Services

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Blend specializes in areas of design that surround the human experience. Below, you'll find a feature-rich menu of where our best talents converge alongside a breakdown of what we can and cannot do to make your life easier.

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Web Design & Development

We create websites that wow. Experiences on the web are built with simplicity. People want websites that look and feel like they were built just for them. We use the latest research on attention, visual perception, and memory to create a virtual extension of your brand. From blogs and forums to social-networks, portfolios, micro-sites, and more, we do it all.
Web Design & Development (HTML, CSS, PHP) Web Design Prototyping iPhone / iPad Web Design & Development iPhone / iPad Application Prototyping iPhone / iPad Application Development Adobe Flash Development Adobe Air Development Content Organization / Layout Digital Strategy Content Management System Branding Full Content Management System Development Systems Integration Web Hosting Web Analytics Search Engine Optimization

Social Media

We use the world as our canvas and leverage media--both new and old--to get people talking about your brand. We create unique and comprehensive social networking strategies to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and more into a campaign that accomplishes your goal and reaches people in a way that is personal, relevant, and desired.

Blend takes tools like Facebook and Flickr and designs an integrated strategy to connect your company to your customers, your customers to each other, and all of your customers back to your company. We ignite conversations and build awareness, trust, engagement, and excitement about your brand by tailoring a social media cocktail to your message that is like nothing your customers have ever seen before.
Viral Marketing Social Media Strategies Social Media Analytics Social Media Integration Campaign Implementation E-Mail Design & Development E-Mail Hosting & Delivery

User Interface Design

Reach out and touch. Your interface is the medium that connects the physical world of your customer with the virtual realm of your brand, product, or service. Good interface design is like a victorious game of chess. We have to anticipate users' moves many steps before they even make them. We help you create smart interfaces that put what your users want where they expect it to be to facilitate beautifully simple experiences like none other.

We design interfaces for anything that a person might interact with. From websites to iPhone apps and kiosks to checkouts, we can help you imagine an interface that makes people smile.
Web Interface Design & Development Product Interface Design Experience / Interaction Design Architecture / Interior Design User Interface Analysis Web / Application Interface Prototyping (All Platforms) iPhone / iPad Interface Design Primary Biometric Testing Primary Eye-tracking Research Sensory Marketing

Workflow Design

Let's do more with less. From contacts and calendars to software applications and office arrangements, we can help you optimize your workflow to fit the world you live in. We'll help you embrace the power of cloud computing to keep things in sync and put the power of information in the right hands, in the right place, at the right time--straight from your fingertips.
Enterprise iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch Deployment Cloud Consulting Workflow Analysis Application Workflow Design Team Collaboration Technology

Packaging Design

We design packaging that looks good and feels even better. Packaging is an art that's all its own. We create packaging that's the perfect blend of ergonomic design, functional utility, aesthetic beauty, and brand communication to make your product stand out on the shelf against all else.
Label Design Label Printing Product Packaging Design 3D Modeling CAD Modeling & Engineering Production & Manufacturing

Logo & Identity Design

What's in a logo? Your logo is the face you show to the world. It's the front of your brand, but it's also the image people see whenever they hear your name. Apple. Starbucks. FedEx. You just saw three expressions of brands through illustrations, colors, and fonts. Those elements, combined with the associations they carry, establish the foundation for brand identity. We apply research on visual perception, memory, attention, and emotion to create the perfect face for your brand that's engaging, memorable, and beautiful wherever it goes.
Logo Design Brand Image Creation Print Design Print Production Services Intellectual Property Protection

Product Design

Products should be made for the people that use them. If you reduce a product to its simplest form, it's more about the human that uses it than anything else. A beautiful product is one that does what it was created to do without the user ever having to stop and realize that it's already done it. Creating products that facilitate interactions, activities, tasks, and desires of the people who hold them in their hands and keep them in their homes is what Blend was born to do. We use research on visual perception, psychology, ergonomics, and more to design products that do one simple thing--achieve something tomorrow that wasn't achieved today.
Product Conceptualization Physical Prototyping Product Branding Ergonomic Design Aesthetic Design 3D Modeling CAD Modeling & Engineering Production & Manufacturing

Copywriting

What's in a word? Your words are the tools you use to communicate with the world. A word carries with it a nearly infinite arsenal of emotion, intrigue, and associations that, when perfectly pieced together with its friends, can make something magical happen. We think of words as verbal design--uniting the perfect entourage of letters to communicate the essence of your brand, one word at a time.
Web Copy Search Engine Optimizing Copy E-Mail Copy Advertising Copy Packaging Copy Translation / Multi-Lingual Copy

