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Creative services | Brand metamorphosis | Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Verve is a creative studio located in Cedar Rapids serving Iowa, the Midwest and beyond. We collaborate with business owners, creatives and marketing agencies to help companies define their brand with creative services that produce digital and print marketing results.

12/09/2025

For the real ones who get a bad rap while just out here surviving. Equal parts retro charm and graphic stuntin’ like a Three 6 Mafia song.

Buzz at your own frequency and keep showing up no matter who’s trying to swat your shine.

Printed on luxe, heavyweight Fine Art paper. Get it in the shop. Just don’t swat at it. 🪰😎

10/09/2025

Wow, this one is loaded. 🫠 (And not a bad way to jump back in the branding and marketing conversation on this beautiful Tuesday)

“Should we fire our creative team now that ChatGPT can make our content?”

ChatGPT making your content is NOT a flex. It's sorta like lip-syncing your way to the Grammys—impressive, until the track skips. 😁

Let’s break it down:

1️⃣ Creativity ≠ Content Output. ChatGPT can generate. But creating isn’t just output, it’s context, culture, and connection. That part? Still human.

2️⃣ Brand Voice is a living thing. AI doesn’t get your inside jokes, your messy backstory, or the “why” behind your work. Without that, your brand voice just becomes “corporate beige.”

3️⃣ Strategy > Spam. Content without strategy is noise. And noise doesn't convert. Girl, you know it's true.

AI is a tool not the team, the vision, or the ex*****on. We’ll follow this up with how ChatGPT is best used (spoiler: think assistant, not replacement).

But hey, go ahead on playa and fake your content if you’re brave. Just remember: when your sales tank, who do you blame? 🤖

🦋

18/08/2025

We’re super excited to be a vendor at the 10th Market After Dark on August 23rd!

Come shop the art studio booth anytime from 6:30 to 11 pm. See you Saturday! 🦋

For more information on the event, please visit: https://www.cedarrapids.org/economic-alliance-events/market-after-dark/

30/07/2025

“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

Let’s be real: it takes courage just to exist right now—let alone create.

While the country feels like it’s splitting at the seams, artists, designers, and creators are out here still weaving something worth living in.

New aesthetics. New language. New systems. We’re not just building brands; we’re building micro-worlds that refuse to conform to the chaos.

So yeah, courage isn't just showing up. It's showing out with style, with purpose, and with a refusal to play by rules that weren’t made for us in the first place.

🖤 Stay bold. Stay loud. Stay creating.

28/07/2025

Flow

(n.) That mythical state where the work’s doing you instead of the other way around.

You blink and it’s 3 hours later, 12 tabs open, one iced coffee down, and somehow… you just made magic.

Here’s how to enter the creative wormhole (aka flow state):

🌀 Set the vibe – lo-fi beats, caffeine, mood lighting. It matters.
📵 Kill distractions – Airplane mode. Do Not Disturb. Block your ex.
🧠 Do the warm-up – sketch, brainstorm, journal. Get messy first.
🎯 Choose one task – flow hates multitasking.
🕰️ Time block – 90 minutes of tunnel vision > 6 hours of chaos.
🛑 Don't overthink it – perfection is a flow killer. Ship it messy, refine later.

Flow isn’t forced, it’s summoned. Like a creative séance with better vibes.

25/07/2025

Guess who’s back for round 3?
Verve Creative Studio is returning to Market After Dark—aka the most fun night market in the Midwest (don’t @ me). 🖤✨

Downtown Cedar Rapids, one night only (August 23rd). Art, lights, music, and vibes? Immaculate.
Our booth? Always lit, always buzzing, always stocked with fresh drops from the art shop.

Pull up, say hey, maybe snag something fly.
Got verve? Get it. 🦋

18/07/2025

🦋 Why climb when you can float?

“Social Butterfly” just landed—our latest mid-century modern poster made for those who don’t chase the vibe… they are the vibe.

Clean lines, bold energy, and a typeface that does all the talking (so you don’t have to). Whether you're a low-key connector or a high-key icon, this one gets you.

Minimalist. Magnetic. Major.

Now in the shop, no small talk required.

25/06/2025

Let’s not act brand new.

Some folks voted to hand the mic back to the same corrupt frontman like we didn’t just barely survive his first set. Some didn’t vote at all, and we are seeing just how dangerous apathy, indecision and indifference is. Elected leaders and institutions are showing us AGAIN exactly who they are:

📚 Banning books
🚫 Stripping rights
💣 Escalating violence
💰 Protecting power over people and the planet

And too many brands? Ghost or still clinging to curated neutrality, posting “unity” quotes like that’s gonna put out the flames.

And yes—the irony isn’t lost on us. We share quotes by creatives because we know creativity is resistance. But right now? A vague “unity” post doesn’t meet the moment.

✨ That’s not strategy. That’s silence. ✨

This isn’t the time to hide behind aesthetics. It’s time to align your content and your conduct with your values and brand DNA.

Ways your brand can actually show up:

📣 Speak up – Make a clear, timely statement when rights are under attack. Don’t wait for everyone to agree.
🤝 Collaborate with purpose – Amplify those most impacted. Share the mic, don’t steal the spotlight.
💸 Fund the work – Donate, sponsor, and support grassroots orgs doing real justice work. Tell people where it’s going.
👀 Audit your own house – Are your team, practices, and partnerships aligned with your so-called values?
📲 Stay consistent – Don’t just show up when it’s trending. That’s not allyship, it’s PR.

Your values? Not in your bio.

They live in your behavior, online and off. Do not wait for another crisis to get clear.

Now, let’s be crystal clear:
We’re not asking marginalized biz owners to carry more weight or paint bigger targets on their backs. We’re calling on those with privilege, power and a platform: use it. Boldly. Responsibly. Now.

To our fellow creatives in historically oppressed and systemically excluded communities (Black, Indigenous, and people of color):

Keep going. Keep building. Keep being the blueprint.
We’ve always been the source. 💯

🌱 Grassroots.
👥 Community.
✊🏽 Solidarity.

14/05/2025

Creativity is a metamorphosis. From the outside, we might look calm. Sketchbook open, cursor blinking, playlist vibing but inside?

We’re molting. Shifting. Shedding old ideas and summoning new ones with every sketch, scroll, and sacred ‘delete’ key tap.

Like butterflies, we go through phases:
🐛 → The caterpillar season of soaking in inspo.
→ The chrysalis stage of deep work (and self-doubt).
→ The emergence. Bold, bright, unexpected. 🦋

What people see is the final form.

What they miss is how many creative versions of us had to live (and die) to get there.

So, if you’re in your cocoon era? Honor it.
That stillness is sacred.
That transformation is the real flex.

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Opening Hours

Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00

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https://vervecreative.studio/

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