Truth x Connection: Designing Brand Identities, Stories, and Strategies
We’re all connected. Targeting our differences and asserting authority only separates us. Through design thinking, conceptual art, and listening, real connections between brands and people are found and crafted.
Brand identities born of sequence, not process.
A proprietary Blueprint™ or Pathway® isn’t how we’ll work together.
Your endeavor is a one-of-one, and shoehorning your brand identity and its strategy into the same project plan as any other outfit simply won't do. How about a common-sense sequence of events with an aim of designing clarity in real life and real time? A more rigid process is unable to accommodate anything other than itself.
“Anyone who claims to have found laws of business physics either understands little about business, little about physics or little about both.”
Phil Rosenzweig in The Halo Effect
- Design Thinking
- Brand Strategy
- Mission, Vision, Purpose
- Brand Design
- Organizational Values
- Brand Identity
- Brand Systems
- Human Insights
- Design Solutions
- Conceptual Art Experiences
Not tooling around.
Bound doesn’t keep around tools that aren’t the sharpest ones in the shed. Having industry-leading tools stacked for the right reasons means a better experience for us both.
Creativity
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Canva
- Corebookº
- flodesk
- iWork
- Microsoft 365
- Miro
- Squarespace
- Super
- Tally
- Typeform
Productivity
- Asana
- Calendly
- Dropbox
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Teams
- Notion
- Zoom
Sharing
- Medium
- Spotify
Bound is us.
Once we connect, Bound becomes the work we do together.
Designing brands of all size and persuasion.
Helping communities find and grow their own prosperity.
Connecting through collaborative experiences.
All Y’all.
Size matters to some but quality of work, depth of relationships, and general helpfulness to clients are my criteria for successful engagements.
People say the nicest things.
I'm grateful to help people with their amazing endeavors.
"Dave is built for today and the ever changing tomorrow. He sees things I can't see yet. He understands human behavior and has keen insights on how to blend those insights to match my personal and business goals. I have always and still trust him as a mind partner.”
Chris H. - Author, Founder, Investor
