What services do you provide?
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Our founders highlight your brand’s vision and elevate your physical presence by developing world building stories for your marketing team. Our designs are classy yet approachable, engaging and multifaceted, to create a cohesive customer experience across platforms.
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MNK Studio designs and fabricates art installations and interactive exhibits. We work collaboratively with brands starting from initial concept and ideation through quality fabrication and installation. We’ve crated these installations for events, trade shows, corporate offices, retail environments, and mobile architecture.
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For photo and video productions, MNK’s team works with fashion, beauty, tech and lifestyle brands from concept ideation to on-set styling. Our team provides creative and art direction and/or collaborates with your brand’s in house creative production team, to create memorable content for social and printed media.
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We create artful window displays to tell a seasonal brand story in storefront windows and vignettes. It’s where we got our start at Anthropologie 20 years ago and it’s still our passion!
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MNK Studio’s team of experienced visual merchandisers, customer experience is the key to boost sales and promote your brand. We design, source, fabricate and install all aspects of pop-ups, brick & mortar, and showroom displays. We develop floor plans considering customer traffic flow to promote new and featured products for the season.
Who are the people behind MNK Studio Art?
MNK Studio Art is led by creative partners Matt and Katie Allison. Our studio is supported by an eclectic team of multidisciplinary artists, designers, and fabricators who share a commitment to craftsmanship, collaboration, and attention to detail – delivering complex projects on time and on budget.
What are the values that define MNK Studio Art?
MNK Studio Art believes in treating people with kindness, respect and dignity; and understands that every production is a collaborative effort. We value what each member of a team brings to every job regardless of their status or position.
MNK Studio is proudly a woman owned and artist lead company.
Why is it important to hire artists?
Artists are trained to think critically, build intentionally, and care deeply about execution. We apply formal art training and hands-on fabrication experience to create work with depth, originality, and integrity.
In an era of automated content and algorithmic shortcuts, artists protect quality. We build real things, for real spaces, that carry meaning beyond trends.
Which clients work with MNK Studio Art?
Our clients range from emerging startups to legacy brands. What they share is a need for thoughtful problem-solving and custom solutions. No two projects or no two brands are the same.
Is there ever overlap between the industries you serve?
Yes! Many of our clients find us because their needs don't fit into a single category. We’ve created holiday retail displays that double as photo moments, tradeshow activations that serve as product launches, and VIP brand environments that function as video sets, we’ve even made a Christmas Float!
Which cities do you work in?
Our studios are based in Los Angeles and Long Beach CA; and we’ve worked extensively in Las Vegas, New York City, Atlanta, and Miami.
How much do your services cost?
Budgets vary based on scope, scale, and complexity. MNK Studio Art operates with a $3,000 minimum for projects local to Southern California, and a $10,000 minimum for projects requiring travel.
Due to the volume of inquiries we receive, a 50% deposit is required to secure dates and initiate the design process.