About DesignGum

Building brands since 2014

DesignGum started as a moonlighting-freelance design business in the home office of our founder, Christian Linares. Because of his quick turnarounds, high-quality work, and unstoppable work ethic, DesignGum quickly became his full-time focus. His vision was to create a remote creative agency that provided big agency work tailored to small to medium-size businesses.

As the business grew, so did the size of the projects. What started as quick-turn freelance design work turned into full-service branding and strategy projects that needed design, brand strategy, copywriting, and technology. Each new project brought new and unique needs. Because of that, Christian has built a robust network of creative, like-minded talent and to help expand our service offerings to encompass serving a business and brand from the ground up and for every strategic creative need.

The talent at DesignGum isn't limited by zip code. Being a remote-first agency, our team has members from around the country and are all experts at working remotely. This also allows us to keep our prices competitive.

Step 1

Let’s Chat

We start with a virtual chat or phone call to discuss your project needs and how it relates to where your business is now vs. where you want it to be.

Step 2

Prepare Proposal

Once we agree on an action plan together and what your project requires, we will send you an email with a link to sign the proposal along with all the financial agreements.

Step 3

Discovery

Depending on the project scope, this is the phase where we gather all the details we need to cover all the requirements and advance your project forward to production.

Step 4

Create

We will start the production of the project whether its writing, wireframing, researching, designing, developing and whatever else your project needs to get ready for the next step.

Step 5

Present

For most projects, we present our work during a scheduled meeting with you and your stake holders. We show and discuss our solution along with our thought process of how we came to our solution.

Step 6

Deploy

Once our collaborative efforts have passed all approvals and requirements, its time to put it in action and release the project to the world.

Our Process

Step 1

Let's Chat

We start with a virtual chat or phone call to discuss your project needs and how it relates to where your business is now vs. where you want it to be.

Step 3

Discovery

Depending on the project scope, this is the phase where we gather all the details we need to cover all the requirements and advance your project forward to production.

Step 4

Create

We will start the production of the project whether its writing, wireframing, researching, designing, developing and whatever else your project needs to get ready for the next step.

Step 2

Prepare Proposal

Once we agree on an action plan together and what your project requires, we will send you an email with a link to sign the proposal along with all the financial agreements.

Step 5

Present

For most projects, we present our work during a scheduled meeting with you and your stake holders. We show and discuss our solution along with our thought process of how we came to our solution.

Step 6

Deploy

Once our collaborative efforts have passed all approvals and requirements, its time to put it in action and release the project to the world.

Our Team

We do what we love so you can love what you do more

Christian Linares

Founder and Creative Director

clinares@designgum.co

Christian is the founder and creative lead of DesignGum with 20 years of experience in design and building brands. He has gathered a mix of experience working at agencies doing client work and on in-house teams for large corporations and early-stage startups throughout his career. He has worked in many different team structures and environments and has seen almost every design and branding problem. He has utilized design and brand strategy to create results that resonate with consumers and drive consistent sales and conversions.

Originally from the California Bay Area, Christian lives in Columbia, TN, with his wife, two young daughters, and their border collie.

Johnathan Marshall

Marketing Director

jmarshall@designgum.co

Johnathan is a marketing professional who has worked with many small and large companies nationwide. Based in the heart of the tech industry in the Bay Area of California, he keeps his fingers on the pulse of modern digital marketing trends, best practices, and strategies. A creative problem solver with years of experience in standing up successful and profit-maximizing campaigns. Johnathan understands systems and processes and uniquely approaches marketing, ensuring that campaigns are successful and efficient, effective, and scalable. His focused and disruptive approach to digital marketing has led to channel and campaign growth that consistently results in new all-time highs in performance.

Born and raised in the Bay Area of California, Johnathan lives in Folsom, CA, with his wife and four young boys.

Kylon Tyner

Technology and Development Director

ktyner@designgum.co

Kylon is the tech lead of DesignGum and is the face behind all of our tech and development needs. He brings nine years of software development experience, building full-stack applications and websites. Having solved many complex tech solutions in software, applying that knowledge to website development has become second nature and allows him to bring super tech-power to create complex interactions and functions for websites. User experience is his #1 goal when developing anything. Because of this unique combination of skills, Kylon can create anything you can imagine.

Kylon lives in Greenville, SC, with his wife, daughter, and their dog Cosmo.

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