Companiesfor Architecture + Design / PR, Marketing + Advertising

Pixels & Dots is a design agency that specializes in branding and interactive design.

David Brecount and Mark Miller started US Digital Partners with a bold vision: they wanted to embrace the way the internet was changing business interaction and help Cincinnati companies develop and market their brands.

Though Kaleidoscope has been around for 22 years, in its last decade, its focus has shifted to four distinct areas of product development. By keeping a clear eye on consumer goods, electronics, healthcare and transportation, Kaleidoscope takes the process from research to ideation.

Zone Creative Group, a media development and video production company, started with two employees in 2003. Eight years later, Zone CG now has 10 employees, but keeps the same goal owner John Colmar had in mind when he launched.

Experienced marketer Mark Sneider was so impressed with London-based RSW/UK that he decided to startup a U.S. version. The company, which links ad agencies and design firms with those seeking their services, is one of Cincinnati's fastest growing.

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.

Formerly known as The Cincinnati Sign Company, this growing Over-the-Rhine company specializes in full digital printing onto everything from small outdoor banners to giant interior walls, and everything in between.

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.
 

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.