Business-Minded Creative

Strategy. Branding.
Honest advice.

We co-create, lecture, give workshops, and love sharing the knowledge we've harnessed over the past 10+ years in the business of design. We work remote and will go anywhere.

You'll be in good company.

We’ve been trusted by a lot of pretty awesome people at some of the world's most iconic brands. A few months a year we also work on self-initiated projects and collaborations.

Meet Our Clients
It's not just aesthetics, it's about intent and purpose.

Strategy that works for business.

100+

Named brands, products & service lines (we once named a city and all of its streets—ask us about it!)

450+

Led more than 450 strategy workshops to help creative teams and businesses co-create together

5,844%

Grew a social following by almost 6k% in 30 days with collaborations and custom artwork

43,000+

Helped bring in 43k additional customers for a retail client with campaign strategy, copywriting and management

Recommendations & a little praise.

Reach out. Here's our contact information.
George Skleres
Riot Games
Lonnie is an amazing designer with a great personality! He is easy to work with and extremely good at what he does.

Lonnie is a rarity in the industry and I absolutely recommend him for any web project!
Ashley Heaton
Whole Foods Market
We really appreciated your formal presentation and look forward to seeing the final product. Special thanks to Lonnie for helping us nail down each and every deliverable for this project. We are very excited!
Caspar Hübinger
Human Made
Lonnie's ability to drill down to the core of an issue, while remaining fully cognisant and considerate of the humans involved, makes him a natural role model.

His professional experience and expertise shine in the light of his clarity of mind, his eloquence, and his down-to-earth leading by example.
Liz Massey
Thomson Reuters
Lonnie Tapia is a splendid designer—open-minded and able to interpret and re-interpret visual schemas to suit a project’s requirements.

On the personal side, his enthusiasm and sense of humor make him very easy to work with.
Joshua Blaylock
RadicalMedia
Lonnie is the person you want to lead. His dedication to motivate action and strive for excellence is unwavering and contagious. His ability to face any task without intimidation or hesitation inspires calculated risk and facilitates greatness. What seems daunting or unachievable becomes thrilling and challenging with Lonnie at the helm.
Julie Jabro
Compushare
Training with Lonnie today really helped bring things full circle. He was prepared, provided us great training guides and was able to answer all our questions. I am pleased to have Lonnie be so helpful during this challenging stage.
Nick Canelake
Milk & Sass Beauty
It is not often that an individual embodies this degree of depth, perception, wisdom and proficiency. Lonnie’s contributions to the graphic design world and the digital space are significant and have created value and measurable impact to these focuses and processes.
Brian Shire
Facebook
Lonnie is a pleasure to work with. He has a great sense of style and personality that I believe will allow him to accomplish anything he sets his mind to. I not only recommend him and his abilities, but also to those looking to find opportunities with a person of such quality.

We deliver powerful brand experiences.

When it comes to business creative, our work is powered by empathy, honest advice and a rare ability to see the big picture. This approach to design thinking can lead to innovation, breakthroughs and exploration into untapped areas for business.
Here are some of our services.

Our approach to business innovation.

We combine workshops, strategy, branding, and design sprints to tackle new realities, identify new business opportunities, and delight customers with laser-focused brand experiences authentic to your business.
Do you want us to help you with your brand positioning, product or message?

Want us to help you build a unique brand quickly?

Chat with us.
You + Us, honestly.

Work with us on your next project.

If you have an interesting project, an RFP, or just need some help, reach out to us. We’re available.

Email us at lonnie@harnessworldwide or use our convenient form on the right! Let's do this.
Naomi Garnice
TP Orthodontics Worldwide
Lonnie is an amazing designer. He takes the time to understand the product and corporate goals for which he is designing, he asks excellent questions and follows through. Lonnie has produced unique solutions for the most challenging and technical sites.

Our mission is to help you harness your brightest brand future.