ABOUT SUNDAY MUSE DESIGN®

Good businesses deserve brands that communicate their quality.

And sometimes, it takes someone outside the business to see what you’ve built as clearly as you do.

Sunday Muse is a strategic brand and web design studio for established founders who are ready for their brand to reflect the quality, personality, and direction of the business behind it.

Around here, we look at the whole picture—what you’ve built, what people are seeing, what makes you worth remembering, and where you want to go next. Then we make sure the brand knows how to tell that story, too.

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There’s a reason I ask so many questions.

I want to understand how your business works before I decide what your brand should do.

What are people already coming to you for? What do your best clients understand about you? Where are you headed? What deserves to become more recognizable? What are you sitting on that could be doing a whole lot more for you?

That thinking shapes everything we create from strategy and messaging to identity, website, SEO, and the little details that make the whole thing feel like yours.

Because the best brands make sense all the way through.

They make your quality easier to recognize, your business easier to understand, and your name easier to remember.

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We believe strategy and design are the same conversation, and someone should be having both with you at once.

We believe most established businesses have a lot work keeping - and knowing what deserves to stay is part of the work.

We believe your website should be beautiful, useful, findable, and very good at introducing people to your business.

We believe your brand should make it easier for people to recognize what your clients already know: you’re really good at what you do.

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Meet the head muse in charge

Shannon, founder, strategic director, former wedding planner, mom

Hi, I'm Shannon Pruitt, and before I built brands, I built lesson plans.

I spent years teaching writing and rhetoric—which is really just a long way of saying I spent a long time studying how ideas influence people.

Then I left the classroom to run a wedding planning business, which I was good at. Really good. And then—not to get too dramatic about it—I spent my own anniversary talking a bride off a ledge about centerpieces and realized I had built something that didn't fit the life I wanted anymore.

After my daughter was born, I sat at my kitchen table with a baby monitor and an idea I kept seeing play out around me.

The photographers, designers, consultants, lawyers, stylists, and other founders I knew had spent years getting better at what they did. They had experience, referrals, strong work, and businesses going somewhere.

I could see opportunities in the way they were presenting it all—how they talked about the work, what they emphasized, how the website told their story, what made them recognizable.

THAT BECAME THE

WHOLE STUDIO.

Today, Sunday Muse brings strategy, creative direction, design, messaging, SEO, and the right specialists together around one business at a time.

I get to learn the business inside and out, find the thread running through it, and turn that thinking into a brand people can see, understand, and remember.

Basically: you bring me everything in your head. I help make sense of it. Then we make it look really, really good.

A few things that have absolutely nothing to do with branding

  • Person wearing a beige hat and white shirt tending to a vegetable garden with various green plants, including leafy greens and tall stems, in a backyard with a black fence and wooden structure.

    I have a raised garden bed my husband built me. I can keep vegetables alive in it. Books are harder—my TBR list is evidence of a very specific kind of optimism.

  • Overcast sky with leaves hanging frame over a sandy beach and ocean with gentle waves.

    I almost moved to Costa Rica once. I've lived in 4 states. I can say the alphabet backwards really fast. None of these facts are connected.

  • Person sitting with a blue mug of coffee, wearing beige pants and a denim jacket, on a striped carpeted floor.

    My coffee is black, or with a splash of almond milk and a little stevia. Nothing fancy. I've been told this makes me boring at coffee shops & have fully made my peace with it.

  • A breakfast scene with two plates of breakfast sandwiches, a cup of black coffee, a glass of light-colored juice, and a pair of sunglasses on a white marble table.

    I'm a Gilmore Girls person, which means I have strong opinions about pop culture, breakfast food, and the pacing of a really good story. I'll connect all three to your brand if you give me enough time.

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I've designed brands for photographers, wedding pros, interior designers, personal stylists, copywriters, lawyers, matchmakers, a vacation company in the mountains, and a luxury staffing agency in LA—among others.

Different businesses give me different puzzles to solve. That’s half the fun.

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THE SUNDAY MUSE STUDIO

You get my eyes on the whole thing—and a trusted team to help bring it to life.

I lead the strategy and creative direction for every Sunday Muse project. I’m the person getting to know your business, connecting the dots, making the big creative calls, and making sure everything we create feels like it belongs to the same brand.

Behind me is a small team of trusted specialists I bring in based on what your project needs—from copy and development to SEO and beyond. I direct the work, they bring their expertise, and you get one team working toward the same vision.

It’s how Sunday Muse stays personal while giving your business more than one person could reasonably do really, really well.

A little Sunday Muse history

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    2019

    Decided to walk away from weddings. It took about two years to fully close that chapter, which feels about right for something you built from scratch.

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    2021

    My daughter arrived in January. I walked away from weddings for good in May and started Sunday Muse that September. First client that same month.

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    2022

    Started formalizing the strategic process behind the work and making it a bigger part of every project.

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    2023

    Grew the team and kept it small on purpose. I wanted clients to have my brain on their business without being limited by what I could personally execute alone.

  • 2024

    Sunday Muse grew beyond “branding and websites.” Strategy, messaging, SEO, and the bigger business picture became inseparable from the design work.

  • 2025

    Built out the trusted team behind Sunday Muse so I could stay where I’m most valuable: leading the strategy, creative direction, and big-picture thinking behind every project.

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    NOW

    Running a small, strategy-led studio with my hands on every project and a trusted team helping me bring the vision to life. Basically, I get to be nosy about businesses for a living. Dream job.

Want my eyes on your business?

Sunday’s Best is where I get to take the whole thing on—strategy, brand, website, and the thinking that connects it all.

And if you’re still figuring out what deserves your attention first, Sunday Snapshot gives us a very good place to start.

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