“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” ~ Peter F. Drucker
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We want to be the agency that small and mid-size businesses actually trust with their brand. Not the cheapest option, not the flashiest — the one that gets it right and doesn’t waste your time.
That means we stay hands-on. We don’t hand your project off to junior staff after the pitch meeting. The people you talk to are the people doing the work.
We’ve been at this since 2011, and the clients who’ve been with us the longest are the ones who value that kind of consistency.
We build brands that work — websites that load fast and convert, content that sounds like you wrote it on your best day, and marketing that actually brings in leads.
Every business we work with is different, so we don’t do packages or templates. We figure out what you need, build it, and make sure it performs. If something isn’t working, we fix it. If something is working, we do more of it.
We’re a small team on purpose. It means we’re selective about who we work with, but it also means you get our full attention.
Honestly? We want every client to feel like they got more than they paid for. That’s the bar we hold ourselves to.
We’re not trying to be the biggest agency in LA. We’re trying to be the one that people recommend to their friends because the work was good and the process wasn’t painful.
Who we are
Humes Design Creative Team
Rhiannon and Dan met at a marketing conference in LA back in 1999 — two people fresh out of college who both had opinions about branding that nobody else at the conference wanted to hear. They stayed in touch, worked at different agencies around the city, and got married in 2001.
For the next decade they built their skills and their network, always kicking around the idea of starting their own shop. In 2011, they finally did it. They rented a small office in downtown LA, named it Humes Design, and started taking on clients.
The first couple years were lean. They did everything themselves — design, copywriting, client calls, invoicing. But the work was good, and word got around. Clients started referring other clients, and eventually they were busy enough to bring on help.
Today the team includes Sahar (photography and art direction), Jared (development), and Erin (copywriting), plus freelancers when projects call for it. It’s still a small operation, which is how they like it. Every client works directly with the people doing the work, and that’s not changing anytime soon.