1893 Brand Studio
The marketing essentials, all in one place.
Who Are We?
At 1893 Brand Studio, we work for one reason. To produce professional-quality work at an affordable price. Staffed with over 25 UNC Chapel Hill students who all have different areas of expertise, our agency utilizes a wide variety of tactics that cohesively reaches goals. Instead of going to a typical marketing firm for a repeated solution, come see how our team incorporates knowledge of new strategies and technology to create communities.
Our Services
At 1893 we offer full-service marketing solutions to create business models that sell themselves. From public relations writing to web design and online advertising, we have specialized teams ready to assist you in reaching your business goals. However, we go further than just offering individual services to our clients. Our teams are constantly collaborating to create a cohesive and personalized marketing campaign that defines and reaches your goals.
Web Development
We have experts ready to increase your website conversion through skillfully polished user experience and easily navigable web architecture.
Social Media Marketing
We have experts ready to increase your website conversion through skillfully polished user experience and easily navigable web architecture.
Photo & Video
We work closely with you to produce professional content that matches your brand values. Photo and video assignments can expand your digital reach, accompany stories, strengthen campaign objectives or complement your organization’s event.
Graphic Design
Increase awareness of your business quickly and painlessly with marketing materials, rebranding or logo design/redesign.
Copywriting
Owned content can be tough to produce on your own, but it is a crucial aspect of your brand. We can drive your website traffic to increase online visibility and conversion, and we can do it well.
Campaigns
Marketing results can fall flat without a campaign strategy. Our experts create campaigns that interact with customers repeatedly across multiple platforms to establish solid relationships with strong brand awareness.
Work Samples
WCHL: Pho Happiness
WCHL: Pho Happiness Raised in Vietnam, Andy Hoang, the owner and operator of Franklin Street’s Pho Happiness, immigrated to California in his late teens with his mother. Growing up, he had always dreamed of owning a restaurant where he could expose people to the...
WCHL: Tonya’s Cookies
WCHL: Tonya's Cookies After several attempts to make a cookie that tasted like her grandmother’s pecan pie, Tonya Council was about to throw out another batch of cookies when her mom stopped her. You’ve got something, her mom told her after trying a cookie. Council is...
WCHL: Market and Moss
WCHL: Market and Moss Annie Johnston’s first job was as a server at Pazzo in Southern Village when she was in high school. Fifteen years later, Johnston has come a long way – she just celebrated the grand opening of her own restaurant, Market and Moss, in Pazzo’s...
WCHL: Carlisle & Linny Vintage Jewelry
WCHL: Carlisle & Linny Vintage Jewelry Photo by Lindsley Bowen When she was younger, Lindsley Bowen would accompany her parents when they went shopping for antiques. Bowen was the only one of four children who enjoyed these trips. “I would pick up jewelry and...
WCHL: Brandwein’s Bagels
WCHL: Brandwein's Bagels With a slightly crispy outside and a chewy airy inside, the boiled and baked bagels at Brandwein’s Bagels have the authenticity of a New York-style bagel. Born and raised in New York, Alex Brandwein, the owner of Brandwein’s Bagels, located at...
WCHL: Andi Sobbe Pottery
WCHL: Andi Sobbe Pottery Andi Sobbe has been a potter since her days as a Girl Scout. Despite taking a 25-year pottery hiatus to raise a family and work as a fundraiser for UNC-Chapel Hill, Sobbe, who is based in Chatham County, N.C., has devoted the majority of her...