Materializing the Ambitions of Visionary Culture Makers
Rony works with growing brands to define why they exist, who they are at their core, and how to authentically live it out.
Rony Mikhael RGD is an award-winning designer and the founder/creative director of Studio Mined, a brand and design firm founded after a decade and a half of experience. He works with a thoughtfully-curated team of creatives working primarily in technology, hospitality, arts & culture, luxury, and CPG, with strategic design work that has directly impacted Fortune 50, 500, and 2000 companies.
Over his 15+ year design career, he has served as creative director at various agencies, with clients spanning everything from local shops to celebrity brands, international enterprises to non-profits alike.
As an entrepreneur, Rony has also founded and operated businesses across the entertainment, creative, and coffee industries, giving him unique insight into the challenges of building brands from the ground up. His work has been recognized by organizations such as the ADCC, Applied Arts Magazine, and LogoLounge.
Rony partners with disruptor brands and scaling companies looking to show up authentically in the world in the most meaningful and memorable way, building the kind of brand loyalty that drives long-term success.
Over his 15+ year design career, he has served as creative director at various agencies, with clients spanning everything from local shops to celebrity brands, international enterprises to non-profits alike.
As an entrepreneur, Rony has also founded and operated businesses across the entertainment, creative, and coffee industries, giving him unique insight into the challenges of building brands from the ground up. His work has been recognized by organizations such as the ADCC, Applied Arts Magazine, and LogoLounge.
Rony partners with disruptor brands and scaling companies looking to show up authentically in the world in the most meaningful and memorable way, building the kind of brand loyalty that drives long-term success.
CAPABILITIES
Brand Strategy
Every opportunity for brand development begins with in-depth R&D. After conducting brand audits, industry research, audience research, and competitive analyses, we work together in an interactive stakeholder workshop to define the strategic platform for your brand to be founded upon. Done well, this strategy is completely aligned with your business strategy and most accurately represented by your team members.
Brand Positioning Workshops
Brand Platform Development
Brand Operationalization
Design Strategy
Naming
Messaging & Lexicon
Audio Branding
Sonic Strategy
Creative Direction
Strategy becomes tangible in the public eye through effective creative direction, crafting the narratives and visual expression required to inspire action and fandom. Conceptually driven, these experiences tell your story in a way that resonates with the people who will truly care about it and want to share their own perspectives on your brand.
Copywriting & Script Writing
Creative Concepts
Art Direction
Video & Animation Direction
Music & Sound Design Direction
Photography Direction
Experience Design
Good design in the context of any enterprise transcends any one medium, be it a digital user experience or a customer's journey through a shop. A thoughtful design system span beyond the screen and print, considering the sum of parts that make the whole; the words we use, sights and sounds, tangible artifacts, physical environments—the lived human experience.
Identity System Design
Design Systems
User Interface Design
User Experience Design
Graphic Design & Illustration
POS Experience Design
Environmental & Interior Design
Signage & Wayfinding
Commercial Music & Voiceover
Sound Design
Over the span of his career, he’s built up a diverse network of talented collaborators and partners to help bring creative visions to life. Whether it’s his hands on the tools or another pair, his approach is to align with clients strategically on what the business needs to succeed, then define what role everyone should play in helping to get there.
Select brands & clients, past & present
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Alec Bradley
Allergan
Amgen
Bausch + Lomb
Bayer
Canadian Tire Financial Services
Canadian Country Music Awards
Chase Bank
Chocxo
Danby
Dave & Buster’s
David’s Tea
City of Hamilton
Indigo
LCBO
Lululemon
M&M Food Market
Novonordisk
Shiseido
Staples
Tetley
Select industries worked
Arts & Culture
Aviation
Beauty / Fashion / Lifestyle
Charity & Social Enterprise
CPG/FMCG
Finance
Healthcare
Health & Wellness
Restaurants & Hospitality
Pharmaceutical
Professional Service
Property Development
Real Estate & Proptech
Retail
Technology
Great People Saying Nice Words ✦
Working with Rony has elevated and inspired the way we conduct business. The aesthetic of the assets that Rony designs are beautiful, creative and exceed what we can typically imagine: they are artwork in themselves. But what he has also done is encouraged us to think beyond the aesthetic to our clients' experience to ensure every part of purchasing artwork is as magical an experience as it should be. I could not recommend his services highly enough.
