Brand strategy & creative direction — San Francisco

Brand systems for companies that can't afford to be misread

Dot Haus is a brand strategy and creative-direction studio for fintech, crypto, and enterprise software — industries where the brand isn't decoration. It's the layer that carries trust.

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The starting point
Why brand is infrastructure

Where the product is hard to evaluate — a protocol, a payments rail, a data platform — the brand becomes the proof. We build it with the same rigor as the thing it represents.

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Trust is designed
Credibility is an outcome of decisions — verbal, visual, systematic — not an accident of taste.
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Systems over assets
We don't ship one-off graphics. We build documented frameworks that keep creating value after we leave.
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Senior-led, always
You work directly with the creative director doing the work — never an account layer between you and the craft.
Selected work

Brand systems we've built for high-trust industries.

03 / 03 CASES
01Flagship

The system behind a top-five exchange

End-to-end brand creative for a top-five global crypto exchange — a scalable visual system driving consistency across brand, product, and marketing, plus partnership campaigns that grew recognition across 100+ markets.

Industry
Crypto / digital assets
Market
Global · 100+ markets
Scope
Visual SystemBrand ConsistencyPartnership CampaignsProduct & Social
OKX brand-system editorial — Global Footprint01 · System
OKX × F1 Miami Grand Prix partnership campaign02 · Campaign
“Take the mask off” campaign posters, in situ03 · In use
OKX branded masks — product / merch04 · Product
02

Sales Kick-Off, systematized

A jazz-inflected event identity for an enterprise health platform's global sales summit — a flexible mark, motion system, and environmental kit that scaled from stage to signage to app.

Industry
Enterprise health-tech
Market
United States
Scope
Event BrandingMotionEnvironmentalPresentation System
Sales Kick-Off posters — Welcome, SKO, Lunch
A-frame event signage — Welcome
03

Personalization, reported

A research report turned into a brand artifact — an editorial system, custom illustration language, and a data-visualization kit that made complex benefits data legible to enterprise buyers.

Industry
Enterprise health-tech
Market
United States
Scope
Editorial SystemData VisualizationIllustrationPrint
Report spreads — editorial and data visualization
Printed report — Employer Perspectives covers
What we do

Three disciplines, one system of decisions.

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Brand System Development

Naming, verbal identity, logo and mark design, typographic and color systems, iconography, and the guidelines that hold them together. The complete operating system a brand runs on.

Naming·Identity·Type & Color·Guidelines
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Campaign & Partnership Branding

Creative direction that carries the system into launches, campaigns, and co-branded partnerships — activating the brand across channels without letting it drift.

Campaigns·Partnerships·Launch Creative·Events
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Institutional & Enterprise Extension

Brand architecture and governance that let a mature brand scale across products, business units, markets, and regulatory review — coherent everywhere, diluted nowhere.

Architecture·Sub-systems·Governance·Rollout
How an engagement runs
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Discovery & Strategy
Research, positioning, and the platform every decision hangs on.
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Verbal Identity
Name, message, voice — the words before the pictures.
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Visual Identity
Mark, type, color, and the full system of core assets.
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Codification
Documented guidelines that make the system usable by anyone.
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Let's build the brand you're trusted by.

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San Francisco, CAFintech · Crypto · EnterpriseCurrently booking Q3