Blue Fountain Media

Blue Fountain Media as a studio

Blue Fountain Media is a 50 to 249 person New York agency founded in 2003, and its service mix tells you what it is: web development at 50 percent, web design at 40 percent, digital strategy the remainder. There is no branding or graphic design line at all, so the visual work that appears in reviews (logos, brand material) is incidental to site builds. Enterprise and mid-market clients make up nine tenths of the book. This is a production house with a design department, not a studio with a point of view.

Who it fits

Hire Blue Fountain Media when you need a large, reliable team to design and ship a corporate site for a regulated or institutional client, with a $50,000+ budget. If you are hiring for typographic taste, a distinctive visual voice or brand thinking, this is the wrong door.

Strengths

• Half the practice is engineering, so designs get built by the same organisation that drew them
• Twenty Clutch reviews at 4.8 across edtech, fintech and healthcare, all sectors that reward reliability
• Reviewers credit them with rescuing troubled projects and expressing a client's positioning in design

Watch-outs

• Zero branding or graphic design share: identity work is a by-product of website projects, not a craft focus
• Enterprise-weighted (50 percent) and $150 to $199 per hour, so small brands will not get the senior team

Evidence

• Service mix: web development 50 percent, web design 40 percent, digital strategy 10 percent
• Minimum project $50,000+ at $150 - $199 / hr; 4.8 rating from 20 Clutch reviews
• A Clutch reviewer: "The team had designs that expressed the company's vision"