Where Americana meets avant-garde.
VINTAGE BRANDING FOR FOUNDER-LED BRANDS.
Strategy, identity, and a live website in 4 to 7 months, from one in-house team. No contracts, nothing outsourced.
Not sure what you need? But you need help. Give us a call. Free. About 15 minutes.
Featured in Vogue. Stocked at Pop Up Grocer. Shown at Design Miami. On shelves at Sprouts
and The Fresh Market. Recognized by New Times, the Foodist Awards, and the Webby Awards.
A creative department without the payroll. A brand strategy for $499. Vintage branding for founders.
A HUSBAND-AND-WIFE STUDIO MAKING ART FOR LEGACY BRANDS.
We're two people who came out of high-pressure Hollywood production, where you learn to make great work fast or you're gone. We built a studio for founders who have a real aesthetic and want to hit it hard, the nostalgic, built-to-last kind of brand nobody else is making anymore.
Everything is done in-house, all-American, nothing outsourced, ever. No 20-person agency, no account manager, no handoff. The same hands that read your strategy make your art. Our name is on every brand that leaves here, so we take a limited number each month and keep the work honest.
We're not here to make hundreds of thousands off one client. We're here to build a few legacy brands a year, and make them look like nobody else's.
START WHERE YOU ARE.
3 WAYS TO WORK WITH US:
Step 1.
8 questions, about 15 minutes. Your Founder Readiness Score and a straight read on your brand land in your inbox instantly, including where you're anti-branding without knowing it. A real person reads every one. No sales pitch attached.
Step 2.
The step most founders skip. A private brand discovery workspace with 80+ guided questions you speak or type through, reviewed by our team and returned as your Strategic Foundation. Everything a designer needs to build from, in your hands. This is the brand, defined.
Step 3.
The build, and everything after. One in-house team makes your identity, packaging, campaigns, and website, and your strategy becomes your Brand Command Center: ready-to-use copy and a growing archive of on-brand assets in one place. You pull what you need and get back to selling. The system keeps your brand alive, so you don't have to.
ARTICULATE BEFORE YOU DESIGN.
The step most founders skip is the one the whole brand depends on. And we made it the opposite of a stressful 3-hour meeting.
No calls, no meetings to prep for. Pour a glass of wine, sit down with your partner at midnight, and talk your idea out loud into it. We read every answer by hand and go back and forth with you until it's real. That depth is the whole reason the work looks the way it does.
Most agencies run brand discovery as a two-hour call and fold the cost into a $30,000 engagement. We built infrastructure for it. $499, once.
A BRAND STRATEGY FOR ONLY $499 USD
One-time purchase.
You walk away with a brand strategy. Most agencies charge ten times that before they touch a logo
SELECTED WORK
Made in-house by artists, never outsourced. Posters, patterns, packaging, merch, decks, campaigns, whatever brings the vibe.
MOST FOUNDERS DON'T NEED A LOGO. THEY NEED A CREATIVE DEPARTMENT.
Strategy, identity, packaging, campaigns, and websites on subscription. One flat rate, unlimited revisions, you hear from us every 48 hours in your board, delivered work or a progress update, no contracts. Standard runs $3,000 a month with one active request. Premium runs $5,000 a month with two active requests plus website builds.
We take limited brands per month. That's the whole roster. When the month is full, it's full. The same two people who read your strategy make the work. No handoff, nothing outsourced, our name on all of it.
Want the full DESIGNFLOW deck first?
PATINA JOURNAL
Everything we know about branding, before you pay for any of it.
Brand strategy for founders, in plain language. What a brandmark actually is and why your logo isn't one. Why most brands get rebuilt in 18 months. What branding on subscription really means. How to build something that sounds like you and lasts.
FAQ'S
What does The Newton Agency do? We build brands for founders, starting with strategy and running through identity, websites, campaigns, and ongoing creative. Most founders do not have a design problem. They have nothing to design from. We fix that first, then build everything on top of it. Where do I start? Start with the free Brand Clarity Check. It is 8 questions and gives you a Founder Readiness Score in a few minutes. From there the path is simple. Define your brand in the Guided Brand Strategy, then build it with DESIGNFLOW when you are ready. You can begin at whichever step fits where you are right now. What is the Guided Brand Strategy? It is a private brand discovery workspace where you articulate your brand before any design begins. You log in and work through more than 80 guided questions covering your story, offer, audience, taste, positioning, and voice. Speak, type, or upload references, and your work saves as you go. When you submit, we read every answer ourselves and release your Strategic Foundation inside the workspace. It is $499, one time. No call required. What is DESIGNFLOW? DESIGNFLOW is your brand's creative department on subscription. One team builds your strategy, identity, collateral, website, and content from one direction, with no contracts and no scramble of freelancers. Standard is $3,000 a month, Premium is $5,000 a month, and most requests come back in about 48 hours. Do I need brand strategy before a logo? Yes. A logo is the expression of a strategy, so without one you are decorating a brand you cannot yet explain. This is the step most founders skip. They jump to logos and websites with no direction, nothing holds together, and they rebuild within a year. Get the foundation right first. Then everything you make has something to stand on. Why not just hire a designer or use freelancers? A full-time designer runs well into six figures once you add salary, benefits, and overhead, and most founders do not have steady enough work to justify it. Freelancers are fine for a one-off, but the moment the work is ongoing you are managing several people who have never spoken to each other, and the brand drifts. DESIGNFLOW gives you one senior team that knows your brand, for a flat monthly rate you can pause or adjust.