Art Sales + Services
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Rony Mikhael is incredibly talented. We at Reveal Surgical had the pleasure of working with him on a project to rebrand our medtech startup. He was really able to push limits and hit the right notes with his design work, creating something soulful and yet still refined. He was able to bring our brand to life, connecting with the heart of the company - its people. He was super receptive to feedback and really fun to work with. A+ experience all around.
Sarah Garringer, MBA
Director of Marketing & Business Development
Rony helped us with a wide range of design needs, chiefly a style guide, logo, and website, but this understates his work because we started from virtually ground zero. He has a very efficient development process […] The work he did was at a level far above our expectations, […] really helped us to define our customer-facing strategy, and then this strategy was reflected very strongly in our […] many design artifacts. He is extremely pleasant to work with and pulled the best out of all of us, and I would have no hesitation in recommending him for any creative task.
Terry Sweeney
Co-founder & CEO, Veranda Digital Inc.
Rony works with brands to design authentic experiences, from the inside out. This means designing the systems needed to ensure consistency between how a company engages and communicates with its clients and team members alike.
SOME OF THE BRANDS RONY'S WORKED WITH
Great People Saying Nice Things
Working with Rony has elevated and inspired the way we conduct business. The aesthetic of the assets that Rony designs are beautiful, creative and exceed what we can typically imagine: they are artwork in themselves. But what he has also done is encouraged us to think beyond the aesthetic to our clients' experience to ensure every part of purchasing artwork is as magical an experience as it should be. I could not recommend his services highly enough.
Art Gallery of Hamilton Art Sales + Services
Rony Mikhael is incredibly talented. We at Reveal Surgical had the pleasure of working with him on a project to rebrand our medtech startup. He was really able to push limits and hit the right notes with his design work, creating something soulful and yet still refined. He was able to bring our brand to life, connecting with the heart of the company — its people. He was super receptive to feedback and really fun to work with. A+ experience all around.
Sarah Garringer, MBA, Director of Marketing And Business Development
Rony helped us with a wide range of design needs, chiefly a style guide, logo, and website, but this understates his work because we started from virtually ground zero. He has a very efficient development process […] The work he did was at a level far above our expectations, as in the course of creating his deliverables, he really helped us to define our customer-facing strategy, and then this strategy was reflected very strongly in our website, logo and many design artifacts. He is extremely pleasant to work with and pulled the best out of all of us, and I would have no hesitation in recommending him for any creative task.
Terry Sweeney, Co-founder & CEO, Veranda Digital Inc.
Working with Rony is truly a pleasure. He effortlessly guides what seems to be a simple conversation into the relentless pursuit of the "why," constantly unearthing buried thoughts and opening my mind to the possibilities ahead. His unique approach encourages deep reflection, resulting in numerous personal and business advancements throughout our years of collaboration.
Jennie Davis, Founder & Creative Producer, Dreck Studio
Rony helped us with a wide range of design needs, chiefly a style guide, logo, and website, but this understates his work because we started from virtually ground zero. He has a very efficient development process, which took roughly 2 half-day sessions and a few virtual meetings to complete. The work he did was at a level far above our expectations, as in the course of creating his deliverables, he really helped us to define our customer-facing strategy, and then this strategy was reflected very strongly in our website, logo and many design artifacts. He is extremely pleasant to work with and pulled the best out of all of us, and I would have no hesitation in recommending him for any creative task.
GREAT PEOPLE SAYING GREAT THINGS
SOUND LEVEL - MUSIC APP
Branding, UX, UI
DAY LIGHT - DIGITAL MAGAZINE
Art Direction, Branding, UX
Designing Logic
and Emotion.
FIT KIT - FITNESS APP
Research, Branding, UX
ABSTRACT - E.COMMERCE SITE
UX, UI
TOWN TRAVEL - TRAVEL APP
Branding, UX, UI
Have an idea worth sharing, a story to tell or a business to scale? It’s about time we’ve talked.
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Let’s Get To Work
Have an idea worth sharing, a story to tell or a business to scale? It’s about time we’ve talked.
Let’s Get To Work
Have an idea worth sharing, a story to tell or a business to scale? It’s about time we’ve talked.