one studio

We can build the whole system, and that's our favorite way to work. But you can also come in for one thing. Just a brand. Just a website. Just a shoot. Whatever you hand us, we build it like the whole thing is riding on it. Because usually, it is.

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how we build

We learn the business first.

We don't touch the work until we understand how you make money, who you're for, and what you're really up against. If we don't understand your business, we have no business working on your brand.

It starts by hand.

When we build a brand, we draw it by hand. Every concept, every mark, sketched before it ever goes digital. That's how we guarantee the work is authentic and original, not a template, not a remix of something you've already seen. Not everything we make starts on paper. A shoot doesn't, an edit doesn't. But that same craft runs through all of it.

We never design in the dark.

You won't sit there wondering what we're doing. Communication is everything. We take your project as seriously as you do, because we know what it means to put real money on the line. We expect results for our clients, and we don't stop until you're ready to run through a brick wall of excitement.

Delivery isn't goodbye.

You get everything you need to run, organized and ready to go. When it's done, some clients keep us on as an extension of their team. Some don't. Either way, you're part of the Make Cool Sh*t ecosystem now, and we mean it. We're still working with clients who walked through our doors back in 2017.

why founders pick us

One studio, everything connects.

Strategy, design, web, content, motion, all of it under one roof. No agency telephone, no handing your brand between five vendors who never talk to each other. The same team that names you designs you, builds your site, and shoots your content. So it actually fits together.

Founders building for founders.

We don't just build brands. We run them. On top of building this studio, our founder Drew O'Brien built two companies of his own, Sunday Sauce and Made From Mistakes. So we know exactly what it feels like to put your name on something and bet everything on it. We build for you the way we build for ourselves. Like it matters. Because it does.

A point of view, always.

We don't make wallpaper. We build brands that know who they're for and who they're not. The mavericks. The misfits. The ones who'd rather be unforgettable than safe. If you want to blend in, we're the wrong studio.

Proof, not promises.

We've built across food, sports, fashion, media, wellness, and just about every industry you can name, and that work is out in the world right now, doing its job. We don't ask you to take our word for it. We point at the work.

Your team every month

Ongoing support

Option 1

We become your creative team.

No in house designers. No hiring, no salaries, no overhead. Just a senior studio on call for everything you put into the world. Brand, web, social, content, motion, print, ads, decks. If it’s creative, it’s covered. You get the horsepower of a full team without building one.

Option 2

We back up the team you’ve got.

Already have people you love? We slot in behind them. Overflow, big pushes, the work that piles up faster than one team can move. We add firepower when you need it and stay out of the way when you don’t.

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