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Micha Design Co Helping entrepreneurs build elevated, editorial brands through Canva templates and curated stock imagery. Founder of Micha Design Co.

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Been reflecting lately…💭The more I create, the more I’ve realized that beautiful branding isn’t actually my end goal whe...
03/07/2026

Been reflecting lately…💭

The more I create, the more I’ve realized that beautiful branding isn’t actually my end goal when creating design resources for brand owners.

When I first started designing and curating stock image collections, I was focused on making them beautiful. Of course I still care deeply about the visual appeal, but my perspective has evolved as I go about building my own brand.

I’m not just creating designs and images. I’m creating tools.

As business owners, it often feels like we’re constantly in overdrive. We’re responding to clients, answering emails, running errands, and trying to build something meaningful all at the same time. And in between all of that, we’re expected to create content, update our websites, send newsletters, and make it all look cohesive.

Every time I curate a collection now, I ask myself one question:

Will this make someone’s job easier? Will it help someone build a homepage without spending hours searching through dozens of stock websites? Will it make writing that next email feel less overwhelming because the visuals are already taken care of?

I don’t want to create more content for people to sift through. I want to create collections that remove decision making fatigue. Collections that are cohesive, versatile, intentional, and ready to support your brand wherever you show up.

Beautiful branding doesn’t just mean looking good at the cost of your time and resources. It should give you back some of your time. It should be functional and ignite your creativity and make you feel confident, inspired, and ready to show up with ease and excitement.

Those are some thoughts floating around in my head lately… and they’re shaping what I’ve been working on lately.✍🏻🖤

What if your website looked this good visually? I’ve been having so much fun creating new website mockups using images f...
24/06/2026

What if your website looked this good visually?

I’ve been having so much fun creating new website mockups using images from my Auréa Stock Image Collection, and I’m honestly obsessed with how realistic and elevated everything feels.

Intentional, on-brand imagery doesn’t just make your brand look beautiful, it creates trust, communicates quality, and helps your audience understand the experience you’re offering.

Whether you’re designing a website, sales page, blog, lead magnet, Pinterest graphic, or Instagram content, Auréa gives you a library of 500+ editorial-inspired images designed to help your brand show up consistently and confidently.

📸Highly realistic

📸Art-directed and intentional

📸Created for modern entrepreneurs and creative brands

Browse the full gallery collection on my website and or grab the free sample collection to test the images inside your own brand first. 🖤

Update.📣The last several weeks, I’ve been working on new stock image collections, and I am SO excited to share them with...
16/06/2026

Update.📣

The last several weeks, I’ve been working on new stock image collections, and I am SO excited to share them with you.

Narrowing down the final selections has been a huge challenge. Every image is drool-worthy, and I’m obsessed. Each collection starts with thousands of images, and the truth is there are far more incredible images than will ultimately make the cut. I’m doing my best to curate and organize them into categories that I think will be extremely useful and valuable for business owners and brands.

My focus is on making these collections not only beautiful, but genuinely useful, functional, diverse, and full of options and variety to suit different brand aesthetics and personalities.

These new collections are much more extensive, highly realistic, and incredibly art-directed in a way that will make you feel like a complete professional. You’ll have amazing options. You’ll have endless images you can reach for again and again to support your brand across your website, social media, email marketing, blog posts, lead magnets, sales pages, Pinterest, and all the other places your business shows up.

Marketing, branding, and showing up is so much more fulfilling when you have images that work with you and make the process feel easier, and more inspiring.

There’s so much to come, and I can’t wait for you to see it.

In the meantime, if you want a taste of my current collections, you can download one of my free stock image samples on my website or join my newsletter to stay in the loop.

03/06/2026

You’re not building a mood board for your brand anymore.

You’re building a business people experience through every visual touchpoint across your website, content, emails, launches, Instagram, presentations, all of it.

And I think most entrepreneurs already know how they want their brand to feel.

The hard part is finding visuals that actually reflect that feeling in a cohesive, elevated way.

So much content online feels repetitive, disconnected, overly polished, or generic. When you care deeply about what you’re building, visuals that are aligned with your brand matter.

You care about being thoughtful about the way people interact with your brand and remember it.

That mindset was a huge part of the inspiration behind Auréa, a curated collection of editorial-style imagery created for modern brands, creatives, and entrepreneurs who want their visual presence to feel more intentional, refined, and aligned.

Link in bio for the full collection 📸

Chef’s kiss to this. 🤌🏼Spotted this gem while scrolling through Facebook. A client’s ad using an image from our Auréa co...
02/06/2026

Chef’s kiss to this. 🤌🏼

Spotted this gem while scrolling through Facebook. A client’s ad using an image from our Auréa collection.

