John
Creative director with 20+ years across brand development, graphic design, print production and digital media. Builds identities with real personality and makes things loud in exactly the right places.
Welcome to the family
Branding & Creative Agency in San Antonio
Brand identity, typography, websites and search for businesses that refuse to blend in. Creative meets analytical.
What do you need?
GOTHIC Intake
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Hey, welcome to GOTHIC. What are you working on? Pick one below or just type.
- Brand Identity
- Typography
- Web Design
- SEO & AI Search
- Photo & Video
- Print & Merch
What we
set in type.
Branding, design, web, search, ads, imaging and print under one roof. Fewer vendors, tighter brands, and a straight line from the creative to the numbers.
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Brand Strategy & Identity
Positioning, naming, logos, type systems and brand guidelines. We build identities that get recognized at a glance and hold up everywhere they appear, from a business card to a billboard.
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Graphic Design & Art Direction
Campaigns, packaging, editorial layouts, signage and social. Design with something to say and the discipline to say it clearly, carried all the way through to print-ready files.
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Website Design & Development
Custom and WordPress sites built around how your customers actually buy. Fast, clean, responsive and wired for analytics from day one.
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SEO & AI Search Visibility
Get found on Google and cited by AI. Technical SEO, local search, Google Business Profile and schema, plus Answer and Generative Engine Optimization for the AI tools people now search with.
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Strategy, Ads & Analytics
Google, Meta and paid social campaigns planned with intent and measured to the dollar. We read the numbers and tell you what they mean, so the next move is a decision instead of a guess.
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Photography & Video
Product, brand, portrait and commercial shoots, plus motion graphics and edits cut for every platform. Shot with the final use in mind, whether that’s a website, a catalog or a feed.
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Print, Apparel & Merch
Screen-print-ready art, custom apparel, packaging and signage. We know how ink hits paper and cotton, so your brand survives the trip off the screen.
Meet the
family.
Every good type family needs a display face that grabs you and a text face that does the heavy lifting. We married ours.
Fate
Strategy and analytics lead. Tracks performance, spots trends, reads customer behavior and finds the opportunities hiding in the data. Makes sure loud also pays.
Creative × Analytical. Together, we rule.
How a job
gets pressed.
Same order every time. Clients aren’t account numbers here. They’re collaborators, and we work like an extension of your team.
Discover
Your business, your audience, your competition, and what winning looks like.
Design
Brand, content and experiences built for a clear objective. Pretty is the minimum.
Measure
Behavior, performance and conversion data. Proof over opinion.
Refine
Use what we learn to sharpen the message and find the next opportunity.
Straight
answers.
The questions we hear most from businesses shopping for a branding agency.
What does a branding agency do?
It defines how your business looks, sounds and gets remembered. For us that means positioning, naming, logo and identity design, typography, color and guidelines, then carrying it through your website, ads, photography, print and merch.
Do you only work with San Antonio businesses?
No. We're based in San Antonio, Texas, and work with businesses here and remotely across the U.S.
Can you get us showing up in ChatGPT and AI search?
Yes. On top of classic SEO we do Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization: structured data, clean content structure and local signals that help AI tools understand and cite you.
Why do you care so much about typography?
Because type does most of the talking. The right typeface and a disciplined type system make a brand recognizable before anyone reads a word, and keep it consistent from a business card to a billboard.
How do we start?
Tell the intake chat at the top of the page what you need, or use the contact form below. Either way it lands with John and Fate, and we reply with next steps.
Join the
family.
New brand, tired brand, or a brand that needs to start pulling its weight. Drop us a line, or let the intake chat ask the questions for you.