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Graphic & Website Design
Logos, identity systems, print, and the site itself — designed and built as one piece, so the look and the words arrive together.
- Logos & identity systems
- Print & publications
- Website design & build
- Design systems
Design · Web · Video · Writing
BarnesCollective
A designer and writer helping brands and churches tell their story — through graphic and website design, video production, and the words that hold it together.
Design
Logos · Print · Systems
Websites
Design · Build · Handover
Video
Story · Teaching · Edits
Writing
Voice · Copy · Long-form
- 01Graphic Design
- 02Website Design
- 03Branding & Logos
- 04Video Production
- 05Writing
01 — The premise
Every brand is already telling a story.The work is making it worth reading.
Barnes Collective is a design and writing practice. Identity systems, publications, websites, and the words that carry them — made with the patience of print and the pace of the web.
Design and writing are not separate steps here. The sentence and the layout get decided together, so the story holds up wherever it lands: a homepage, a sign, a sermon series, a film.
02 — Capabilities
Design, writing, and the film between them.
Engaged separately or together. Most projects begin with a screen and a sentence.
02
Video Production
Story films, interviews, and campaign video — shot, cut, and captioned for the places they actually get watched.
- Story & brand films
- Interviews & teaching
- Event & campaign video
- Editing & captions
03
Writing
Voice, copy, and long-form editing — the sentences that make the design worth staying for.
- Brand voice & messaging
- Website & campaign copy
- Long-form & essays
- Editing
04 — The method
Four movements.
The same structure whether the deliverable is a wordmark, a website, a film, or all three at once.
01
Listen
A scoping conversation, then a short written brief. We agree on the problem, the audience, and what success looks like before anything gets designed.
02
Frame
Positioning, structure, and the first arguments. Words and layout arrive together, because a good idea rarely survives being dressed up later.
03
Make
Design, copy, and film built in the same room. Weekly showings, work in progress, no reveals from behind a curtain.
04
Land
Files, systems, and documentation your team can run with — plus a handover that assumes you will be doing this without me.
05 — The practice
A designer who writes.A writer who builds.
Barnes Collective is the independent practice of a designer and writer who also shoots and edits video. Three disciplines, one point of view — and the work is better because they are made together rather than handed between vendors.
Most brands already know what they want to say. The work is finding the shape of it: the words that sound like the people saying them, the type that carries the tone, the layout that makes it easy to stay with.
Engagements are intentionally few and long in attention — a small number of projects a year, run personally from the first conversation to the final handover.
- Practice
- Independent — graphic and website design, video, and writing
- Range
- Logos, sites, films, songs, and the words in between
- Engagements
- Project and ongoing partnership
- Working
- Remotely, with clients across the US