Devote

Devote, also known as Devote Studio, is a small creative studio spanning several disciplines, whose partners work from three cities in the American South. It helps clients build brand loyalty through strategy, design and storytelling, and has a particular line in branding, marketing and sales support for planned residential communities. The team includes writers, designers, directors, filmmakers, producers and musicians.

What Devote offers

• Brand identity — logo and identity work, mission and values definition, and brand voice and copywriting.
• Brand films — documentary and brand films, including direction and original scores.
• Marketing and sales support — campaigns and sales material for thoughtfully planned communities.
• Interactive and environmental design — digital work and physical brand settings.
• Letterpress printing — After Press, its own letterpress print shop.

Who it works with

Its portfolio covers planned communities such as Alys Beach, hotels, a bank, food and wine festivals, a brewery, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and architects and interior designers.

Key facts

• Based in: Birmingham, Alabama; Columbia, South Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee
• Disciplines: branding, interactive, marketing, environmental design, film