Blake Manning is a brand builder.
In every aspect of his work, his focus is helping organizations find and connect with their audience in impactful ways to elicit brand awareness, reputation, engagement, and loyalty.
Based in Seattle, WA, Blake works in the mediums of storytelling, advertising, design, and the many assorted skills highlighted in this portfolio. The expansive nature of this skill set is an anomaly. It developed as the result of deep curiosity, a passion for learning, and an undying compulsion to be useful.
As a leadership level creative talent, Blake does his finest work when given access to entire creative systems and resources, and when he’s able to see the broadest possible view of an organization and what it’s setting out to achieve. Still, you can plug him into virtually any part of your creative workflow. Need a poster design? No problem. Quick photoshoot to showcase your product? Check. Complete brand refresh with updated marketing approach across every touchpoint? Consider it done.
Blake prefers to work with organizations that are actively solving problems, advancing knowledge and wisdom, building relationships, and, in a general sense, effecting positive change far and wide.
Outside of professional endeavors, Blake spends vast quantities of time studying classical literature, learning to paint with watercolors, riding bicycles, and taking his niece on adventures.
Declaration of Authenticity: Blake Manning does not, and will not, use generative artificial intelligence in his work, and actively avoids the use of all things artificial.
Services
Brand development: brand aesthetic, tone, and identification packages (logos, color palette, fonts, graphics, imagery, etc); competitive analysis, market differentiation, style guides and brand guidelines.
Advertising and marketing: ad campaign concepting, development, and implementation; marketing strategy, content creation and management; audience development; consumer psychology insights.
Visual design: graphic design using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign; web design including wireframing, UI/UX, information and content design, and site management.
Writing and editing: creative writing; scripting, copywriting, and storytelling for marketing and advertising; editorial, journalistic, and technical writing for internal and external audiences.
Photography: photographic services covering nearly any and all subject matter using studio and available lighting; retouching, photo illustration, and compositing. Specialty in portraiture, artwork and products, and architectural and real estate photography.
Architectural and product design: residential architectural design, drafting, model making, and hand rendering; product concepting and development.
Selected Clients
