Creative branding and design delivered with agency-level thinking and studio-level agility.
Mindspin is a brand storytelling specialty shop that specializes in boutique and premium brands. We work with our clients to distill their brand story, shape their brand spaces, and orchestrate their brand experiences – all the while, fuelling creativity with a wee bit of chocolate.
Long-term brand strength.
Since 2000, Mindspin has been working hard to deliver reliable and responsive end-to-end design and content creation services, ensuring a seamless process and supportive experience for our clients.
Our focus is always your long-term brand strength. We absorb your brand character, goals, and industry landscape before creative design begins. Using our proprietary brand exploration process (scaled to suit your needs), we clarify and distill ideas into your ultimate brand story.
Not too big. Not too small. Just right.
It’s our mission to use your marketing investment to create and deliver world-class marketing solutions.
We don’t house ourselves in extravagance and we’re not bound by location. We provide clients with expert talent and experience in a lean model, working flexibly, tackling each project with the exact skillset required. Our clients value our entrepreneurial mindset that enables them to achieve more with less.
Long-time clients.
Some clients have been with Mindspin since its start-up, and we are proud to participate as a partner in their growth and success.
We work hard to consistently deliver excellence as the ongoing caretaker of your visual brand. We value honesty and respect, and create beauty that connects. We’re not big talkers. We’re big doers. And we listen really well.
The Mindspin team
We are a carefully assembled team of creative experts in brand identity, graphic design, website design, creative writing, and online experience design. Mindspin manages a network of specialists including writers, editors, graphic designers, programmers, video editors, photographers, illustrators, and printers.
Custom teams are built according to your project needs and are extended to include the exact skill set that you require.
You have one contact for ease of communications.
Some of our team’s experiences and successes:
- Creative development for Hamilton Tiger-Cats, City of Brantford, City of Paris and Best Western as well as lesser known – and equally awesome – brands
- Various awards received, including inclusion in the M-real Canada-wide Designers Showcase, and place of recognition in the publication Identity Solutions, distributed in several countries
- Interviewed by publications to provide marketing industry insights
- Many happy clients. Read their testimonials.
Key talent
Creative Director
Tanja builds and leads teams of creative and technical specialists, delivering clearly imagined and smoothly executed marketing materials. Since earning a Graphic Design diploma, she has enjoyed more than 15 years of creative branding, graphic, and website design achievements. Her graphic design work has won places in nation-wide designers’ showcases and has been published. An Entrepreneurial Recognition Award was bestowed upon Tanja by the Government of Canada. Tanja’s experience has been deepened by her support of several charities and not-for-profit organizations.
An artist as well as designer, Tanja has had group art exhibitions in Ontario and New York, and her art is owned in private collections in both the USA and Canada. Collectors include world-famous salsa dancer and choreographer Burju Perez. Her art has won awards and has been published. Tanja has spent time in 17 countries and continues to absorb creative inspiration and cultural perspective through travel.
Senior Software Engineer
Praveen builds websites and solves technical online challenges. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and has more than seven years of experience in software development. He enjoys the challenge of building new online spaces. Praveen sees the awesomeness of writing code and then having that online space suddenly used by thousands of people. His programming expertise spans multiple languages, tools, and platforms.
When not coding, Praveen enjoys cricket and table tennis.
Content and Video Specialist
Michael is organized and multi-skilled, so he helps manage a variety of content including compiling and editing video. He earned a Bachelor of Arts, media, with a film and video emphasis. His experience includes supervising video editing for a high school football show which airs highlights from a staggering 30 to 40 games every Friday night.
Michael is active in a private animal rescue community, participates in volunteer walks and other events, and enjoys video games.
Senior Editor
Tommie Sue uses her eye for detail to ensure that text reads well. She is the author of three books, editor of others, and has written widely for academic and popular publications. Tommie Sue earned a Ph.D. in Politics and was awarded the medal for Distinguished Achievement in a Profession. She has received three Fulbrights, to Argentina, Belize, and El Salvador, has lectured at more than 60 colleges and universities in the western hemisphere. She has been a consultant to USAID and the UN.
Tommie Sue has traveled throughout the hemisphere, lived in 6 countries, and spent time in an additional 16 European countries, from the UK to Russia; Latin America remains her favourite travel destination.
From the launch of your organization or product, and through its expansion and evolution, Mindspin has the creative vision and know-how to pull it all together with creative design that empowers your brand.
