Your brand strategists
Our Brand Philosophy
Laura Yogi (née McLeod)
San Francisco
Laura brings deep expertise in strategic brand development and messaging. Prior to joining 99designs in 2016, where she held several senior marketing roles, Laura spent over a decade in global design agencies. Laura curiously seeks to understand the specific goals of her clients and thrives on translating them into a brand story that works.
Eva Missling
Berlin
Eva combines entrepreneurship with a love for good design. Helping founders define their positioning and visual identity is Eva's forté. As a founder herself, Eva brings a deep understanding of what it takes to grow a brand on a budget. Before founding a graphic design marketplace, which was later sold to 99designs, Eva worked for a decade in digital agencies.
Our name
The Circle is a perfect representation of the creative world of branding. Existing in nature and the cosmos, the circle is the ultimate symbol of complex made easy. The circle represents creating and expanding a story, which every time it's told, it grows. Like throwing a stone in the water and it makes ripples, it's about renew and repeat. Circles stand for our global circle of creativity; where we bring the best people together to make something awesome, through collaborative communication.
As Makers, we serve a larger circle of clients from all industries with an even bigger circle of global creative talent. We help people shape something new that will stand the test of time.
The Studio is our virtual space where we work efficiently and remotely. Here is where we shape a corporate identity that sets up a new business to succeed in finding their circle of supporters for the next decade. The studio is the friendly planet, where we think and create.
Our values
⚈ Bringing the best people together
⚈ Lean online processes
⚈ Excellence and innovation
⚈ Pragmatism
Our logo marque
The circles in our logo and graphic device are symbols of communication, simplicity and endurance.
Our logo marque is composed of 4 circle forms found in the letters of "Circlemakers Studio". This composition is also the Braille for "C" and "I", which communicates the first two letters of our name.
Our mission
To continually deliver brands that go beyond expectations for entrepreneurial business owners so they can effectively communicate their message with consistency for the next decade.
From San Francisco & Berlin, we combine agency heritage with a global network of talent, delivered with today's tooling.
Layers of experience, entrepreneurship, people, partners & technology contribute to our expertise in both strategy and execution:
We started our careers when the internet exploded into the business world and witnessed the change it brought to creative agencies. This was a big decade for the established agency model where digital design and marketing came to the forefront. We stepped away from Agency-land and explored the idea of creative crowdsourcing.
With this heritage, our concept for the agency of the future was born. Our focus was on being global, lightweight, pragmatic, smart, using current tooling, and working with a network of talented creators.
We work with passionate and talented innovators and business owners, who are growing something they care deeply about. They developed the products and services that make a meaningful impact on their audience, and we thrive on being a part of their success stories.
For the past 10 years, we have been working with many up-and-coming designers and developers globally. We have a close relationship with talented creatives around-the-world who have a vast range of styles, skills and specializations.
We are partnered closely with 99designs by Vista, as their independent agency provider delivering their 99d Studio service.