Branding Companies in Chicago

We like to build partnerships with our customers. Your business. Your consumers. Your needs. We’re in this together. Based on research and guided by strategy, we create messages that matter in a crowded communications environment.

When you meet us, you’ll discover a team of unique people working together to create an extraordinary brand. We meet our ever-changing world deftly, we honor the nuances that make each of us unique, and we are united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. Above all, we are people who design for people.

We started crowdspring to address what we saw as a fundamental problem with the design process ... most clients had little choice and most designers had few opportunities to find clients. Since launching in 2008, crowdspring has helped to democratize design around the world. Over 220,000 crowdspring creatives from 195 countries have helped more than 100,000 of the world’s best entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, agencies, and non-profits with logo design, web design, graphic design, product design, and naming.

Join over 100,000+ businesses, agencies, and product entrepreneurs that leverage crowdspring to grow their businesses through high-quality custom design and naming.

We are a modern cryptocurrency design and consulting studio. We develop digital solutions that transform companies.

Our clients include economic development organizations, communities and municipalities, park districts, arts & cultural organizations, planning, architects and landscape architects, engineering firms, financial services, healthcare and non-profits.

ABE Studios is a strategic marketing firm focused mainly on the building tools & materials industry. We help businesses expand their audiences and solidify their brands through print, web, and digital marketing experiences.

Aisle Rocket is a different kind of agency, focused entirely on delivering results. By unifying marketing and creative services backed by data and technology, Aisle Rocket drives revenue through best-in-class creative, e-commerce and media execution. Aisle Rocket’s Atlas managed Customer Data Platform (CDP) harnesses a brand’s 1st-party data to inform omnichannel online and offline media campaigns, supported by world-class creative, content, and UX.

Aisle Rocket merged with Target Data Corp in 2020 shortly after Target Data Corp. acquired Social Fulcrum in 2019. All three agencies combined and branded under the name Aisle Rocket.

ÄKTA is Chicago's leading digital experience and engagement consultancy. Over the years, we've helped client of all sizes, from local startups to multibillion-dollar global brands, launch hundreds of Web applications, digital products and multi-platform services. Our UX-focus is centered on digital engagement, with a concentration in mobile, but we're powerfully platform agnostic. We're a passionate team of architects, designers, engineers and strategists that live and breathe brilliant user experiences and challenging applications, and we're looking for people who are bright and driven by user experience to join us in changing the world of user experience.

Annex Experience is an experience company within the Havas Network. Based out of Chicago and Atlanta, we deliver full-scale experiential campaigns, infusing our network to guide brands to their rightful place in culture. In many ways our industry is old, slow, and lazy. The advertising industry was built on an antiquated notion that an anointed few “Ad Men”could craft a brand story and sell it to an uninformed public. Advertising agencies try to mimic how culture ebbs and flows. Often times, it looks and feels like a fabrication. The message is often ignored, or worse, leaves an inauthentic impression. Today, people have the power. Cultural communities are the gatekeepers of brand equity. They know what authenticity is, and the difference between a post and a “#Ad.” Here at Annex Experience, we know that in order to be credible and maximize marketing results, you have to be active participants in the culture you are trying to reach.

For organizations that need highly engaged people to realize their mission, August Jackson is the creative agency that puts purpose into practice. We align and activate communities of people around a shared sense of purpose to drive organizational success.

Our work for corporate brands, hospitals, nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions includes events and experiences, branding, campaign development, integrated communications and multi-channel activation. Our creative solutions incorporate research, strategy, experience design and content development.

Recognized in 2019 as a top agency by Chief Marketer and Event Marketer, a 2019 Crain’s Chicago Best Places to Work finalist, and a Communicator Awards recipient, August Jackson is a 100-person agency with a presence in Chicago, NYC, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Our clients include Constellation Brands, DXC Technology, Points of Light Foundation, CARE, Northwell Health, Duke University, MIT and many other leaders within their respective industries.

Founded in 2005, BatesMeron is a team of passionate problem solvers and idea generators with a devotion to branding, marketing and web design. Our full-service creative agency’s distinct expertise is bridging the gap between strategy, creative and execution. From problem solving to collateral development, our outlook remains the same: We put our full creative might behind our clients’ brands to give them the tools, talking points, visuals and vision to make a powerful impact on their bottom line. As an award-winning, WBE-certified agency, we have a simple mission: create work that is rewarding. Rewarding because it’s unexpected and appealing. Rewarding because it achieves goals and inspires action. Rewarding because of what it accomplishes for the brands we support. Our work speaks to the success of this approach, one that brings together the wildly creative and the vitally strategic. One that succeeds precisely because our drive to perform our profession with passion demands nothing less.

Our focus at BrandFuze is to bridge the gap between the client we work with and the customers we will provide. Our unique approach allows us to provide clients not only with a high quantity of customers but also provides clients with a cost-effective solution. Working with BrandFuze gives you the peace of mind that your brand is being represented by a company that endeavors to have every single customer feel better off for speaking to us that day. Our impressive track record speaks for itself.

