If you’re ready for elevated design, let’s talk.
Every strong project begins with a conversation. If you’re looking for strategy-driven design, clarity, and visuals that reflect your business at its best — I’d love to hear more.
For businesses that want a signature brand and a website built with intention. With over two decades of design experience, I build digital identities and online experiences designed to look incredible, function beautifully, and help your business grow.
Custom branding & website design crafted with strategy, clarity, and a little attitude.
You’ve got big ideas.
NAVIGATE:
the design studio
currently accepting project from january 2026 and beyond
Your business is too for design that feels improvised.
Refinery Nine Studio is where I take on a limited number of custom projects: strategic brand identities, fully built websites, and focused design intensives. Everything here is crafted from the inside out — starting with who you are, what you do, and the story your visuals need to tell.
This is not “drag, drop, hope for the best.”
This is process, clarity, structure, typography logic, UX discipline, and design that feels refined instead of rushed.
Whether you’re leveling up your brand, launching a new business, or finally ready for a website that doesn’t look DIY, I bring expert direction, clean design, and long-term thinking to the table. business owners stop playing small and start showing up like the powerhouses they are.
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We don’t do
bland.
We do bold
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intentional
How we can work together
For small biz owners, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are playing small online.
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website in a week
Template Customization & Strategic Launch
Need a professional site fast — without the full custom process?
Choose one of my Showit templates and I’ll fully personalize it with your branding, content, structure, layout refinements, and design details. One week, zero overwhelm, and a site you’re proud to launch.
investment starts at: $3500
Not sure which direction to take?
Here’s the quick breakdown that usually helps:
Website in a Week
Custom Website Design
If you love one of my templates and want it customized to match your branding, content, and goals — choose this. Fast turnaround, pro finish, and a site that looks fully original.
Best for:
Small businesses, consultants, creatives, and modern brands who want:
Best for:
Small businesses, consultants, creatives, and modern brands who want:
- a professional website fast
- strategic design guidance
- expert execution
- minimal stress
- a site that looks fully original without the custom invoice
If you need a completely original build — advanced structure, unique page layouts, deeper UX mapping, strategic conversion flow, or e-commerce — custom is the right call.
Best For:
Established businesses, founders, and organizations that need:
If you’re scaling, launching, or need complexity handled correctly the first time, go custom.
Best For:
Established businesses, founders, and organizations that need:
- unique layouts
- deeper page structures
- sales funnels or multi-offer architecture
- advanced features
- membership, blog, or e-commerce functionality
- full brand integration
- an elevated user experience
If you’re scaling, launching, or need complexity handled correctly the first time, go custom.
Brand Strategy & Visual Identity
Foundational Branding Built with Intention
If your visuals feel disconnected, unclear, inconsistent, off-brand, outdated, or simply “not quite right,” start with brand development.
Strategy shapes everything else — and a strong identity makes every website, email, and piece of content look more professional instantly.
Best For:
This is where you build the foundation that makes everything else easier.
If your visuals feel disconnected, unclear, inconsistent, off-brand, outdated, or simply “not quite right,” start with brand development.
Strategy shapes everything else — and a strong identity makes every website, email, and piece of content look more professional instantly.
Best For:
- Businesses who need:
- a clear brand direction
- consistent visual language
- messaging clarity
- logo systems that scale
- typography hierarchy
- curated color palettes
- cohesive design across web, social, and print
This is where you build the foundation that makes everything else easier.
VIP Intensives
Focused Design Support for Specific Projects
If you don’t need the full process of a rebrand or custom site — but you DO need professional design support for one specific project — an intensive gets it done fast and correctly.
It’s hands-on, efficient, and perfect for projects with tight deadlines.
Best For:
If it needs to look professionally designed and you can’t (or don’t want to) DIY it, this is your lane.
If you don’t need the full process of a rebrand or custom site — but you DO need professional design support for one specific project — an intensive gets it done fast and correctly.
It’s hands-on, efficient, and perfect for projects with tight deadlines.
Best For:
- Businesses who need high-quality design for:
- PDFs
- presentations
- pitch decks
- printed collateral
- signage
- event materials
- digital product design
- booklet layout
- packaging
- small web sections or landing pages
- marketing campaign assets
If it needs to look professionally designed and you can’t (or don’t want to) DIY it, this is your lane.
Still not sure? Start an inquiry and I’ll point you in the right direction.
Strategy-first. Design-obsessed. Experience-backed.
Strong design is quiet, intentional, and rooted in structure.
I’ve built brands and digital experiences for over two decades — applying systems thinking, layout principles, type hierarchy, UX logic, and visual refinement to everything I make.
Foundational Branding Built with Intention
If your visuals feel disconnected, unclear, inconsistent, off-brand, outdated, or simply “not quite right,” start with brand development.
Strategy shapes everything else — and a strong identity makes every website, email, and piece of content look more professional instantly.
Best For:
This is where you build the foundation that makes everything else easier.
If your visuals feel disconnected, unclear, inconsistent, off-brand, outdated, or simply “not quite right,” start with brand development.
Strategy shapes everything else — and a strong identity makes every website, email, and piece of content look more professional instantly.
Best For:
- Businesses who need:
- a clear brand direction
- consistent visual language
- messaging clarity
- logo systems that scale
- typography hierarchy
- curated color palettes
- cohesive design across web, social, and print
This is where you build the foundation that makes everything else easier.
Foundational Branding Built with Intention
If your visuals feel disconnected, unclear, inconsistent, off-brand, outdated, or simply “not quite right,” start with brand development.
Strategy shapes everything else — and a strong identity makes every website, email, and piece of content look more professional instantly.
Best For:
This is where you build the foundation that makes everything else easier.
If your visuals feel disconnected, unclear, inconsistent, off-brand, outdated, or simply “not quite right,” start with brand development.
Strategy shapes everything else — and a strong identity makes every website, email, and piece of content look more professional instantly.
Best For:
- Businesses who need:
- a clear brand direction
- consistent visual language
- messaging clarity
- logo systems that scale
- typography hierarchy
- curated color palettes
- cohesive design across web, social, and print
This is where you build the foundation that makes everything else easier.
When we work together, I don’t just deliver pretty visuals.
I solve problems, clarify communication, build consistency, and design with purpose.
Your business deserves to look as legitimate as it is.
Let’s make that happen.
How works
it
1. Inquiry
Tell me about your goals, timeline, and needs.
2. Strategy Call
We discuss structure, brand direction, audience, and opportunities.
3. Proposal & Scope
I outline deliverables, pricing, and timelines.
4. Design & Build
Identity development, layout direction, UX, visual systems, and structure — depending on the service selected.
5. Refinement & Launch
Feedback, polish, final files, implementation, and rollout support.
Build an INTENTIONAL and ALIGNED brand from start to finish to get REAL results like these.
What I gained in working with Rachel could be summed up in three words - confidence, clarity, and alignment. She truly understands what you need as your business grows and over-delivers.
What I gained in working with Rachel could be summed up in three words - confidence, clarity, and alignment. She truly understands what you need as your business grows and over-delivers.
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