your business take the next step.

01What do I actually get?
A clear visual direction for your brand, plus the finished assets it applies to, like an identity, packaging, web pages or campaign material. Not a deck that stops at recommendations.
02How is this different from brand design?
Strategy decides what the brand should be and why. Brand design builds the logo, type and color system from that decision. They often run as one project.
03Do you work with brands outside San Diego?
Yes. I am based in San Diego, but strategy, design and rendering work can be done remotely. Photography and on-location work are local.
04Can you produce the photography and video too?
Yes. Photography, video production, motion graphics and 3D can be scoped together so the finished assets follow the same creative direction.
05How long does a strategy project take?
It depends on scope and how quickly feedback comes back. The quote includes a timeline before anything starts.