Web designers, developers, strategists, branders. This is Spoke.
Spoke is a multi-disciplined group of web industry veterans who invent and reinvigorate online brands using high-impact creativity coupled with low-cost technologies.
We believe:
The audience is always right.
Most of the time.
There’s no question that your audience is firmly in the driver’s seat of your brand. That doesn’t mean they should joyride it anywhere they want. It simply means we need to listen, and engage in conversations that help steer the brand in a direction that benefits everyone.
Our clients are partners.
Experience has shown that the most successful solutions are born when we work as equals with our clients. We do a better job when we gain an intimate understanding of your business, while you receive more value by participating at every stage of the process. Everybody wins.
Speaking up keeps costs down.
Our process ensures the timely and cost-effective delivery of your project. By over-communicating at each stage of the project life cycle (via a powerful client extranet and project management toolset), we can tackle setbacks and tame budgets quickly.
The project is prelude.
Rarely do we hand over the keys to the house and walk away. Digital media platforms require tender loving care—sometimes over weeks and months— to show meaningful returns. Finishing a project is just the beginning of our long-term committment to the platform, the audience, and to you.
We place pragmatism before passion (although we have plenty of that too). Pride before profit.
Leadership:
W. Gene Powell
Gene launched Spoke in 2009 with the goal of helping businesses define and build digital marketing platforms that empower, influence and add customers. An award-winning designer, his interactive, video and print work has been honored by the Detroit Chapter of the AIGA, STEP Inside Design Magazine, The Toledo Ad Club, the e-Healthcare Leadership Awards and the Communication Union of Norway.
Mark Priestap
Mark is a highly versatile designer and developer with a contagious passion for web standards. His work has been recognized by the Astral Awards, Web Cream and Digital Web Magazine. His design and development work for Denver Seminary was featured in The EduStyle Guide to Usable Higher Ed Homepage Design. When not designing for Spoke clients, Mark designs popular blog properties for AOL.