Designwrite Creative

communication strategy and design
for Cities, Nonprofits and Small Business

Design is seldom an isolated activity. Instead, it grows from an amalgam of thought, word and vision, expressly directed by your brand. From concept to print, you can look forward to:

Line-item proposals for quick budgetary decisions.
Clear design direction reflecting your vision, not ours.
Worry-free production.
Full project management to ensure your project is completed with the same care and attention with which it started.

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Publication Design

With over 30 years in print communications, you can rest easy knowing that your publication, no matter how large or small, is in good hands. Print publishing shouldn't be a lengthy or difficult...

The Designwrite approach to content strategy and design is both never- and ever-changing. On one hand, audiences and delivery methods are ever-changing and communications/marketing design is forever...

Image Making

Designwrite Studios provides both stock and original photography, illustration and commissioned works . Designwrite also works with a variety studio artists to bring commissioned photography to our...

It’s been such a pleasure working with you these past years – both for all that you’ve been able to help us to, and much more importantly, for the kindness and care you have demonstrated in how you operate.

Leigh Rosenberg

Minnesota Housing Partnership

I don’t know whether it’s unprecedented, but it can’t have happened often that a report and brochure receives a standing ovation. That’s what happened yesterday at our board meeting. Your work was applauded, loudly and long. Thank you for understanding us so well, and helping us say who we are and what we do in a way that is so appealing.

Patrick Henry

Center for Ecumenical & Cultural Research

The WFS educational campaign not only won an interregional award, it worked so well that a series of meetings planned for further training was cancelled because they were not needed. Thanks for your good design and fast turnaround.

Harlan Stoehr

M-Comm Agency

Cima Lab managers can say nothing but great things about you. They are so impressed with your knowledge and your ability to listen to 15 people and pull out the very core essential information. They would recommend you to anyone.

Jess Niebuhr

Anoka Ramsey Community College

I want to complement the design, functionality and easy of use of the City of Woodbury website. I am a Silicon valley veteran (relocated to Woodbury) and I have to say that the website and the taxonomy are very well done.

Bob

City of Woodbury Resident

Thank you for the wisdom and care you put into the 8-year project plan and guide for The Saint John’s Illuminated Bible. It created context and careful delineation of program objectives and organizational support. I am particularly grateful for the thoughtful and deeply respectful way you went about creating our artist contract. Thanks for staying the course...you have my deepest respect.

Br. Dietrich Reinhart, OSB

Saint John’s University

Serving Local Governments

Brooklyn Park, MN • Cottage Grove, MN • Dakota County Minnesota • Eagan, MN • Eden Prairie, MN • Edina, MN • Farmington, MN • Hopkins, MN • Lakeville, MN • Long Beach, CA • Maple Grove, MN • Minster, OH • New Brighton, MN • Oviedo, FL • Rogers, MN • Plymouth, MN • Round Rock, TX • State of Minnesota • Shoreview, MN • St. Louis Park, MN • Woodbury, MN

Small Business and Nonprofits

Affirmaive Options Coalition • Boston Scientific • CIMA Labs, Inc. • Dakota County Historical Society • Ecological Gardens • Healthy Living Chirpractice • Joint Religious Legislative Coalition • Minnesota Independent Publishers Association • Minneapolis Community Development Association • Minnesota Pollution Control Agency • Permaculture Research Institute • Pure-Spirit Animal Communications • Xcel Energy

Colleges and Universities

Anoka Ramsey Community College • College of St. Catherine • Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research • Minneapolis Public Schools • Minnesota Independent School Fund • Minnesota Online High School • Saint John’s University • University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning Services

Publication Design

Content Design

Image Making