Captivating Visual Support + Graphic Design for Intentional Brands
To tell a powerful visual story that is compelling and memorable, you need a design partner who knows instinctively how to bring your brand to life.
Elevate Your Brand with Graphic Design Services
Sidekick Strategies provides various graphic design services to improve brand identity and communication. They create engaging visuals for websites, videos, print, and digital media to tell a compelling story that connects with the audience. Their team uses creativity and strategy to deliver designs that are visually appealing and effective in achieving your goals.
Exceptional Design Creates Lasting Impressions
Your brand identity is so much more than fonts, colors, logos, and graphical templates. At Sidekick Strategies, we believe that great graphic design should …
Convey your brand’s personality and values.
Increase brand awareness and long-term recognition.
Tell your brand story and your vision for the future.
Communicate complex messages and ideas quickly.
Help your message and ideas stand out from the crowd.
Foster deeper connections, excitement, and loyalty.
Sidekick Strategies Design Capabilities
Website Design
Every website we design is a seamless blend of sophisticated design and strategic, data-driven functionality. The end result? A website that looks as good as the results it effortlessly delivers.
Video Creative
Innovative visual storytelling and creative direction is more important than ever for businesses using video. We’re in your corner with the visionary video expertise you need to shine on camera.
Video Production
Our efficient, forward-thinking video editing team has extensive experience in producing visually stunning and polished business videos that excite audiences and move business goals forward.
Print Design
We live in a digital world, but print collateral still plays a pivotal role in brand communication. You can always count on our print designers to be meticulous, strategic, and sophisticated.
Digital Design
From social media graphics and paid advertising creative, to interactive whitepapers and educational buying guides, our designers are masters of creating results-driving visuals.
Brand Identity
Great branding begins with a deep understanding of a company’s mission, ethos, and vision. Every brand we build is infused with meaning and purpose, to tell a human story that evokes emotion.
Why Choose Sidekick Strategies?
As a certified HubSpot Agency Partner, our team of inbound experts have decades of collective experience in developing powerful, revenue-driving HubSpot lead scoring strategies for organizations just like yours.
HubSpot Certified
We possess almost 100 HubSpot certifications (and counting!) among our team members.
Results-Driven
We’re not paper-pushers. We work tirelessly to drive measurable results for our clients.
Fun + Professional
Yes, we work hard and are passionate about what we do. But we also love to have fun!
Create Your Brand’s Masterpiece!
Whether you’re looking for a new website, an exciting approach to a print campaign, or a graphic design partner who can keep up with your needs, let’s start a conversation. We’re excited to learn how we can help.
START CAPTIVATING TODAYGraphic Design FAQs
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How does graphic design contribute to brand identity?
Graphic design should be a seamless extension of your brand’s visual identity — making your brand recognizable and memorable to your audience.
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Can good design improve website traffic and engagement?
Absolutely! Well-designed social graphics and ads can drive increased engagement. Well-designed content assets (whitepapers and e-books) strengthen brand perception and authority, while also making it easier to understand and retain information. Well-designed websites attract more visitors, reduce bounce rates, and improve user engagement.
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What is the role of color in branding?
Colors evoke emotions and convey messages, playing a crucial role in how your brand is perceived. They can also promote actions with your audience – for example, warm colored buttons (e.g., red) have been shown to have higher click-through rates than cool colored buttons (e.g., blue or green).
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How do you balance creativity with brand guidelines?
Creativity and innovation within existing brand guidelines can take on many forms – from staying abreast of design trends (e.g., formats and evolutions of current standards) and seamlessly integrating them into existing design frameworks, to knowing when to challenge stakeholders (respectfully, of course!) with new ideas that move us forward together.
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What's the importance of typography in design?
Typography impacts readability and sets the tone of your communication, making it a key element in design. Typography, like colors and visual marks can also visually convey values and beliefs of a brand. Typography also plays a critical role in readability.
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How do you ensure a design stands out in a crowded market?
We focus on unique, creative concepts that resonate with your target audience and reflect your brand's uniqueness. With every project, we focus on strategy first for this reason. Instead of focusing on trends or competitors first, we begin with your specific audience and the emotional story we need to tell to hit our goals.
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What trends are currently dominating graphic design?
Trends like flat design, hand-drawn illustrations, brutalism, minimalism, bold typography, and vibrant colors are popular — and those trends are changing every single year. But we always tailor trends to fit your brand's personality, with an emphasis on striking the right balance between your brand’s authenticity and staying abreast of trends.
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How does video content enhance a marketing strategy?
Video content can increase engagement, improve SEO, and offer a dynamic way to tell your brand's story. Video is also one of the most effective ways to convey information to customers in a way they will more easily understand and retain.
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What's the process for creating a new brand identity?
Our brand identity process is quite complex, including a comprehensive brand discovery process, brand voice and tone, mood-boarding, competitive research, and more.
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How do you measure the success of a design?
Success is measured through engagement metrics, brand recognition, and the design's ability to meet its intended goals.
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What is responsive design and why is it important?
Responsive design ensures your website looks and functions well on all devices, crucial for user experience and SEO.
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How do you handle client feedback in the design process?
We view client feedback as a vital part of the collaborative process, using it to refine and perfect the design. We do have unlimited revisions for our clients, because we are committed to getting it right.
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Can graphic design influence consumer behavior?
Yes, effective design can guide and influence consumer decisions and perceptions about a brand.
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What are the key elements of a successful marketing collateral?
Clarity of message, visual appeal, brand consistency, and a call-to-action are essential for successful marketing collateral. When speaking specifically to print collateral, the quality of materials is also a significant factor.
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How important is it to keep up with design trends?
While it's important to be aware of trends – and integrate strategic updates to design approaches and brand identity, when appropriate – we prioritize your brand's unique needs and identity over fleeting trends.
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What makes a website design 'good'?
A good website design is user-friendly, visually appealing, aligned with the brand, and optimized for conversions.
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How do you approach a rebranding project?
Rebranding involves a careful analysis of the existing brand, understanding the need for change, and developing a new, aligned visual strategy.
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What's the role of social media graphics in digital marketing?
Social media graphics are crucial for attracting attention, engaging the audience, and increasing social media presence.
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How do you ensure print materials are effective?
In addition to the focus and detail-oriented approach we have for all design projects, for print we also focus on design quality, brand alignment, and the right choice of materials and finishes for print effectiveness.
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What's the future of graphic design in marketing?
The future is increasingly digital, with a focus on interactive and personalized design experiences. Graphic design trends, specifically, are always difficult to predict. However, we do see a recurring theme of retro trends from previous eras, as well as digital emulating print aesthetics.