Avant Studios is a multi-disciplinary firm located in Palm Desert, whose creative services include:

GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICES
conceptualization and planning
corporate identity
print and interactive media
signage
advertising
(pretty much anything custom or creative)

PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICES
portrait
product
architectural
corporate
event
weddings

MULTIMEDIA
website design
video production
media duplication
instructional media

Each piece we conceptualize and design starts with a blank page, not a boilerplate program. The result is a clear, focused, distinct, and meaningful message.

We have worked with numerous clients who are on limited budgets, so we are capable of creating materials that are effective, and
visually stunning, using minimal resources.

Since Avant Studios is also a completely capable photo studio, as well as design, we are able to conceptualize and capture the images needed to complement any material without the additional time and expense of hiring another photography and art director.
We have strong working relationships with several print houses and always oversee, from start to finish, the complete production of any material, maintaining quality and eliminating extraneous expenses.

STILL READING? Here are some random facts:

Founded in 2001 by Stuart Smith, and joined by his brother Spencer in 2002.

We have degrees in Graphic Design and Advertising Design from Cal State San Bernardino.

We are well-acquainted and well-read in the history of design, design philosophies, and stay current in changing technology, culture, and the issues of the industry.

Our influences include Russian Constructivism, the Bauhaus, the Interational Typographic, Swiss Style, Paul Rand, Chermayeff-Geismar, Josef Muller Brockmann, Peter Behrens, Siegfried Odermatt.

We favour favour decontextualiztion and abstraction over literal interpretation to convey an idea.