A Highly Collaborative Branding Studio
Meet the Team
Melissa enjoys learning about an organization’s brand and brainstorming ways to take it to the next level. She also has a love for bicycling, volleyball, traveling, plants, sunshine, coffee, art, craft beverages, and puppers.
Melissa Carlson
Partner
Rachel listens to the client’s design needs and works hard to find the right solution, not the first solution, to any project. She enjoys golfing, meeting people, quoting movies, drinking craft beer, learning to play piano, and road trips.
Rachel Abel
Partner
With a work smarter, not harder approach to creative problem solving, Megan brings brands to life in a no-nonsense manner. In her free time you can find Megan making a mess in the kitchen or on Google Maps planning her next trip. Megan has strong opinions on what can and cannot be considered a grilled cheese sandwich.
Megan Pralle
Creative Director
Sarah McCoy
Design Director
Bree strives to create design solutions that elevate every aspect of the human experience. She is a hobbyist woodworker and dream pop enthusiast who loves game nights, sunny hikes, hoppy beer, serial television, and curling up with her cuddly pile of house cats.
Bree Glenn
Environmental Design Director
Kallie Beebe
Graphic Designer
Megan likes to approach every design with the same dedication to detail no matter the size of the project and believes the smallest details can have the largest impact. She enjoys taco Tuesdays, a Sunday drive, true crime documentaries, and live music.
Megan Thompson
Graphic Designer
Hannah Cohen
Graphic Designer
We love what we do.
Our Services
A Proven Process
DISCOVER
We listen. A lot. Discovery allows us to establish the specific problems your organization faces and will inform and guide our design process.
DEVELOP
Using a highly collaborative approach, we will present our findings, recommend solutions and develop an overall strategy.
DESIGN
We will give you a solid visual identity that matches a personality, and design materials to catch the eye of your target audience.
DELIVER
We deliver. Together, we will strategically launch into the world then get to work on brand management. After all, the end of this process is really only the beginning of the journey.
Through design, we make a difference.

Let’s work together and
create amazing things.
LOCATE US
440 E. Grand Ave., Ste. E
Des Moines, IA 50309
FOLLOW US
CONTACT US
design@818iowa.com
515-805-5239