Founder’s story
Creative Repute, Inc. Design & Development Agency is the brainchild of Philly-born visual artist Nile Livingston. The organization is the result of her solution-oriented personality. With a background in public art, Nile quickly realized how imagery could orient people’s attention toward new realities. While tending to an overwhelming influx of requests during their solo practice, they asked for help from other specialists in their early efforts of what is now a mature, streamlined, and developed business regimen. Nile’s solution-turned-business uses crafted imagery and informed audience comprehension to curate distinctive visual encounters and stories attuned to our world.
A shared desire for mutual success and impactful designs ultimately charters the Creative Repute team towards fulfilling client projects. test
As a fourth-generation Philadelphian, Nile’s precocious spirit was nurtured within a village that instilled the importance of community. Growing up in 1990’s West Philly (and, no, the Fresh Prince was not around) with family and neighbors who honored Black progress and its promise, Nile inherited cultivation from social strides of African American trailblazers. In the in-between time of absorbing the fruit of rigorous labor and protests from earlier Black culture workers invested in Philadelphia, Nile spent countless hours constructing worlds using discarded blueprints, kneaded erasers, and paper clips from their dad and pop-pops architectural work.
Their immediate community’s ubiquitous encouragement of their inventiveness led to Nile’s entry into Philly’s talent-laden Creative and Performing Arts High School (CAPA), where they began charting their formidable art career via enrollment in an after-school art program at Mural Arts Philadelphia (MAP). Nile would go on to study large-scale metal fabrication at Kutztown University.
Energized with the enduring tenacity of someone whose entire life has been tilled in art, Nile returned home to Philly, post-graduation, with their refined talents, communal love in tow, and a creative, resolution-based headspace ripe for business. They quickly began organizing and completing volunteer mural projects and various forms of street art with childhood friends. This practice garnered Nile attention from interested people and organizations like MAP (again), who contracted them for projects. Over time, Nile’s public-art demands grew to a size simply unmanageable for one person. Nile harnessed their social and organizational skills acquired as a third-generation Civil-Rights kid alongside their aesthetic instincts to establish Creative Repute.
Formed in 2017, Creative Repute is a design, website development, app development, and marketing company that boasts an impact-driven vision informing its work and hiring practices.
As a Black-queer person, Nile is intimately aware of the disproportionate representation of multiple marginalized people in their industry: as of 2022, “70.2% of all US graphic designers are white, and only 13% identify as LGBT+.”
This glaring lack of diverse perspectives is one central issue Creative Repute actively challenges. By hiring an expansive range of creatives and strategists, the company occupies a unique lane, which fosters culturally competent work in a business world growing increasingly dependent upon visuals and seeking to keep pace with a necessarily progressive culture. Creative Repute has spearheaded captivating and relevant visuals and invigorating platforms for organizations whose heft ranges from using 100% of their funds for mission-aligned change, like the Nathan Cummings Foundation, to highlighting scholarship from marginalized persons with Colored Convos Media.
Since its inception, Creative Repute has helped redefine a design agency and what it can accomplish. Creative Repute brings a deep bench of expertise in public art, brand strategy, and data to deliver well-designed solutions. Having earned a host of recognition, such as the Global Indigo Award and a ranking in the Philadelphia Business Journal, Creative Repute, is poised to do more with even greater impact in the coming years.
Creative Repute is certified in the following: MWBE, WOSB, WBENC, WBE, SBA 8(a), & NGLCC LGBTBE.
Creative Repute Design & Development Agency is the brainchild of Philly-born visual artist Nile Livingston. The organization is the result of her solution-oriented personality. With a background in public art, Nile quickly realized how imagery could orient people’s attention toward new realities. While tending to an overwhelming influx of requests during their solo practice, they asked for help from other specialists in their early efforts of what is now a mature, streamlined, and developed business regimen. Nile’s solution-turned-business uses crafted imagery and informed audience comprehension to curate distinctive visual encounters and stories attuned to our world.
A shared desire for mutual success and impactful designs ultimately charters the Creative Repute team towards fulfilling client projects.
As a fourth-generation Philadelphian, Nile’s precocious spirit was nurtured within a village that instilled the importance of community. Growing up in 1990’s West Philly (and, no, the Fresh Prince was not around) with family and neighbors who honored Black progress and its promise, Nile inherited cultivation from social strides of African American trailblazers. In the in-between time of absorbing the fruit of rigorous labor and protests from earlier Black culture workers invested in Philadelphia, Nile spent countless hours constructing worlds using discarded blueprints, kneaded erasers, and paper clips from their dad and pop-pops architectural work.
Their immediate community’s ubiquitous encouragement of their inventiveness led to Nile’s entry into Philly’s talent-laden Creative and Performing Arts High School (CAPA), where they began charting their formidable art career via enrollment in an after-school art program at Mural Arts Philadelphia (MAP). Nile would go on to study large-scale metal fabrication at Kutztown University.
Energized with the enduring tenacity of someone whose entire life has been tilled in art, Nile returned home to Philly, post-graduation, with their refined talents, communal love in tow, and a creative, resolution-based headspace ripe for business. They quickly began organizing and completing volunteer mural projects and various forms of street art with childhood friends. This practice garnered Nile attention from interested people and organizations like MAP (again), who contracted them for projects. Over time, Nile’s public-art demands grew to a size simply unmanageable for one person. Nile harnessed their social and organizational skills acquired as a third-generation Civil-Rights kid alongside their aesthetic instincts to establish Creative Repute.
Formed in 2017, Creative Repute is a design, website development, app development, and marketing company that boasts an impact-driven vision informing its work and hiring practices.
As a Black-queer person, Nile is intimately aware of the disproportionate representation of multiple marginalized people in their industry: as of 2022, “70.2% of all US graphic designers are white, and only 13% identify as LGBT+.”
This glaring lack of diverse perspectives is one central issue Creative Repute actively challenges. By hiring an expansive range of creatives and strategists, the company occupies a unique lane, which fosters culturally competent work in a business world growing increasingly dependent upon visuals and seeking to keep pace with a necessarily progressive culture. The company has spearheaded captivating and relevant visuals and invigorating platforms for companies whose heft ranges from using 100% of their funds for mission-aligned change, like the Nathan Cummings Foundation, to highlighting scholarship from marginalized persons with Colored Convos Media.
Since its inception, Creative Repute has helped redefine a design agency and what it can accomplish. Creative Repute brings a deep bench of expertise in public art, brand strategy, and data to deliver well-designed solutions. Having earned a host of recognition, such as the Global Indigo Award and a ranking in the Philadelphia Business Journal, Creative Repute, is poised to do more with even greater impact in the coming years.
Creative Repute is certified in the following: MWBE, WOSB, WBENC, WBE, SBA 8(a), & NGLCC LGBTBE.