Indigo Creative is a design and branding firm founded in the Bay Area, California, over three decades ago. We partner with clients to support and empower their company and teams.
Our creative team includes designers, writers, photographers, developers, and SEO experts. We can scale up quickly for large projects while giving personal attention to all of the details.
Indigo Creative’s purpose is to create engaging design and branding for our clients and to empower them by sharing knowledge and expertise.
We value our clients and thrive working closely with them — Clients include:
• Renewable energy engineering firms
• Commercial construction companies
• IP attorneys
• Venture capital firms
• Government-funded agencies
• Government-funded agencies
• Foundations focusing on climate and democracy
• NGOs focused on climate solutions
• Winemakers
Many of our client partnerships span years and decades. We value relationships and deliver strong creative solutions — showing up enthusiastically with a scalable, full-service team.
Design and Branding Services
Indigo Creative offers bespoke services to meet each client’s needs:
• Full-service design and branding, handling projects from start to finish.
• Selective services to support in-house marketing teams.
We are an extension of your team—collaborating closely and adapting as needed along the way.
Full Service
Design
Copywriting
Photography
Illustration
Print
Development
Marketing
Campaigns
Social Media
Presentations
Trade Shows
Content Creation
Advertising
Branding
Brand Identity
Brand Guidelines
Visual Systems
Brand Messaging
Marketing Materials
Digital services include: website design, wireframes (UX/UI), content, development, and SEO.
Print services include: marketing materials, exhibits and signage, event materials, and promotional products.
Additional: Design for Capital Campaigns, Design using Canva, and Design and branding for Foundations
Artificial Intelligence + Design and Branding
Utilizing Artifical Intelligence (AI) where it is appropriate and efficient, we employ AI tools that include: Adobe, Canva, Midjourney, OpenAI, Perplexity, Google & Microsoft AI suites, and others.
Our team likes to learn new skills and utilize new tools. Melissa Mahoney, Indigo Creative’s Principal, completed recent AI coursework at Stanford Continuing Studies, Summer 2025: Demystifying AI: Insights from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). The course covered key issues like copyright, ownership, and liability in relation to content created with Generative AI (GenAI). This ties in directly to the services that Indigo Creative provides, and helps us provide guidance on how to utilize GenAI content and AI tools.
Melissa Mahoney, Founder and Principal of Indigo Creative
Melissa has a passion for design and branding, working in the industry for over 30 years.
Bay Area, California HQ — ”Living and working in the Bay Area, it feels exciting to be at the center of so many universities and research institutes as well as technology growth and capital investing. The culture of curiosity and learning in the Bay Area keeps me striving to learn and to perform better”, says Melissa.
Learning and knowledge-share — Melissa is a lifelong-learner, and regularly takes Stanford Continuing Studies courses including a course called Demystifying AI. It’s great to be able to share this information with my clients as they expand AI usage in their industries. Melissa also attends TED conferences and leads Discovery Sessions. She calls it “brain camp” and looks forward to the annual, weeklong conference in Vancouver, Canada. The year 2025 marked her 7th TED conference, and she’s attended many other TEDx events across the country. Says Melissa, “It’s always a thrill to arrive at the TED conference and walk into the 2000-seat theater and immerse myself for the week, listening to the 70+ talks that presenters have prepared.”
Passion for and experience in creative expression — In addition to design and branding, Melissa is an abstract painter. She utilizes large handmade calligraphy brushes to create abstract paintings. Both domestic and international collectors include Mahoney’s work in their portfolios. The US State Department selected one of her paintings for the US Ambassador’s Residence in Papua New Guinea. At TED2020 and at the TED2020 Staff Retreat, she led hands-on abstract painting discovery sessions. View Melissa’s artwork here.
This overall passion for creative expression, commercially and personally, helps Melissa deliver innovative solutions for Indigo Creatives clients.
Indigo Creative, Member of American Institute of Graphic Artists
A peer group of creative change makers, problem solvers, and design industry leaders in the graphic arts field, AIGA members have an unwavering commitment to upholding community values and standards. At Indigo Creative, we prioritize aligning our operations with these guiding principles.
