From branding to web design, we offer a full suite of services delivering clarity, connection, and impact.

While branding is our core offering, we’re built to offer much much more. From communication plans to marketing campaigns, research to strategy, writing to design—we meet clients wherever their creative or strategic needs lie. Whether you’re launching a brand or refining a message, we deliver thoughtful, purpose-driven narratives that move your audiences and push your work forward. 

    • Brand strategy and positioning

    • Naming and tagline development

    • Visual identity and logo design

    • Brand voice and messaging

    • Brand guidelines 

    • Brand architecture

    • Communications strategy

    • Narrative strategy

    • Story development

    • Copywriting

    • Presentation design

    • Internal communications

    • Crisis communications

    • Public and media relations

    • Thought leadership

    • Marketing strategy and planning

    • Content strategy

    • Audience research and segmentation

    • Campaign development

    • Paid media planning and execution

    • Social media management 

    • Email marketing

    • Analytics and performance optimization

    • UX/UI design 

    • Information architecture 

    • Website development

    • Copywriting 

    • SEO

What is branding?

Branding is more than just a logo—it’s the full expression of who you are and why you exist. It blends research, strategy, language, and visuals to help you connect with your community through a shared sense of purpose. At its core, branding builds trust and moves people to feel, believe, and act. 

It’s a promise with a point of view.

It’s a commitment to the unique value, benefit, or experience that you can deliver better than anyone else.

It’s a way to stand out and above.

It’s a strategy and a set of tools for differentiating yourselves and establishing your position as a leader.

It’s a compass to guide your way.

It’s a blueprint for how to show up at your best and ensure that your decisions are aligned with your positioning.

It’s a foundation of trust.

It’s the consistent delivery of that promise, building belief and driving long-term loyalty in your audiences.

What’s our approach?

At Studio Tomo, we approach brand building as a full journey—from laying a strong strategic foundation, to crafting unforgettable creative expressions, to ensuring smooth implementation. Our proven approach brings purpose-driven brands to life in a way that’s built to last.

How we’ll work together

Custom Teams Built for You

Every project starts with a custom team built to match your goals, sector, and scale. We pull from a trusted network of strategists, designers, writers, and researchers, bringing in the right mix of perspectives, lived experience, and subject matter expertise because the best work comes from teams built with intention. 

Bruno Munari, Variations on the Theme of the Human Face

A Proven, Flexible Process

We bring a tried-and-true process shaped by years of experience, but we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. Our approach is adaptable, allowing us to meet you where you are. Whether you’re launching something new or refining what exists, we work alongside you to ensure our process supports your pace, needs, and realities.

Michael Bierut, Democratization of Design

Deep Listening with a Systems View

We lead with listening—engaging stakeholders early and often to build trust and alignment across an organization. We also lean into our experience working in-house to design systems that keep implementation, sustainability, and scale in mind from day one. We know what it takes for teams to fall in love with a new brand and use it well.

Christine Sun Kim for Primary Information

The Client Experience

“The key difference was their willingness to dive into our little world. We’re such a small team and work really closely together. I know every org has their own special way of doing things, but Studio Tomo really adapted to our style at a moment of significant change, which could have been chaotic. There were always new questions, moving pieces, and all these things popping up—but their flexibility and ability adjust was incredible.”

— Kate Garst, Former Director of Development and Communications, Arts Ignite

“The ability to build a team tailored to our needs means that we don’t have seven vendors with terrible handoffs between them. James can hold the strategic vision throughout branding, website, products and tools. All of that might have needed four different vendors, but we were able to have them all in one seamless experience with Studio Tomo. James and his team shouldered all of that, and it felt so smooth to us.”

— Vanice Dunn, Vice President of Communications, PolicyLink

“They’re all great people! Every single person that played a part on the Studio Tomo team was fantastic—and that’s not typical when working with agencies. Everyone had an equal voice and something different to bring to the table, which felt really aligned with our values and what we we’re trying to do.”

— Sharon Rapoport, Creative Director, Kripalu