Business challenges are human challenges, and humans are complicated. Brandtrust provides insight-driven strategic direction for our clients by revealing the human truths embedded in their toughest business challenges. Our methodologies, rooted in applied social and behavioral sciences, are designed to unlock the unexpressed needs and desires of customers. We promise to change the way you think about your customers and your business.

Our greatest assets are our creativity and experience, coupled with our tenacious desire to create something truly great. It’s this attitude that has allowed us to become the only full service digital and scenic design and fabrication studio in Chicago. It’s also what has motivated us since the beginning to create projects beyond our wildest dreams.

We work with our clients in many ways; as a sounding board during conception, as a consultant during engineering and as a partner during fabrication, but most importantly, our job is to listen to you and make your ideas come to life exactly the way you want.

Brightfield Group is a full-service market research firm focused on the legal cannabis industry. Our products provide insights into the cannabis market, companies and consumers to inform our clients'​ strategic business needs. Our multisource methodology and wide range of product tools give us a unique, 360° view of the cannabis industry. Brightfield Group is comprised of a team of experts across the country with years of experience analyzing opaque markets and hard to reach consumers.

Build Scale Prosper is a results-based growth advisory and customer experience consulting firm. Utilizing our unique blend of creativity and our proven methodology, we accelerate growth & drive ROI for our clients. Build Scale Prosper works with our clients to optimize their business to drive far-reaching results not just in the short term but for the long term as well. Rapid, sustainable growth for our clients is our core mission – where some companies may just be able to solve one problem, we look at businesses as a whole and draw on our interdisciplinary approach to assess, troubleshoot and attack your problems. We are relentlessly focused on your success.

We also provide creative strategy, manage brand development, launch products, and create experiences. We could be the best creative team you’ve ever worked with.

Cherilynn & Co is a full-service creative agency specializing in visual storytelling through superior graphic design. We create distinctive design solutions that reach out and grab your target customer and visitor demographic.

We provide you with professional solutions tailored to fit your needs. Our commitment is to excellence in design and customer satisfaction. 

We Do All Things Graphic Design.

Since 2007 we have worked with companies throughout the United States. Most of the businesses we work with are locally based in Chicago. We have been able to rank over 6000 high-competition keywords to the first page on Google. Our agency offers a wide variety of digital marketing services including search engine optimization for both local and national markets, website development, social media advertising and niche link building services.

CVLN is a performance marketing agency with a humanistic approach. We build purpose-driven brands through human-to-human advertising that creates real feeling, inspires real behavior and drives real business growth.

ColorJar is a leading brand strategy and design firm dedicated to driving business results by igniting brand potential.

Compass Partners was formed address the needs of companies seeking to align and strengthen their leadership and sales teams; eliminate symptomatic issues by solving the real ones; implement tools and processes for simplicity, scalability, efficiency, and profitability; grow and expand into new markets; and disrupt industries, drive business impact, and create value through technology. We excel at community and board relations, branding, fundraising, sales and marketing, and special events.

Concentric Design is a Chicago-based graphic design firm that specializes in visual identity, website, and print design projects for a variety of clients seeking to positively impact their customers and communities.  As a small firm, we’re able to really get to know our customers and understand their culture and vision in order to provide solutions that work. Although we’re small, we’ve built relationships with creative partners that support us in providing quality results for diverse project types and sizes.

CSSI was founded to address the industry’s need for a fully integrated foodservice agency. Powered by unparalleled insights and connectivity, we provide a winning combination of strategic, marketing communications and culinary expertise to fuel our foodservice partners’ innovation and growth. We’re an agency of expert marketers, top-notch creatives, esteemed culinarians and insightful strategists—ready to grow your brand, cultivate new business opportunities and generate sales.

Cultivate is a Chicago-based brand and apps agency crafting award-winning branding, creative marketing, websites, and apps. Our mission is to build brands that truly matter.

We are a brand strategy and design agency located in Chicago’s west loop. 

Using our StepZero™ process, we help you quickly define your strategic priorities, then establish a solid implementation plan.

This focused approach culminates in creative solutions aligned with your strategy–and ultimately delivers greater impact.

The flexibility of StepZero™ allows Damen Jackson to successfuly work with a very diverse client base, from Fortune 500 consumer brands to mission-based organizations.

Digital Kitchen is an independent content first creative and digital agency with offices in Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. The agency’s unique approach of blending digital, film, experiential design and rich brand storytelling provides creative business solutions for a roster of clients including AT&T, Microsoft, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Estee Lauder, Whole Foods Market, Starbucks, and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. DK is a member of the kyu collective at www.kyu.com.

With over 50 years of experience driving in-market success with DRTV and Performance Television, Eicoff designs and activates innovative, multi-screen television and digital video solutions that deliver at the highest level. Direct Response Television has evolved beyond the pitchman and the boundaries of traditional television. Today, DRTV is video content - appearing wherever people consume video - designed to educate, inform, demonstrate and, most importantly, sell. 

