The design and build bench your agency doesn't have to hire.
Andréa Day designs. Steven Day builds. We work under your agency's name, on your clients, and the client stays yours.
Based in Dayton, Ohio. Members of AAF Dayton.
Here to hire rather than to partner? Read the engineer-facing version.
Two people, one handoff
Andréa Day
Identity systems, print and collateral, signage, vehicle wraps and trade-show graphics, website and app UI, and hand-drawn illustration. She also designs and builds WordPress sites herself. Twenty-five years of design, about fifty organizations, and eight years as a contract senior designer inside an agency.
Steven Day
Marketing sites built to the designer's file. Custom web applications, workflow platforms, and native iOS and Android apps in Flutter. Eight years as an agency's technical partner. He argues about technical risk, scope and cost, and leaves the design to the designer.
When Andréa designs and Steven builds, the handoff stays inside one team, and the person who drew it checks the build against the drawing.
Pick the half you're missing
You have designers
Send the comps. Steven builds them as drawn. When your studio is booked, Andréa takes the overflow production.
You don't
For PR and marketing shops without an in-house studio. Andréa designs, Steven builds, and your account team presents it as your work.
What we don't do
Marketing strategy, campaigns, media buying and account management. Those belong to your agency, and we won't pitch them to your client.
We're two people, and when a job is bigger than two people should take on, we'll tell you before we quote it.
Start small, on a real job
Before anything large, we do one small paid project together. It's the cheapest way to find out whether we're the bench you want.
Pick something real.
One of your comps to build, a client site that needs rescuing, or a batch of production files.
Get a fixed price.
One number against a written scope, so you set your own markup.
We deliver it under your name.
On a build, you get the finished pages side by side with your comps.
Then decide.
If it went well, send the next one. If it didn't, a small project is all it cost you.
Send us something small.
Tell us the job, the deadline and who's on your side. Steven reads every message from the contact form and usually answers within a day.