Building brands + websites with intention for creatives

Ribbon & Ink is a full service branding studio that works with small creative businesses to create brands with strategy and beautiful, purposeful content-driven websites to go with them. 

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Premade Logo Kit

NEW in the shop –> The Carmichael Brand

  I am so happy to introduce to you the new premade brand in The Brand Boutique: The Carmichael.  This is a premade brand that includes a logo, alternates, monograms, color palette of your choice, patterns, and icons,  stationery suite design, and social media templates. The brand is geared towards a husband wife wedding photography […]

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Tips

3 Common DIY Graphic Design Font No No’s

Branding your small business is no easy task. If you go the DIY route you’ll want to have some guidelines when creating your visuals. A big part of your visual brand is fonts. Fonts have the ability to make viewers feel a certain way and communicate a message about you and your business. You need […]

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Tips

3 Branding Myths and How to Dispel Them

  Branding can often be a touchy subject for many small creative businesses. It’s hard work. It’s expensive. It can be confusing. I think there are several reasons people feel this way about branding their small business and I wanted to three branding myths out there and how to dispel them. Here are three branding […]

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Tips

3 Ways to Keep Your Business Afloat During COVID-19

COVID-19 has hit small businesses hard, especially those event-related businesses. I confess I am no different. I rely on event businesses to hire me and it has definitely taken a toll on my own business. Nonetheless, I have thought of three solid ways to keep your small creative business afloat during this pandemic. Be present […]

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Premade Logo Kit

Premade Brand for Small Businesses | The Jamie

I am excited to share the latest one of a kind premade brand for small businesses: The Jamie. My premade brands for creatives are perfect professional alternatives to custom branding. Each includes a logo, alternates, monograms, patterns, stationery suite, and social media templates. I send you a questionnaire to collect your information and color palette […]

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Premade Logo Kit

Customized Premade Brand for Gathered Events

  I love making premade brands for creative small businesses because they allow a business to have a beautiful brand with minimal cost. Custom branding is expensive and not all businesses can afford it. Enter in my premade brands! Each one includes a logo, alternates, monograms, color palette, and patterns, a stationery suite, and social […]

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Premade Logo Kit

New Premade Branding for Realtors: The Kelly

Over the years as I have done premade branding for creatives I have had several requests from realtors. I decided to create my first premade brand set geared towards realtors (although it easily could be for any small creative business). Each my of my premade brand sets includes: a logo brand identity board stationery design […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Identity for Canadian Wedding Florist

  I am so excited to share this brand identity for a Canadian wedding florist. It’s romantic, classic, and showcases a bold, yet soft color palette. Elaine wanted both romance and some bold colors to her brand to reflect her fine art wedding floral business. After our initial brand coaching session I created this ideal […]

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Premade Logo Kit

The Lizzie Premade Brand for Creatives

I’m happy to share the latest premade brand set for creative small businesses in my shop today! This set includes everything you need to have professional, consistent brand. The set will only be sold once and customized by me with your information and colors. It includes: brand board with logo, alternates, monograms, patterns stationery suite […]

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Showit Template

NEW One of a Kind Showit Template | The Everly

I am so thrilled to introduce the latest one of a kind Showit website template in the shop: The Everly. Visit it here. The Everly was made from a current premade brand in the shop. Yes, there is a matching brand and site all ready to go! The Everly is a very modern with a […]

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