Fort Lauderdale · Florida

Hospitality Brand & Experience Designer

Keagan
Mize

I build experiences people pay to be part of.

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Three ways
to work
together

Every engagement is different. Some clients need a brand built from scratch. Some need their space to finally match the experience inside it. Some need someone who's done it all before and can tell them what's missing.

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Brand & Creative Direction

Full brand systems for restaurants, bars, and hospitality concepts — built from scratch. Identity, menus, web, social media, packaging, signage, and everything in between. This is what I've done for 20 years. I know what makes hospitality brands work because I've lived inside them.

Matte & Gloss Remote
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Experience Design & Consulting

For restaurants, boutique hotels, and short-term rental operators who want their space to feel as intentional as their brand. I walk in with a FIDM-trained eye and 20 years of hospitality instinct — and I tell you exactly what needs to change and how to change it.

On-Site STR
03

Physical Brand & Signage

Custom laser-cut and fabricated pieces that make your brand tangible — acrylic menus, branded table numbers, QR stands, custom bar signage, step-and-repeat backdrops. If your brand is only digital, it's only half a brand.

Eat Drink Party S. Florida

The brands
I've built

Eight brands. Eight completely different worlds. One designer. Hover to learn more — or visit matte-and-gloss.com for the full portfolio.

WH

Steakhouse · 2 Locations

Willard Hicks Grill

Built from scratch in 2011. Still the active brand director today — menus, web, social, identity, campaigns.

14 Years · Ongoing
CV

Wine · Luxury Packaging

Christeni × Parker McCollum

Full packaging and Shopify launch for a celebrity wine collaboration. One logo provided. Everything else built here.

$65K First-Week Sales
AV

Nightclub · San Jose

Avery Lounge

15 years of promotional design, brand identity, and event marketing for downtown San Jose's premier nightlife venue.

15 Years · Hundreds of Events
Mo's

Casual Dining · 2 Locations

Mo's Breakfast + Burger Joint

Built from scratch. Lime green doors. Etched glassware. A chalkboard wall that says everything it needs to say. "Big breakfasts. Bigger burgers. Biggest beers."

Est. 2013 · 2 Locations
T!

Fast Casual · Stadium

Tac-oh!

Two locations + a branded stand at Levi's Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers.

Levi's Stadium · SF 49ers
Opa

Greek Restaurant · 7 Locations

Opa! Authentic Greek

One existing logo. Seven locations. An entire brand system built from a single starting point.

7 Locations · 10-Year Partnership

Keagan Mize

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20 Years Building Brands

Built from
scratch.
Every time.

In 2011, I started working with a restaurant group that had one Greek restaurant and a logo. Over the next 14 years, that became 8 distinct brands across 17+ locations — steakhouses, a nightclub, a winery, a breakfast joint, taco restaurants, catering companies, and a specialty food brand that launched a celebrity wine collaboration generating $65,000 in its first week.

I built nearly every one of those brands from scratch. Identity, menus, websites, social media, packaging, signage, photography direction, campaigns — all of it, simultaneously, remotely, through a pandemic.

Before that: 20 years of creative work spanning nightlife promotional design, AutoCAD drafting for 53 school campuses, interior design, and property development. After: founding South Florida Flower Walls, Tiny Tribe Rentals, and becoming an Airbnb Superhost with a 4.84 rating on a property I designed, staged, and styled myself.

I'm a FIDM-trained interior designer with a laser cutter, a real estate portfolio, and a borderline obsessive need to make things look and feel exactly right. That's what Matte and Gloss is.

8 Brands Built
17+ Locations
4.84 Superhost Rating

The ventures

A portfolio of businesses built around one idea: every experience should feel like it was designed for the person having it.

M&G

Matte and Gloss

Hospitality brand and creative direction. Full portfolio of restaurant, nightlife, and beverage brand work.

matte-and-gloss.com →
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South Florida Flower Walls

Luxury event décor — flower walls, balloon installations, and custom laser-cut signage for South Florida events.

southfloridaflowerwalls.com →
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Tiny Tribe Rentals

Baby gear rentals for Fort Lauderdale vacationers. Car seats, cribs, strollers — delivered to your hotel or Airbnb.

tinytriberentals.com →

Pirates Paradise

Superhost-rated coastal Airbnb in Fort Lauderdale — designed, staged, and styled from scratch. 4.84 ★

airbnb.com/h/piratesparadise →

Let's talk
about your brand

I work with restaurants, boutique hotels, event venues, and short-term rental operators throughout South Florida and remotely. No pitch decks. No packages. Just a conversation about what you're building and whether I'm the right person to help.