Why Choose Us?

Less is More.

Not only is it our design and communication philosophy which emphasizes simplicity and clarity; it is KTD Creative. We are a small, boutique marketing agency.

We’ve become the go-to agency for numerous federal government agencies, arts organizations, small businesses, nonprofits, associations, international NGOs, universities, and municipal governments. KTD Creative has been strategizing, building brands, and communicating for diverse clients for nearly two decades.

Sure, plenty of larger agencies are out there — our niche is being small and nimble, focusing on a select pool of clients at any time who receive 100% of our focus.

We are an attractive option for clients who value creativity, flexibility, and personalized service that is affordable. Don’t take our word for it, see what our clients are saying about us in our 25 five-star ratings on Google.

The Top Ten Advantages of KTD Creative

1. Personalized Client Relationships

Close Client Interaction: We work closely with our clients, fostering strong, personal relationships. This allows for a deep understanding of our client’s brand, goals, and audience, leading to more tailored and effective campaigns.
Direct Access to Decision-Makers: Clients have direct access to our agency’s leadership, enabling faster decision-making and more responsive service.

2. Creative Flexibility

Nimbleness: Without the bureaucratic layers often found in larger agencies, our boutique firm can pivot quickly, experimenting with innovative ideas and strategies.
Unique Solutions: Our smaller team thinks outside the box and can offer more customized and creative solutions, rather than relying on formulaic approaches.

3. Specialized Expertise

Niche Focus: We specialize in differentiating our clients from their peers. By offering deep marketing expertise we bring clients value and a return on their investments time after time.
Quality Over Quantity: We focus on a limited number of marketing projects, allowing us to dedicate more time and resources to each, resulting in higher quality work.

4. Cost Efficiency

Lower Overheads: Our lower overhead costs, which translate into more competitive pricing for our clients — can’t beat that. We pass those savings on to our clients.
Lean Operations: With our smaller team, our resources are allocated more efficiently, ensuring that every dollar spent is directly contributing to our client’s goals. A win-win situation for KTD and our clients.

5. Agility in Execution

Faster Turnaround: We move faster on projects due to our size, making us ideal for clients who need quick, high-quality results.
Adaptive to Change: We quickly adapt to changes in markets, our client needs, and industry trends without the delays associated with larger agencies.

6. Enhanced Collaboration

Our Tight-Knit Small Team Can Scale When Needed: Our core team leads to better communication, collaboration, and a shared vision for our client projects. Depending on the project, we tap the skills of photographers, videographers, UX experts, and other marketing professionals. We have a network of talented partners cherry-picked to complement our team when needed. Our partners are some of the top professionals in their field.
Cross-Functional Skills: We wear multiple hats, bringing a more holistic approach to projects and fostering innovation. We understand our customer’s needs and goals first — and we adapt to them. We bridge communication gaps between different functions, ensuring that everyone is aligned and working towards the same goals.

7. Our Work Speaks for Itself

Impactful Work: With the opportunity to work on a wide range of marketing projects over nearly two-decades, our agency has built a strong, diverse portfolio and skill set that highlights our creativity, versatility and most importantly — benefits our clients.
Our Reputation is Unparalleled: We have built a solid reputation over nearly twenty years of business of consistently producing successful, high-quality work. Our promise to clients who put their trust in us is we make your goals, our goals. KTD Creative’s unrivaled reputation comes from being reliable and trustworthy in service to our clients — you can bank on that.

8. Community and Culture

Our Team Culture: We offer clients an intimate, warm, family-like culture. We are friendly, personable and have a great sense of humor — you’ll like us. We take marketing very seriously and like nothing better than rolling up our sleeves and on behalf of our clients (not our egos).
Client-Centric Approach: Our culture is focused on delivering value to our clients rather than meeting our large-scale revenue targets. The interesting thing about this approach is that it leads to long-standing friendships. We’ve been invited to clients’ weddings, over to their homes for dinner and golfing (which we are awful at). Our secret sauce? We work hard, are authentic, fun and friendly.

9. Opportunities for Growth

Client Growth Leads to Agency Growth: As a small agency, we help our clients grow, and we take great satisfaction in growing alongside them, building long-term partnerships and expanding our capabilities.
Our Value Proposition to Our Clients: We attract clients who value creativity, personalized service, and a hands-on approach, which leads to mutually beneficial relationships. They know the KTD team’s ideas are built upon a clear business and communication purpose.

10. Brand Identity

Distinctive Branding: Being a small agency, we have established a strong, unique brand identity that resonates with clients and their markets. We do the same for our clients to distinguish them their competitors.
Authenticity: Without the pressure to conform to industry norms, we maintain an authentic voice and approach that has attracted clients since 2005 looking for something different.

Please take a moment to learn more about how we craft creative marketing campaigns.

Ask the KTD team of digital marketers, strategists, designers, and developers to help you reach your integrated marketing goals. Let us deploy digital, print, audio, video, and graphic design solutions to propel your organization forward.

For government clients our NAICS codes are: 541430: Graphic Design Services; 541613: Marketing Consulting Services; 516210: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and other Media Networks and Content Providers; 54151: Website Design and Development; 512110: Motion Picture and Video Production; 519130: Internet publishing and Broadcasting, and Web Search Portals; 519290: Web Search Portals and other Information Services; 541890: Other Services Related to Advertising; and 541810: Advertising Agencies.

We offer special packages tailored for small businesses & solopreneurs. Ask us about them and let’s get started working together — we’d love to meet you.

