What’s our story?

Pantano Creative is a two-person, senior-level graphic design team.

As a company, there is no division. We work as one. A team. We are hands on conceptual designers and hard workers. We take a thoughtful approach to design and how to best communicate your goals with the intent of creating both a strategy and a visual language for your company's brand. Ideas and concepts are bounced around. And around again. We squint at each other’s computers in a collaborative effort to pitch in. We collect the pieces, evaluate, reinvent, and put the language to work for you.

When it comes to our client relationships, we want to become a part of your team—an extension of your company, and help tell your story in the most memorable way possible. We want to share your successes and learn from past failures.

We’ve been doing this for a minute, a long one. So, if you’re still reading, here’s some of the stuff we’re good at: Branding, conceptual design, logos, any and all print, and trade show graphics. We do digital, videos and websites. We know and understand the printing and production process. We have many years of experience (just leave it at that) in fields such as: academic, technology, healthcare, fashion/retail, banking/mortgage, real estate, medical, etc. And we can stick to a budget.

The team.

(By the way, did we mention we’re sisters? Twins actually.)

Things we have: many years of agency and design firm experience; the will to please; grit; style; patience; scalability; and a vast portfolio of local, national, and international accounts.

Things we don’t have: big egos; big overhead; limitations; a one-size-fits-all approach.


  • Co-founder Pantano Creative

    Karyn Goba has been “creating” all kinds of print and digital masterpieces for over twenty five years. She began at Hess Design in Natick where she worked as a Senior Designer for over fifteen years. She then formed Pantano Creative with her sister, Christina in 2002. Clients range from academic to high tech, and financial. Both large and small. She has a “can do” attitude that has been with her throughout her career.


  • Co-founder, Pantano Creative

    Christina Babin has also been “in the business” for over twenty five years — ten+ years of ad agency experience at Boston based Hill Holliday which began in the broadcast department, and culminated as Senior Art Director. She worked mainly on the Marshalls account, creating both television and print advertising for the retail brand. After Hill Holliday, she worked as a Senior Graphic Designer at Hess Design in Natick, MA for almost five years before forming Pantano Creative with Karyn.

From micro to macro. We’re scalable.


When needed we hire our favorite photographers, programmers, copywriters and printers. We often collaborate with marketing agencies and act as their design team. Whether they need concepts to add to their in-house arsenal, or complete soup-to-nuts design and creative services, we can do it all. The best part is our partners are like family to us. Most have been with us since our humble beginnings.

Some members of our marketing family include:

Manasian+Partners

JWD Marketing

V2 Communications

Cole Creative

Insight Forums/Broadridge

Our process

This is an outline of our typical process, but, ultimately we are very flexible. If you have a different way that you need us to work, we are happy to adapt.

  • We need to get to know you, your competitors, and the market landscape in order to deliver a design that functions. So, we spend time at the beginning of our relationship asking lots of questions and devouring anything we can get our hands on. This continues throughout the process, but starts here.

  • This is the fun part (for us). Once we have enough information we develop a strategy on how to achieve the best success. Design then begins while creatively relating back to that strategy.

  • This is the fun part (for you). Show and tell. We like to present approximately three concepts for each project to the key decision makers in the process. Allowing everyone to hear our thinking behind the concepts, and to respond directly to any questions that come up.

  • We typically include three rounds of revisions to design concepts. The revision process is an important step as it is where you can see the ideas come into reality.

  • After final files are delivered for printing or digital distribution, we are here to answer any questions that come up. We respond very quickly to our clients as we want them to be clients for a long, long time.

Trusted by

Education / Academic

Harvard Business School
South Shore Technical High School
The Wheeler School :: Keating Associates

 

Legal & Financial

Broadridge :: Insight Forums
Cooley, Manion, & Jones, LLP
Fitch Law Partners, LLP
HRW Law
KPR Associates
Liberty Mutual
Oasis Financial

 

Healthcare & Medicine

Black Pond Veterinary Service
Community Home Care
Frances Stewart Agency
Growing Together SLP
MetroWest Eye Care
South Shore Children’s Dentistry

Hospitality

Ocean Edge Resort
Santa Fe Burrito Grill
Upper Crust Pizza

Industrial

NESCO
The Wilkinson Companies
Vulcan Tools

 

Non-Profit

Boston Harbor Islands National & State Park
Camp Harbor View
Firewise / NFPA
Hanover Day
Hanover Schools / Town of Hanover
Inochi Life
Pan-Mass Challenge :: Hess Design
PURA Syndrome Foundation
The Samaritans :: Cole Creative
The Skin Cancer Foundation :: Cole Creative

 

Professional Services

JJ BookFlows
MediaWorks :: Manasian+Partners
The Baker Group
Thorbahn
Tonry Insurance Group
Ultimate Parking
V2 Communications :: Manasian+Partners
Winn Companies :: Manasian+Partners

Retail

Adamas Fine Jewelry
Chih’s Specialty Confections
Tokens & Trifles
SWAG

 

Sports & Entertainment

Boston Red Sox

 

Technology

Accufile :: JDW Marketing
Adtech Systems :: JDW Marketing
Acme Packet :: Manasian+Partners
CA Technologies :: Manasian+Partners
Canon USA :: Cole Creative
CodeBroker :: JDW Marketing
CrowdStrike :: Manasian+Partners
CyberArk :: Manasian+Partners
First Orion :: JDW Marketing
Gemr
Gulf Coast DevOps :: Manasian+Partners
LoJack Fleet Management
MercuryGate :: Manasian+Partners
Microsoft
Neilsen :: V2 Communications
Optanix :: Manasian+Partners
Qstream :: Manasian+Partners
SciQuest :: Manasian+Partners
Sotero
Syncron :: Manasian+Partners
Transplace :: Manasian+Partners
UiPath :: V2 Communications
Unirisx
Vantem :: V2 Communications
ViVoom :: JDW Marketing
WindfallBio :: V2 Communications

Projects that were done through one of our marketing partners are identified after the
client name