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New Yorkbranding agency

Ramotion blends branding expertise with New York City’s dynamic energy to shape timeless, iconic brand strategies and compelling visual identities.

Featured clients

We specialize in building strong brand identities, crafting impactful messaging, and creating consistent visual designs for businesses of all sizes, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. Our expertise helps companies in New York City and beyond achieve their business goals.

Series of visual concepts for improving the user experience

Marketing website for a subsidiary of the CBRE Group's co-working space company

Iconography design for a payments infrastructure company with 250M+ API request per day

Official Apple tvOS app user interface development

Official Firefox rebrand and ongoing support for design projects at Mozilla

Brand identity design for an internal App Store by Universal Music

Visual identity for Adobe-owned company products

Ongoing design support for the leading destination for company insights

Designing a motion identity for Opera

Brand and marketing design support for an open source data structure server company

Ongoing design and development collaboration with an enterprise identity provider

Iconography guidelines, assets and web design for a digital forensics solution company

Iconography for a secure workspace software company with over 16 million cloud users

Rebranding for an open-source web testing platform with 5 million weekly downloads

Website design for a B2B data provider platform with over 50 million company records

Brand identity and website for a tool used by over 80% of Fortune 50 companies' machine learning teams

Rebranding an e-commerce solution used by 180,000 entrepreneurs

Website for a blockchain data storage network that raised more than $250M+ at ICO

Rapid prototyping for an accounting software company with over 3.7 million subscribers

UX design for a medical group and technology company with a network of nearly 140,000 licensed doctors

Iconography design system for 500 million users around the world

Ongoing UX design and CRO for child care and education company with more than 200,000 children enrolled

Developing micro-interactions for the Lightning Design System

Marketing website for the cross channel marketing platform

Capabilities

Process

Industries

2 - 8 weeks

Brand strategy & positioning

A strong brand starts with a clear strategy and well-defined positioning. This service focuses on understanding your market, competition, and audience to create actionable strategies that differentiate your brand. By aligning messaging with your business objectives, values, and mission, we establish a framework that supports sustainable growth and builds long-term relevance. Whether for established corporations or small businesses, this service lays the groundwork for effective branding initiatives.

3 - 8 weeks

Naming & verbal identity

Your brand’s name and verbal identity shape how it communicates. This service includes developing memorable names, defining tone of voice, and crafting messaging frameworks that resonate with your audience. We provide practical tools, such as detailed guidelines, band vocabulary, and examples, to help your team maintain consistency across different touchpoints. While trademark registration is outside the scope of this service, we check name uniqueness with available online services. The names we create are designed to align with broader brand strategies and ensure clarity and impact.

1 - 3 weeks

Design strategy

Design strategy bridges the gap between strategic insights and execution, creating scalable systems that ensure consistency across all touchpoints. This service includes developing strategic frameworks for visual identity and brand identity design to align with brand strategy and help in the decision-making process. By focusing on long-term scalability, we ensure your design systems remain adaptable to evolving business needs while supporting seamless integration across digital and physical applications.

1 - 3 weeks

Brand idea & conceptual metaphor

A compelling brand idea and conceptual metaphor are the foundations for all creative decisions. This service explores the essence of your brand, translating its core values and mission into a unifying idea. Conceptual metaphors inspire design, storytelling, and communication, ensuring a cohesive narrative that resonates with your audience. These elements serve as a guiding light for all branding initiatives, fostering consistency and clarity.

2 - 4 weeks

Creative platform development

Over time, brands need to become more varied in their communication. This service addresses that challenge by creating a flexible, creative platform that refreshes storytelling and visuals without needing constant redesigns. Typically updated annually, this platform ensures your brand remains relevant, engaging, and aligned with current trends. It benefits brands looking to maintain audience interest and optimize resource allocation.

4 - 12 weeks

Visual language identity

A cohesive visual language reinforces brand recognition and ensures consistency across all touchpoints. This service involves designing typography, color palettes, patterns, and layout frameworks, creating a distinctive and adaptable system. Comprehensive guidelines support implementation, ensuring that internal teams and external partners can apply the visual language effectively. This service enhances clarity and engagement by unifying your brand’s visual presence.

1 - 12 weeks

Logo design

Your logo is the centerpiece of your visual identity, embodying your brand’s values in a single mark. This service includes designing or refining logos adaptable across digital and physical platforms. We provide detailed usage guidelines, ensuring consistency in all applications. Whether creating a new logo or evolving an existing one, we guarantee it integrates seamlessly into your broader visual identity system.

2 - 14 weeks

Brand family & architecture

Creating a unified architecture is essential for organizations managing multiple brands or sub-brands. This service involves designing scalable systems that maintain the individuality of each sub-brand while ensuring cohesion under the parent brand. By simplifying decision-making and improving messaging coherence, we help businesses prepare for growth, acquisitions, or organizational restructuring while ensuring long-term consistency.

from 4 weeks

Brand illustrations & iconography system

Custom illustrations and iconography bring depth and character to your brand. This service includes designing visual assets that align with your brand identity and are optimized for use across various platforms. By reducing dependency on stock visuals, we create assets that are unique, authentic, and aligned with your brand’s voice. These elements enhance storytelling and strengthen brand recognition.

from 1 week

Motion design & animation

Motion design adds a dynamic layer to your branding, making communication more engaging and interactive. This service includes creating animations for logo, product walkthroughs, marketing campaigns, and other touchpoints. By focusing on both functionality and creativity, we ensure motion assets align with your overall brand strategy while enhancing audience engagement.

from 2 weeks

Guidelines & brand portal

We develop detailed guidelines and centralized brand portals to maintain consistency across all branding efforts. These resources include downloadable templates, approved visual standards, and best practices for implementation. This service simplifies brand management, ensuring that internal teams and external collaborators can uphold the brand’s identity and standards effectively.

ongoing, on demand

Ongoing design support

Branding is an ongoing process, and maintaining consistency requires continuous effort. This service provides expert support for daily design needs, strategic updates, and campaign adaptations. Acting as an extension of your internal team, we ensure that your branding aligns with your objectives, supporting both day-to-day operations and long-term goals.

