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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Brand Coaching

Brand Coaching Session with Colorado Mountain Wedding Photographer Suzanne Nevill

My latest full branding for wedding vendors client is Colorado mountain and elopement wedding photographer Suzanne Nevill Photography. I’ve been working with Suzanne over the last few weeks to develop a new brand and Showit5 site for her and it’s been fun and different! I’ve never really worked on an oudoorsy brand, if you will, […]

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Business

The Importance of Your Brand Versus Your Work

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the importance of your brand versus your work. What do I mean by that? When a potential client views your website are they paying more attention to your work or your brand? Why is the answer to this important? Because you need to know what to invest your […]

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Brand Coaching

Brand Coaching Follow Up with New York Wedding Planner Whimsy Weddings

This past month I had a great time working on a new logo and branding for New York wedding planner Whimsy Weddings. I followed up with owners Erich and Tatiana to get their feedback on their brand coaching session after working with me. Each full branding client I work with gets a coaching session where […]

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Wedding Branding

Atlanta Glam Gold Styled Wedding Shoot

A few weeks ago I received these super pretty images by Moreland Photography from an Atlanta glam styled wedding shoot I contributed a wedding brand, logo, and invite suite too. Atlanta wedding planner Pollyanna Richter reached out to me wanting a gold inspired glamorous wedding brand and invitation suite for her amazing planned shoot at […]

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New Showit5 Website Design for Photographers : Savannah Jane

Happy Tuesday! Last week I introduced my Spring Collection of Showit5 website design templates for photographers. I wanted to take some time to showcase each of the three new designs so today I’m sharing the Savannah Jane template. The Savannah Jane template currently uses a bright teal and gold texture throughout the site, but the […]

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Introducing the R&I Showit5 Spring Collection

Happy Friday friends! I am excited to share the R&I Spring Collection of Showit5 Website Designs! I have been working hard over the last two months to design and set these up and I am so proud of them. Each of these Showit5 website templates for photographers is so different and built with a certain type […]

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Business, Tips

How to Identify Your Brand’s Competitive Advantage

Every business, big and small, needs a competitive advantage.  Maybe you are scratching your head asking “what the heck is that?” or maybe you’re trying to remember from business school. Don’t worry. I’ll explain. My job is mainly full branding for small creative businesses and for all of them we discuss their competitive advantage whether or not […]

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Wedding Branding

Bridal Shower Invitation Suite for a New Jersey Wedding at Franklin Lakes

I’ve been working with New York bride Kristen for several months now on a custom wedding brand and tons of custom wedding stationery. All of my wedding branding clients receive a brand board containing a custom wedding logo, wedding monogram, alternate logos, color palette, patterns, and fonts and then I use that board to create […]

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Branding for photographers #brand #brands #branding #logo #logos #design #webdesign #website #photographer #photography #event #planner #planning #wedding #blog #pretty #romantic #beautiful #font #inspiration #color / brand design / brand idea / color palette / web design / brand designer / brand inspiration

Branding, Launch

Brand Launch for New York Floral Designer Avaflora

I am SO SO excited to share the latest full branding project of mine for Long Island, New York wedding floral designer Avaflora. This is one of my favorite small business brands I’ve created for its elegance, lovely earthy neutral color palette, and custom illustration by Posie Der Feder. Husband and wife team Lori and Mike […]

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Branding, Launch

Brand Launch for New York Florist & Planner Whimsy Weddings

I absolutely love this purple floral brand I created for New York wedding planner & florist Whimsy Weddings. Owner Tatiana came to me not wanting a full rebrand, rather, just the branding basics and I decided to take it on. Typically I exclusively do full branding for creatives, but sometimes I’ll take on smaller branding […]

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