Companiesfor Downtown / Architecture + Design

Cincinnati is not only growing its own creative class, it's catching the eyes of other professionals across the country. Arkansas based Rockfish Interactive, one of the fastest growing multi-media ad agencies in the country, is setting up shop in Cincinnati.

City Studios Architecture (CSA) opened shop in Over-the-Rhine this January.  Within the first year business is already booming.  Now CSA is playing an integral role in the exciting revitalization downtown.

The architects, designers, and graphics experts at FRCH Design Worldwide help retailers around the globe get the in-store brand experience just right.  The result has been rapid growth, while at the same time maintaining a culture of satisfied employees.

In 1994, Jeff Eberlein and Tony Magliano purchased a six-employee graphic design shop and christened it “Strata-G Communications.” Over the last fourteen years they have grown the business to its current ranking as one of Cincinnati’s largest advertising agencies, with more than 60 employees, topped by 20 percent growth in 2007.

Marketing the Pursuit of Happiness is what happens at Barefoot Inc., an agency that works on making consumers passionate about brands and products. Cincinnati-based Barefoot has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies,

making it on to the magazine’s inaugural Inc. 5000 list.
 

By staking out the leading edge of the brand-design revolution, LPK Inc. has helped establish the images of some of the most well-known consumer products and grown exponentially.

Screaming Bob's goal is to make the digital experience richer and more entertaining by adding high-quality voice and sound. The company just in the last year has delivered voice and sound for the Web sites of some major consumer brands: Cheer, Pepto-Bismol, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Evenflo and Sprint. They expect only growth as more consumer brands explore the possibilities of digital media. 

Cincinnati-based dunnhumbyUSA has raised consumer research to a science by finding out exactly what consumers want. It's information that major retailers are very interested in and it's why dunnhumbyUSA has grown so rapidly with offices in Cincinnati, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York and Portland, Oregon.