Pardner is about to be your new favorite CREATIVE studio in Texas, heck, maybe anywhere. Let’s see what we can stir up together.
INDEPENDENT BY DESIGN
Twenty years of creative experience.
Building new brands. Reimagining established icons.
Thomas grew up in Texas, left for New York to study creative writing, and somehow ended up spending the next twenty-something years making things instead. There were formative years in music, first at a record distributor in New York and later at a record label in Los Angeles, followed by a long stretch in design and advertising. He spent more than a decade at National Forest in California before eventually finding his way back to Texas, joining Preacher in Austin, and, a few years later, starting Pardner.
That slightly crooked path still informs a lot of how we work. We believe in ideas before decoration, instinct alongside strategy, and knowing enough about the rules to know when they're worth ignoring. We like typography. We like pictures. We like words. We like getting our hands dirty and making things, and we care perhaps an unreasonable amount about the details.
Pardner works across branding, identity, creative direction, illustration, typography, campaigns, packaging, writing and whatever else a good idea might require. Sometimes we're building something from scratch. Sometimes we're helping something established remember what made it special in the first place. Either way, the goal isn't to leave our fingerprints all over it. It's to find the thing that feels true, then make the hell out of it.
We're serious about the work, but try not to take ourselves too seriously. We work closely, care deeply, and don't cut corners. The hope is always the same: make something smart, memorable and human — something we're proud to put our name next to and you're proud to put yours on.
