Taylor “Joey” Jenkins

How your business works and how it looks should feel like the same idea. I build both.

I design and build at the seam between operations and identity. The goal is simple: turn a strong idea into something that works. A Jam Session is how we start.

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Tiny pedestrians walk a winding black route beside a fence as cobalt, orange, lime, and paper bands converge through a fractured industrial city.
Messy work→Working systemScattered signal→Recognizable presence

A good idea should survive contact with reality.

I care about the idea, but I also care about what happens after it leaves the room. Can the owner run it? Can the team use it? Can the audience recognize it? Can it keep moving without a permanent translator standing beside it?

That is why I do not separate design from building. I find the signal, make the decisions, and follow the work into the working thing.

Clear enough to understand. Built enough to use. Distinct enough to remember.

My route here was not a straight line. That is part of the value.

Portrait of Joey smiling in a black crewneck against a dark background.
Taylor “Joey” Jenkins

My background runs through ministry, community leadership, founder-led ventures, design, and self-taught technical work. It taught me to see the whole room: the vision, the people, the systems, and the story that connects them.

I am strongest when the pieces are present but the shape is not. I can see the angle, make the vision plain, and work across design and technology until there is something real to point to.

Based near Chattanooga, Tennessee, I build inside the same kind of complexity my clients face. Multiple priorities. Limited attention. High standards. Work that has to move.

The standard is not “looks finished.” The standard is “holds together.”

  1. 01

    Find the signal.

    Name the real problem before adding tools, pages, or noise.

  2. 02

    Make the decisions.

    Turn taste and strategy into a direction people can act on.

  3. 03

    Build the working thing.

    Move past advice into a usable system, artifact, or experience.

  4. 04

    Leave it in the owner’s hands.

    Make the handoff clear enough that the work can keep earning its place.

My proof starts with the systems and ventures I help operate.

These are not borrowed logos or inflated case studies. They are working environments where I connect vision, operations, design, and technology.

A builder carries an articulated black-and-orange inspection jig through a cobalt construction field, using lime-marked clamps across three distinct builds.
A guide red field carrying the Philocity thesis in daylight type: Ideas to reality through compounding intelligence, with the guide mark and wordmark above a four-quadrant riso instrument field for relationships, effort, resources, and timing.
Philocity / the initiative

Ideas to reality through compounding intelligence.

Philocity / the initiative

Philocity is the initiative behind the work: a community platform where shared learning turns into working, building, and everyday life together. The first version is built, and the first track is live.

First version built / first track liveVisit Philocity
The live Lasso Holdings website showing the company wordmark, navigation, and investment thesis.
Live public site / captured August 2026

Operating inside the company, not outside the brief.

Lasso Holdings / active company

I serve as an operating partner at Lasso Holdings, working across operations, finance, legal coordination, and the public-facing company system.

Active / public site liveVisit Lasso Holdings
The Hatrack one-pager hero: a mono edition line, five staggered role lines with Builders and Curators in signal blue, and a riso print of a coat rack with one red hat.
Hatrack one-pager / brand build

Designers. Builders. Connoisseurs. Curators. Artisans.

Hatrack / the community, experience, and brand

Hatrack is our POV on World Building. Through Media we are committed to creating a world you can hang your hat on. The brand package locks the hooked-H mark, the paper and signal blue system, and the one-pager.

Brand package locked / one-pager liveView the one-pager
The live Mitchell Miles publication at mitchellmiles.com: the hand-cut lettermark, the tagline Biblical counsel for cultural moments, and the latest essay, A Letter to a Friend Who Left.
Live publication / mitchellmiles.com

A personal brand with a press-room backbone.

Mitchell Miles / personal brand

The SIGNAL system gives Mitchell Miles a fixed hand-cut lettermark, a four-color press palette, and an editorial rhythm: black ink on paper, one signal red, no decoration.

Live / essays publishingVisit Mitchell Miles

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