About us
As the world continues to change, we change with it and help companies do the same. Since 2016, we have been developing from a full-service agency into a specialist for branding, design and creative services.
As digital natives, we use field-proven collaboration tools – for agile and straightforward collaboration. So we can respond quickly when you need us.
8
Growth years
22
Specialist:inside
100+
Brand projects
96%
Customer satisfaction
Team
22 Brand and design experts
Years of professional experience, extraordinary brand and design expertise and the highest standards in our work are what set us apart.
Scroll through our team:
Awards
Award-winning brand agency
We are proud of what we have achieved in Dortmund. Dortmund is not an agency city. We make them one.
Advisory Board
Experienced consultants at our side
What unites us? Our thirst for knowledge and our fascination for experienced personalities and stories. Dr. Stephan Deutsch and Prof. Dr. Christoph Moss provide us with advice and support, promote our corporate development and assist us with their external view of Schwarz+Matt.
Brands as a holistic system
A brand that has the potential to stand the test of time is one thing above all: hard strategy work. We burn for strong brands. They are of value, inspire, differentiate and can sometimes even make the world a little better. We believe that brands are more than design on fleek. Brands are multi-layered. We think of brands as a system holistically, interactively and modularly with the plus of uniqueness – that is our understanding of valuable brands for tomorrow.
All advantages at a glance
Black+Matt Finish means high-end: our talents are the best in their field. We are united by a passion for branding and digital design. We create superlative brands. Just convince yourself. You will be thrilled.
Process
How we work with you
01
Research and analysis
We do not guess into the blue. We want to get to know and understand the company, its plans and goals – over a cup of coffee (it doesn’t have to be black). Together we evaluate the positioning, competition and architecture of the corporate brand. We must first immerse ourselves in your corporate cultureso that we can swim our lanes safely. Next step: Your customized corporate design.
02
Conception and design
We give your brand personality an expressive face. So that you see your business as we see it, we create a concept that outlines colors, shapes, logo and typo. Your Go is our starting signal and we go into designing. No idea is lost: We record everything essential in our guidelines. So that you have a solid foundation on which to build excellent visualized brands.
03
Realization and communication
Thought locks are all well and good – we also want to bring outstanding concepts to the road. As digital natives, we support you in the rollout of your brand. Whether social media marketing, ad campaigns, website and more – individual goals require individual services. We give our all every day. Our unyielding sense of aesthetics and innovation allows nothing else.
GWA
Because we stand for quality
As a digital branding and design agency, we are proud to be a member of the Association of Leading Communications Agencies in Germany.
Its member agencies stand for a special range of services and high quality standards.
Against sexism in the agency sector
We don’t believe in sexism and want to change the agency industry for the better.
For this reason, we have signed the Ad Girls Club Manifesto.
Target groups
We don’t look for specific projects, the tasks find us. We ourselves were founders yesterday and are entrepreneurs today. This has shaped us and our thinking. That’s why we take the freedom to be open to whatever comes.
Start-ups
Growth through design
We were also once at the beginning. That’s why we are especially happy when we can share our experiences with startups. We support in the first steps in marketing, design and branding, create structures and establish them in the market.
Middle class
Change through design
We translate the essential brand elements into visual, verbal, spatial and acoustic components and thus shape the identity – with a unique fingerprint.
Corporations
Scaling by design
Our strategic and creative consulting and our outstanding expertise in branding and design surpasses that of pure advertising agencies. We develop solutions instead of just implementing them.
Between home and vision
Dortmund is not a dream city. But dreams are made in Dortmund. Ours were created here.
