authentic • strategic • creative
Marketing is your connection with the world. It’s a human connection, expressed in the language of stories and images, emotions and ideas — all transmitted through writing, graphic design, photography, video and multimedia. That’s creative. Creative is what we do.
To be effective, your marketing has to be focused, researched, planned, and tracked. Whether we’re executing it in websites and print collateral, advertising and PR, or presentations and events, your marketing has to be unified, consistent, and purposeful across all channels. In a word, strategic. Strategic is how we work.
In a saturated, overstimulated world, what cuts through — what the people jones for — is the real, the genuine. Integrity Marketing & Branding isn’t a paint job, it’s a core proclamation. It builds real trust by showing the world who you can be counted on to be, and what you can be counted on to do. It’s radical. It’s authentic. Authentic is who we are.
The Lighthouse
We call our full-service model The Lighthouse because it's a cohesive structure from top to bottom, it guides clients through the fog of marketing, it's very bright, and on a good day you can see for miles. The A-to-Z runs from the big ideas — strategy, discovery, research, concept — through creative execution, to the details of production and delivery.
We also provide Integrity Stewardship, with assessments, analysis, and planning to help clients stay on the right side of the gray areas and the slippery slopes. Integrity Stewardship is a natural part of everything we do, and we also offer it as a consultative stand-alone. It can be a great way for new clients to get the Integrity Marketing & Branding ball rolling.
SELECTED CLIENTS:
Willamette Valley winery Carlton Cellars wins awards for their premium Pinots, and HELSINQI is their agency of record.More
FearNoMusic 21st-century ensemble performs extraordinary music and we've given them an identity to match.More
The YWCA of Greater Portland refocused their mission in the community, and partnered with HELSINQI to refocus the message.More
After making top-grade leather gloves for industry for many years, Laughlin-Cartrell decided to strategically extend into lifestyle retail.More
The Alberta Cooperative Grocery in Northeast Portland needed a brand new website as fresh, local and organic as the foods they stock.More
Activist-artist-community leader Carole Zoom built Zoomtopia, and came to HELSINQI for a PR kickoff campaign.More
hill2 does groundbreaking organizational consultation, and HELSINQI oversees their identity, didactic materials and website.More
We created a showcase website for fine artist Ingrid Lahti, including videos we’ve made, drawing on our own fine arts roots.More
HELSINQI designed a strategic, user-maintained website to reinforce HiiH's distinctive brand of handmade paper lamps.More
We’ve collaborated with fine artist Harriet Sanderson on video and photographic work, and we designed and maintain her website.More
Naylor Building specializes in quality exterior construction, and HELSINQI design a full identity program and user-maintained website.More
With FearNoMusic, we co-curated Parallaxis, a program of avant-garde classical music performed live to original video works.More
The WSA provides innovative wine education and retail, and HELSINQI designed an identity program and user-maintained website.More
The Alliance Française of Portland came to HELSINQI for a special logo design for their 25th anniversaire.More
The Seattle Parks Department needed a name and logo for a new public arts event series, and arts-savvy HELSINQI obliged.More
Northwest Research provides prospect research to nonprofits and came to us for an identity program and user-maintained website.More
HELSINQI designed a cheery series of school-specific buttons and collateral for a Portland Public Schools outreach campaign.More
We produced a 60-minute, 2-track video for The Theory of Love, a collaborative “traveling, multimedia, lecture-opera.”More
We hosted a series of “secret-restaurant” dinners with international themes, recherché menus and wines, and multimedia.More
Environmental teacher-activist Joanna Macy engaged us to produce a double-DVD video demonstrating her workshop methodology.More
CLIENTS & PROJECTS
Harriet Sanderson . ArtSparks . Theory of Love . Joanna Macy . Ingrid Lahti . YWCA . Carlton Cellars . HiiH . Alliance Française . Cordial . Wine & Spirit Archive . Northwest Research . Parallaxis . FearNoMusic . hill2 . Fields & Lane . Zoomtopia . Portland Public Schools . Naylor Building . Alberta Coop
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New Dolcetto label for Carlton Cellars
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Alberta Coop site goes live
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Back to Hearing the Future
Fear No Music‘s annual Young Composers Project concert is today, showcasing the compositions of some very young composers indeed. Our…