This is exactly how stock photos are meant to be used. Lucia isn’t leaning on them to do all the work. She leads with stunning, professional headshots of herself and layers in the stock images as support. Gorgeous backgrounds, beautiful text overlays, leading to cohesive branding that feels polished, intentional, and so her.

Stock images are intended to support (not take over) your visual presence, and Lucia absolutely nailed that balance.

Thank you for loving the Aurea collection as much as we do, Lucia. This made our whole week. 🖤

Honestly, this is something I’ve been sitting with a lot lately and actively trying to get better at. As a creative, I a...
29/05/2026

Honestly, this is something I’ve been sitting with a lot lately and actively trying to get better at. As a creative, I am wired for the fun aspect of building and creating. The designing, the refining, the making something beautiful and then making it better. I could live in that phase forever. The problem is, forever doesn’t actually get anything out into the world.

The hardest thing I’ve had to train myself to do is let something be done. Not perfect. Not the final version. Just done enough to go. Because the truth is, the tweaking never actually ends. You just have to decide at some point that your audience needs it more than you need to keep editing it. That’s the shift. And it doesn’t come naturally, at least not for me.

But the biggest growth I’ve found in my business, in my confidence, in the way I show up, has come from pressing go before I felt 100% ready. It wasn’t always the most polished version in my head that I envisioned. But it was good enough, it went out there, and it was worth it.

23/05/2026

Your brand kit is gonna want these. 📸

Because finding intentional, curated imagery that actually aligns with the level, vision, and ambition of your brand should not be this hard.

Auréa was created for entrepreneurs, creatives, and modern brands who care deeply about how they show up online. Every image was designed to feel cohesive, editorial, refined, and easy to integrate across your content, website, social media, campaigns, etc.

The goal wasn’t just to create “pretty photos.” It was to create a visual library that works as a system for making showing up feel effortless, purposeful, and exciting.

Link in bio.

21/05/2026

BTS from my recent shoot with my brother 🎬

Being around his creative process over the years has shaped my eye and taste in such a major way. From being on set with him to watching his post-production process, I’ve developed an aesthetic perspective heavily influenced by his timeless, editorial, detail-oriented approach to photography.

Collaborating together on our stock image collections has been incredibly special. When I first started my business, I struggled to find imagery that reflected the essence of my brand. Everything felt generic or overused.

Now we’ve combined my experience in branding, design, publishing, and understanding the ambition behind modern businesses with his eye for composition, lighting, and detail to create imagery that feels like it belongs in a magazine while still feeling usable and accessible for brands today.

Honestly a dream collaboration. You can explore the collections on my website. 📸

POV: Your Pinterest inspo board is finally your brand.🗝️Okay can we talk about this for a second. Nobody really gets how...
16/05/2026

POV: Your Pinterest inspo board is finally your brand.🗝️

Okay can we talk about this for a second. Nobody really gets how much images matter until they’re in it. Like actually building the brand, deep in it. When you’re staring at a sales page that isn’t converting and you realize the images aren’t doing the work. Or you’re about to hit post and something just feels off and you can’t explain it but you know.

You are doing everything. Literally everything. The emails, the funnels, the sales pages, the captions, the graphics, the launches, the website, the stories, the proposals, all of it by yourself. In between real life. And somewhere in the middle of all of that you’re still opening seventeen tabs trying to find one image that actually represents your brand and coming up empty every single time.

I did this for years. Settling for visuals that were almost right because nothing out there actually felt like me. The brand I had in my head was bold, editorial, intentional, effortless. My visuals were not saying any of that and I felt it every single time I hit post.

That’s literally why I built Auréa.

500 images that look like the world you’re building and the life you’re living. Marble surfaces, ambient candlelight, flowing fabrics, polished desks, rich textures. It’s the aesthetic you’ve been pinning for years, finally in one place.

And honestly? Starting a project and already having exactly the right image waiting for me has changed everything. Showing up feels easier. More confident. Most importantly, feels like me.

Free images are in my bio if you want to see what I mean.📸

12/05/2026

Auréa. 🖤

A curated collection of 500+ editorial stock images designed for modern brands, founders, and creatives that care deeply about presentation and visual identity.

This collection is incredibly special to me because these are genuinely the kinds of images I’ve always wanted for my own brand and business. I use them all over my website, product pages, branding, marketing, Pinterest graphics, mockups, and Instagram content. I honestly cannot get enough of them.

Every image was created with an art-directed approach focused on lighting, texture, composition, mood, and realism. I wanted them to feel elevated, intentional, feminine, versatile, and actually usable in real business settings — not overly glossy, generic, or obviously “stock.”

Whether you’re building a website, launching a new offer, refreshing your Instagram, creating email campaigns, designing digital products, or simply trying to make your brand feel more cohesive and premium, these images were designed to help you show up with confidence.

For the founders building beautiful things with intentionality, professionalism, and purpose.

Available now at michelletahan.com

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