Michelle & David MacIsaac
Default Agency™ is a design studio lead by David & Michelle MacIsaac. We work with creative brands and individuals to elevate their visual identity, their tools, and their materials to the next level.
We find it extremely gratifying to help precision-oriented creative folks succeed. Default Mode exists to craft the things that express a brand visually in ultra-clarifying and inspiring ways. We do this by partnering closely with founders, owners, directors, and other leaders of brands and applying techniques to bring out the full scope of what needs doing. And then we switch into task mode and do it. Most of who we work with are makers: those who create. From video game studios, to architects, to serial entrepeneurs, and beyond. Our experience being in-house at successful startups and corporations, as well as executing our own creative entrepeurial ventures, means that you probably already have a friend in us. We understand what you’re going through and always get excited to solve branding problems from a foundational level, and provide support for building highly effective visual materials that are always useful: websites, pitch decks, user interfaces, and more.
Background lore: our name references the neurological concept of the “Default Mode Network” — in short, it’s a state of the mind engaging in things like memory recollection, creativity, daydreaming, and thinking about the future observed when we’re not actively focused on the physical world. It is also meant to reference the standard states in computer systems and applications, since the modern work we do is so explicitly tied to the digital world. In the simplest terms, we seek to be your default choice when it comes to creative solutions.