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The studio
Rice & Gravy Studio is a woman-owned, Carolina-based experience curation firm. We help businesses expand their digital footprint and scale — through technology, expert creative strategy, and cohesive brand storytelling.
Why “Rice & Gravy”
Rice is the base. Every business has it — the service, the product, the thing you actually sell. It is necessary, and on its own, it is plain. Nobody drives across town for plain rice.
The gravy is everything that makes it worth the trip. The strategy that decides who you’re cooking for. The identity they recognise before they taste it. The systems that let you serve two hundred people as well as you served the first two.
You want the rice. You need the gravy.
Founded by an engineer
France is an industrial engineer with a PhD in user-experience research who spent a decade at Intel — latterly as a senior UX architect, working across products with partners including Adobe, Twitch, Tencent and Marvel — before founding the studio.
That background is the studio’s method, not its mythology. Her research was about what people actually do, as opposed to what they say they do. Engineering teaches you that systems fail at the seams — the handoffs — not in the middle. Both are exactly the disciplines a brand needs and almost never gets.
She serves as creative director for 7Sunday and for the nonprofit Dapper & Distinguished Gentleman, and is a creative partner on BizArts with the City of Columbia’s Office of Business Opportunities.
Brands, cities and stages our work has reached
In their words
R&G Studio is very proficient and detail-oriented in their use of tech and expert creative strategies to enhance our brand & social media strategy, experiential design, and our event curation. Their expertise helped make our inaugural BizArts initiative with the City of Columbia Office of Business Opportunities a complete success!
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