Advertising / Marketing Design & Strategy

Why do we buy? A fairly simple question needs an answer that is anything but. It's no secret that we buy things for reasons that stretch beyond the functional benefits of the products and services we choose to spend our time, money, and attention on. We buy things because we love them. We pick widgets over wadgets because we relate to some quality of a widget that makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Blend uses research on attention, visual perception, behavioral economics, and memory to help your brand approach advertising like never before.
Print Advertising Design Video Advertising Production Digital Advertising / Marketing Strategy Digital Media Planning Digital Media Buying Search Engine Marketing Traditional Media Planning Traditional Media Buying Non-traditional Media Planning Non-traditional Media Implementation Direct Mail Design Direct Mail Production & Delivery

Want to learn more about anything on this page? Get In Touch with us for a personalized look at what we can do to make you smile.

If you'd like us to do something that's not on the menu, we'd love to help. Like any great restaurant, we're happy to do something special as long as we have the right ingredients.
If you can do something we can't, we'd love to partner with you to put your service on our menu.
If you see a red X, we've chosen not to offer this service either because we are not among the best in the world at it or because we do not yet have the capabilities to turn your wish into reality.

Work With Us Your Way

It's easy to work with Blend in a way that fits your world.

Project-Based

Want a taste of what we can do? This is the perfect way to experience Blend in a way that's personal to your brand, product, service, or experience. We'll help you solve your design problem, whatever it is, through a project-based relationship.

Billing: By Milestones Corresponding to Project Progress

Embedded

Don't have a design department? You do now. Blend can handle all of your needs, on-demand, within the realm of design.

Billing: Biweekly For Period of Hire

Execution

Need us to handle something for you on a consistent basis? We're happy to do anything on our menu at regular intervals. This is particularly helpful for modifications, upgrades, content, marketing, and optimization.

Billing: Hourly.

Partnership

We're happy to work with you to complement the services that you offer your clients. If you have a project that could be improved by our services, we'd love to help you make your clients smile.

Billing: Unique (based on project, embedded, or execution models).

Interaction

Blend can interact with you on-site in Nashville, TN, in person throughout the United States and Europe*, or remotely anywhere else in the world. Our team is available to clients via Skype, Facebook, Twitter, IM, Phone, E-Mail, and more at virtually all hours--day or night.

*Travel may incur additional expenses.

Partner With Us

We'd like to Blend with you to do more than we can do by ourselves. Let's work together to create products, services, and experiences that make people smile by blending our talents and passions together. Alone, we can do something good. Together, we can change the world.


How Does It Work? We're building a network of some of the best minds in the world that's bursting with people that love what they do. If an idea ever arises that one of those people would fall in love with and create something amazing, we'll bring them on to our team for that project to make our clients smile.

But, it's not just a one way street. If any of our partners ever need us to fill a gap in their team, we're here to do the very same.

Who Will You Partner With? If you're the best in the world at what you do, we'll partner with you. It doesn't really matter what you do. We never know what will be asked of us, so we're here with open arms to ensure that we've got anything covered.

Where Do Partners Need To Be? Blend is based in Nashville, TN, but we operate worldwide. We're looking for partners anywhere and everywhere to help us make our clients smile.

Do Partners Get Paid? Absolutely! We'll arrange payment by the project.

Is Partnering With Blend A Binding Legal Agreement? No. We've never been fans of making things more complicated than they need to be. Partnering won't put you in any kind of lengthy, hard-to-read legal abyss. If we'd like to bring you on for a project, we'll give you a contract to make sure that you're paid for what you do.

Sustainability

Blend is a proud adopter of The Designers Accord, a global mission to advance the social and environmental impact of designers, business leaders, and educators in search of a brighter tomorrow and a better today.



We use design to improve the lives of the people impacted by the work that we do and we integrate sustainability practices into every aspect of the process to create a positive social and environmental impact.

Creativity is at the forefront of our sustainability mission, igniting new and interesting ways to bring our ideas to life without negative impacts on the world around us.

We believe in an open conversation about sustainability with each and every one of our clients. After all, it is through conversation that new ideas are born and old ideas evolve.

Blend is also a strong supporter of clean energy and a member of American Businesses For Clean Energy, a non-profit organization that is working to enact clean energy legislation in the United States congress.