✦ Design Studio · Lakewood, CO ✦

Wildly crazy
design for
bold brands.

We're a small, mighty studio helping brave brands look strange, feel human, and stand ridiculously tall. No stock templates. No safe choices.

What we make

Design that makes you look twice.

Six studios in one. Whether you need a whole new identity, a bolder website, or a campaign that stops thumbs mid-scroll, we've got the hands for it.

01 / Brand

Brand Identity

Logos, systems, guidelines, and the whole visual attitude. We build brands that don't blend in — because who wants to?

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02 / Web

Web Design & Build

Websites with personality. Fast, accessible, and full of little moments that make visitors smile and stay.

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03 / Illust

Illustration

Custom illustration systems and one-off pieces. Hand-drawn, weird, warm, memorable — and always unmistakably yours.

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04 / Print

Print & Packaging

From tiny hangtags to bus wraps and everything in between. Design that lives beautifully off-screen.

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05 / Photo

Art Direction

Photo shoots, moodboards, and creative campaigns. We direct so the finished thing feels like nothing else.

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06 / Motion

Motion & Animation

Loops, reels, explainers, kinetic type. Because sometimes design has to dance a little to be understood.

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The Dazy Way

How we actually work.

Four honest steps. No agency jargon. No mysterious "phases." Just how we get from your first email to something you can't stop looking at.

01

Get Curious

We meet, we ask ten questions, we listen to the answers, and we ask ten more. The best design starts with genuine curiosity about you.

02

Get Weird

We sketch, prototype, and try things that probably shouldn't work. Some don't. The ones that do become the foundation for everything else.

03

Get Precise

Weird gets refined. We tighten, test, iterate, and polish until every pixel and every word feels intentional. This is where craft lives.

04

Get Loud

Launch day. We hand you the keys, celebrate together, and stick around to make sure everything blooms exactly the way it should.

Recent Work

A few things we've made lately.

Project 1
Brand Identity

Petal & Prose

Bookshop-florist brand system

Project 2
Web Design

Hollow Fox

E-commerce site for indie ceramics

Project 3
Packaging

Wild Bloom Kombucha

Line refresh for 8 flavors

The full story

We're a little studio
with big ideas.

Seven humans, one office in Lakewood, and a shared belief that good design is the shortest distance between a brand and the people it wants to reach.

The Origin

A studio grown from curiosity and coffee.

Crazy Dazy Designz began in a converted garage in Lakewood, Colorado, with three founders, a stack of secondhand monitors, and one very opinionated pug named Waffle. We didn't start with a business plan — we started with a shared frustration.

Too many brands looked exactly like their competitors. Too many websites felt like they were built by committee. Too many identities were "safe," "professional," and completely forgettable. We thought design deserved better. We thought clients deserved more. And we thought the world needed a whole lot more color.

Six years later, that garage has become a proper studio, the founders have been joined by four more brilliantly weird humans, and Waffle now supervises meetings from a designated bean bag in the corner. Some things change. The mission doesn't.

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140+Projects Shipped
7Humans on Board
32Design Awards
1Very Good Pug
Our Beliefs

Five things we hold onto tightly.

These aren't rules. They're the small stubborn convictions that shape every decision, every project, and every late-afternoon studio conversation.

Belief 01

Weirder is better

Playing it safe is the fastest way to be forgotten. We push toward surprising, specific, and a little strange — because those are the things people actually remember.

Belief 02

Craft is love

Every kerned letter, every hex code, every micro-interaction is a small act of care. We sweat the details because clients — and their audiences — can feel when someone did.

Belief 03

Real over rehearsed

We talk like humans. Our proposals aren't padded. Our meetings are short. Our critiques are honest. We think it's actually the most respectful way to work.

Belief 04

Small teams, big work

We stay intentionally small so that your project always has senior hands on it. No account manager buffers. No junior handoffs. Just the people who did the work, doing the work.

Belief 05

Joy is a strategy

Brands that spark delight get remembered, shared, and returned to. Joy isn't decoration — it's the most underused competitive advantage in commercial design.

Belief 06

Made in Colorado

We're proudly local. Our office is in Lakewood, our lunch is at Sloan's Lake, and our best ideas usually happen on a hike above the treeline. That mountain air ends up in the pixels somehow.

The Team

The humans behind the chaos.

A rotating cast of designers, developers, illustrators, and one certified good boy. Everyone here does real client work — no exceptions.

