Make Your Business Look As Good As It Performs.
Mayer Branding builds the visible half of an organization: the website people judge you by, the logo on the truck door, the brochure left behind after the meeting, the sign over the front door and the shirt your crew actually wears.
A full-service creative team, based in Carbondale
We help organizations build, improve and maintain how they look and how they are found. That runs from a first logo through a full website, and then through the unglamorous ongoing work: the flyer for next month, the replacement sign, the trade-show banner, the reorder of shirts before the parade.
Mayer Branding is the creative division of Mayer Networks, a technology company that has served Southern Illinois since 2006. That is an unusual pairing, and a practical one. The website, the domain, the email records and the systems behind them can be handled by one company that answers its own phone.
What we do
Eight service areas, one team. Most projects use several of them at once, which is the point.
Website Design & Development
Custom, responsive sites built from concept through launch.
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Graphic Design
Flyers, brochures, ads, decks and the everyday materials.
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Logo & Brand Identity
Marks, color, type and the rules that keep them consistent.
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Print Design
Collateral designed and prepared correctly for the press.
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Promotional Products
Apparel, drinkware and giveaways worth your name.
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Signs & Large Format
Storefronts, banners, wall graphics and vehicles.
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Social Media & Digital Presence
Profile art, campaign creative and consistent presentation.
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SEO & Website Visibility
Structure, local search, content and honest measurement.
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One website, every screen it lands on
Most visitors arrive on a phone. We design at that width first and work outward, so the desktop version is the generous one rather than the mobile version being the compromise.
Our work
Websites, identities, print, signage and merchandise for organizations across Southern Illinois. Projects are published as clients clear them.
Imagery on this page is illustrative. Client work is shown in Our Work as projects are cleared for publication.
Rebuilding a website? A few other things usually come up.
A redesign touches DNS, and DNS is also where email lives. If the same conversation raises questions about mail, security or the machines in your office, the rest of Mayer Networks is down the hall.
Is Mayer Branding a separate company from Mayer Networks?
No. Mayer Branding is the creative and marketing division of Mayer Networks, working out of the same Carbondale office. The name exists because design clients and IT clients are not always the same people.
Do we have to be an IT client to hire Mayer Branding?
Not at all. Plenty of branding clients never use the managed IT side, and plenty of IT clients have their marketing handled elsewhere. The two work well together, but neither requires the other.
What areas do you serve?
Southern Illinois primarily, including Carbondale, Marion, Murphysboro, Herrin, Mt. Vernon and Harrisburg, along with nearby parts of Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana. Website and design work is done for clients further out as well.
Can you take over work another agency started?
Usually. We review what exists, tell you what is worth keeping, and are straightforward when rebuilding something is cheaper than repairing it.
Start a branding project
Tell us what you are working on: a new site, a logo that has aged out, a sign, or all of it at once.