The Beauty Shop is a is a women-owned creative agency and graphic design studio located in Portland, Oregon specializing in branding, packaging, and Squarespace website design and development.
 
 

We work with purpose-driven companies to clarify and communicate their value to the world.

Our six service areas leverage our collective expertise.

 
 
 

Strategy & Positioning

 

Strategy reveals who your business is. Every successful project starts with a solid plan, and we believe that listening comes before leading. Through interviews, surveys, competitor research, and brand landscape audits, we combine data with instinct to clarify your goals and deepest core values. We’ve been told the full experience of our strategic process is akin to looking into a mirror—only when your genuine brand essence is understood can the visual and verbal expressions that follow reflect your business’ authentic identity.

 
 
Brand strategy and positioning by The Beauty Shop.

Brand Discovery & Competitor Audits / Positioning & Visual Strategy / Social Media Strategy / Brand Voice Development / UX & UI

 

 

Branding

 

Branding establishes how your business shows up in the world. How does your brand walk and talk? Look and sound? We answer these questions through a collaborative process of creation, revision, and refinement, resulting in a modular suite of visual and verbal assets tailored for varying applications and designed to adapt to evolving marketing needs.

 
 
The Beauty Shop Creative Services, Naming and Brand Design

Naming / Visual Identity Suites / Brand Voice & Taglines / Brand Standards & Guidelines / Brand & Campaign Subsystems

 

Copywriting & Messaging

 
 

Personality pairs with purpose to inform and clarify, in just the right tone. Our approach to writing isn’t just about choosing the right words and arranging them in the right order—good copy gets the intended message across with perceptible character. It’s about making a brand heard through diction and syntax, rhythm and voice. From creative brand narratives to informational brochures, we lead the copywriting process with a considered and detail-oriented hand.

 
The Beauty Shop Creative Services, Messaging and Copywriting

Tagline Suites / Website & Blog Content / Staff Bios / Brochure Copy / Packaging Content / Social Media Content / Brand Storytelling

 
 

Design

 

With your core brand defined, we’re ready to bring it all to life in print, online, across your product packaging and social channels, and beyond. No matter the shape or size of a project, consistency and creativity are our equal priorities. We honor the foundational elements while inviting imagination as we design, establishing and strengthening your brand’s presence with each new application. Type, color, iconography and logos—all of the elements we’ve dreamed up expand and come together here, where form meets function.

 
 
The Beauty Shop Creative Services, brand design for print, signage, marketing materials, social media, templates, presentations and more.

Data Visualization & Infographics / Iconography & Illustration / Pattern / Print Collateral / Digital & Print Ad Suites / Book Design / Exhibit Materials / Websites / Products & Packaging / Environmental/Wayfinding Signage / Branded Presentations / Social Media Campaign Suites & Templates

 
 

Interactive & Web Development

 

The way someone moves can tell you a lot about them; a brand is no different. We set stories in motion with engaging user interfaces and custom experiences. Our interactive team builds complex e-commerce marketplaces, immersive websites, digital brand elements, and everything from subtle moments of movement to highly kinetic type—in-house and from the ground up. With intuitive CMS platforms and in-depth training and support, after launch, our clients are fully empowered to maintain and update their sites with ease.

 
 
The Beauty Shop Creative Services, Interactive design includes website design and development, motion and animation, Shopify and Squarespace customization.

Motion Graphics/Animation / Squarespace Design & Development / Shopify Design & Development / Robust E-Commerce / Branded Email Marketing & Digital Newsletters

 
 

Consulting & Creative Direction

 

Our team of directors offers supportive consultation to in-house teams on topics ranging from creative strategy and interactive user experience to line level editing. We’ve guided clients through comprehensive moodboarding processes, loaned our expertise to photographic styling and prop selection, and advised on brand cohesion and systems expansion. We begin every new relationship as an advisor with an in-depth discovery process, ensuring our recommendations are informed by a thorough understanding of your end goals.

 
 
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Creative Direction / Photography & Videography Art Direction / Editing & Proofreading

 
 
 
Let the beauty we love be what we do
— Rumi