Creating impactful & effective brands people love
We help brands connect with real humans to reach the right audience, delight customers, and create brand loyalty.
Sounds great right? Smash that button and let’s make it happen for you.
When you’re putting so much work and care into the everyday business of keeping your organization on track, who has time to think about squishy things like brand strategy and identity, or whatever a “user experience” is?
Oooh hey — that’s US — we do!
We specialize in creating brands for those out to make an impact through their work. Change-makers, innovators, big-thinkers. Turning great ideas into brands that people love and evangelize, meaning growth and future business, is our way of supporting great ideas. Sound like the future you want for your endeavor?
Strategic Brand Identity Systems
Brand Art and Illustration
Custom Websites
Editorial Design
Event Branding and
Space-Making
Logos and Marks
Featured Work
Alternatives Counseling
Complete website redesign and brand style updates
This small business provided a critical service to the community and desperately needed an update as the aftermath of the Covid pandemic drove more and more people to seek therapy.
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Design Thinking Coursebook
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Counseling Website Redesign
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Custom Brand & Event Swag
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Juntos Adelante Brand Identity
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Event Invitations & Cards
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Annual Geek Gala Event
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Unified Ground Branding & Pitch
“I felt like I had a partner to develop things with from concept to finished product.”
Jamil, Unified Ground
“My colleagues and I were blown away with both the aesthetic and narrative quality of the materials created as well as the ease of working [together].”
Matt, Generation Data
“[The] design work and additional touches have helped us continue to develop Osano's brand as we step into our Series B and work on evolving our organization's marketing activities.”
Seanna, Osano
“Tiana doesn’t just deliver, she uses her creative overdrive to bring ideas to life.”
Amber, LaunchCode
Services
These are some of our most requested services.
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We design and develop custom user-and owner-friendly websites in Squarespace, so that after it’s completed, you or your team will still be able to make updates as needed without paying someone to come back for every little tweak. Beyond basic SEO or functionality can be added as needed, and getting you started with legal elements like privacy policies and cookie notices is available.
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This typically consists of a combination of brand strategy, brand voice, logos and marks, color palettes, typography, primary brand printed or digital collateral, brand guidelines, and even custom graphics and illustrations, in whatever the right combination is for your needs.
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Events need branding just like companies. Nobody shows up to a party that lacks a personality. Vibes are everything in event promotion, and the right branding will make sure people catch them.
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Typography and layout were my first design loves. They’re the backbone of all good visual layout and user experience.
I’m Tiana, the Founder and Head of Creative at Human Makes & Co.
For about 20 years, I’ve been creating brand materials, marketing assets, websites, and nearly every kind of 2D design you can think of, both at and for a wide variety of businesses and nonprofits. My work experience has been solo, managing creative teams, with a group of freelancers, mentoring young designers, and as a consultant for marketing and design departments, for tiny nonprofits, one-night-only events, and for companies over a century old. Now, in my own studio, I get to collaborate with the many talented, creative badasses I’ve gotten to know along the way and learn new things all the time. ✰
