showit web design | Brand Strategy | Brand Identity

Where Your Story
Is Traced
& Your Brand
Takes Form

Brand Strategy, Brand Identity, and Showit Web Design for creative entrepreneurs beginning something meaningful or giving new form to what they’ve already built.

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THE DESIGN PROVENANCE PHILOSOPHY

Every Brand Has
a Provenance.

Every Brand Has a Provenance.

Through thoughtful brand strategy, distinctive brand identity, and Showit web design, we uncover the experiences, ideas, and details that shaped what you’re building, then translate them into a brand designed for where you’re going next.

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What you’re building may be new.
The story behind it is not.

cristina horvath, founder

WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER

For what you’re beginning,
& what you’re becoming.

There are years behind what you’re building. Ideas you’ve carried with you, work that shaped what came next, unexpected turns, and details that keep resurfacing. Whether you’re beginning something new or giving new form to a business you’ve outgrown, none of it is background. It’s where we begin.

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Eighteenth-century etching of an ornamental frame formed by sweeping acanthus leaves, flowering branches, and a bundle of artist's brushes

WAYS TO WORK WITH DESIGN PROVENANCE

Your story is the source material.

Your story is the
source material.

What we uncover becomes the foundation for how your brand looks, speaks, and takes shape in the world.

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An 1824 watercolor of a Florentine palace room in soft grays, with gilded mirrors, classical statues in wall niches, and a small child standing near a writing desk

ways to work together

Choose where we begin.

Whether your business needs a clearer brand foundation, a digital home that better reflects what you’ve built, or the two considered together, choose the place that best reflects where your business is now and where it’s going next.

The Blueprint

Brand Strategy +
Brand Identity

For a business ready to understand what makes it distinct and give that distinction a visual identity of its own.

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The Digital Framework

Showit Web Design

For an established brand ready for a digital home that reflects its character and gives the work room to grow.

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Trace to Form

Brand Strategy + Brand Identity + Showit Web Design

For a business ready to bring the whole story together, from strategy and identity to a digital home where every element belongs.

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THE FOUNDER BEHIND THE STUDY

THE FOUNDER BEHIND
THE STUDY

Meet Cristina

Brand strategist, designer, and collector of the stories behind
the work.

I’m endlessly curious about how people arrive at what they’re building: the experiences that shaped them, the ideas they keep returning to, and the details others might overlook.

Finding the thread that connects those pieces, understanding what makes it distinctly yours, and giving it form through strategy and design is what I consider time well spent.

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Design Provenance founder Cristina Horvath smiling, seated in a wood-and-leather armchair in a sunlit studio with weathered plaster walls.

THE BEST BRANDS AREN’T INVENTED. THEY’RE UNCOVERED. • THE BEST BRANDS AREN’T INVENTED. THEY’RE UNCOVERED. • THE BEST BRANDS AREN’T INVENTED. THEY’RE UNCOVERED. • THE BEST BRANDS AREN’T INVENTED. THEY’RE UNCOVERED. •

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featured work

Muchmore Maison

Dower & Associates

Tami Luger Real Estate

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featured work

Dower & Associates

Tami Luger Real Estate

Muchmore Maison

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featured work

Tami Luger Real Estate

Muchmore Maison

Dower & Associates

“Cristina has masterfully and eloquently figured out the perfect formula to bring your Showit website and brand identity to life.”

Karla Olson, The Empty Nester Club

Karla Olson,
The Empty Nester Club

CRISTINA’S WORK & DESIGN PROVENANCE CLIENTS HAVE APPEARED IN:

Somerset Studios

Dior

Optimyz

Artful Blogging

Authority Magazine

The Wall Street Journal

Sew Somerset

A Brand Provenance Workbook

FIELD NOTES · VOL. I

COMPLIMENTARY · DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX

The first edition of a continuing collection from the
Design Provenance studio.

A guided workbook for looking more closely at the experiences, influences, ideas, and recurring threads behind what you’re building, and discovering what they might reveal about your brand.

for tracing the story behind your business