More about services

01

Immersion & discovery

We begin every project with an in-depth discovery phase, diving deep into understanding your business, goals, and challenges. We align on the project's objectives through workshops, stakeholder interviews, and analyzing existing materials. This phase ensures clarity and sets a solid foundation for the brand strategy and all subsequent work.

02

Brand strategy & verbal identity

This phase focuses on refining your brand’s strategic direction and verbal identity. We create messaging frameworks, tone of voice guidelines, and, if necessary, naming strategies that align with your brand’s objectives. By developing precise communication tools, we ensure your messaging resonates with your audience and remains consistent across all touchpoints.

03

Design strategy & brand concept

We translate strategic insights into practical design systems and brand concepts. This phase involves creating frameworks for visual identity, design implementation, and scalability. The brand concept aligns with your business goals, ensuring that all visual elements support immediate and long-term objectives.

04

Execution & refinement

This phase involves implementing your brand's visual components, including logos, illustrations, motion graphics, and layouts. Using an iterative approach, we refine each element to ensure alignment with the overarching strategy. Testing and validation ensure that designs function effectively across all touchpoints.

05

Implementation & onboarding

We provide detailed guidelines and training resources to facilitate the seamless adoption of your brand. These tools ensure consistent application of your brand identity across teams and partners, reducing onboarding time and improving operational efficiency. We also integrate feedback loops to address any adjustments needed during implementation.

06

Ongoing support

Brands evolve, and our support helps you adapt to changing needs. This phase includes updating visual identity systems, refining messaging, and supporting new campaigns. By maintaining alignment with your strategic goals, we ensure that your branding remains relevant, consistent, and effective over time.

More about process

Case studies

Firefox
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Firefox

Official Firefox rebrand

Oppo
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Oppo

Iconography design system for 500 million users around the world

Descript
Descript
Descript

Design for the world's first audio word processor

Volusion
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Volusion

Rebranding an e-commerce solution used by 180,000 entrepreneurs

Bitmoji
Bitmoji
Bitmoji

Brand identity for iOS AppStore's most downloaded app by Snapchat

Flatfile
Flatfile logo illustration
Flatfile

Brand identity for a secure data onboarding solution that processed more than 25 billion records

What our
partners say

Ramotion is a rock solid team. They combine an innate instinct for good design with a keen understanding for real world business challenges.

Khoi Vinh

Khoi Vinh

Senior Principal Design at Adobe (New York, NY)

Ramotion was fast and efficient without sacrificing quality. Their team of designers and developers brought our vision to life and we are thankful for their expertise.

Dan Brown

Dan Brown

Senior Marketing Manager at Mozilla

Ramotion has been a highly talented, adaptive and collaborative design partner ranging from an entire site re-brand to highly responsive and extensible page, component, graphic and icon designs as we evolved our site.

Chris Bank

Chris Bank

Sr. Manager of Customer Online Experience at Okta

They’re very responsive and go above and beyond to meet our needs. We continue working with them, which is the best sign of our satisfaction.

Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason

CEO at Descript

It's not easy to stand out in the B2B tech space but with Ramotion's creativity, research-based, and system-design approach, we elevated our brand and design to new levels.

Edu Carneiro

Edu Carneiro

Head of Web Marketing, Brand & SEO at Redis

We partnered with Ramotion to redesign our entire marketing site from the ground up—new pages, messaging, graphics, and visual identity. Operating under an extremely tight timeline, they seamlessly integrated into our team and delivered at every phase of the project. The end result was a beautiful, functional, and high-converting website.

Nick Wentz

Nick Wentz

VP Marketing at Clearbit (San Francisco, CA)
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Why Ramotion?

Ramotion specializes in partnering with New York City-based companies to deliver branding solutions that reflect the city’s unique culture and diverse, fast-paced energy. By leveraging deep local market insights and proximity for seamless collaboration, we tap into NYC’s dynamic ecosystem to craft brand identities that embody the essence of the Big Apple.

Years of excellence

15+

Distributed team experts

70+

Made in exits by our clients

$3.5B+

Raised by our clients

$8.5B+

Awards & recognitions

  • Best App of the Year
  • App of The Week
  • App Store Editors' Choice

Verified Branding Agency

  • Best Branding Company in New York, NY
  • Top 3 Corporate Branding Agency in NYC

25+ Reviews

Top Branding Agency in New York

20+ Reviews

One of the Top Branding Agencies In The World

Location

Remote culture

Ramotion is primarily a remote-first company, with established meeting spaces, including one in New York

Contact us

We partner with brand and marketing executives. Whether it’s a project-based or an ongoing collaboration, we integrate seamlessly as an extension of your team, offering the expertise and productivity of the entire department.

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