A Multidisciplinary Studio for Brands, Spaces, and Experiences
CitrusMelon is a high-performance creative studio that blends brand strategy, interior design, and modern technology to create work that is both thoughtful and effective. We shape identities, environments, and systems that help businesses stand out and grow in a fast-changing world.
Our approach is grounded in strategy, guided by clear design thinking, and supported by strong execution. Every decision is intentional. Every detail supports the bigger picture.
We help clients build brands and spaces that feel real, meaningful, and ready for the future.
Brand and Marketing Studio focused on insight, design, and business clarity.
We build brands that people understand and want to be part of. Our work brings together research, messaging, visual identity, and digital experience so companies can move with confidence and purpose.
Our capabilities include:
Brand identity and visual systems
Messaging and storytelling
Creative direction and content
Website and ecommerce design
Customer experience planning
AI tools and workflow integration
Launch strategy and ongoing consulting
We help ideas grow into strong, durable brands that can compete and evolve.
Interior Design Studio guiding clients through every decision with clarity, expertise, and a thoughtful, multidisciplinary approach.
Our interior work is rooted in modernism and guided by a deep respect for thoughtful design. We create spaces that feel intentional, balanced, and expressive. Every material, every line, and every connection serves the way people live and move through the environment.
From custom cabinetry to full home design, we guide clients through the entire process from concept through installation. Our Rancho Mirage studio acts as a working lab where ideas become details and details become built experiences.
Clients come to us for vision, problem-solving, and a level of care that honors both form and function.
About Patrick Thornton
Patrick Thornton works in the space where design, strategy, and human behavior meet. His career has moved through industries that rarely sit at the same table: global manufacturing, healthcare, workspace design, and consumer products. He treats them as connected chapters in the same story. What he brings to each is a steady ability to translate ambiguity into direction and to make ideas feel both expansive and workable.
Colleagues describe him as someone who sees the whole system before most people notice the individual parts. He pays close attention to how a brand behaves, how a room feels, how a product is understood, and how people respond to all of it in motion. This wide-angle view shapes his work, and so does a willingness to stay deeply engaged in the details. Thornton moves easily between strategy meetings, site walkthroughs, and design reviews, and he brings the same level of care to each.
Curiosity is a constant throughline. He studies how people think and what influences their choices. This approach has led him into large-scale research studies, global team leadership, and the building of creative departments from the ground up. The environments and brands he creates grow out of this understanding. They are designed to be lived with and not only looked at.
His work often balances two forces that rarely align naturally: imagination and practical intention. Thornton treats creativity as both a craft and a tool. It should feel inspired, but it should also make life or business meaningfully better. This is the lens he brings to every engagement, whether he is shaping a company’s next chapter or rethinking the flow of a physical space.