A creative studio based in Fort Bragg, on the Mendocino Coast.
Surfside Studio builds websites, brand identity, visual media, and marketing systems for hotels, destinations, and coastal businesses — combining professional creative capability with the kind of local knowledge that only comes from actually being here.
Cover photography — 2024 Mendocino County Visitor Guide, published by Visit Mendocino.
The studio behind Surfside is from here — born and raised on the Mendocino Coast, formally trained in media arts, and shaped by years of creative work across California before returning to build something rooted in this specific place. That background informs everything: how we shoot, how we write, how we understand what a place means to the people who visit it and the businesses that define it.
That background spans more than website work. The studio’s production credits along the Northern California coast include hotel video production, DMO content and media licensing, and brand photography for some of the region’s most recognized hospitality names — including aerial production for Gordon Ramsay Studio during filming of Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars at The Harbor House Inn (now streaming on Apple TV), website background video for The Beachcomber and Trailborn Mendocino, brand photography for Little River Inn’s paid ad campaigns, and an annual retainer with Visit Mendocino covering content creation, media licensing, and the cover of the 2024 Mendocino County Visitor Guide.
Surfside Studio brings those same capabilities to websites, brand identity, campaign strategy, and the harder work of defining what a destination means — the stories worth telling, the history worth preserving, the character worth protecting as a place grows.
Fort Bragg & the Mendocino Coast
“The coast has a character that takes years to understand. We work here because we are from here.”
A few principles that shape every project.
Clarity
Clear plans, clear scope, clear communication. No surprises, no fine print that undoes the promise.
Craft
Every site is designed with care. Layout, typography, spacing, and visual polish are not afterthoughts.
Local
Born and raised on the Mendocino Coast. The knowledge of how this place works — its seasons, its community, its character — is not something that can be imported.
Substance
Not building for design awards. Building for businesses that need a presence that earns trust, communicates clearly, and generates real contact.
What the studio can bring to a project.
Specialist partners brought in when a project calls for it. Otherwise, handled in-house.
A track record built on the coast.
Visit Mendocino
Annual retainer — content creation, media licensing, and cover photography for the 2024 Mendocino County Visitor Guide
Visit Fort Bragg
Content creation and media licensing
Beachcomber Hotel Group
Website background video production for three properties — Beachcomber Motel, Surf and Sand Lodge, and Beach House Inn
Trailborn Mendocino
Website background video production
Little River Inn
Brand photography for paid ad campaigns
Gordon Ramsay Studio
Aerial production — Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars, Apple TV (The Harbor House Inn)
Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden
Multi-year retainer — photography, content creation, and media production
Thanksgiving Coffee
Headshots, brand photography, and aerial content
Kelley Urbani Real Estate
Full brand identity, photography, video, and web
Ready to work together?
Tell us about your business. We will recommend the right plan and walk you through what the process looks like.