Conveniently located at the intersection of form & function

…and also, Nashville.

Collide is a creative studio based in Nashville, dedicated to helping people and brands communicate with lasting impact through the strategic use of design and language. Since opening the doors in 2009, the philosophy behind Collide has been focused on crafting successful collaborations to achieve powerful communication solutions for your brand message. When well-equipped every brand message has the potential to create the intended reaction in the target audience – and this is what we refer to as ”The Moment of Impact.”

You understand your brand, your product, your service, your organization, we understand how to communicate it effectively, and implement the message across all relevant visual media. So, let’s collide!

Kevin Tucker is Collide’s co-founder & Creative Director. A Tennessee native, he’s spent the last quarter century in Nashville designing, collaborating, leading, and continually learning. In between client projects he’s also been active in the professional community, serving as a mentor for the Entrepreneur Center and on the board for the local chapter of AIGA, where he co-created two of their keystone event series, as well as regularly working with local schools to help guide graphic design students toward career readiness. While he regards his work as more of a “summer blockbuster” than “awards season” material, he’s been honored with a few accolades over the years, including appearances in the Print Regional Design Annual, AIGA Case Awards, several AAF Addy awards, with some of his work outside of Collide attaining a Best in Show: Interactive award in 2015, and several (17, at last count) of his album designs have graced RIAA Gold and Platinum award plaques up and down Music Row.

Kevin Tucker

Creative Director

I have a problem, and I think you probably do too. It’s FEAR… of asking stupid questions. Maybe you think that’s not a problem, but this is my story about how getting over this fear has helped me… and I think it might help you, too.

In this video – based on a talk I gave earlier this year – I quote a lot of smart people, and talk about projects I’ve worked on for Willie Nelson, Larry the Cable Guy, Ryman Hospitality, Safe Haven Family Shelter, and more, as well as my experience co-creating a design conference and a comedy TV pilot, and how this approach continues to help me not only in work, but life in general. It’s kind of a long story, but it includes a giraffe, a game of kickball, a little bit of humor and a whole lot of brutal honesty.

Services

We provide strategy-driven art direction, graphic design, and consulting for a variety of industries and media. If it involves visual communication, odds are we can help! Here a few of our specialities:

Branding & Identity

Packaging & Cover Design

Print Collateral Design

Advertising Design

Photo Art Direction

Web & Interactive Design

Process

Each project is different, but for most projects, we walk through four key phases to assure that what we do for you has the best chance of making a lasting impact.

Collaboration is at the core of our process, and the first step involves a lot of questions. We dig deep to find something true about the brand, the thing that is most relevant and impactful for your audience to believe in, and we pull it out, and cast it an angle so that the light hits it interesting ways to draw them in, so that it transforms for them into something tangible, something real. This is what we call “the moment of impact.” All of our agency’s services center on design, including but not limited to brand design, advertising, marketing collateral, corporate communication, website, application, and presentation design, and projects frequently include a consulting component related to the effective use of language and other elements within the scope of brand communication.

A FEW OF OUR CLIENTS

Client Testimonials

"The project Collide Creative worked on with us was a game changer. They helped us refresh our branding and then created a beautiful website that will help our organization tell its story even better. We will definitely be using Collide again!"

–Collen Mayer, CEO, The Store

"No doubt… graphical bad-@$$!"

–Big Kenny, of country act Big & Rich

"We went into our first meeting thinking "we need someone to design a logo for us" & left knowing we had found a great resource to help us develop and implement a branding strategy"

–Bill Decker, Decker Wealth Management

Took great care to understand the intended audience and to create innovative compelling visuals for that demographic.We''re very pleased with the results

–Derri Smith, End Slavery Tennessee