829 Design

829 Design is a Northern California design studio that has been building brands for more than three decades, working with clients ranging from local startups to global companies. Based in California, the studio frames its work around brands that go beyond aesthetics, aiming to balance beauty and function in the print and digital products it creates for clients seeking distinctive brand communications.

The studio's brand strategy work covers positioning, user profiles and customer journeys, customer and revenue segmentation, and brand attributes, laying groundwork before any visual work begins. From there, visual identity services include logo design, identity systems, brand style guides, marketing and brand collateral, and branded environments. Website projects move through strategy and discovery, user experience design, information architecture, and website design and development. The studio also takes on book design and publication work, including custom book design, cover design, interior typography and layout, illustration and graphics, and ePub conversion formatting. On the marketing side, services extend to search engine optimization, local SEO, digital advertising, social media marketing, and lead generation campaigns.

This range means a single client can move from brand strategy and visual identity into a website build, then into ongoing digital marketing and local SEO, or bring the studio in specifically for a book design or publication project. The studio has been recognized as a top branding agency in California, and describes its process as purpose-driven, reflecting an approach that ties brand positioning work through to the collateral, websites, and marketing campaigns that carry a brand forward. Founded in 1999, 829 Design frames its history as three decades spent shaping brands and connecting people through design work that spans strategy, identity, digital, and print.