Design Kompany is Akira Morita and Dipika Kohli.
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.
In the news
9.9.2007
Design Kompany’s redesign for a Seattle newspaper:
Ta-da! A new look for the Northwest Asian Weekly
Design Kompany’s story
We started in 1995 in Raleigh, North Carolina, but now run DK out of Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington.
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.
Professional backgrounds
Design Kompany’s focus is exclusively on branding.
Akira and Dipika 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.
Both band together to do the work of Design Kompany: refine your brand story, and build strong visual graphic images to tell it.
Interns and collaborators at Design Kompany
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.
In 2007, we met and teamed with web developer Mark VonRosenstiel on a pair of projects, too.
