Escape Hatch

Escape Hatch Escape Hatch is a digital creative agency in Cleveland and Columbus, OH Escape Hatch is your refuge from SAMENESS.

We're a digital product design agency who doesn't see barriers in delivering you smart, fresh creative solutions to your digital problems. We specialize in applying insight from your customers directly to the design of your products. We try hard to cut the bullsh*t out of the typical agency process to make sure every step we take together is valuable and enjoyable. Let us show you a different side to digital marketing.

TBT: We’re throwing it back to September '21 when we launched a beautiful new site for our friends at Ohio Net - Ohio’s ...
04/28/2022

TBT: We’re throwing it back to September '21 when we launched a beautiful new site for our friends at Ohio Net - Ohio’s largest library consortium 📚

This project has it all: overhauled UX featuring a rebrand by the amazing , fresh functionality allowing event and member registration, a slick job board, and a shiny new CMS under the hood (Wordpress). We love the result and Ohio Net’s staff and members do too!

Check out a full case study for this project on our website 🤓

Posting your own work - it’s HARD. But we’re blowing the dust off our IG feed this week to showcase one of our favorite ...
04/04/2022

Posting your own work - it’s HARD. But we’re blowing the dust off our IG feed this week to showcase one of our favorite projects and clients.

Barasch & McGarry is a New York law firm who specializes in helping victims of 9/11 receive compensation for health effects stemming from the toxic air present in the months after that tragic day. The team at B&M are incredible people who have helped more 9/11 victims and their families than anyone else! We were honored to build them a series of informational and campaign websites to help them reach more survivors and those that need help all these years later – and we’re even more proud to say that our efforts are working.

On the nerdy side, B&M’s site was one of the first to be built on Wordpress’s Gutenberg system, allowing the client to spin up pages and make edits to content in record time! Gutenberg has become our standard build now and the efficiencies from having a modular and flexible design system can’t be ignored!

Here’s some new work that’s hard to miss! We’re happy and excited to share the redesign we executed for Noxgear- an acti...
03/02/2020

Here’s some new work that’s hard to miss! We’re happy and excited to share the redesign we executed for Noxgear- an active-lifestyle product company in one of our home cities of Worthington, OH. This project involved the full breadth of our skill set – research, positioning, copywriting, detailed UX design, art direction, and sophisticated analytics & development – resulting in a beautiful, immersive eCommerce site designed to move you visually while giving you a rich understanding of their innovative products. If you like to move at night (especially with a little buddy 🐶), get to know Noxgear!

Sophistication, beauty, understated design.~~Anne, Olivia, and the talented team at  have brought so much to Cleveland w...
02/26/2020

Sophistication, beauty, understated design.
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Anne, Olivia, and the talented team at have brought so much to Cleveland with their evocative, story-infused jewelry brand. When they approached us to give their website a major facelift, we knew we had to take some creative leaps to match the aesthetic beauty of their products and storefront. Through a collaborative color & typography exploration, copy rewrites, and new feature integration, we re-built their Shopify store to bring the experience of their jewelry full circle. Product pages are vibrant, new products are highlighted, and a special Personalization section welcomes users to stamp their own story to create a one-off piece. We’re super proud of the results and happy to work with neighbors and fellow designers who really get it!

We are notorious for always working on our own projects last. While good for our clients, it’s sad not having a home to ...
02/13/2020

We are notorious for always working on our own projects last. While good for our clients, it’s sad not having a home to show all of the awesome work we’ve done for folks over the past 4 years, or that we turned a storefront that didn’t even have a floor into a beautiful, functional office space. So to kickstart 2020, we buckled down, put mouse to screen, and finally put together a portfolio we’re proud of. Check it out, click around, and please share with businesses and orgs that could benefit from an Escape Hatch of their own. Cheers!
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Hi 👋🏼 all - just dropping in to share some new UX work that’s as cool as a 🥒.  is an exciting fast-casual restaurant wit...
01/29/2020

Hi 👋🏼 all - just dropping in to share some new UX work that’s as cool as a 🥒. is an exciting fast-casual restaurant with big dreams for nationwide expansion and franchise growth. We helped them execute on their ambitious goals by creating a website experience that’s as impressive visually as it is easy to scale and manage on the back-end. Art direction, copywriting, design, and a hefty amount of research went into crafting CHOP5 this fresh, colorful experience. Our favorite parts are the interactive food and drink menus and the action packed video background on the desktop homepage. Oh and make sure to visit their Columbus location in Polaris!

A little sneak preview of some UX work we completed for our friends at  We undertook a redesign of their smart home secu...
11/06/2019

A little sneak preview of some UX work we completed for our friends at We undertook a redesign of their smart home security & automation store and product pages to create a shopping experience that lives up to their high standards of quality and service. This project combined customer-centric strategy and clean user experience design. Keep an eye out for their new shopping experience launching in the near future. Oh and if you’re in the market for home security or automation, check them out!

Creative partnerships are the back-bone of our business and one of the reasons we get to work across so many different i...
09/10/2019

Creative partnerships are the back-bone of our business and one of the reasons we get to work across so many different industries like the healthcare services site shown above. Our awesome friends brought us in to create new branding and a sweet little interactive landing page experience for their client RXSavers. We introduced a new color palette, logo, full UX design and an optimized user flow to make sure visitors got the professional look and feel they’d expect from a reputable healthcare company! Shout out to Dan and his team for the successful final product.

Purple- so hot right now! Check out out a little landing page site we built for our good friends and closest partners at...
08/22/2019

Purple- so hot right now! Check out out a little landing page site we built for our good friends and closest partners at 7th Street Web. We broke out completely custom illustrations and drenched the site in a new high-tech color palette to make sure their small firm stood out against the competition. Keep an eye on these guys, they’re killing it in the web dev world and will be taking the full site we designed live soon! Cheers.
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*BIG NEWS* We want to give a special shout out to  for launching their crowdfunding campaign today! Harness is an an all...
06/11/2019

*BIG NEWS* We want to give a special shout out to for launching their crowdfunding campaign today! Harness is an an all-encompassing community that gives a voice to women all over the world. Through their print & digital magazines, and their amazing website (which the EH team designed 👍🏼), Harness has empowered female writers, artists, and artisans as well as female-owned small businesses to share their talents and experiences on an inclusive public platform that wasn’t possible before. We are so thrilled to be involved with this incredible organization! Please show your support on their page and through their Kickstarter so they can continue to bring women’s voices to the masses!
P.S. this was Escape Hatch’s first time working on a Kickstarter- the graphics shown are original designs tailored to this campaign. Check out their Kickstarter page for more and back the campaign for some exclusive graphics!

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7308 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH
44102

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Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm

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Escape Hatch is your refuge from SAMENESS. We're a digital product design agency who doesn't see barriers in delivering you smart, fresh creative solutions to your digital problems. We specialize in applying insight from your customers, data, and leadership directly to the design of your digital products. We try hard to cut the B.S. out of the typical agency process to make sure every step we take together is valuable (and fun). Let us show you a different side to digital marketing.

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Our primary offerings include:


  • Website strategy, design, and development