In an entrepreneurial world that can leave you feeling pressured to do more and be more, it can be difficult to create space to reflect and dream. I want to remind you that you don’t have to be “on” all the time, moving at warp-speed in your business just because it seems like everyone else […]

Six years. Two cities. 3 office spaces (soon to be 4). 700 completed projects. Plenty of opportunities for growth. And…just as many mistakes to learn from. Back in September 2013, I started Branch out of sheer necessity. The year before, I’d finally landed my dream design job but right as I began to settle in, […]

I’ve always loved creating mood boards for client projects — they set the visual tone for the strategy and ensure we’re on the same page before the design phase begins. A few weeks back, I began thinking about the benefits of mood boards and how they could be leveraged internally for my own business. Jotting […]

As a creative director and designer who spends most of my waking hours behind a computer, you can probably guess that public speaking has never been my thing. In high school, I remember being nervous even with something as simple as an introduction on the first day of class. The thought of being put on […]

Often, when small businesses get booked up with client work, the first thing to fall to the back burner are internal tasks. The to-do list grows and grows until one day it’s so overwhelming you’re not sure where to start. Last year was our busiest year by far and with that, a lot of small […]

As 2016 comes to a close, I wanted to write a more personal post here because the work we produce only counts for so much. Behind that work is always people — the people seeking help to get the work done, the people producing the work and finally, the people consuming the work. We’re all interrelated. […]