Design Kompany is Akira Morita and Dipika Kohli. This summer, we welcome design intern Victor Ng.
We started DK in 1995 in Raleigh, North Carolina. That’s when we made posters and brochures together at North Carolina State University. Now we run DK out of our Capitol Hill studio in Seattle.
After a stint in Tokyo followed by a few years in Cork, everything interesting started to happen when we set up shop in the Pacific Northwest in 2004. As more people learned about our international sensibilities and modern aesthetic, more clients came on board. Here’s what they’ve said about working with Design Kompany.
Professional backgrounds
We have 20 years of combined experience in graphic design and marketing.
Akira’s coordinated an international trade exhibition in New Delhi, India, as well as the World Beer Festival in Durham, North Carolina. And built a Japanese-language website to grow a market for an Irish travel agency. He asks the important big-picture questions.
Dipika’s experience as a newspaper reporter plus training in engineering bring logic and inquiry to Design Kompany. Dipika’s published photography, illustration and writing in a dozen international newspapers and magazines.
Together we do the work of DK: find your brand story, and build strong visual graphic images to tell it.
Personal interests
The people we connect with are those with shared interests: traveling, looking at art, cooking, going to shows, taking pride in doing good work, asking questions, making films, getting friends together, jazz, the Seattle music scene, and getting inspired in general.
Interns and collaborators at Design Kompany
This summer, we welcome design intern Victor Ng.
In 2005, graphic design student Alex Hage called and said he wanted to be our intern. We said, “Really? Well, of course yes.” Alex stenciled these t-shirts. Later that year, web design intern Miki Kobayashi studied user interface design from DK.
For a good chunk of 2006, Jace Krause was Design Kompany’s own in-house copywriter. Intern Aaron Barker joined us as an illustrator, inspiring us with personally drawn and found samples of hand-drawn art. Graphic design student Angela Tomson became our third intern, teaching us how to enjoy the art of comics for the first time since Tokyo.
Want to intern for DK? Send us a couple of paragraphs about why you think you’d be a good fit for our company.
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