Branding agency in San Antonio

Because Bruno knows how to tell the story of a company with history without locking it in the past. Our strategists draw out the story through interviews, our copywriters give it a voice, our art directors a recognizable sign. One in-house team, from the first interview to the website. For a San Antonio company, it’s also a team only two hours behind.

A project between San Antonio and San Francisco runs mostly over video, with Bruno’s team at 415 Mission St. Kickoff interviews, workshops and presentations are scheduled around your hours, two hours ahead of ours. Between meetings, you follow progress in shared files. There’s no Texas office, but a flight out remains an option for the key moments.

Not every branding agency builds websites, but Bruno designs and develops them in-house, right after the identity. The design and UX pick up the brand’s choices, then our developers build the site (web development). Bruno is also a Framer Expert. A site handed to a separate team tends to lose the brand by the second click.

Several Bruno projects run from strategy all the way to the screen. Ornikar got a full rebrand, from art direction to the product, through UX/UI and web. For Shares, the same team created the branding and guidelines, then launched the site. Le Studio, which runs shared workspaces, got guidelines as warm as its spaces.

Bruno recommends a brand that works first where customers book, which usually means on a phone. In a city where the Alamo and the River Walk draw visitors all year, the experience matters as much as the logo. Since 2012, Bruno has worked with Xola, a booking platform for tourism and leisure, on an experience designed for phones, tablets, desktops and kiosks.

Not always, but Bruno looks for one when the company has a simple idea to carry. For Weglot, which translates websites into any language, the identity was built around a prism: light goes in as one color and comes out as many. A symbol works when it says the idea without a caption. If it needs explaining, it’s just a drawing.

At Bruno, a full brand takes three to five months on average to build; a website takes two to four months on its own. Those averages vary a lot with the starting point: a family business modernizing a brand everyone knows doesn’t move like a brand-new one. The number of decision-makers does the rest. The schedule is set stage by stage at kickoff.