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The Present Day Future is a brand and product development firm that builds identities and products capable of evolution, because what we create today shapes the future.

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2020-2026

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Product + Experience

Product Strategy & Development

Naming & Nomenclature

Packaging Design

Experiential & Activation Design

Go-To-Market & Launch

Choose wisely, not widely.

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Creative + Expression

Visual Identity Systems

Brand Narrative & Messaging

Web Design & Build

Campaigns & Content

Art Direction

From Idea to Artifact.

Branding to product development to creative direction and execution. Engage us for a single project or embed us as part of your team: project, retainer, or fractional.

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Shade Tactics is its own practice. Dive into the full framework, the archetypes, and the philosophy behind the work.

Does Your Brand Have a Soul?

Modern brand strategy is lazy. People are complicated and good brands are too. Shade Tactics builds a brand psyche, not a personality: using five archetype-governed components that map a brand's identity, then we weaponize it: unconscious cues, color psychology, propaganda techniques, symbols that bypass the rational mind and speak straight to the limbic system. Some call it manipulation. We call it strategy.

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We’re a team of philosophers, tinkers, deep thinkers, and borderline psychics. We don’t just tell you who your brand is, we show you who you are.

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