Brainstorm Iowa
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  • Creative Services
    • Logo design
    • Advertising and media placement
    • Signage and Decals
    • Design for print
    • Illustration and animation
    • Photographic services
    • Web and online media
  • Promotional Products
  • Displays & Exhibits
    • Banner stands
    • Tabletop displays
    • 10 x 10 displays
    • Inline displays
    • Islands and penisulas
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Kelly with two of the nine 20-foot-wide murals she designed, built and installed at 5 Iowa National Guard facilities.

About us

Brainstorm was started in 1990 by Kelly Sargent, a photography and graphic design whizbang who had spent quite some years at agencies in the Pacific Northwest followed by a multi-year stint teaching advertising, graphic design and photography at Iowa State University.  Although she loved teaching, Kelly felt the call of the wild and decided to open a business for herself.  

Brainstorm grew in response to its client’s needs. A company for whom we designed an exhibit would ask us to use the concept we developed as the basis for print ads. Or a company we designed a printed piece for would ask us to redesign their website to make it coincide and so on and so on. So we did. 

The result is that now Brainstorm has hundreds of clients and serves a huge array of needs. Some think we design trade show displays and trade show graphics; others think we’re the place to go to for logo design, illustrations and photography; still others think we do advertising design and media buying. The fact is, we do all those things. So remember, if it’s about communicating to your customers, we do it.

We've made a lot of friends

Titan International
Simpson College
Bankers Trust
Diamond V Mills
Graceland University
US Bank
Farmland Insurance
Data Business Equipment
Principal Financial
Nationwide Insurance
Iowa Hospital Association
EMC Insurance 
Department of HUD
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Communication Services for the Deaf
Sioux Falls Convention and Visitors Bureau
Hawkeye-Security Insurance
Iowa State Securities Bureau
Grain Processing Corporation
Communications Data Services
Iowa State University
Advanced Analytical
Mercy Medical
The HON Corporation
IMT Insurance
Equitable Life of Iowa
GuideOne Insurance
Homesteaders Life
Metro Waste Authority
Iowa Secretary of State
The Des Moines Register
Kruger Seed Company
Wiese Manufacturing
Briggs Corporation
Iowa Pre-stressed Concrete
FarmChem

Access Energy Cooperative
Wells Fargo Arena
Paragon IT Professionals
Iowa Finance Authority
Bankers Trust
Allsteel Corporation
Small Business Administration
Bloodgood Sharp Buster
Greater Dubuque Development
Central Financial Group
Iowa Workforce Development
Certive Corporation
Advanced Analytical
National Travelers Life
Grinnell College
All State Industries
Percival Scientific
Des Moines University
Allied Insurance
Fisher Controls
Visionary Systems
Genes Diffusion
Zions Ag Financing
KMO Development
Seabury and Smith
The Brick Council
Allied Insurance
Clow Valve
University of Iowa
Standard Bearings
Foster Group
TransOva Genetics
SolCom
ING
Monarch Manufacturing

We do a lot

• Market research
• Image consultation
• Brand development
• Strategic planning
• Direct mail design and fulfillment
• Advertising design and placement
• Website design
• Trade show design and production
• Event marketing
• Collateral material development
• Public relations
• Four-color printing
• Illustrations
• Studio and location photography
• Architectural installations
• Store graphics and fixtures
• Large-format printing
• Mobile marketing (text marketing)
• Specialty advertising 
• Logo apparel 

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  • Home
  • Creative Services
    • Logo design
    • Advertising and media placement
    • Signage and Decals
    • Design for print
    • Illustration and animation
    • Photographic services
    • Web and online media
  • Promotional Products
  • Displays & Exhibits
    • Banner stands
    • Tabletop displays
    • 10 x 10 displays
    • Inline displays
    • Islands and penisulas