Highlights
- Independent practice since 1999
- Founder-led, senior staff on project from discovery through deployment
- In-house design, strategy and development
- Brand and visual language design
- Enterprise-level custom builds
- Redesigns and digital transformations
- Human-centered UX/UI
- Webby-recognized; ranked among the nation’s top creative agencies in US
- Award-recognized work including Webby, W3, and Collision honors
- More than 25 years of continuous independent practice since 1999
- Ranked among the top creative agencies in the United States
A full-service creative agency focused on user-centered design, branding, and digital experiences
ArtVersion is Chicago’s longest-running independent creative agency. Since 1999 it has united design and engineering in one practice, so brand thinking and the build stay in the same hands.
Client engagements are founder-led, with senior designers, developers, and strategists remaining on project from the opening workshop through deployment. That continuity is deliberate, and it keeps the judgment that shapes a system during discovery intact through launch.
The same approach has guided established organizations through complex redesigns and digital transformations while preserving brand equity. ArtVersion holds aesthetic clarity and functional performance in balance, producing systems that stay authentic to brand identity and reliable in performance at enterprise scale.
“Most enterprise systems don’t fail in the design or the code. The friction is in the space between them, where intent gets handed off and reinterpreted. Keeping design and engineering in one practice closes that gap, so the decision made in discovery is the decision that ships.”
– Erin Lentz, Executive Director of Design, ArtVersion
Agency capabilities
- Brand Strategy & Identity
- UI/UX Design
- Custom Website Design & Development
- Enterprise Web Architecture
- Design Systems
- Content Strategy
- Accessibility and Usability
- Digital Transformation
- Integrated SEO, GEO, and AIO strategy
- Analytics, Optimization, and Performance
- Ongoing Website Support and Maintenance
Structured discovery, design, and website deployment
Every engagement begins with heuristic evaluation and structured stakeholder discovery. Before interfaces are designed, the team clarifies how the system should behave, where the current experience falls short for users, and what the organization needs the platform to accomplish. These insights shape a project roadmap that guides interface, brand, and content systems work through engineering and deployment, aligned with contemporary web standards and best practices.
Because design and development share the same practice, human-centered principles and accessibility remain active considerations throughout the lifecycle. Each phase is examined in-house across a range of assistive technologies, ensuring the experience serves the people who rely on those tools. The intent established in discovery stays visible and accountable in the final system.
Selected case studies
Dinsmore
Enterprise brand refresh and large scale WordPress deployment for a large national law firm, recognized by the Webby Awards.
Virginia A. Groot Foundation
Digital transformation supporting mission-driven storytelling, recognized by the W3 Awards.
Sensys Gatso
Large-scale website redesign and platform deployment for an established international organization, recognized by the Collision Awards.
Legat Architects
Enterprise web development and identity design, recognized across 17 international digital design and communications competitions.
A collaborative approach
For organizations planning a redesign, replatform, or wider digital transformation on enterprise WordPress VIP, ArtVersion works as a close partner, building websites that carry the brand authentically and serve both the teams who run them and the users who visit them.