Studio
You'll know the name of everyone who touches your brand, because we all do the work.
Why we do this
We work with people building something worth building — practitioners, makers, teachers, food and medicine companies, nonprofits. Most of them are better at the work than at looking like it. That's the gap we close.
Founder & Creative Director
A monk for ten years before he was a designer, and the owner of four businesses since. That combination turns out to be useful: he can sit with a founder's actual problem, and he can also read a P&L.
He sets the strategy and the creative direction across every project — the goals, the offer, the audience, the plan. A background in screenwriting, storytelling and photography sits under all of it, and shows up in how the work is framed.
Art Director
Three decades of graphic and web design, including years as VP of street marketing at Thrive Records in the Los Angeles electronic music scene. Most of the marks on the work page are hers.
She has designed one client's entire product line for fifteen years, and another's since 2008. People do not stay that long by accident.
Brand Strategist
An anthropologist by training — BA and MA — which is a strange and excellent background for brand work. She studies people for a living, then writes to them.
She owns the message, the audience and the offer: who is buying, what they're weighing you against, and what would actually make them move. In English and Spanish.
What clients say
“Working with Douglas at Digital Samadhi has been an incredible business experience. My website and logo are aesthetically beautiful, and convey concise and precise information to potential patients.”Clayton Bell, M.D. — META Medical PLLC
“Kay is the best graphic designer I've ever come across. She's been responsible for designing our entire product line and website for the last fifteen years. She is extremely reliable and always meets our deadlines on time.”Dr. Louie Yu — Nutra Yu Formulations
“Kay is the most detail-oriented, visually gifted brand developer and designer I've ever had the honor to work with. Precise, on time, professional and truly gifted.”Matteo Zacchino — Vespa Healthy Italian Café
“Kay has collaborated with me in various capacities since 2008. Her stellar graphic design took our international brand to another aesthetic level with quick, efficient work.”Lynette Kessler — Dance Camera West
Practicalities
Digital Samadhi, LLC is based in Alexandria, Virginia, on US Eastern time, and works remotely with clients across the country and beyond.
We work in English and Spanish, take a limited number of memberships at a time, and are comfortable with nonprofit procurement and formal RFPs.
