Adept Creative
Our Story
The Story Begins With An Idea.
From Kent State University to Akron to Cleveland
The story continues.
Our Story
In 2007, Mike Robinson started working with several clients within professional sports, and the music industry. Offering freelance design, promotions and marketing strategy.
Read the full case study here.
As word began spreading about the quality of his work, more and more companies turned to his agency to help connect with their audience and gain more customers. Though those projects, we were able to expanded our client base while expanding our services along the way.
“Early on we were doing business as Advantage-point Marketing. I felt we had out grown the name, with everything I was creating, hoping to be innovate in the digital marketing space.” – Mike Robinson
Adept Creative was not just a rebrand for his agency, it was a paradigm shift.
Adept Creative was founded in 2017.
Adept Creative was founded in 2017 by Mike Robinson after working for 10 years as a freelance marketing and branding expert.
The story continues.
Where are we?
Today we have a growing client base that consists of regional and local companies, non-profits, schools, sports teams, small business owners and artists. We are continually improving our processes, adding new and innovating capabilities while creating better brand storytelling.
Why are you different?
What sets us apart from other agencies is we are built on a process.
From the early years, I had to be both creative and analytical. Offering graphic design services such as concert poster design or album cover artwork to a music artist requirers you to focus on capturing the vision. Developing lead generating marketing strategies for non profits you begin to understanding the intricacies of managing a brand. While working for profession sports I had to build design systems that attract and forces behavior in an immediate way.
And our process is built upon that base.
We expand our services to meet our expanding customer bases needs.
Our Services and Capabilities.
Strategy
- Facilitated Corporate Strategy
- Discovery and Research
- User Experience
- Brand Strategy and Architecture
- Positioning
- Content Strategy
- Marketing Campaigns
Branding and Design
- Brand Development and Rebranding
- Logo and Identity Systems
- Brand Style Guides
- Messaging
- Collateral, print and packaging
- Environmental Design
- Iconography
Digital Development
- Website Design and Development
- UX/UI
- Information Architecture
- Wire framing
- Prototypes
- Customized Content Management Systems
Production
- Photography
- Copywriting
- Storyboarding
- Illustration
- Script Development
- Motion Graphics
Our Work
Check out some of the latest branding, marketing and digital design projects the team at Adept Creative have been working on.
Feature Case study
Designing a brand identity for a non-profit sports organization.
We are a full-service marketing, branding and design agency that provides holistic strategy-first solutions to business problems.
When we were approached by this new basketball brand, we jumped at the chance.
Adept creative design a complete brand identity for non profit, a website, along with mech and apparel.
Flow Basketball
Startup a basketball academy with a purpose. Flow basketball provides online basketball training and in-person camps. The nonprofit organization also restores tired community basketball courts
Moon Snowboards
Moon Snowboards, located in Moon township Pa just outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, approached Adept creative about a collab on a series of boards. We developed
Feature Case study
Developing a brand identity for this snowboard company.
Adept creative developed a brand identity for this snowboard company based near Pittsburgh, Pa. We develop a complete digital identity system for the brand.
We also had the opportunity to design a few snowboards ourselves.
See it in this featured branding case study.
Recent Case studies
Moon Snowboards
Moon Snowboards, located in Moon township Pa just outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, approached Adept creative about a collab on a series of boards. We developed
The Sentient
The Sentient The Future of Sci-Fi. The Sentient is a physical and digital sci-fi publication that features 4 original storylines every month. The publication also
Era Whiskey
ERA whiskey Era whiskey is a Japanese blended whiskey. Made in Japan. Bottled and dristributed in San Fransisco, California. The Challenge Adept Creative has been
Flow Basketball
Startup a basketball academy with a purpose. Flow basketball provides online basketball training and in-person camps. The nonprofit organization also restores tired community basketball courts