S/S Creative Studio is a design and new media firm located in Pennsylvania. We work on a wide range of projects, from graphic design to corporate branding, web development and video production.
Now & Forward
We are transparent with ideas, honest with practiced success, and ambitious to learn.
At S/S Creative Studio we create compelling brand identities focused on useful and effective design. This portfolio site showcases our work for clients in multiple industries. Ranging from retail, food, manufacturing, automotive, sports, and more. Whether local or international, we have learned to listen to our clientele’s needs and execute effective visual communication on multiple platforms in multiple mediums.
When it comes to designing a new brand or revamping a currently active brand it is important to remember how many different platforms your company is going to be viewed on. We are here to work collaboratively with clients to create clear and powerful design solutions.
From The Start
We were a creative start-up in Baltimore, Maryland in 2001.
Dustin Dohm, now C.E.O. and Creative Director transferred Stylin’ Strings Inc. to York, PA in 2003. Dustin had also been working as an art director for Digi-Tex inc., one of the top local design & print firms in central PA. Stylin’ Strings Media, a division of Stylin’ Strings Inc. which also serviced the lacrosse and apparel industries, was being crafted into a business that prided itself on being outside the box. Dustin managed design and marketing for multi-million dollar clients to mom n pop start-ups. His experience and client base motivated him to change the design and marketing landscape in primarily traditional markets. In early 2005, Dustin started designing and building out what would become our headquarters today.
In 2006, our studio doors opened. Stylin’ Strings Media was the design & media arm that had become the driving force behind its nationally recognized lacrosse division. While branding & marketing the custom lacrosse manufacturing division the media business had grown itself with regional and national clients.
In 2009, we partnered with Kryptronic, a software development company, to offer our design clients a platform that we could skin with our dynamic website designs. This added over 10 years of web development and project management experience to the firm.
Our company and its work began to acquire clients inside and outside of Pennsylvania with our unique efforts in problem solving, demographic research, and relationship building. The success of a few national clients in the rapidly changing S.E.O. battle to be ranked #1 on Google helped our business grow tremendously. As the economy slowed, we started to get busier and busier with people looking for ways to succeed with reasonable budgets. We could directly relate to small business challenges because we were a small business with similar growing pains.
Managing brands, developing websites, and coming up with creative ideas for print and marketing propelled our client base into all segments of business. Going into 2016, it had been 6 years since we had taken a deeper look into where our firm was going. Our network of in house creative professionals had come to a cohesive vision, and thus S/S Creative Studio was born.
Our original logo was 15 years old, and would no longer be shared by the media, lacrosse, and apparel divisions. As S/S Creative Studio, our portfolio speaks for our experience. As time evolves, as the world creates unique challenges for business, we will be here to embrace change.
Dustin
C.E.O. | Creative Director
Dustin is a 15-year veteran in art direction & client management. Dustin’s network is spread across the greater U.S. and abroad. His vision has always kept him at a pace years beyond his existence. Coming from a pedigree of entrepreneurs, his passion and personality help energize any project he touches. Poised to fit into any part of the equation that can make S/S Creative Studio an asset to your company. You can see his work all over the country across multiple mediums in print, on the web, and in physical installations. He specializes in product & idea development, market research, S.E.O., and brand implementation.
Likes include wife, his 3 year old daughter, snowboarding, family, river days, sand, water, all music, friends, innovation, creativity, passionate people, manners, cool handshakes, brutal honesty, and breaking through.
Evan
Evan is an all around technology junkie. Developing websites, building custom gaming computers, designing network infrastructure; he loves it all! Evan’s experience consists of extensive military mechanized war functions and communication methodologies. He also studied both general information systems as well as app/web development. He is the owner of a local business technology firm BisonTech Consulting. Though his experience is vast and covers the majority of technology topics; he prefers custom website development, digital marketing consulting, and designing/implementing business workflow processes.
When Evan isn’t consulting or typing endless code you’ll find him either relaxing with his high energy Labradoodle, Malachi, spending quality time with his girlfriend Kelsey, or destroying noobs on Halo 5 (gamertag ‘bisonbrah’).
Zach
Photographer
Zach is a professional photographer with an eye to capture moments that can freeze time and communicate your subject matter at it’s finest. Zach has multiple years experience in business management and sales in the apparel & finance markets. When he is not making apparel for S/S Creative Studio & SS Apparel, he is traveling the country documenting unique compositions with his camera. Check out his work on Instagram @zt.designs.
Zach has a 4 year old daughter Luciana, and in his free time he produces clothing for his own brand S.O.H.L. (Scholars of Higher Living).