Creative Director specializing in brand identity, strategy, and direction. 15 years building brands that think, feel, and perform. From luxury to Web3, enterprise to startup, identity systems to character development. Open to Creative Director roles.
Brand strategy and creative direction rooted in psychology. Every project starts with a question most designers skip: what does this audience feel before they think? The answer shapes everything. Identity, voice, motion, digital experience, physical touchpoints. This is not decoration. It is architecture.
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Open to director-level roles, agency partnerships, and select brand projects.
Remote-first. Available now.
Josh Pears offers brand strategy, brand identity systems, creative and art direction, graphic design, photography (lifestyle, product, event, and landscape and environmental), video, motion graphics, and website design and development. Every project is built on the same brand strategy, so the work holds together from the first business card to the last page of the website. See it in the portfolio and the photo galleries.
Start with the free consultation or call (928) HI-PEARS. It’s a 1-hour conversation about your goals and your brand, and you’ll leave with a clear sense of what the project needs even if we don’t end up working together. Not sure what you need yet? Browse the services first.
It depends on scope. A logo refresh and a full identity system with launch assets are very different animals. After the consultation, I send a written proposal that spells out the scope, the timeline, and the cost, so you know the number before a single sketch exists and nothing on the invoice comes as a surprise.
It usually takes a few weeks from discovery to delivery, and longer once naming or a new website joins the project. You’ll get a firm timeline in the proposal.
A strong brand identity starts with strategy. On its own, a logo is a signature with no letter attached. It pairs a clear position and personality with a visual system and a voice that stay consistent everywhere the brand appears.
Yes. Nearly all of my brand and web work happens remotely, with clients wherever they are.
Josh Pears is a creative director with 15 years of experience in brand strategy, identity design, art direction, photography, and web development. Read more on the About page.