Bards & Storytellers
The Creative Studio.
About Us
Bards & Storytellers is a creative husband & wife duo who, like the tavern fools of yore, are here to entertain you.A bond forged in the crucible of the creative field, Brett Rakestraw and Steph Carson (B&S) have 15 years of experience in the branding world, helping clients from broadcast networks to product brands find their voice, streamline their story, and own their visual identity. Throughout their agency careers, they’ve worked with clients like Disney, Hasbro, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Meta, Sony, NASCAR, and more. But their biggest commodity?.. their creative ideas.At their core, B&S are concepters, creative directors, producers, writers, and deep brand-thinkers. They also dabble in the dark arts of production, editing, animation, design, music & audio, and original social content creation.And, as if time grew on trees, they also run a passion project called Strange Magic, which has a specific focus on AI and emerging tech. From speaking events and team consultancy to personal dabbling, B&S live life as the endlessly-curious... and they wouldn’t have it any other way.
Our Work
Like master entertainers, our work exists in various venues and forms. The two biggest forms are:
SOCIAL CONTENT:
The Cantos. The short narratives that tell a piece of a brand's story. Usually, this content is stunt, campaign, or event-based. We concept and produce this content, soup to nuts, with your larger story in mind. Primarily, this is storytelling for Instagram or TikTok, but we also work with clients on retainer for wider social coverage (streamlining and strategizing your full online presence).
The best way to see our one-off campaigns is to visit our Instagram!
BRANDING:
The Epics. These are BIG picture stories we craft about your brand. Your protagonist's archetype, voice, and look. We brand companies from the ground up, from name, to logo, website and branding material, or any combination in between. To us, there's no greater honor than telling an "epic".
CASE STUDIES COMING SOON!
Thank You
Either a bard or storyteller will
get back to you as soon as possible.