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Company Overview

We help small businesses in San Antonio to define and refine their brand identities through web design and graphic design services. We are here to make companies look good and have a story to back up their image. We believe people buy stories, not products or services; this is why people choose brand names (stories), over generic labels. We want to help your business thrive, by curating a brand for your business to sell.

Design Services

Our services that we are known best for are:

We Are Interested in a Long-Term Relationship

We find that after a client does business with us, they will stick around and ask for help designing other supporting marketing materials, such as brochures and business cards.

Our Goals for You

We listen to our clients, hear their goals, identify their problems and provide them with a great solution, even if it was not the solution that they were expecting. We want to curate the best image for your business, using the best communication channels available to reach your audience. If we think that you are not ready for a design project, we will let you know. We would rather you get the right advice for your situation, rather than you go forward with a design project that is not going to bring you much value.

What Can We Design for You?

We can craft a epically cool website that can pay for itself by bringing in more business and you can update yourself.
We can design a unique print brochure with custom folds and boutique paper stocks.
We can design a logo worth trademarking and stamping on all of your collateral for years.

Our Mission

We want to elevate the appreciation of graphic design for the general public in Texas, with a focus on San Antonio. Where better to open the eye’s of the public than in our own neighborhood? We hope more people can understand the value of design and hoping they may learn a few design principles that can apply to many aspects of work or life. For instance, unity, variety, repetition, hierarchy, aren’t just good principles for graphics, but for a healthy lifestyle as well.

Our Vision and Goal

The goal of Concept Incarnate is to shape and enhance brand identities based off of goals set by clients, allowing clients to put on their big-boy pants and grow to the next level, while teaching out clients the value of design.

By brand identity graphics, we mean visuals that will represent your company for a long time. We want to create your logo in a creative and effective way that allows it last 10 years. We want to make your website have manageable content and flexibility so that you are not shopping for another website design next year. We want to create design assets that have a long shelf life, giving you more bang for your buck.

We listen to our clients, hear their goals, identify their problems and provide them with a great solution, even if it was not the solution that they were expecting. We want to curate the best image for businesses, using the best communication channels available to reach the target audience. In the long term, Concept Incarnate does not plan to sell out or move away from San Antonio.

The owner, Ellice Sanchez, just loves design and San Antonio too much to ever stop and can’t imagine ever doing anything different. She plans to grow the creative team to better serve her hometown with marketing and communication offerings that small businesses need to grow.

What Makes Concept Incarnate Different From Other Design Firms

We will offer fair, value-based pricing to quality, honest work.

Our goal isn’t to be rich and rule the world; our goal is to create a great design in an ethical manner. We will also be honest with our clients are all times. If something isn’t possible or if changing a design from one piece of paper to another saves a client significantly at cost, we will tell them; even it is means less profits for us. We want client retention and loyalty rather than get huge profits one-time from omitting the truth that is not in the best interest of the client.

Business Goal-Oriented Design & Graphic Design Education for Clients

We will also involve our clients in the design process through the entire design job. There will not be any surprises in your bill you your final design. We will educate you on the research, planning and design decisions made. We won’t just say it was designed a certain way ‘just cause.’ We will give you the reasons a design decisions was made and how it contributes to the goal so that you can truly understand the full value of your services. Our clients may not have a clue as to what design principals are when they come to us, but they definitely know how design principals enhance their business objects when a project is finalized.

Organization’s Background

Concept Incarnate specializes in providing graphic design services for print and web-based mediums. We love design jobs that are inclusive of web, video and print based assets, as reaching your audience by multiple channels is much more effective than trying to reach your audience with one piece of marketing material.

Concept Incarnate started in 2008, with the entrepreneurship of Ellice Sanchez. She was ready to begin designing for client while still in college and was not afraid to start designing collateral for local businesses; it was this motivation and drive that helped her establish a diverse portfolio and her own design agency. Since then, Sanchez has worked to gain higher profile clientele, and provider larger projects with greater value to Concept Incarnate’s growing client base.

Why We I Started This Business

A message from the founder

I take every client seriously and take time to understand their unique challenges and goals. This is why you won’t expect to see prices listed here. Every client is different and I price based on the value that I can give to you. Nothing of value can ever come for free. Working from scratch takes time, but produces a more powerful result for your business than a stock or template design can ever hope to reach.

I don’t plan on becoming a millionaire or some sort of international design firm. Money and power are not my goals; helping small business grow is my goal. I just want to make good design for San Antonio, and the rest of Texas, at living wages. I want to open up the eyes of San Antonians and Texans to have a true appreciation for good design and how in contributes functionally to a goal of a product, service or idea.

Anyone can make _a_ website/logo/brochure/video but that does not mean they will make it a good one.

Ellice Sanchez
Designer-in-Chief

What’s Our Bottom Line?

While most companies consider their bottom line to mean profits, we have a different opinion. Our bottom line is employee happiness.

It is thing that we value the most is one of the driving reasons that the owner of Concept Incarnate wanted to expand. We want to make sure our team members are happy. In fact, we actually shy away from saying employee, and opt for the word, “team member.” This is because the word, “employee,” by definition of the Texas government is to ‘submit or to slave for.’ We respect out team members and certainly do not want to have them slaving away at a job they hate. We want our team members to feel empowered, free, and happy.
We treat team members with a professional respect. We want to provide our team members with more than a bare minimum wage, because when you are secure and happy in your personal life, this happiness will abundantly spread into your work life. We feel that there are many jobs where one can be unhappy at; we can’t change what other businesses do, but we can control what we do. Quality of life happiness of team members is very important to us; life is to short to be unhappy at a job that one spends most of their day at. If our employees are not happy, what’s the point of running a business and working here? We could all be miserable and just try to burn out the clock to get to the end of the work day anywhere else.