Remy Janvier

So nice to meet you! First off, what’s your name? Tell our readers a bit about yourself: where you’re from originally and where you live now.

Hello! My name is Remy Janvier, though creatively and professionally, I’m known as JANVI. I’m a Boston-based creative director, designer, UGC creator, and media producer with a passion for bringing ideas to life through visual storytelling, branding, and content.

I was born and raised in the Greater Boston area, which is still where I’m based today. Alongside my work in the creative industry, I’m also stepping into authorship with my upcoming book, Six Grips of Ignition. At the core of everything I do is a desire to create with intention, whether that’s through design, media, storytelling, or building the JANVI brand.

Tell us a little more about what your company does and how it started. How does it help your customers?

JanviFX Studios is an ever-evolving creative company built around one core principle: intentional creation. Our goal has always been to take someone's idea, even if it only exists as a thought or feeling, and transform it into something visually captivating, memorable, and emotionally impactful.

JanviFX Studios actually began under the name Sirama Graphics. At the time, graphic design was our home base and the foundation of everything we did. But as the visions became bigger, so did the company. What started with graphics expanded into brand identities and logo design, then motion graphics, video production, promotional content, creative direction, and even concept-driven skits.

That evolution really represents what JANVIFX is today. We never wanted to limit a client's vision simply because it extended beyond one creative medium. If bringing an idea to life requires design, motion, video, storytelling, or a combination of them, we want to be able to build the creative world around that vision.

What I believe separates JANVIFX is our emphasis on making people feel something. We don't want to create something that simply looks good or briefly captures attention. We want to create work that stays with the viewer. From the initial creative process through real-time execution, we treat the relationship as a collaboration rather than a transaction. When someone trusts JANVIFX with their vision, our responsibility is to understand the emotion behind that vision and translate it into something people won't easily forget.

If someone wants to start a business, what advice would you give them?

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that some of the most important pivots God has directed me toward came after I changed my perspective on what JanviFX Studios actually was.

I stopped looking at it simply as a business and started seeing it as a space where people could feel safe enough to bring their passions, ideas, and visions—and trust us to help turn them into something real. That shift changed the way I approached everything.

When you begin building from a place of genuinely wanting to uplift others, something changes. The growth, opportunities, relationships, and even the knowledge you need begin finding their way to you—sometimes in ways that, for me, can only be described as divine.

So my genuine advice is: Don’t just “start a business.” Build something that feels like a home to the people you want to serve. Create a place where their ideas feel understood, their ambitions feel supported, and their trust means something to you. Then let the purity of that intention, paired with the work you put behind it, bear its own fruit.

What is one piece of feedback from a happy customer or client that you won't forget?

One piece of feedback I'll never forget actually came from a place of mentorship rather than a traditional client experience.

During one of the more pivotal periods of my career, I had the opportunity to create alongside Steve Jones, owner of Belmont Vegetarian Restaurant in Worcester, Massachusetts—a restaurant that has earned national recognition, including a spot on Yelp's Top 100 Vegan Restaurants. Steve and I built a genuine bond very quickly. Our conversations would sometimes last for hours, and business would only be a fraction of what we talked about. We talked about life, perspective, growth, the journey, and what it actually means to build something with purpose.

During one of those conversations, Steve gave me feedback that changed the way I looked at myself and the essence of my brand.

With his usual gusto and down-to-earth personality behind every word, he told me something along the lines of, “Man, I can tell there isn't a dark soul in your body. I'm not working with you because I'm looking for the best of the best. I'm working with you because you're honest, and you're not looking to get something from me.”

But then his tone shifted into something more cautionary. He told me that having that kind of heart could also be dangerous. “Don't ever change, but never let yourself become blind to the jungle you're looking to grow in. Out here, there are more people who will want to take advantage of someone's kindness than work with it.”

That stayed with me.

Not simply because it reminded me to stay sharp, but because his words came from a genuine place of care and mentorship. It also helped me understand what I want JANVIFX to represent. I want people who work with us to feel that same sincerity—the feeling that we're creating with you, not simply creating for you.

There's actually another Steve moment I'll never forget, and I think it deserves to be shared because it perfectly captures the kind of person he is.

One day I asked him, “Steve, knowing the season of life I'm in right now, what's the best book you would recommend I read?”

He paused for maybe two or three seconds and chuckled, almost as if I'd asked him a question with an answer I should've already known.

“The book of life.”

To this day, I still scoff and laugh when I think about it because, in a way, it really is that simple. Some of the greatest lessons I've received in business never came from a business book. They came from people, experiences, mistakes, conversations, and simply living.

