About
Your creative branding & design partner
Empowering businesses with custom branding, digital design, and marketing solutions.
About
Tallgrass Studios is a full-service creative studio located in the Warehouse Arts District of Lawrence, KS. We specialize in branding, fulfillment, promotional material creation, social awareness marketing, and website design for businesses across the Midwest and beyond. Clients include national hospice organizations, local and regional public schools, nonprofit agencies, medical practices, large corporations, retailers, manufacturers, small businesses, and professional services.
It’s our mission to create empowering messages, produce effective designs, and tailor appropriate solutions that boost responses and cultivate growth.
We believe in the power of combining creativity, communication, community, and commerce.
Our Values
Creativity is at the heart of everything we do. We value communication, community, and commerce, blending these principles to craft designs that empower and drive business success. Whether you’re a local business or a national organization, we’re here to help your brand grow.
Origin
Carey Graber formed Tallgrass Studios in the year 2000, while working as an Adjunct Professor and Director of The Arts Group at the University of Kansas. The company grew quickly, creating brands and implementing social-marketing campaigns including safe drinking amongst college students; awareness and referrals for mental-health issues in public schools; parent education and encouragement for raising teens; and education about end-of-life care issues. In 2002 after a successful start to the business, Carey left KU to focus on Tallgrass Studios, growing it into the award-winning agency it is today.
Our Namesake
Tallgrass Studios is in the heart of the United States. We owe our name to the native Kansas grass Big Bluestem: Our first office was housed in an 1860s limestone building on a 160-acre farm which overlooked more than 46 acres of Native Prairie, loaded with Big Bluestem that grew six to ten feet tall. From just the right vantage point, the grass seemed to touch the sky.
Local clients enjoyed driving out to the prairie to enjoy the colors of the landscape, but as the company grew, so did the need for easier access, better internet service, and a bigger space. In 2007 Tallgrass moved into another stone building in downtown Lawrence, and in 2016 relocated to its current location in the Warehouse Arts District with 2,000 square feet of open creative space.
