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Bark Design is a Chicago-based design studio founded in 1997 that partners with mission-driven organizations to help them stand out and make a difference. They work with clients from strategy through deployment, using a five-phase process of Discover, Define, Design, Develop, and Deploy. Their clients include the Field Museum, After School Matters, Hope Chicago, and the Chicago Botanic Garden.

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Beveridge Seay is a design and brand cultivation firm based in Washington, DC, with additional offices in Kansas City, Missouri and Fredericksburg, Virginia. The firm was formed in 1987 when Nick Seay joined forces with Jack Beveridge. Its mission is to empower and propel the brands it serves through intelligent and inspired design, using design as a tool for solving problems, building brands, and communicating messages.

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Bigbang is an independently owned, creative-led brand and design consultancy founded in 1997 in New York City. It helps clients define and strengthen their brand and business through customized design solutions across print, digital and physical media, serving business, entertainment, culture and not-for-profit sectors.

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Big Brain Marketing Group (BBMG) is a marketing, advertising, and creative firm with 25 years of experience helping businesses build brand presence and growth strategies. The team serves B2C and B2B clients across industries including communications, financial/banking, retail, nonprofit, government, education, healthcare/pharmaceutical, and travel. BBMG is a U.S. Small Business Administration Certified business.

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Bluedog is a strategy and innovation consultancy that partners with organizations to define and deliver a clear path to growth. Its practice areas include insight, strategy, innovation, brand, and design, helping clients align on strategy, build innovation pipelines, and develop brand positioning, messaging, and visual identity.

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BBDG (Bradley Brown Design Group) is a multidisciplinary branding and creative studio that turns strategy, messaging, and identity into brands and experiences. It offers branding, design, digital, and experiential services, blending strategy, innovation, and authenticity to produce work that is inspiring and effective.

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Brandpie is a global brand consultancy that helps businesses unlock growth at pivotal business moments such as leadership change, strategic pivots, M&A, joint ventures, investment and divestment. It brings vision, brand and culture into focus so leaders can rally their people behind change, and delivers creative and digital work that drives momentum and results.

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Bunsen is a full-service creative and communications studio serving science and frontier technology companies. It translates complex science and tech into compelling narratives through content, strategy, and design, creating websites, decks, and brands that help science companies raise capital and reach the next stage. Its cross-disciplinary team includes scientists, strategists, and designers.

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Catalone Design Co. is an award-winning full-service design and communications studio specializing in visual identity, brand development, and digital design. Founded in 1997 by Lisa Catalone Castro, the team provides strategy, design, writing, illustration, and photography, working with clients from concept to completion.

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Catapult Thinking is a branding agency based in Boston, Massachusetts. The company states it makes strong brands through sound logic grounded in principles, providing clarity and discipline to clients. Its services span brand strategy, brand language, product line logic, brand identity, language toolboxes, naming, and brand guidelines.

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Clearfont Media is a Maryland public relations, marketing and communications firm that delivers a full spectrum of services designed for a digital world. It focuses on simplifying complexity through creative and culturally sensitive communication for government, public health, nonprofit, education, and association clients.

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Contrast & Co. is an award-winning boutique brand strategy, identity, and design consultancy driven to create the smartest, most strikingly different brand experiences on the planet. They help organizations clarify complex value, differentiate in crowded categories, unify teams around a shared narrative, modernize their brand, activate across channels, and build momentum for growth and change.

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Darling is an independent, NYC-born strategic and creative advertising and design agency. It describes itself as full-service and fully service-minded, offering research, naming, branding, social media, and in-house writing, design, animation, and shooting. The team spans three offices in NYC, Greenport, and China, and the agency was founded with Kelly starting on day one in 2008.

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The Design Guild is a consortium of creative professionals who collaborate to provide branding, communication design and community engagement. Founded in 2012 by Christine Walker, it builds dedicated teams combining the resources of an agency with the flexibility of freelancers, following a human-centered, local-made, place-informed philosophy of design.

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Dragon Army is a digital agency that taps into its legacy as a game studio, combining behavior psychology, engagement drivers, and thoughtful triggers to create products people love using. It offers brand and identity, user experience and design, content and digital marketing, and technology and innovation services. Dragon Army is now part of Alloy.

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MBLM is a full-service independent branding agency that describes itself as the Brand Intimacy Agency, dedicated to creating ultimate brand relationships. Founded in 2004, it combines strategy, design, and technology to help companies build emotional connections with their audiences, grounded in its proprietary Brand Intimacy research and study.

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Friendly Design Co is a strategic design studio and Certified B-Corp based in Washington, DC and Omaha, NE that builds impactful brands and websites with organizations who repair our world and strengthen our communities, including nonprofits, environmentalists, educators, and B Corporations.

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FUEL is a design agency specializing in brand development and management, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It crafts distinctive and purposeful brands for companies and organizations in the Midwest, offering brand strategy, brand identity, website design, and ongoing brand management. FUEL was co-founded in 2001 and describes its process as strategic, collaborative, and structured.

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Hatch Media is a design studio based in West Palm Beach, Florida, working across identity, print, digital, product, and image. They offer naming and brand strategy through full visual identity systems, art direction, and campaign work, serving founders, brands, and cultural institutions. Their approach emphasizes rigorous concept and considered craft.

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