How We See It.
A vision for marketing communications.
Graphic Beans is 100% focused on its clients: helping clients put The Power of Seeing to work for them; designing the client-agency relationship to empower and deliver; structuring its own staff and operations to most efficiently and effectively support and serve each client individually.
To those ends, we run lean. We run fast. And we never run away from a challenge. We bring all our insight, experience and positivity to everything we do.
Most importantly, we leave our egos at the door and embrace collaboration, conscious creation and progressive ideas – no matter where they come from.
Our way of working is more than simply how we like to do it. It’s how we see it. Our vision for how the marketing communications industry needs to be working as a whole.
Too many advertising firms lose their client-centered focus somewhere between the time the contract is signed and the first project is started. Graphic Beans views its clients as partners in the shared mission of bringing more meaning and purpose to marketing through excellence in design, message and media.
It may seem as though we are putting a lot of importance on marketing and how it should be done. But all you need to do is look around to see that marketing and design impact and influence all of us, all the time. If it holds such importance in lives, we simply demand that it be resonant, relevant and connecting. And the way we see it just happens to be the path to outstanding results. Go figure.
The Head Bean – Katrina Wagner
Katrina Wagner brings her expertise, optimism and deep caring to every Graphic Beans client. With over 15 years experience in marketing, and a special expertise in graphic design, she is the powerhouse behind the Power of Seeing philosophy. She has made it her personal mission to make sure that every marketing message (visual or otherwise) crafted at Graphic Beans comes straight from the heart of your brand and straight into the hearts of your customers.
Quite simply, she is a force for excellence – and she hopes you are too.
The Bean Team
Graphic Beans works with a network of senior level photographers, writers, illustrators, production artists, art directors, PR professionals, social media experts and more to pull together the exact right team to deliver the exact right message on behalf of your business.
The collaborative partnerships that are formed by this streamlined style of teaming form the foundation for excellent work as each member of the creative and strategic team comes to the table with single focus – your business, your brand, your results.
A note about our vision for the planet: Graphic Beans works to keep its clients’ and its own carbon footprint to a minimum by utilizing natural light, low-watt bulbs, turning off power supplies on equipment, using green vendors and suppliers, vetting printing companies, recycling all paper, plastics and metal and receiving all our power through Clean Currents wind power. Graphic Beans is certified with the
Maryland Green Registry.