Creative + edgy designs that deliver results.

You're looking for more than a designer — you need someone who gets it. 

At Maverick Studios, we can transform your complex ideas into clear, compelling messaging to help you connect to your customers. I’m Michelle, and I own this company. I'm a design and communications strategist with a journalism background and a knack for cutting through noise. I do more than make things look good. I make them work. 

Whether it’s a brand that needs clarity, a message that needs sharpening, or a campaign that needs lift-off, we can help you find the right story and bring it to life across platforms. My superpower? Seeing both the big picture and the nitty-gritty at once, so we don’t just “make a brochure,” we build a strategic asset that supports your goals. 

If you want a design partner who challenges assumptions, asks hard questions, and helps you do better, not just more, you’re in the right place.

Free proposals are not useful for designers OR clients. We spend too much time preparing a list of options clients might not need, the end project is usually different because the client realized mid-way through they have to add or change something, and we end up with scope creep and lost time and productivity on both sides. 

That's why we're scrapping 30-minute free calls and proposals and using a system that actually works. We're switching to the Brand Roundup, an innovative workshop that helps get you unstuck and back on track. Because you might not even need a new logo — but you do need a strategy that defines how your business looks, sounds, and builds trust with the people you want to reach. This workshop session will help you wrangle the chaos, sort the strong from the weak, and herd your brand into line. It's the starting point for businesses that feel scattered and want clarity, direction, and traction.

This isn’t a coaching call. This is a straight-talking, high-impact, get-to-the-heart-of-it workshop where we uncover:

• 🎯  What’s working in your brand and what’s holding it back
• 🎯  Where you’re losing momentum, sales, or recognition
• 🎯  How your visuals, messaging, and materials are helping (or hurting) your goals

And then? You walk away with a custom Trail Map that outlines how to get there — through smarter branding, clearer messaging, and marketing materials that do more than look good.

Use it on your own, hand it to your in-house team, or apply it to a full project with Maverick Studios. Either way, you’ll have a no-fluff, highly usable roadmap that shows you what’s holding your brand back — and how to fix it.

Who this is for:

Business owners who are tired of:

• ❎  Looking inconsistent across platforms (and knowing it affects credibility)
• ❎  Feeling like their brand doesn’t reflect who they are anymore
• ❎  Not knowing what to prioritize: the logo, the copy, the website, the pitch… all of it?
• ❎  Burning cash on materials that don’t connect or convert
• ❎  Being too close to it to see the gaps (or the gold)

Not sure what’s wrong but you know something isn’t clicking? You’re in the right place.

Here’s what you get:

1. A two-hour strategy session

We'll send you a short check-in document that you fill out ahead of our meeting so you can start to reflect on key issues ahead of time and be ready to focus. 

Then, we will meet with you (in person or by video, it's your choice) and together, we will dig into the story behind your business, your goals, your audience, and where your brand is helping — or getting in the way. You don’t need to have all the answers — that’s our job. You talk, we listen, ask questions, challenge assumptions, and extract what matters.

2. A no-nonsense Trail Map

Within a week of our Brand Roundup, you’ll get your own customized Trail Map (PDF format) that includes:

• ✅  Key brand challenges and untapped opportunities
• ✅  Clear messaging and tone-of-voice recommendations
• ✅  Visual identity insights (what’s working, what’s hurting you)
• ✅  A prioritized trail map of what to fix — and where to start
• ✅  Suggestions for key touchpoints: website, print materials, social media, pitch decks, and more
• ✅  A clear next step forward, whether you hire me or not

The Trail Map is yours to keep — no strings. Use it in-house, pass it to another designer, or use it as a ready-to-use work order with Maverick Studios when you’re ready to make things happen.

3. Credit toward a bigger project

Your Brand Roundup fee can be applied to one of our signature packages:

• The Branding for Business package: a full strategic and visual overhaul for growing businesses
• The New Business bundle: our branding package plus website setup and marketing essentials for startups
• The Content Writing + Design Package: A combo deal with core messaging and flexible design support for non-profit organizations and grower groups

This is the smartest way to:

• Stop throwing money at visuals that aren’t anchored in strategy.
• Identify exactly what’s keeping your brand from doing its job.
• Build a brand that reflects who you are and connects with the right people.
• Get professional guidance before making a big investment.

Could you spend less on a logo from some online site? Sure. But you’d still be stuck with the same problems. This isn’t decoration, it’s direction.

Straight talk from a straight shooter:

• 🦄  The Brand Roundup is not a vague “discovery” call — it’s a focused strategy session.
• 🦄  It’s not a teaser. Your Trail Map is complete and actionable.

Let’s do this right from the start. Book your Brand Roundup now.