We're a full service brand design agency in Chicago. We grant wishes, and we're for hire. We don't outsource our core skills, we don't fragment your brand, we do eat our vegetables. We love research and we really like to Google stuff.

We believe design can and should inspire critical thought and positive action.

Everything we make, we make together, with a lot of love, intention and respect for our clients’ core values and ideas.

Since 1999, we’ve partnered with organizations of every size, across many industries, building identity systems, campaigns and digital tools that are as unique as they are useful.

Our award-winning work is a testament to our collaborative process and conscious commitment to honesty, integrity and beautiful, effective design.

FS Creative is a full-service video production company and video marketing agency in Chicago that provides video services in Chicago, New York, and Los Angelos. We work with companies, agencies, brands, organizations, nonprofits, and businesses to make branded content videos, marketing videos, social media videos, youtube videos, corporate videos, promo videos, instagram videos, explainer videos, facebook videos, instructional videos, advertisement videos, viral videos, commercial videos and more!

FYi Advertising is 10 years young. Its partners, Sue Frejlich & Jim Yardley, spun it off from IPG/DRAFTFCB. Combined they have over 50 years of big agency experience.

At Jacobson Rost we exist to tell true stories. All this means is that we do the hard work of discovering a brand’s most compelling truth and we tell that story in an engaging, human way that will lead to transactions.

We tell our stories with iframes and apps, web videos and TV spots, experiential events and trade shows, print and digital ads, through social networks and influencers, and via traditional marketing and PR. Because when you’re committed to telling the truth in a candid way across channels, the way you tell it comes organically from the story itself. No rules. No barriers.

Mastering a craft takes talent, passion and a unique perspective — and when those things come together, the result is something beautiful. Our craft is marketing, and our something beautiful is creating profitable customer relationships for our clients. Quite simply, we're addicted to unearthing big, insightful ideas that catapult businesses forward. 

We design brands, business strategy, and digital products. 

We've been in business since 2004, a Certified B Corporation, and Certified women-owned business. We've walked the talk since the very beginning not just in who we work with, but who we are.

We are a team of designers, researchers, and builders who have dedicated our lives to creating change. All of the work we do has to prove a community benefit and meet our own conscious standards. We are all mentors, teachers, explorers, and partners who care deeply about our communities and causes, so we spend a lot of time working with others to help outside of our work here at LimeRed. 

Our staff has always been inclusive and diverse, for 15 years. We are woman-owned and a Certified B Corporation. To us, this is just who we are and it contributes to our different perspective, which hasn’t always been a valued in the marketplace. Now, as people are looking for teams who question standards and build businesses and brands differently, we’re happy to show them a different way.

This isn’t just our job, it’s our life.

From mentoring startups to rebranding an organization to producing augmented reality video, each of our projects is as unique as you are. Instead of using cookie-cutter strategies, we collaborate to co-create human-centered solutions that address your needs and complex challenges.

Everything we do revolves around creating conscious impact. We are deliberate and mindful in our actions and decisions. This is reflected in our company culture and in the projects we take on. 

We hold ourselves accountable to one another, our clients, and ultimately, the world.

M2 Digital Media Group, Inc is a Chicago, IL-based online business development company helping small to medium businesses with a full suite of online marketing services. Founded in 2005 by a group of entrepreneurs who understand the need for a collaborative third-party marketing integration. M2 has consistently focused on getting clients measurable results utilizing a direct response approach across multiple marketing channels.

Magento eCommerce team has been dedicated to procure exemplary, awe inspiring and innovative eCommerce solutions through consummate technical knowledge and creativity. Based in Chicago, Illinois; we made modest beginnings back in 2008 and saw through every challenge to deliver customized and world class eCommerce solutions, web consultancy and Conversion Rate Optimization to our global clientele including start ups, mid sized as well as multi million pound businesses.

At March Media Chicago Our Goal is Simple. We help businesses create amazing digital work and help make a statement on the Internet. Our specialties are digital marketing, local listing, website design, search engine optimization, SEM, social media strategy, and graphic design. March Media Chicago works with clients in consumer marketing, food and beverage, non-profits and others. Every client and every solution is unique.

How We Work: FOR US, IT ALL BEGINS WITH OUR EARS – paying close attention to our client's needs and the problems they encounter. Only then do we use what's between our ears. We also believe that nothing succeeds in a vacuum, which is why we make agile & collaboration a key element in each project we undertake. If you've got any questions, we'd be more than happy to sit and start using our ears.

Marked is a marketing agency that provides fractional CMO services to small businesses. We specialize in strategic marketing planning. One of the areas focused on the least by small business owners but can affect the most change. We see that as an opportunity and are excited to simplify marketing through holistic marketing planning and management, organized execution and transparent reporting.