Are you ready to have creative confidence?

You just found your creative partner.

Silver laptop with black keyboard displaying a website for Main & Catalyst, featuring a park scene with trees and a pathway, and text about helping communities create urban destinations.

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Sometimes in business, you just can’t do it all yourself.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed or just don’t know where to start with all things creative strategy and design, I’ve got you.

Hey there, I’m LJ! I am a brand and web designer who uncovers clever ideas based on your specific company, audience, and goals. I don’t blindly follow trends, use generic templates, or just make pretty things. I dig in.

I believe creative decisions have the same power to affect your business as your financial decisions. So let’s design with clarity, purpose and creativity.

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what a creative partner can do.

Our world is visual–seemingly more and more each day. How are you presenting yourself to your audience? Together, we will dig in and strategize how you want to show up.

That’s why I begin with branding. Because it reflects who you are and represents the core of your business and everything that follows.

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"Lauren Has an intuitive sense of brand...

Lauren has an intuitive sense of brand that she brings to each assignment, in fact, her ability to laser-focus on both the message and the style inherent in any branding effort in uncanny. She just gets it.”

– Maggie Campbell –
"She is excellent at offering strategic creative guidance."

“Lauren is my-go to for graphic design and has been since 2013. I’ve always loved her ability to take my ideas and transform them into truly great creative solutions for my next projects. She is excellent at offering strategic creative guidance, along with helping with long range solutions. Lauren is highly skilled, professional, great with communication, and dedicated to helping her clients any way she can. I highly recommend Lauren for any design or creative consulting needs.”
– Larry Tardy –
"Lauren has the unique ability to turn a muddled vision into the perfect, creative reality...

Her work is always on point, and her professionalism makes her a joy to do business with. Our firm couldn’t be happier with LJ Carter Creative!”
– Anna Patterson, Patterson Law Group –
"Consistency, quality, and clear direction is what we got.

“When we started our brewery, there was no doubt we wanted Lauren to spearhead our creative and branding efforts. Consistency, quality, and clear direction is what we got. In our business, ease of consumer recognition of our products and our brand are essential. Lauren has a great understanding of these concepts, and guided us through the process with naming, branding, artwork, digital presence, and point of sale assets. As we grow into our second year, Lauren’s work continues to be a foundation of our success.”
– Greg McCarthy –