About Wells
Wells Collins is an award winning brand designer based out of Denver, Colorado with a passion for designing logos, bespoke wordmarks, and cohesive brand systems. He believes great design is the product of collaboration and iteration.
Wells Collins is a highly-acclaimed brand designer based in Denver, Colorado with a passion for creating logos, bespoke wordmarks, and comprehensive brand systems. He is best known for his custom type and hand lettered works. His style adapts to the needs of his clients and the spirit of the work itself. He finds inspiration in everything from furniture design, to restaurant match books.
With a focus on collaboration and iteration, Wells believes that great design is a product of a shared creative process. He has worked with a diverse range of clients from all over the world, including coffee shops, restaurants, fin-tech startups, cannabis ventures, and he’s even helped brand other agencies find their look. His versatility and ability to adapt to new industries and design problems has made him a sought-after designer in his field.
His work always originates with a pen put to paper. Quantity leads to quality when it comes to his ideation process. In the Discovery Phase of a any design project, traditional methods of drawing by hand allow him to think quickly and iterate even faster.
Past Clients:
Georgia Pacific
Chick-fil-A
Primrose Schools
Barry’s Bootcamp
PureCars
Do Vitamins
Red Bull
Interests:
Hand lettering
Morning jazz
Backpacking
Mountain biking
Appreciating architecture
& being a dad
Design Capabilities
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Visual Brand Identity
A brand is built by the experiences and feelings your clients have with your company. Our responsibility is to learn your company inside and out to discover what makes you unique. We then boil down our findings down to a concise identity that speaks to your brand’s mission and resonates with your audience. We create a logo with the full brand picture in mind and design a system that gives a consistent feel across all of your touchpoints.
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Product Packaging Design
Product packaging, most simply, refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages for products. We use our knowledge of brand building to create beautiful product packaging design that combines not only your company’s objectives, but also speaks to your audience’s needs. Great packaging design will be eye-catching, visually pleasing, and memorable, while aligning with the product inside.
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Web + Digital Design
Your website is the front door to your company. Once people hear your name, the next place they’ll look to learn more is your website. We craft meaningful web experiences with thoughtful UX and stunning UI design. Our projects have ranged from networking platforms to e-commerce stores. Similar to our branding process, we feel it’s imperative to know your goals and objectives to ensure a successful launch and maintained success.
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Wordmark Logo Design
I love to design all styles of logos, but I’ve found that my specialty is wordmark logo design. The "word mark", is the brand name styled as a logo. The advantage of this is obvious - it immediately associates a business name with the visual identity and does not leave much room for brand confusion. Creating the letters from scratch with subtle identifiers allows the type to stand alone as a symbol for the brand.
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Logo Refresh
A refresh to your current logo helps to revitalize your brand and keeps the visual equity you've worked hard to build. Small details can make or break a logo. It's important for your logo to evolve along with your company. After a thorough review, we work closely with you to refine the mark while retaining your brand's ethos. “The details are not the details, they make the design” - Charles Eames
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Studio Photography
With the retail landscape shifting away from brick and mortar and more to online e-commerce sales, great product photography is essential to sell products. Quality studio photography gives buyers confidence and a clear picture of what they're buying. I work with brands to create vibrant visual content for social media, e-commerce stores, and amazon+ product pages.
Hello, my name is Wells.
I design what matters for people who care.
Selected Accolades:
Communication Arts 2024 Typography Annual
Logo Lounge 14 - 9 Logos Featured
Logo Lounge 13 - 5 Logos Featured
Logo Lounge 12 - 5 Logos Featured
Logo Lounge 11 - 12 Logos Featured
Communication Arts 2018 Typography Annual
Communication Arts 2014 Typography Annual
American Graphic Design Awards
Davey Awards - 2014 Gold Award: Websites – Sports
Davey Awards - 2014 Silver Award: Corporate Identity – Logos
Addy Awards - 2014
I’d Love to Connect.
Interested in working together? I’m always looking for new opportunities and would love to talk shop, or just shoot the breeze. shoot me a message on the contact page and I’ll respond as soon as I can.