Bring your brand to life with an immersive creative retreat
The Poetic Brand Sprint is a unique, on-location experience that blends strategy, creativity, and intuition to distill your brand's essence into a visual identity.
We sit shoulder-to-shoulder while our team creates your brand identity system. This gives you the opportunity to be an active participant, to provide real time feedback, and to be a true decision maker for your branding.
This is not your typical branding exercise—it’s an intensive aimed at defining your visual brand voice through curiosity, reflection, and high speed decision making.
We meet in a comfortable location, and spend four days thinking, working, eating, and laughing together. You leave with your new brand assets in-hand, and we provide weekly calls for six weeks afterwards to support in brand implementation.
The most common questions:
“Why?”
We have seen first-hand how brand development and rebrand projects drag on, and how organizations suffer from decision fatigue based on the volume of reviews week over week. We also know the true hours of focus time spent creating a visual brand when you subtract the endless meetings.
“How?”
We send your stakeholders a pre-retreat questionnaire, you fill it out and return it, and we spend time with your answers. Then we meet in-person, and work in a retreat-style environment to develop an identity system for your brand that is informed by the emotional work we do together during the sprint.
“Are you sure this works?”
Yes! Our Creative Director, Josh, and his on-site assistant are highly skilled at creating visual brands, running workshops, and connecting with people. We have an entire suite of methodologies to prevent us from getting stuck on any one problem. With open hearts, anything is possible.
More about the process
In this concentrated time, we follow a specific schedule tailored to your brand’s needs. We work intently, but we hold space lightly to be sure that everyone is feeling comfortable and heard.
Through loose creative practices and rapid ideation techniques, we will dig deep to generate a thoughtful visual identity system that aligns with your brand’s spirit.
The experience includes a mix of poetic, philosophical, and esoteric thought exercises designed to help you tap into the deeper layers of your brand’s essence.
The work can be intense, but we promise it’s more intense for us than it is for you!
Apply to participate in a Poetic Brand Sprint
We cannot accommodate all requests to participate, but let us know everything you can about your project and we will get back to you within one business day. Thank you!
Still not sure?
Read about our Poetic Brand Sprint with Gesture
“I’m going to be processing our time together for a while, but wanted to let you know how much gratitude and joy I feel. Thankful for your spirit and our time together.”
—Scott Smith, Partner at Gesture
Scott returning rocks to the river after our sprint.