Iron Shoe Distillery

Iron Shoe wanted a brand that was as strong as their spirits. (And just in case you didn't know, they're pretty strong.)   Drawing inspiration from the legend of the Devil and St. Dunstan, Keen helped bring the Iron Shoe packaging to life, as well as create a strong brand narrative.

Iron Shoe wanted a brand that was as strong as their spirits. (And just in case you didn't know, they're pretty strong.)  Drawing inspiration from the legend of the Devil and St. Dunstan, Keen helped bring the Iron Shoe packaging to life, as well as create a strong brand narrative.

We help uncover what is truly unique about your organization and define it through carefully crafted messaging, visual identity and branded elements.

The involvement of each key stakeholder is critical to uncovering the perceptions, and mis-perceptions of your company and/or products. Internal employees will usually have a different idea of your company than your executive team or board of directors. Your customers will also offer a very different impression. Hearing from everyone, and collecting every side of the story will help develop a well-rounded perspective.

Getting internal buy-in on your company’s brand position and key differentiators will build a firm foundation for crafting outward-facing messaging moving forward.

In this phase we will connect the messaging platform to a powerful visual brand. We will define the logo, color palette, typography, and visual elements.

Once the visual brand identity is clearly defined and signed off on, we will move into the design phase for necessary collateral and touch points. All output from the previous phases will be implemented to create an aesthetic that will connect with the consumer through a refined and sophisticated look and feel.

Branding is what we do, day in and day out. We help uncover what is truly unique about your organization and define it through carefully crafted messaging, visual identity and branded elements.

A tasty visual experience that covers everything from naming and branding to web and signage.

The Corktown Pizza Company brand embodies a whimsical charm through hand-drawn, historic illustrations, paired with a striking monochromatic color scheme that underscores the brand's rich Detroit heritage and artisanal pizza craftsmanship. The original logo concept was created as an homage to the signage found in the historic Corktown neighborhood in Detroit. 

Corktown Pizza Co.

Branding and Graphic Design

New Holland Brewing

Everyone has a story to tell, and Dragon's Milk is no different. When the brand needed a rebirth, we flew into action. Keen directed, shot, illustrated, developed and designed every element of a cutting edge brand relaunch for New Holland's iconic beer, Dragon's Milk.

We took the idea of taking the stories of real people and casting them in a new light—as legends.

Everyone has a story to tell, and Dragon's Milk is no different. When the brand needed a rebirth, we flew into action.  Keen directed, shot, illustrated, developed and designed every element of a cutting edge brand relaunch for New Holland's iconic beer, Dragon's Milk.

Dragon's Milk

We use a tried and true method to express your vision in a web environment. Broken out into phases, this structure will ensure the project stays on time and on budget. 

Defining requirements as clearly as possible upfront saves time later when you’re in the thick of design and development. Here we will determine what CMS to use and if current hosting is appropriate. We’ll also discuss things like integration of an ecommerce platform to enable online purchasing or developing a user account backend or blog component.

Here, we’ll aim to take what we’ve learned in the Requirements sprint and put it into tangible assets. We’ll build a comprehensive sitemap and wireframe out the structure and layout of the site. Things like headers and navigation are defined and placed by the content within them - not by what type styles and colors they look best in.

In the design phase, we’ll craft a contemporary visual style that enhances the readability and hierarchy of the structure defined in the wireframes. Elements ranging from page headers to primary and secondary button styles will all be defined. Site comps will be produced for each necessary page template at multiple screen sizes, which will setup for the following Development sprint.

Our development approach is a bit more holistic than what might be found elsewhere. We believe in minimizing unnecessary plugins and libraries to keep page load time and security vulnerabilities to an absolute minimum. We’ll build the project locally and push to a development environment daily so that you can track progress in real-time.

With over 20 years of creating intuitive and immersive web experiences, we are able to help architect, design, and develop nearly any digital project that might come our way.

Keen collaborated with Klarna’s team in Stockholm, Sweden to revamp their entire U.S. web presence. Helping the largest bank in Europe to bring their brand stateside was a truly unique experience.

From concept to code, Keen was able to help the largest bank in Sweden find their U.S. audience on the web.

Klarna

Web Development

With over 15 years of creating immersive, intuitive digital experiences, we can help architect, design, and develop nearly any interactive project that might come our way.

A Legend is Reborn

A legendary liquid.

We took the idea of taking the stories of real people and casting them in a new light—as legends.

A website built for a Dragon.