Clear brand solutions to solve complex problems.
We help organizations navigate growth, change, and transitions by creating brand systems that are built to last.
Common Challenges
Your brand is working against you.
A brand that doesn't reflect who you are isn't just a visual problem.
It's a trust problem, a growth problem, and a retention problem, all at once.
Brand confusion = team confusion.
People do their best work and their most convincing selling when they believe in what they're building. An unclear brand takes that off the table and at every level.
What it costs you: Morale, momentum, and the margin that follows.
Growth broke
the system.
What worked when you were smaller doesn't scale. New team members can't replicate the brand. New initiatives don't connect to the core. The bigger you get, the more inconsistent you look and inconsistency reads as instability.
What it costs you: The credibility you worked years to build.
What sets you apart isn't visible.
You're doing more than ever. But from the outside, it's hard to tell what you stand for or why someone should choose you.
What it costs you: Rooms you're qualified to be in but never got invited to.
You've changed. Your brand hasn't.
Your logo, your messaging, and your materials are still telling the old story to every new partner, donor, client, or hire who encounters you for the first time.
What it costs you: First impressions you can't get back.
Strategy
Before anything gets designed, it has to make sense. We align stakeholders, clarify your purpose and messaging, and build a strategy that guides every decision.
Branding
Your identity, voice, and guidelines built into a system. Designed to stay consistent across vendors and teams. Built to outlast transitions, refreshes, and growth.
Media
Photography, video, and campaigns that reflect who you are and reach the people you serve. Created to feel connected across every channel.
From vehicle wraps to wayfinding signage to event collateral, we design content to strengthen brand consistency in real world environments.
What we Do
Featured Project
Unifying a Tri-City Transit Brand
Ben Franklin Transit serves three cities across Washington State, but inconsistent messaging and a fragmented identity made it difficult for the riders to feel a connection to the heart of their services. We began with internal discovery, aligning stakeholders and employees around the brand, what to preserve, and what to change. From there, we built a cohesive brand strategy and system, including a new visual identity, clear guidelines, and supporting assets.
"Crystal Cranes took the time to understand and adopt our brand voice, helping us hone our visual identity...”
– Brian Lubanski, Ben Franklin Transit
Let’s Get Started
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Whether you're navigating a rebrand, a new initiative, or years of brand inconsistency, we'd love to hear where you are.
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Crystal Cranes took the time to understand and adopt our brand voice, helping us hone our visual identity. They are a multi-talented team capable of producing a wide variety of media and design assets. The new logo and brand guide they designed for us has served as the basis for our new website and all our ongoing visual communication.
Brain Lubanski
Ben Franklin Transit
I have worked with Crystal Cranes on a couple of different projects, and my experience has been nothing less than enjoyable. The team is professional, engaged, and creative. They worked closely with my organization to fully understand our request and vision, made any requested adjustments in a very reasonable amount of time, and the final delivered items have exceeded my expectations.
Jonathan Daysen
MDT
We recently worked with Crystal Cranes on the redesign of our website. In the end they delivered the website and so much more. Janeve and her team helped us better understand our brand, the customer journey, compelling messaging, and analytics. Overall a great experience!
Erik VanAllen
ArcFlo