Los Angeles · Marketing & Advertising

Marketing built around your brand, not ours.

We scope the work to whatever you can spend, and we build every piece in your brand’s own visual language — not a house style borrowed from someone else.

LogosBrand identitySocial campaignsPrint & flyersAd creative

01 — the mark

Every project starts from this shape — then adapts.

The whole idea

Two things move on every project: the budget and the style. Both of them are yours.

Kestrid · a small studio in Los Angeles

Easy to work with

No jargon, no runaround.

Most people who call us have been burned by an agency that talked in circles and disappeared for three weeks. That is the thing we fixed first.

01

Easy conversations

We tell you what we’re making, what it costs and when you’ll see it. If a word needs explaining, we don’t use it.

02

One person, start to finish

You email one address and get one human back. No account manager relaying messages to a designer you never meet.

03

Drafts you can react to

You see real work early, while it’s still cheap to change. “I don’t love it” is a completely acceptable piece of feedback.

How it works

01

Tell us the brand & the budget

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Tell us the brand & the budget

Send whatever you already have — a logo, photos of the shop, a competitor you like, or nothing at all. Then say the number you’re comfortable with. Saying it early is what makes the rest of this fast.

02

We adapt the style and scope

We come back with a short plan: what gets made, in what order, in your brand’s visual language. If the budget only covers part of it, we start with the part that earns first.

03

You get assets you own

Final files, source files, and sizes cut for wherever they’re going — print, feed, story, storefront. Yours outright. No licence, no hostage situation.

Budget adapts to you

There is no rate card.

A locksmith who needs a logo and twelve flyers isn’t buying the same thing as a coffee shop opening a second location. So the scope moves, not the quality. Drag the slider to see roughly where the work goes.

Budget

$2,500

$250 $5,000+

A sharp starting kit

Enough for a proper logo plus a small run of social or print pieces built from it — the essentials, done once, done right.

Whatever the number is, we’ll shape the work around it.

Tell us your number

Style adapts to you

We don’t have a house style.

Four registers we work in comfortably. Yours is whichever one your customers already recognise — and if you have a brand guide, we follow it to the letter.

Warm & handmade

Softer type, off-white paper, ink that looks touched by a person.

Neighbourhood

Roasters · salons · studios

Sharp & technical

Tight grid, precise spacing, information first. Trades and services.

Specification

Locksmiths · contractors

Bold & loud

Big blocks, high contrast, readable from a passing car.

Open late

Restaurants · retail

Quiet & premium

Almost nothing on the page, and every bit of it deliberate.

Reserve

Clinics · design-led brands

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Los Angeles

We find the current your brand is already moving on.

Tell us the brand and the number. You’ll hear back from a person, usually within a day, with a plan you can actually read.

kestrid

Built to adapt · branding, social, print & ad creative