Day Sparks is a two-person creative studio in Southern Oregon. Kile handles websites, design and brand work. Alli handles photography. You work directly with the person making the thing.
No account managers. No mystery creative department. Just a small team trying to make good businesses easier to notice, understand and choose.
Kile builds the websites, shapes brand work and figures out how the pieces should fit together. Before Day Sparks, his work crossed design, marketing, campaigns and technical products.
“If the website needs a map to explain the website, we've probably gone too far.”
See websites ↗
After a decade working in hospitality, Alli photographs it from the inside out: the food, the people, the room and the small details that give a place its heart.
“Make it beautiful. Keep it believable. Bonus points if somebody gets hungry.”
See photography ↗Which mostly means we've had longer than the average creative team to get comfortable saying, “Nope. Try that again.”
The useful part is that we know how the other person works. When a website needs photography, the handoff isn't between two strangers. When a shoot needs to work inside a site, we're already thinking about the same final result.
We're not trying to turn Day Sparks into an agency with layers of people between the client and the work.
Web and brand questions go to Kile. Photography questions go to Alli.
You don't brief one person so they can brief another person who eventually briefs the designer.
We'd rather solve the actual problem than invent deliverables to justify a bigger engagement.
If a project genuinely needs a specialist outside our lane, we can say so instead of pretending we're experts in everything.
A lot of the businesses we like working with are the kinds of places that make a community more interesting, restaurants, cafés, shops, wineries, hotels, makers and independent businesses with actual people behind them.
Web and brand projects can happen from just about anywhere. Photography is primarily focused on Southern Oregon, with travel when the project makes sense.
If someone has to decode the work, the work isn't finished.
The old website probably made sense when somebody built it.
They just have to earn their keep.
We're here to make something useful, not create dependency.
For websites, brands and especially photographs.
An idea becomes useful when it actually makes it into the world.
Website, photos, brand work or some combination of the three, tell us what the business needs. If we're a good fit, we'll tell you what we'd recommend.