Creative & marketing
Creative direction, brand identity, graphic design, typography, advertising, multimedia, apparel, packaging, digital and print production, photo and video direction, B2B and B2C campaigns, SEO/SEM, analytics and budgets.
About Pixel Modes
Creative minds.
Technical hands.
Pixel Modes builds identities with staying power, websites with teeth, and the marketing and advertising that put them in front of the right people. Behind it: thirty-plus years of brand, design, multimedia, software and AI, all under one roof.
30+years doing the work
70,000+hours hands-on at the keyboard
1,000+brands handled as in-house creative directors
8disciplines under one roof
Who we've been
Every job taught us something.
We've been creative directors and art directors at national and international companies in action sports, music manufacturing, federal IT services and commercial construction. We've led brand relaunches, directed creative and web teams, and run ad campaigns in the magazines our customers actually read.
We've also been designers, illustrators, musicians, wage slaves, dog sitters and corporate slogs. That last stretch matters more than it sounds: we know what it's like on the other side of the desk, and we build work that makes that side easier.
How we work
Concept to code to campaign.
Most studios hand off somewhere: the designer to the developer, the developer to the IT person, the marketer to everyone. We don't. The same people shape the visual concept, design the interface, plan the data structures and ship the implementation.
That means front-end polish that's connected to back-end reality: usable screens, clean data, efficient workflows and software that stays fast as it grows.
Then we get it seen. Ad campaigns, search, social and email, aimed at the people who matter and measured so you know what's working.
Core expertise
Core expertise
Web, UX/UI & applications
Website design and development, UX/UI, responsive design, information architecture, programming, application development, databases, APIs, systems architecture, and desktop, web and mobile apps.
AI & technology
AI development and integration, AI-assisted software engineering, intelligent workflows, automation, data organization, application performance, IT troubleshooting, hosting, servers, DNS and deployment.
Things we've built
Not just pretty.
Useful.
Behind the design work is a long list of software that quietly runs businesses.
- Inventory management systemsStock, orders and catalogs in one place.
- Website inventory syncStore and warehouse kept in step automatically.
- SKU-driven product dataStructures that name, classify and organize products on their own.
- Mobile applicationsTools that go where the work happens.
- Business softwareEstimating, bidding, discovery and the workflows around them.
- Boot utilitiesLow-level tools that keep machines running.
Where the work has run
Where the work has run
National and international ads in Surfer, Transworld, The Skateboard Mag, Skateboarder, Guitar Player, Guitarist and Vintage Guitar.
Along the way, our campaigns and promotions have reached players and bands including Rush, Alicia Keys, Green Day, Lenny Kravitz, The Who, Keith Urban, ZZ Top, Widespread Panic and Between The Buried and Me, to name just a few.
Tools & platforms
The kit.
What we reach for, from layout to launch to AI.