What this is
Most brands get built in pieces. A designer for the logo. A freelancer for the site. A factory found through a group chat. A friend with a camera.
Four people, four timelines, nobody accountable for the outcome.
We do all of it under one roof. Take the whole thing, or take the one piece you're stuck on.
Who it's for
You have a brand in your head and no clear path to holding it in your hands. Maybe there's a name. Maybe a few sketches, a moodboard, an unused handle.
Or maybe you're already selling and one part is broken — the site looks like everyone else's, or you've got a product you can't find anyone to make properly.
Either way, you'd rather run your brand than manage four vendors.
What we offer
Every service below stands alone. Buy one, buy three, buy all of it.
Brand System
Primary mark, secondary marks, typography, color, usage guide. The foundation every vendor after us will work from.
Storefront
Shopify built for drops. Product pages, collections, checkout, email capture, release structure. Yours to run after handoff.
Tech Packs
Flats, graded spec sheets, construction and stitch callouts, trim sheets, Pantone colorways. The document a factory needs to make it right the first time.
Manufacturing Setup
Factory sourcing and introduction, sample round management, revision notes through to an approved production sample. Domestic print or overseas development.
Product Imagery
3D product renders for pre-launch and pre-order, plus a photography direction sheet for your first real shoot.
Packages
Bundled work is priced below the sum of its parts, and it moves faster — one brief, one direction, no re-explaining your brand to the next vendor.
Identity
Brand system + storefront.
For brands that have product but no presence.
Product
Tech packs, 3 styles + manufacturing setup + product imagery.
For brands with an audience and nothing to sell them yet.
Full
Everything above. Idea to first order shipped.
Standard rate $5,500 after the founding program closes.
What's not included
Said plainly, because you'll find out eventually anyway.
Manufacturing costs
You pay your factory directly. We never take possession of goods or hold your money.
Production coordination past the first approved sample
Ongoing production management is billed separately at 8% of purchase order value.
Duties, freight, and customs
Quoted separately and paid by you. Rates move — we won't guess at a landed cost on your behalf.
Photography production
We provide renders and creative direction. On-location shoots, studio time, and models are booked and paid by you.
Timeline
There are two clocks on a project like this. Ours is fast. The factory's isn't.
Stages run in parallel where they can. A full package clears our side in roughly four weeks.
This is the honest part. Once a tech pack goes to a factory, the timeline belongs to them. A clean first sample is fast. A bad one means another round. Anyone who promises you a two-week sample is either using stock blanks or lying.
Timelines shift with what's on the board. If the schedule is open we'll start immediately and often finish early. If we're mid-build with another brand, we'll tell you the real start date before you pay anything — never after.
The trade
The founding rate isn't a discount. It's an exchange.
Founding pricing on any service or package, and direct access to the studio for the entire build.
The right to document the work — process, photography, finished result — published as a case study, plus a testimonial on delivery.
Three spots. When they're filled, the program closes and rates go to standard.
Terms
50% due at signing, non-refundable. 50% at handoff.
Two revision rounds included at each stage. $250 per round after.
Morton Grove Studio LLC. All work delivered under written agreement.
Three spots. Then rates double.
Tell us what you're building and which part you're stuck on. If it's a fit, we'll send scope and a start date.