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NGT Academy,
2026
Overview
NGT Academy, a Y Combinator-backed IT school, rebuilt its entire brand, website, ads, email, and decks through one Awesomic subscription in about 4 months, with the same small team of senior designers across all of it.
June Kim
Head of growth
at
NGT Academy
The brand finally looks like the caliber of program we run. Everything across our brand, site, and assets now feels intentional and consistent instead of stitched together from different sources
That sentence took 4 months and 8 tasks to earn. Here's how a school that turns career-changers into six-figure engineers ended up with a brand that couldn't keep up, and what happened when it stopped patching and rebuilt.
Timeline
~4 months, 8 tasks
Tasks
Branding
Website copy
UI/UX
Webflow
Meta ads
Presentation templates
Email design
Plan
All-in-one
x2
Everything, rebuilt
NGT walked away with the whole system, not a piece of it: a complete brand identity, rewritten website copy, a full site redesign across every page in light and dark for desktop and mobile, the live Webflow build, Meta ad creative in every format for their ad agency, a redesigned student growth chart with reusable templates, new email designs, and a presentation-template library set up in Canva.

A list that long is the reason NGT needed this kind of support in the first place. No single hire covers all of it, and separate vendors mean separate briefings that each start from zero. One team under one subscription could handle it all.

Built by the same designers from start to finish, which is exactly why it holds together.
June Kim
Head of growth
at
NGT Academy
Moving from rebrand to web to creative, everything already spoke the same language, which saved me rounds of revision.
Bold on YouTube, dated everywhere else
NGT Academy takes people from zero experience to job-ready IT careers in four to six months. Founder Terry Kim walked the path himself, going from an Air Force Staff Sergeant earning $55K to a Cisco-certified consultant earning $350K, then started NGT in 2016 to give others the same skills-first shortcut. Backed by Y Combinator, the academy has trained 40,000+ students, with graduates landing at Google, Amazon, Cisco, and Cloudflare at an average starting salary of $85K.

The company kept growing. The brand didn't.

You could see it in one scroll: NGT's YouTube thumbnails were loud, confident, full of energy, and then the website landed like a different company. The yellow leaned old and orange-heavy. The layout read corporate and cold, the wrong feeling entirely for career-changers and veterans betting on a new future. June Kim and her CEO knew exactly what they wanted instead: bold, educational, inspiring, modern, clean, elevated. And one hard line, nothing drifting into a dark hacker-in-a-hoodie cliché.

Most agencies would answer that with a three-month statement of work and a logo. NGT ran the whole rebrand through one subscription instead, task by task, with designers who worked like an in-house team.
No agency. No hires. No handoffs.
No RFP and no six-month statement of work. No juggling separate freelancers across separate contracts, and no context lost between them. Senior designers were matched in about a day and stayed for months, so knowledge never reset, all under one flat monthly fee.
June Kim
Head of growth
at
NGT Academy
It gave me on-demand design across totally different formats without the overhead of hiring in-house or managing a traditional agency. For a lean marketing team, that speed and flexibility is the whole value.
NGT is now exploring SEO and GEO work with Awesomic next →
Timeline
~4 months, 8 tasks
Tasks
Branding
Website copy
UI/UX
Webflow
Meta ads
Presentation templates
Email design
Plan
Pro
x2

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