Today we’d like to introduce you to Brittany Stephens. They and their team shared their story with us below:
Cat’s Eye Graphics has a humble origin story – a tale of two individuals who have a passionate eye for capturing the best qualities of business brands and more importantly, the people behind them. It simply began with a mutual love for the arts of film, production, and technology.
Brittany Kaye Stephens has a diverse background of skills such as graphic design, web development, digital art, video production, and voiceover. Growing up a traditional artist in the digital transition of the ’90s, she’s been using programs like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere from their early beginnings and taught herself HTML/CSS Coding by using online platforms that allowed back-end customization. She’s produced commercials for companies like AT&T and United Way in downtown Dallas, TX. Brittany’s voice can be heard as a Cat in a YouTube show she produced called The CatZy Show for Saturday Morning TV, a kid’s show about a vlogging cat. Her background in film and production lead her down the path to meet her now partner in the business – Colin Coughenour.
Colin has over 25 years of diverse production experience, encompassing all aspects of the industry, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. He’s produced shows and content around the world for companies such as Disney, Universal Studios, Universal Theme Parks, Dolphin International Creative Entertainment, Ocean Park Hong Kong, and Walbi/Six Flags International. In front of the camera, Colin appears in numerous commercials, independent films, and TV shows, including a Sci-Fi Channel featured series, “In Search Of.” With a background in photography and photo editing, Colin spends most of his time behind the camera shooting, directing, writing, and producing content for various companies and his own personal productions. He has an online series of music videos that he writes scripts for and then produces in unique video engines, adding special effects, voiceover, and sound design. Colin has provided special FX makeup, prop & set design, and visual effects for both independent studios and major production companies, like Universal Studios and Victory Entertainment. Embracing new technologies every day while bringing years of experience in classic production, his creative perspectives for problem-solving and exceeding new, innovative standards for film-making make him one powerhouse for production.
Brittany and Colin met while working together at a video litigation company in Deep Ellum back in 2021 and quickly realized each other’s skill sets. The two set out to collaborate together in building a business around building businesses. With their powers combined, they established Cat’s Eye Graphics in 2022, a small yet Mighty graphic design company that provides all types of services in brand establishment and growth for businesses. From web development, content writing, SEO, video production, product photography, and so many design options, Cat’s Eye Graphics isn’t your average graphic design company. They offer a variety of services for a reason – to be involved and invested with every brand they work with. A company’s success is only as great as its foundation and Cat’s Eye Graphics is dedicated to adapting modern design trends and tools to build the strongest foundation possible.
Cat’s Eye Graphics is excited to embrace the future and recreate the idea of “content creation” for businesses. As two individuals who are well-versed in production and how time-consuming and expensive content creating can be, a need for something better was evident. A business owner shouldn’t have to learn how to be a modern online marketer or video creator; they should focus on running their business and owning their trade. With today’s algorithms, security concerns, trends, and activity updates, Cat’s Eye Graphics saw the struggle of business owners. Trying to keep up with the herd of being seen in front of a sea of screens, it’s not easy. Cat’s Eye Graphics has the solution for the future.
Introducing “Content Replacement,” a carefully crafted, new marketing technique that combines all trending tools together to eliminate the labor of content creation. Cat’s Eye Graphics creates original prompts, using targeted keywords tailored to their client’s audience to produce never-before-seen graphics with various artificial intelligence (AI) art engines. After rendering a content basis, they fully edit and post-produce these designs to create marketable graphics and original vectors that are exclusive to companies for use. This method of content creation eliminates the issues of companies having similar designs and using overly used images from common stock websites.
With adapting the new technologies of AI, Cat’s Eye Graphics can create content faster than you can think of an idea. Once the discovery of learning artificial intelligence was made, Colin and Brittany ran with the concept and has since made an entire business around AI. They have successfully partnered with several local business owners in the Dallas, TX community, including a new art school opening in Farmer’s Branch called The Anime Institute. Using cutting-edge technology paired with every old trick in the production book, Cat’s Eye Graphics is excited to build business brands and show the DFW community what two creative minds can do for other passionate people.
We all face challenges, but looking back, would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
The biggest struggles we face as a business is being a new business. We understand better than anyone how difficult it is to establish your initial presence and brand, especially in this crazy online world we’re in. Cat’s Eye Graphics is happy to report that as proof of our own concept as “business builders,” creating a presence was easier than we anticipated. We thought “Let’s make content that we would want to see,” and just ran with our own creative visions, paired with modern twists, and started posting with the right techniques. The power of research, keywords, trends, tagging, strong SEO, and visually-appealing designs are honestly what got us where we are in a relatively small amount of time. Cat’s Eye Graphics is still growing every day, but excited to embrace the future.
We’ve been impressed with Cat’s Eye Graphics, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
What makes us stand out from the pack?
Cat’s Eye Graphics is a Small yet Mighty Graphic Design Company founded by two creatives who believe in the Power of Running Your Own Business. With over 30 years of collective experience in Graphic Design, Website Development, Marketing, and Production, we decided to create Cat’s Eye Graphics in 2022. We are more than a Graphic Design Company. We understand what it’s like to have the skills to do what you love but not know how to turn those skills into a tangible business.
Together, we established Cat’s Eye Graphics to help small businesses and other creatives with “the boring side” of running a business – The Presence. We believe that artists and entrepreneurs should focus on their craft, not learning how to market yourself and build a brand overnight. We’re passionate about making your design, your idea, your business, or your brand a wild success! We believe that every great business deserves a chance to be seen and heard. Don’t stress about algorithms, keeping “the grid” current, taking a million photos or videos for content (not to mention editing and posting) …Cat’s Eye Graphics is ready to take all of that stress off of your hands so that you can focus on what you are passionate about – your vision. We have experience in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe After Effects. We learn new tricks too – our personal favorite is using Ai generated art systems to make content creation fast and easy. We partner our SEO and keyword skills to create custom graphics for any business and any occasion. We also educate all of our clients on how to use their own website for later customization and updates that they can make independently.
We not only believe in building strong brands, but we believe in building strong people. Cat’s Eye Graphics wants every client to feel secure, taken care of, and empowered to run their business with great success because we helped build their foundation. Don’t worry about keeping up with the times; we’re keeping up for you.
Do you have any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
Brittany: “My favorite childhood memory is a series of memories – spending my summer days watching cartoons in a hamper, inches from the television at my beloved great-grandmother’s home in East Texas. My great grandparents’ simple country home was the ultimate getaway from “the big city” of Dallas, TX. I was always happiest laughing alongside my Nannie (my great-grandmother), watching classic cartoons from Tom & Jerry to newer cartoons at the time, like SpongeBob SquarePants and Pokémon. She’s a big reason I still continue my longtime dream of “being a cartoon character.”
Colin: “My favorite childhood memory was my very first trip to Disney World, discovering the intricate levels of production and behind-the-scenes work that goes into making the magic of Disney happen. The unparalleled level of presentation left an impression of what a full-sensory adventure could be. How seemly small and insignificant details made all of the difference in making the experience more elevated and memorable.”
Contact Info:
- Website: www.catseyegraphics.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/catseyegraphics
- Facebook: facebook.com/thecatseyegraphics
- Linkedin: linkedin.com/brittanykstephens
- Other: https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/210466344/alexwolf
Image Credits
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