Our Studio

We are a talented team of designers, engineers, and strategists who are passionate about turning ideas into reality.

Yes, we ✎ design brands, make ❊ websites, and ☞ build digital products, but really we do so much more.

We help our clients connect with their customers. Yes, We push the boundaries of design and technology to create engaging and memorable experiences, and yes, we win awards doing this, but that is just the icing on the cake for us. Our goal is to help our clients grow, and we are pretty good at it.

Our team is small but fierce. Our diverse backgrounds give us a unique perspective mixed with creativity, pragmatism, and, dare we say, insatiable curiosity. We work collaboratively with our clients because while we are experts in a lot of things, we know you are too. We believe in transparency and working iteratively because we understand that our road ahead isn’t straight.

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10

Years in business

250+

Clients & Collaborators

BK

Based in Brooklyn, NY

40+

Industry Awards

5

Office pets

Brand Identity

Typical project includes
  • Kick-off & Alignment
  • Competitor + Industry Research
  • Strategy Framework
  • Full Brand System
  • Brand Guidelines
More Details
  • 3 month timeline (est.)
  • Ownership of all assets
  • Weekly meetings + Shared Slack
  • Flexible pricing
  • Usually paired with a website build

Need a brand from scratch? Maybe a refresh? No problem! We do this all the time. Depending on your company size, maturity, and budget, we will craft a scope that makes sense for you. All the greatest hits will be there–logos, messaging, colors, typography, graphic systems.

Making the brand ready for the world is what brings it to the next level. Adding production assets and collateral is a great way to make sure you’re ready to launch it to your hungry audience.

Websites

Typical project includes
  • Component based design
  • Information architecture
  • Interactive prototypes
  • Content creation
  • Desktop design
  • Mobile design
  • Ui kits
More Details
  • Easy to manage CMS setup
  • 3-4 Month timeline
  • Weekly meetings + Shared Slack

Want your brand to have a cozy, experiential home? Good. We think you do, too. Building the brand and website together will help the brand be better expressed on your most important asset–your website.

We often do both the design and development of the site, but can also just handle just one of those tasks. Our websites are custom and built for growth. Full of life, motion, and expression, we take pride in every line of code.

Digital Products

Typical project includes
  • Kick-off & Alignment
  • Competitor + Industry Research
  • UX Framework
  • Full UX/UI System
  • Prototypes and shared assets
  • QA & testing
More details
  • Phased approach
  • Frameworks built around audience
  • Weekly meetings + Shared Slack
  • Sprint-based pricing
  • Collaboration with development studio

To add the whole kit and kaboodle, we also love designing digital products that are a joy to use. Dating apps, education software, online communities, booking flows–you name, we can design it.

Even if you have a brand and website, we can take the framework of those and make your app for you. It’ll be fully prototyped and ready for development hand-off. Heck, we’ll even talk to them weekly to make sure the code is flawless.

Technology

Capabilities
  • Vue/Nuxt React/Next frontend
  • Sanity/Craft/Laravel/Wordpress backend
  • WebGL/ThreeJS
  • Ecommerce/Shopify Partner
Typical project includes
  • Technology Audit
  • Optimization & deployment
  • CMS & System Walkthrough
  • Prototyping
  • Sprint-based pricing
  • Collaborative team
  • High-quality scalable code

At Milkshake, we merge the worlds of design and development. Our engineers work in tandem with our design and strategy teams, ensuring no detail is overlooked while bringing your ideas to life. Our team has experience building immersive marketing sites, ecomm-stores, digital products, and apps.

Who we work with

We work with companies of all shapes and sizes, from startups to scaleups. We like to partner with companies looking to disrupt and change their industries

B2B TechB2B Tech

Consumer TechConsumer Tech

EducationEducation

eCommerceeCommerce

EntertainmentEntertainment

Biotech & HealthcareBiotech & Healthcare

Non-profit & NGONon-profit & NGO

Real EstateReal Estate

Featured partners
  • Olo

  • BetterUp

  • Juilliard

  • Mindbloom

  • Modern Meadow

  • CrunchTime

  • Time Equities

  • Cognito Therapeutics

  • Ask Wonder

  • Fabric

  • Koala

  • Virtual Dining Concepts

  • Semsee

  • Related Properties

  • Oji Life Lab

  • MyClean

  • Ironvest

  • Ghostrobot

  • Shippo

  • Architizer

  • Synchron

  • Breakwater Studios

Frequent Questions

Are you just a digital focused brand studio?

Your brand is more than just your logo – it's everything your company does and, in today's world, most of these things are digital. Your website is your brand's front door, and that's why we believe the same people who have helped to shape your brand should be the ones to bring these elements to life. However, we have a decade of experience of extending brands into print, out-of-home, event activiations, merchandise, packaging, and everything in between.

What type of projects do you take on?

While much of what we do is A-through-Z brand, web, and tech, we also work as specialists. Building out brand systems, redefining your digital experience, building new product, or positioning your company. We can fit in any almost any point in the process. We like enthusiastic founders who like to break the mold. We love businesses looking to shake things up.

How long is a typical engagement?

This varies quite a bit, but expect a project to take about 3-6 months. If it's a branding project, expect closer to 3. Brand + Web? 4-6 months is realistic. For retainer-based projects, we generally start with 3-month engagements and work up from there. We're quite flexible on how these are structured. Just ask.

How are your projects structured?

Each phase of the project is broken down into sprints, meaning 1-2 week cycles where we outline the goals and tasks, and present the work to you at the end of it. On top of that, we love open communications channels like Slack, and have a weekly stand-up to align, brainstorm, and share progress.

We need to start right now. Is that possible?

First, we need to meet you. Once we have our introduction call, we can draft up a proposal which usually takes 3-5 business days. From there, we will review it with your team to clarify any questions. If we're speaking the same language, we generally start a week or two after that. So to sum up, yes. But not until contracts are signed.