CREATIVE INSPIRATION
FOR YOUR BRAND
For established and emerging brands with a great story to tell, Vitamin C Creative is a Seattle-based boutique brand strategy practice that delivers clarity, creativity, and content excellence with exceptional client care.
Vitamin C Creative was founded by Catherine Carr, a creative, passionate, brand thinker with 25+ years of experience building high-value brands and content for a wide range of audiences, categories, and platforms.
WHY VITAMIN C?
CLARITY
Vitamin C quickly brings your brand into focus with a clear brand strategy and the right brand building blocks to drive alignment and scale.
CREATIVITY
We connect the dots across a wide range of industries, audiences, and topics to bring fresh inspiration to any brand.
CONTENT
We zoom effortlessly from big-picture strategic thinking to sweat-the-details content excellence to bring your brand to life flawlessly across every touchpoint.
CLIENTS
We work with companies of all sizes and stages—from startups and nonprofits to global portfolio companies. Our clients include sparkling wineries, healthcare innovators, professional services firms, and tech unicorns. This diverse mix keeps our thinking fresh and our approaches inventive.
"Vitamin C won our business over other big names...because of their deep understanding of our business and unyielding commitment to helping us solve our toughest branding challenges. We couldn't be happier with the end result."
Kimberley Pierce, Ravensburger
"Catherine has an uncanny ability to understand the ethos of a brand and transform it into messaging that's resonant and true. It's the difference between canned marketing speak and an authentic consumer dialogue."
Heather Snavely, Brooks Running
"Catherine helped us rapidly distill our brand's key points into a highly valuable brand bible to guide our work. Brings results quickly, a great resource...highly recommended."
Robin Elenga, Revel Body
"Catherine brings creativity and soul to everything she does. I am continually impressed with her ability to distill complex problems into resonant, relevant outcomes--both externally for a consumer/market, and internally for an organization."
Jill Waller, LeapFrog
EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Catherine writes and speaks on topics including brand archetypes, brand activation and storytelling, Cranium, entrepreneurship, and work-life integration. Here are some highlights.
Building Your Personal Brand
The Swing Shift
A crash course in personal branding, from inspiration to activation. Hands-on exercises to clarify strategy, including a mini brand archetype workshop and a survey of real-world examples.
Presentation Coach
Startup Weekend Girls
Startup Weekend Girls Edition is specially designed for the next generation's entrepreneurs-in-the-making: fifth through tenth grade GIRLS. Girls come up with business ideas, conduct market research, prototype, work in teams, and "pitch" their ideas to a room full of people. Our goal is to give girls the confidence to innovate and create they will need to succeed in all aspects of life.
What Made "I Have a Dream" Such a Perfect Speech
Fast Company
A closer look at one of the greatest speeches in American history offers inspiration for anyone trying to motivate a crowd.
"Catherine is a lively, personable, and engaging speaker. Her presentation was smart, creative, informative, and perfectly customized for the audience."
Elizabeth Johnson, NW Independent Editors Guild
