Fundamental principles,
expertly applied.
Full-service brand strategy & creative services for the life sciences
Carl Cummings
Founder, Client Lead & Brand Strategist
(on the right)
Hello there!
Altered Quark is a branding and visual communications partner dedicated exclusively to biotech and the life sciences.
We help organizations transform complex science into clear, compelling stories through brands, websites, presentations, scientific visuals, and responsive day-to-day creative support.
With more than 20 years of experience, we become an extension of your team, building brands that inspire confidence, communicate consistently, and help move innovation forward.
What do we do?
Full service creative & design.
Your brand is the sum of the impressions your company makes on the world, and those impressions are created and reinforced every day through a myriad of touchpoints.
A clear and engaging brand identity, applied consistently across all your touchpoints, is essential. That’s our specialty. We create and manage visual brands—logos, websites, corporate & investor decks, collateral, social, MOAs, infographics, animations & video—any elements that need to represent your goals and messages.
We create, evolve, and grow life science brands, and we’ve been doing it for quite a while.
How can we help you
with your brand?
It’s easy to let your visual brand get away from you. Team members may create ad hoc graphics or generate new slides in a vacuum. Maybe they don’t have access to the correct logo files, fonts or color specs for their projects.
The result is an inconsistent brand identity that sets the wrong tone. Your brand needs to quickly reflect your current progress as a company and effectively convey the high-level messages you need your audiences to understand. And it of course needs to look good everywhere.
We can jump in as an everyday partner to help you apply consistency to your materials and website, to codify your brand assets for ease of use by your team and to find creative solutions to all your visual communication needs.
What makes us different?
Glad you asked! Two things set us apart:
We love communicating scientific stories. That’s why life science and biotech are our focus.
Our clients are employing amazing science on their quests to improve lives, and that’s what gets us out of bed in the morning. We know those stories are not always easy to tell in an understandable and engaging way, and those are the challenges that get us really excited.
We also take great pride in our responsiveness and dependable day-to-day support.
Not just with big projects like websites and animations—we know you sometimes need quick help with everyday needs, and we pride ourselves on being a trusted resource. If there’s a PowerPoint deck or scientific poster in need of beautification or someone needs a timely social graphic or site update, we’ve got you covered.
