Our mission: to advance your market position by making a robust, authentic connection between you and your audience.

More than your creative department, we provide creative leadership for marketing, to dynamic, quality-driven companies and organizations — specializing in sophisticated work in discerning markets, local and international.

Our work encompasses design and media for branding, identity, advertising, and communications. It’s everything from logos to collateral to websites, from copy to communications, to multimedia and interactive campaigns — unified and made relevant by a strategic creative vision grounded in real insight.

Based in forward-thinking Portland, Oregon, our commitment to sustainability and fair trade almost goes without saying. These days it’s de rigueur. In sophisticated markets, green and fair are as mission-critical as quality and style — at least, for those who value their longevity. Helsinqi is a member of the Sustainable Business Network of Portland.

Founder-director Leo Daedalus is a maverick creative entrepreneur. A lifelong artist/designer degreed in computer science, Daedalus has worked at all levels of all manner of creative endeavor, from vision and direction to the nuts and bolts of production. Brought up bilingual in Lausanne and Seattle, Leo is a well-traveled journeyman polyglot with a strong interest in international, multicultural, multilingual business and marketing.


Clients include:

  • Carlton Cellars, premium artisanal winemakers:
    • identity, branding, web design, print advertising, and communications.
  • The Wine & Spirit Archive, the Pacific Northwest's exclusive provider of the UK-based international wine & spirits education program of the WSET:
    • identity, branding, web design, print collateral, and communications.
  • The Alliance Française de Portland, branch of the international French educational and cultural outreach program:
    • special event branding
  • Fear No Music, world-class contemporary classical music ensemble:
    • print program and visual branding redesign
  • Harriet Sanderson, Seattle conceptual, sculptural, and experimental print artist:
  • Ingrid Lahti, Seattle conceptual and installation artist:
    • video production, photographic
  • Liminal Performance Group's 2007 multimedia theatre production, The Theory of Love:
    • long-format dual-track video (under the name Metaplastic)