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Cardboard Furniture Duo Graypants Go Big Time in New York

Our friends and fellow enterprising designers Graypants are in New York, showing off their wares at International Contemporary Furniture Fair this weekend. They came to our Dream Kitchen session last year to share some samples of their work and the design philosophy behind it, and I’ve been a big fan since.
Their scrap lights are truly […]

BTFL|SIMPL showing until June 5. Thanks for coming to the opening!

Beautiful Simple opening reception

Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival is today

… and our own Akira Morita has a little short called “Prawl” showing there. It’s a totally home-spun festival, in its fourth year, run expertly by Georgetown artist Laura Wright. It will show an eclectic collection of works (nearly 60, non-juried) submitted by participants (many of whom, like me, were experiencing the medium for the […]

Coming soon: DK’s brand identity design for Capitol Hill Arts Walk

Soon.

Soon Design Kompany will reveal the new look for the Capitol Hill Arts Walk, dubbed Blitz. This was commissioned by the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, which is one of our past clients.
Maybe you didn’t know this, but Capitol Hill already has an art walk. It happens on the second Thursday every month.
Audrey McManus, […]

Another Sidenote About Ireland, or That Floating Feeling

Just browsing Behance, a networking site for creative professionals (they also sell nice notebooks), this morning, and saw a video clip featured in their homepage, a music video from 2007.

That’s funny, I said. I remember that song from 2003.

It was December in Dublin, 2003. We were at some kind of a media award celebration […]

3 artsy film screenings tonight at Northwest Film Forum

Here’s what’s happening today at Northwest Film Forum:
Seattle Moves:
Screening and Discussion
March 7 at 4pm
Seattle motion graphics designers will screen recent projects and discuss their inspirations, creative processes, technical challenges and their ever-evolving field. Moderated by photographer/filmmaker Matt Daniels, the panel will include creative minds from SuperFad, Lustre and Digital Kitchen.
Entropy: New Short Works
March 7 at […]

Chatsworth, a Film Project That Could

I am listening to songs that accompany scenes unwitnessed.
Yet, it’s easy for me to picture the scene, thanks to an ingenious device called “Transmedia Arti(fiction)“.
What?

Here’s Rick Liebling, a marketing professional who writes insightful blog named eyecube.com, by way of explanation:
Foundtracks is a creative mash-up, appropriating from the worlds of literature, music and […]

Announcing Our DIY, Open-Source Marketing Package

Between client work and diaper changes in the last few months, we have been quietly working on this new web site. Lightfoot Branding is all about sharing our know-hows on small business marketing and putting you in charge. We will be adding more articles in the coming days, and will continue to add more features […]







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Second short film screening in Seattle
Seattle Tech Startups invites DK to speak on branding
First short film at Southeast Asian Womens Film Festival in Seattle

 

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