We are a small team by choice.

There is value in keeping things lean during the production process. This is true for any business, but at Corbett Creative, we want this value to translate directly to clients and staff. Getting across the finish line at any cost ends up creating products / profits on the hard work of under-represented artists. We’ve worked in this environment and it is the exact thing we want to avoid. We are unwavering in our dedication to making things equitable for all those involved. Any specialty work outside of our team’s abilities will be contracted with no “finders fee”. This ensures that anyone interested in collaboration with our team is able to maintain their independent rate and the client is able to let their imagination run wild.

We’re rule breakers.

In every creative medium, there are established visual “rules”. We bend them. Sometimes we break them.

Sterile, lifeless visuals won’t inspire anyone, and we are driven by that “aha!” moment at the end of every project. Every obstacle along the way requires two consecutive questions:

“How do we avoid this?” and then, “How do we solve this?”

Most agencies only ask the first question, and don’t brainstorm beyond the first correct answer. With the infinite possibilities available in our medium, it seems silly to settle without some experimentation. Who says you can’t put this color with that one? Who cares?

We are the plug.

Our network of connections is pretty insane.

We are fundamentally built to support our collaborators. Some creative concepts are just beyond the abilities of our small team, but our clients can take advantage of our longstanding creative connections across the US. When a project needs extra hands, we know exactly which individuals to contact and how to avoid the trappings of working with unknown freelancers.

We (Corbett Creative) don’t charge a middle-man fee for any contracted work to help keep all of our projects both affordable and profitable.

We are selective about clientele.

So we know it sounds a bit conceited at first, but hear us out…

Our team is only able to take on a certain amount of work due to our size, and inherent quality standards. Establishing this line in the sand allows us to put everything we have into ongoing projects. Over-promising and under-delivering is the ultimate failing of a creative agency in our opinion, and we will avoid it at all costs.

Our portfolio of work isn’t just a means to an end. We want to represent stories which we can feel proud to showcase. Clients that work with us can rest assured that their projects will be featured on our site alongside brands with integrity.

We are real.

If this brand isn’t an authentic voice for the founders, staff, and collaborators, it will be an outright failure. Many creative agencies get caught up in buzz words and rhetoric, and it is easy to lose track of the true mission. We may slip up and say something like “ignite visual harmony”, but we really just wanna make pretty stuff that makes people smile.

We hate the idea of our creative process causing stress on anyone involved. If a client or collaborator walks away from a project feeling misrepresented, we aren’t doing what we set out to do. Our goal of maintaining “realness” translates into everything we do: budget negotiation, timeline projections, progress updates, on-site professionalism, copyright, etc.

We are growing (organically).

A key vision of this agency is to grow at a consistent pace. Business which try to “blow up” don’t consider the value of a low-and-slow sizzle. There are a couple of things about this method which will benefit all those involved.

Our tiny team is built to handle a wide range of creative tasks, but we can see the eventual need to employ further full-time members. Until that critical time is reached, we will simply contract an individual when the project calls for it.

Collaborators and clients can see directly where their money goes with invoices that back up our claims of transparency. We charge rates designated by the raw hours spent producing, not to secretly pad our account for some future project.

At the end of the day, we just want to create a longstanding creative tool for our community.