Hope you get to see this, Steve.

Where do you see your company in the future?

Truthfully? I don't know—and I've actually grown to love that answer.

Not because JANVIFX Studios lacks a plan, direction, or ambition, but because I've learned how quickly a routed pathway can shift into something you never could have planned for.

Years ago, I would map out exactly what I wanted Sirama Graphics to become. Looking back, I realize that my fixation on that future almost prevented me from seeing what it had the potential to become. If I had stayed loyal to that original picture, JANVIFX Studios may have never existed.

I've fallen heavily in love with the journey of presence and faith. I believe there's a difference between moving without direction and moving without restriction. I still believe in strategy. I still believe in taking intentional action. I just don't believe I need to know every destination before I begin walking.

That mindset allows me to recognize when life is calling for a pivot and simply say, “Let's run it.”

Because I allowed myself that freedom, I became a scriptwriter. I became Head of Marketing for a fashion show. I became a UGC creator. Now, I'm becoming an author. None of those identities were perfectly mapped out years in advance, but each one became another extension of the creative world I'm building through JANVI and JANVIFX Studios.

So when you ask where I see the company in the future, I could give you a polished five- or ten-year answer. But I think the more truthful answer is that I want to remain open enough to discover what JANVIFX is capable of becoming.

There's a plan. There's a pursuit. There's faith. But there's also enough room left for the unexpected.

And that's the part I'm most excited about.

Any shoutouts you want to make?

I know he’s probably going to laugh or be very happy that I’m bringing him up again, but I have to give a shoutout to Antonio Brown from Stir House Vegan in Atlanta.

During my first trip to Atlanta, one of my biggest goals was obviously to enjoy the culture and experience the city, but I also wanted to connect and network as much as possible. So despite whatever anxiety or fear I had, I made a promise to myself that I didn’t care where I was. A store, restaurant, event—it didn’t matter. If I saw an opportunity to introduce myself, shake someone’s hand and say, “Hey, this is who I am and this is what I do,” I was going to do it.

That mindset is what brought me into Stir House.

Antonio wasn’t there when I first came in, but I had such a great interaction with the workers there—genuinely some of the kindest people I met during my trip. We got into conversation, I told them what I did, and eventually I asked if I could speak with whoever was in charge because I wanted to see if there was anything I could creatively bring to what they already had going on.

They told me Antonio was the guy I wanted to speak to, but unfortunately, he wasn’t there.

Cool. No problem. I left and kept going about my day.

I’m probably two or three stores down the street when one of the chefs comes running after me like, “You’re not going to believe this. Antonio is here. He’s barely ever here, and when I saw him I knew I had to come find you.”

So, I went back.

I introduced myself to Antonio, and he was genuinely one of the kindest people I had met. More importantly, though, he gave me an example of what I felt a business owner and entrepreneur should reflect when someone is simply trying to have a conversation, connect, and potentially turn business into something beautiful.

But there was one small thing he said during that conversation that completely stuck with me.

He told me that he loves working with graphic designers, but unfortunately, a lot of graphic designers don’t even know how to create an invoice. To him, something that small can say a lot about the type of business he might be working with. He looks for timely responses. He looks for people who respect deadlines. He looks for professionalism.

And I remember hearing that and immediately thinking, “Man, I don’t even know how to make an invoice.”

I knew how to design. I knew how to create. I knew how to tell somebody what I charged. But that conversation made me realize there was another level to this. If I wanted people to take my company seriously, I had to take the business side of my company just as seriously as I took the creative side.

From there, I really started paying attention to professionalism—how I communicated, how I presented my work, how I handled clients, invoices, deadlines, and everything surrounding the actual creativity.

At that time, JanviFX Studios wasn’t even JanviFX Studios yet.

So shoutout to Antonio, because I don’t think he realizes how much that small, intentional conversation actually impacted me. If that conversation never happened, a very important piece of the growth that helped create what JanviFX Studios is today might not have become a piece of this beautiful pie at all.

Where can our readers learn more about you and your company?

You can keep up with me and everything we're building through JANVIFX Studios on Instagram at @janvifx, where I share my latest creative work, projects, collaborations, and pieces of the journey along the way.

For a deeper look into my work and portfolio, you can visit my website at remy82198.myportfolio.com. You can also find more of my story through my feature with CanvasRebel, where I dive further into my journey as a creative and entrepreneur.

And with Six Grips of Ignition currently in the works, there will definitely be a lot more to follow soon.