I am delighted with the WordPress website design development process and the finished product. KTD Creative made a less than aesthetically pleasing business look great on the web! More importantly, they kept us on task and moved the project to completion despite our best efforts to derail their schedule. Kudos to KTD Creative. I can’t wait to work with them again.

Michele Twilley, CEO, Aria Environmental, Inc.

Eldersburg, Maryland

We hired KTD Creative to design our WordPress website. This has been one of the best return on investments for our company. The site was designed so that we have easy methods to do our own updates as we add projects and other information. We have had nothing but rave reviews about the appearance and content of the site.

Michael Kerr, President, Bay Acoustics

Baltimore, Maryland

Working with Kate and the KTD Creative team was an absolute pleasure! Our project needed to be completed within a very short time frame, and the team worked with us to get the materials turned around quickly. The final products were absolutely beautiful and will be used by our organization for years to come. I couldn’t recommend KTD enough!

Maureen O’ Leary, Director of Field & Organizing, Interfaith Alliance

Washington, DC

I was referred to KTD Creative with the understanding that the team were gifted artists with a lot of experience. I was told that they were very good at creating concepts, branding and logos. Now that we have completed a project together, I am the one singing KTD’s praises.

Loic Pritchett, Real Estate Agent, TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

Washington, DC

We were at the beginning of a full scale website redesign for WYPR 88.1 FM. Part of the launch included a new logo. KTD Creative helped to redesign the logo and to give our Drupal site a new design that exceeded our expectations. The web design is just what we wanted. We could not be happier with the results. KTD is a professional team that was able to deliver the final product ahead of schedule.

Kyle Leslie, Information Architect, WYPR (NPR affiliate)

Baltimore, MD

I’ve worked with the KTD team on several projects and they are always very responsive to my needs and to the smallest of details. I highly recommend them!

Kurt Deemer, Musician, Kurt Deemer Band

Baltimore, Maryland

KTD Creative has been our go-to source for print and web projects when fresh ideas and creative design were top priorities. They always set realistic and clear expectations, goals, and timelines. They were always responsive and ready to answer questions and explain their recommendations. As a repeat customer, I would not hesitate to go back to them again.

Kristine Dunkerton, Executive Director, Community Law Center

Baltimore, MD

Our partnership (because Kate and her team of talented designers really do become partners in creating a visual story for your organization) began with a topical report that was so well done that we continue to collaborate 4 years later. We have done annual reports, topical reports, brochures, and video production. KTD Creative has helped create a visual branding for Farmworker Justice which has received excellent feedback from stakeholders and various federal agencies. KTD is a pleasure to work with and the team’s ability to translate ideas into high-quality, edgy graphics makes my job as a communications director so much easier (and makes me look good)!

Jessica Felix Romero, Director of Communications, Farmworker Justice

Washington, DC

Our Private Equity firm hired KTD Creative to prepare a marketing PowerPoint deck for one of our foreign companies. The KTD team transformed a technically complex concept into a beautiful, crisp presentation with complex illustrations and information graphics that is easily understood across borders. KTD cares about their clients, as most of this work was completed during a tight deadline around the holidays. We look forward to working with them again.

Jeremy Semble, Investment Associate, Leaf Clean Energy Company

Washington, DC

Working with KTD has proved to be a fantastic decision! Kate and her team are very professional, easy-going, and receptive. We hired KTD Creative for 3 of our companies annual events- very different in clientele and scope, from a lobby day, to legal representatives, to executives, and they are have been amazing through each one with initiative concepts for each. They really listened to what we were looking for and have been timely with all deliveries. It has been a pleasure working with Kate and team- they make it easy and their final product is always first class. Would highly recommend KTD Creative!

Jennifer Lynn McHugh, Marketing Director, Sports & Fitness Industry Association

Silver Spring, Maryland

The KTD Creative team did a great job for us for our branding. From design inception to WordPress website completion they were great. They did the SEO and wrote all the text for both the new website and brochure. We really appreciate the new logo, stationary, brochure, website and brand they created.

Jason Lee, CEO, Excel Rehab Therapy

Salt Lake City, Utah

I chose to work with KTD Creative because they are one of the most highly regarded design firms in DC. Working with the team on my new company logo was like meeting with an old friend- the staff is personable, professional and attentive. KTD’s designs are cutting edge. Their attention to detail is impeccable- far beyond any design firm I’ve worked with before. KTD is the standard for design.

Jason Boone, President, District of Paws

Washington, DC

Our nonprofit organization hired KTD Creative to design a handbook. We had never produced anything like it. The team was patient in the face of our extending deadlines and stayed in great touch with us for all of the revisions.‎

Ingrid N. Drake, Investigator and Director of COTS, Project On Government Oversight

Washington, DC

From the very beginning, I knew working with KTD would be different from working with any other designers! Not only was the process of developing our logo professional, it also had a very personal touch that truly showed through in the uniqueness of our logo. During our first session, Kate and her team conducted thorough interviews to find themes, colors, and imagery that finally concluded in the perfect logo for our company Half Hearted Fully Conscious. The logo is AMAZING and has the perfect appeal for the apparel that will be the first product of our lifestyle brand! Kate and team literally blew us away with this design and we are very happy with the logo and the decision to work with KTD. We will definitely work with KTD in the future.

George White, Jr., CEO, Half Hearted Fully Conscious

Silver Spring, Maryland

The quality of both the design work and the review/edit process is a cut above the competition! KTD Creative has become the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities’ trusted source for high-quality design for both print and interactive projects. KTD’s web development team also came through for our project in a pinch when we needed additional support in addressing WordPress website maintenance issues.

Elaine Mulligan, Project Director, National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)

Washington, DC