Creative Identity Guidance
Where Your Self-Expression
Meets Your Inner Truth
for Artists, Misfits & Makers Who Are Ready to Be Seen
Hi, I’m Aaron Embrey!
Brand Identity Guide, Storyteller, Design Mentor & Creative Magic Maker
For three decades now, I’ve helped people bring their new ideas to life through design, photography, and visual branding.
But lately, I’ve been called into deeper work, including guiding artists, makers, and multi-passionate misfits as they rediscover their creative magic and design a life (and personal brand) that reflects who they truly are.
Whether you’re building a new business, reclaiming your creative voice, or starting over in your career (or life), this space is for you.
FREE FIELD GUIDE
Find Your Unique Creative Voice
When you’re not sure where to begin
Start with my Creative Identity Compass!
This is a free creative tool to help you reconnect with your unique voice, uncover your visual aesthetic, and (gently) map your creative path ahead.
Check out this handy, printable guide to help you clarify your creative identity and next steps!
Explore My Work
Choose Your Creative Adventure
Making Magic
5-Day Creativity Camp
$20 (self-paced!) workshop
Daily practices and a private camp community for anyone (from aspiring new creatives to life-long makers) ready to reconnect with their creative spark.
Breathe some fresh creative magic into your making process!
Creative clarity, confidence, and self-expression designed from the inside out...
THIS is ALL about your creative identity reclamation.
If you’ve been feeling lost, in-between, or unsure how to express who you are or what you do.
In these individualized, 1:1 Creative Guidance Sessions, we’ll explore your unique visual voice, map your creative DNA, and shape a soul-aligned brand or body of work that feels real and unmistakably YOURS!
Perfect for emerging artists, makers, misfits, and multidimensional, creative humans in the midst of a creative pivot or a career reinvention.
Are you ready to reconnect with your creativity?
Looking for Branding
or Design Support?
I work with a select number of visual branding & creative services clients each season.
Please visit Bent Barn Studio for more of my custom graphic design & bespoke visual identity work.
Or Do You Need Custom
Brand Photography?
You can also hire me to capture the essence of unique people, places, things, brands and events.
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Photo by Carrie Harris
What I do is about more than helping people build their brands. It’s about helping others reclaim their unique, creative rhythm and voice, redefine their creative visibility, and make things that feel true (to YOU).
Let’s make something honest, weird, and wonderful together.
Kind Notes
from Happy Clients
“Aaron just ‘gets it’. He listens extremely well, quickly cuts to the chase, and provides a range of solutions. Then, once a solution is determined, he does a great job of execution. He’s incredibly easy to work with and balances the final output vs. cost and time.”
DWIGHT BLAHA
Director of Business Innovation & Excellence
“Aaron is amazing photographer. Our session was my favorite experience I’ve ever had with pictures. My daughter felt so comfortable and beautiful.”
CAROLYN PARHAM
“I love Aaron’s positive attitude. I have worked with plenty of other good photographers and designers, but Aaron makes me excited about the work we do together and all the possibilities.”
TEAL BESSON
Head of Global Creative Communications
KFC, YUM! Brands
Explore my full creative ecosystem