I’ve always been interested in how people and brands are perceived

Not just how something looks, but how it lands. How it’s interpreted. How a visual decision made on a Tuesday afternoon shapes what a stranger believes about a business they’ve never met.

Before this studio existed

My work lived across disciplines that are usually kept separate. Public relations. Brand strategy. Website and brand identity design. I spent years moving between them: shaping narratives, building brands, designing identities, refining how businesses show up in the world.

On paper, it looked like success. The placements, the growth, the visibility. But behind the scenes, I kept seeing the same challenges. A founder would have clarity, real clarity, about what they were building, and the brand wouldn’t reflect it. Or the opposite: a brand would look polished and considered, but it wouldn’t translate into traction, recognition, or trust.

Nothing was technically wrong. It just wasn’t aligned. That misalignment is more common than most people realize. And once you see it, it’s difficult to unsee.

This studio grew out of that awareness. Not from a desire to add another service, but from a need to approach the work differently: to build brands as complete systems, where strategy, language, and design are developed together and inform each other from the beginning.

Because the way a brand looks and the way it performs are never separate conversations. They are the same decision, expressed in different forms.

The background that shaped this approach.

I studied public relations and corporate communications at NYU and later completed advanced coursework in machine learning and artificial intelligence at MIT. That combination continues to influence how I think, especially now, as visibility is increasingly shaped by algorithms, data patterns, and systems most people never see.

Kristin Marquet

At the same time, I’ve always been drawn to the more human side of the work so I’ve taken courses in neuropsychology. The details that don’t always appear in a strategy document but determine how something is received. Both matter. Increasingly, you can’t build something meaningful without understanding how they intersect.

I’ve designed and built more than 25 websites across fashion, wellness, consulting, professional services, and consumer brands. I work with a deliberately small number of clients at a time. That’s intentional. The kind of work I do requires continuity: an ability to stay inside the brand long enough to refine it, question it, and get it right.


My Credentials

NYU — MS, Public Relations & Corporate Communications

MIT — Advanced Training, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

500+ brands launched over 17 years

50+ digital magazine covers — Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, L’Officiel

2 Amazon bestselling books on visibility and brand authority

25+ websites designed and built

1.3M Instagram followers built through strategy, not paid amplification

Based in New York — serving founders nationally