Velvet Voltage

Creative Intelligence Studio

TECH + SOUL

We build worlds around
original people, practices
and ideas.

YOU SEE SOMETHING OTHER PEOPLE DON'T.

That's where we start.

Velvet Voltage works with artists, founders, writers, healers, therapists, practitioners, publishers and independent minds creating work with a point of view.

Sometimes you have the work, but not the world around it.

Sometimes the brand you built no longer holds what you're becoming.

Sometimes there's a book hiding inside the practice. A product inside the artwork. An experience inside the idea.

We see possibility differently.

Then we figure out what to do with it.

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‍BRAND.

Strategy, positioning, creative direction, visual worlds and language. We find what makes the work unmistakably yours — then build the world around it.

PRODUCT.

We look beyond what you already make.

Books. Objects. Editions. Experiences. Collaborations. New offers. Entirely new ideas.

We find the possibilities hiding inside the work and develop them into things people can experience, use, collect or buy.

CULTURE.

A great idea needs somewhere to live.

We think about audience, collaborations, publishing, placement, partnerships, storytelling and the cultural spaces where the work belongs.

Not just how something looks.

Where it can go.
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THE STUDIO

THE SIGNAL SESSION

Starting at $750

For the idea that's keeping you awake.

Bring us the practice, project, half-built brand or strange idea you can't quite articulate.

We look for what's actually there — what is distinctive, what has potential, what could become a brand, product, experience or entirely new direction.

You leave with clarity on what you're building and where it could go next.

90 MINUTES · CREATIVE STRATEGY + DIRECTION

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WORLD BUILDING

Starting at $4,500

For work that's outgrown the world around it.

Maybe the idea is clear but the brand isn't. Maybe the work has evolved and the language, visuals or offers haven't caught up. Maybe something compelling exists, but nobody can quite see the whole thing yet.

We find the throughline and build the world around it.

Depending on what the work needs, that may include:

Positioning + point of view
Brand architecture
Naming + language
Creative direction
Visual world
Offer architecture
Website direction
Content + campaign concepts
AI creative strategy
Product + experience opportunities

No predetermined formula. We build what the idea actually needs.

WORLD BUILDING ENGAGEMENTS START AT $4,500

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VENTURE DEVELOPMENT

Starting at $7,500

For when the work wants to become something else.

A book. A product. An edition. An experience. A collaboration. A new offer. Maybe something without a category yet.

We look inside the work you already have and find what else could exist around it — then develop the idea, position it, shape it and create a path for bringing it into the world.

This is where creative work becomes new possibility.

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CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

SOME WORK WE WANT TO STAY WITH.

Velvet Voltage selectively works alongside artists, publishers, practitioners and original thinkers whose worlds we believe have room to grow.

We help evolve the brand, develop products and projects, shape releases, find collaborations and open new cultural possibilities around the work.

This isn't a service package.

It's a creative relationship.

SELECTIVE · BY INVITATION

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SELECTED WORLDS

Ideas we're helping move through the world.

IRIS DE ANDA
Poet · Artist · Cultural Voice

Creative development · Brand evolution · New ventures

VV ORIGINALS

WE MAKE THINGS TOO.

Art. Editions. Zines. Experiments. Objects. Collaborations. Things that don't need permission to exist.

Velvet Voltage is not only a studio for other people's work.

We make our own.

HAVE SOMETHING YOU CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT?

Good.

Tell us what you're making, what you're becoming, or what you haven't figured out how to name yet.

We'll tell you where we see the voltage.

VELVET VOLTAGE
TECH + SOUL