A BOUTIQUE BRANDING STUDIO
We help small business founders build high-end, cohesive visual identities and luxury brand experiences
FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS
FOR BEAUTY BRANDS
FOR WELLNESS BRANDS
FOR ONLINE COACHES
FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
FOR THERAPISTS
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Is your business outgrowing your brand? You’ve built a premium, high-end client experience but you don’t feel confident sharing your brand and website with the world? Let’s change that. We’ll create a strategic and artful visual identity that will yield measurable results for your business.
Signature Services
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Get to know your business at the deepest level. Brand strategy helps you to craft your story and provides a messaging strategy to tell it. It enables you to hone in on your target audience so that you can better understand how to speak to them and tailor your content in a way that will result in growth, trust and loyalty.
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Stop your dream client or customer in their tracks with an elevated, professional visual identity people will remember you by.
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High-end Squarespace design with a streamlined user experience, built to cut the fluff, captivate and convert your target audience.
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A collection of on-brand visuals starring you , that support and reflect the cohesive visual identity we've built. Not local? We'll provide creative direction for your brand photoshoot.
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Set your website up for SEO success with one-time SEO set up or ongoing services.
“Measurable ROI since hiring Shannon”
Since hiring Shannon, my business has grown exponentially. I was hoping to see a measurable ROI and I have. It has paid back ten fold! Shannon was able to put into words what I have been unable to by providing me with audience analysis and giving me incredible marketing direction. I have maxed out on bookings and I am only in the 4th month of the year! The process was streamlined and efficient. Shannon was thorough and easy to work with. I almost felt as though she was reading my mail sometimes because her suggestions and designs were SO aligned with my branding and where I wanted to go! Hiring Shannon was one of the best decisions I ever made!
-chandler thornton
For Creatives
The Studio CEO Launch Guide
How to pivot from freelancer to thriving design studio owner
FOR ENTREPRENEURS
The Brand Building Blueprint
Discover your dream client or customer
Build trust with core values
Determine your brand promise
Craft your mission & vision statement
Identify your brand vision & design style
Create a brand mood board
Unveil a hierarchy of information for a successful website
Founder. Designer. Builder. Dreamer.
MEET SHANNON GALLAHER
I’m Shannon, the Founder of City & Sea. In 2022, I was Creative Director at a digital marketing agency based out of NYC, and expecting my second baby. I had landed my dream job, but life didn’t feel sustainable: wake up before the sunrise, rush my toddler to daycare, work from 9am-6pm, spend my entire paycheck on childcare, spend the weekends catching up on chores I didn’t have time for. Repeat. I had climbed the ladder, and then abruptly decided to launch myself off of it. It felt kind of like jumping out of a plane without a parachute. Exhilarating, terrifying, and downright reckless. Turns out, I landed safely. And I’m never looking back.
Today, I get to help powerhouse founders in scaling their businesses through brand strategy and design. I spend every day somewhere at the intersection of creativity and strategy and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Together, we will elevate your brand, attract your dream audience, generate more leads, sell more product, and watch your business grow.
This is my dream, and I’m honored to be a part of yours.
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“So kind, professional and knowledgeable!”
Shannon was an absolute dream to work with. She took my sad little website and turned it into my exact vision. I really struggled with putting my vision into words. Shannon’s questionnaire was so helpful in helping me realize what it was that I was actually wanting, who I was as a brand, and what I wanted that to look like to customers. I feel so proud of the website Shannon created for me! Everything about this process exceeded my expectations. Communication, timeliness, professionalism, and end result. The videos that Shannon sent guiding me through maintaining my website after our work together was complete were SO HELPFUL! I can go back and revisit those if I forget how to add a product to my website or make any changes.