Team

Nora Vance

Founder / CD
Team

Kai Yamamoto

Founder / Design
Team

Priya Shah

Founder / Strategy
Team

Marcus Delgado

Lead Developer
Team

Sarah Chen

Illustrator
Team

Jordan Rivers

Motion Designer
The longer version

Why we're called Crazy Dazy.

The name came from a whiteboard scribble that refused to be erased. Our founder Nora, halfway through a very long brainstorm session in the studio's earliest weeks, drew a lopsided daisy in the corner of the board and labeled it "the crazy dazy." Everyone laughed. Then someone said "wait." Then everyone said "yeah, actually."

The daisy — bright, common, easy to draw, impossible to dislike — became our mascot and, in some ways, our design philosophy. Daisies aren't rare or precious. They grow everywhere. They lean toward the light. They're stubbornly cheerful in ditches, sidewalk cracks, and rooftop gardens alike. We wanted the studio to be like that: unpretentious, warm, hard to ignore, and quietly resilient.

The "crazy" part came from what we wanted the work itself to feel like — a little unhinged, a little unexpected, always on the good side of surprising. In an industry that often mistakes "professional" for "predictable," we chose a name that gave us permission to be neither. Every project since then has been a small experiment in how much personality we can pack into a design system without breaking it.

The spelling of "Designz" (with a z) was a joke that stuck. It's the kind of typographical choice we would ordinarily talk a client out of. But on our own name, it felt right — a small wink that says, we know exactly what we're doing, and we're doing it on purpose.

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Recent projects

Selected work

A living gallery of things we've made for brave brands over the last few years. Click any project to see the full case study.

Project
Brand · 2024

Petal & Prose

Bookshop-florist identity system

Project
Web · 2024

Hollow Fox Ceramics

E-commerce and brand refresh

Project
Packaging · 2024

Wild Bloom Kombucha

Line-wide packaging refresh

Project
Brand · 2023

North Fork Cider

Craft cidery from scratch

Project
Web · 2023

Ember Studio Homes

Architecture firm site

Project
Illustration · 2023

Little Fern Books

Children's book cover series

Project
Campaign · 2023

Summit Run Co.

Trail race brand campaign

Project
Packaging · 2022

Moonlark Tea

Small-batch tea brand launch

Project
Motion · 2022

Fold Studio

Animated brand system

The playbook

How every project starts.

No matter the size, every engagement follows the same honest arc. Here's what to expect from day one to launch day.

1

Discovery Call

A free 30-minute conversation. You tell us about your brand and goals. We ask questions and share what we think we can help with.

2

Proposal & Fit

Within a week, you'll have a written proposal with scope, timeline, and price. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and suggest who might be.

3

Kickoff Workshop

A half-day session — in person or over video — where we align on strategy, moods, and success metrics before a single pixel is pushed.

4

Design Sprints

Weekly check-ins, transparent progress boards, and clear feedback loops. No mysterious silences. No end-of-project surprises.

5

Launch & Handoff

Delivery of everything you need, in every format you need. Plus a proper handoff document so your team can carry the work forward.

6

Ongoing Care

We stay available for six months post-launch, no retainer required. If something needs a tune-up, we're a message away.

Who we work with

Small brands, big brands, and everyone in between.

Our client roster over the past six years has ranged from two-person startups launching their very first product to established regional brands looking for a fresh voice. We work with independent restaurants, boutique consumer product companies, cultural institutions, education nonprofits, tech startups with soul, and the occasional passion project we simply couldn't say no to.

What connects our clients isn't budget or industry — it's a shared willingness to take a swing. The brands we do our best work with are the ones that already have an opinion, a spark, or a stubborn idea about what makes them different. Our job isn't to invent that difference. Our job is to translate it into something the world can see, feel, and remember.

If you have that spark and you're wondering whether we might be a fit, we'd love to hear from you. There's no such thing as a project that's too small, too weird, or too early-stage to discuss. Some of our favorite work has come from clients who reached out with three sentences and a big idea.

Let's talk

Say hi.

Tell us about your project, your brand, or your terrible in-flight coffee. We reply to everything within one business day.

The details

How to find us

Studio 474 Vance Street
Lakewood, CO 80226, US
Phone 720-839-0649
Studio Hours Mon – Fri · 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM MT
Weekends by appointment

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