CRTE creates brand identity in Los Angeles that sets you apart — logo, voice, and a complete visual system built to be remembered. We design brands that feel cohesive everywhere your customer meets them. Start your brand with CRTE.
Branding is where most agency work goes sideways. Either it's a logo project pretending to be strategy, or it's a 90-page brand book nobody references after month two. Ours is neither — it's positioning, verbal identity, and a visual system built to actually ship across a marketing team's day-to-day work.
We run branding as a compact discovery + build engagement: audience research, positioning, name/tone (if needed), logo system, and a scaled brand guideline delivered as a working Notion or Figma library — not a PDF nobody edits.
For LA-based brands relaunching or spinning up a new line, we combine the brand build with the CRTE Studio production pipeline so launch creative ships on the same timeline as the identity, not months after.
Sites we design and build for LA brands ship on modern stacks — Shopify, Webflow, WordPress, or custom React — with hosting, uptime monitoring, and ADA compliance handled in-house.
Kickoff, audit, and diagnostics. We map the account, the market, and the goal before we touch anything.
A 90-day roadmap with the channels, creative, budget, and KPIs the team will actually be measured against.
Senior operators do the work — no juniors on your account. Weekly cadence, transparent Slack, real deliverables.
Monthly review + quarterly recalibration. We double down on what works and cut what doesn't, on purpose.
Retainer pricing. Real numbers on the intro call — placeholders below stay until we've scoped your account.
For emerging brands testing a single channel.
Multi-channel program with dedicated senior operators.
Full-funnel program with fractional CMO leadership.
Discovery + positioning, logo system, color and type system, voice and tone guide, and a full brand book — plus templates for the assets you use most (social, deck, email, packaging).