Palo Alto-based design and branding firm
The culture of curiosity and sharing knowledge in the Bay Area keeps our team learning and performing better. It’s energizing to be at the center of technology growth, capital investing, universities, and research institutes. We channel this energy and knowledge to deliver results-oriented marketing solutions through research, strategy, and great design.
Indigo Creative is a robust and flexible design and branding firm. Our team executes projects of any size and complexity, while meeting deadlines and staying within budget.
We work with our clients in two ways:
Full-service design and branding — from concept to completion.
Collaborate with and support in-house teams — marketing directors, operations directors, CEOs, executive directors, and executive assistants.
Full-service design and branding
Creating engaging design and branding for our clients and empowering them by sharing knowledge and expertise. We can scale up quickly for large projects while giving personal attention to all of the details.
Full-Service
Design
Copywriting
Photography
Illustration
Digital/Print
Marketing
Campaigns
Social Media
Presentations
Trade Shows
Collateral
Branding
Identity
Guidelines
Visual Systems
Messaging
Style Guides
Websites
Wireframes/UX
Design
Copywriting
SEO/GEO
Development
Our creative team includes designers, writers, photographers, developers, and SEO/GEO experts.
Melissa Mahoney is the founder and principal of Indigo Creative, the design and branding firm that she has led for more than three decades. A creative director, a designer, a brand strategist, and an accomplished artist, Melissa has built her career around translating complex ideas into clear, compelling and beautifully executed visual communications.
Since founding Indigo in 1993, Melissa has led brand strategy, identity, campaigns, websites and communications for global companies, foundations, nonprofits, and cultural institutions. Her work has included Hewlett Packard Enterprise, SAP and various family foundations in Silicon Valley, among others.
A six-time LogoLounge award winner, Melissa is known for combining strategic thinking, and exceptional craft with close, enduring client partnerships, many spanning years or decades and often growing into friendships. Her natural curiosity and ability to listen closely help her uncover the real needs of a client, organization or brand — and often reveal opportunities that aren’t apparent at the outset.
Melissa’s leadership of Indigo is informed by her parallel career as an abstract painter. Her work is held in U.S. and international collections, and the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies program selected her painting Pacific Rising for the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Papua New Guinea. She has exhibited widely and led an interactive painting experience at TED2020. View Melissa’s artwork here.
For Melissa, art and design continually reinforce one another: experimentation sharpens intuition, disciplined craft elevates execution, and curiosity opens the door to unexpected solutions.