FortySeven Media

Founded in 2005 by Jonathan Longnecker and Nate Croft, FortySeven Media designs brands and websites for businesses that need more than a template. Longnecker has been designing professionally since graduating in 2001, and that background shows up in the agency's focus on hand-crafted logos, brands, and websites rather than off-the-shelf builds.

Work spans website design, branding, frontend and backend development, headless CMS development, custom software development, UX research, and wireframing. Craft CMS is a particular specialty: past posts detail building custom Pinterest descriptions inside Craft, developing small Craft plugins, and creating travel-route and points-of-interest Google Maps for a client's Craft-powered blog. Consulting rounds out the service list for teams that need direction as much as execution.

Project work includes the Visit Minnesota logo, branding and ecommerce for Grit Nutrition, a branding and website project for Unlimited Performance, a full website build for Iterators Software, and a redesign of Food Blogger Pro. Together these projects show a practice comfortable moving between pure identity work, like the Visit Minnesota mark, and fuller builds that pair branding with ecommerce or custom Craft CMS development.