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Next Korner’s next Monday, November 3

On the eve of Election Day 2008 we’ll be hanging out at Stumbling Monk. Business as usual for Designers Korner, which DK hosts with friends on first Mondays at our favorite Belgian bar. We’ll even do an exit poll.

What is Designers Korner?
Sometimes it’s a bunch of us. Sometimes it’s small. The point is to get […]

‘Start:’ A party to celebrate new beginnings

It’s time for another Design Kompany open house. This one, to celebrate.
Save the date and join us for Start on Monday, November 10, at our office here in Capitol Hill.

‘Start’
A Design Kompany Party
Monday, November 10
Drop by sometime between 4 to 10pm
RSVP to start [at] design-kompany.com or call 206.709.4051
Check out our past events, like:
Sugar
Dazzle, and
Pop

DK designs a web site for insurance, financial service company

Recently I caught up with one of our most exciting clients, Garima Gupta of Gupta Insurance & Financial Services.
Nice to learn how the brand identity we created for GIFS last year is working out. People are starting to identify with the logo, and things are going well.
We worked through our signature DK process […]

‘Walk:’

A lot of people marvel when we tell them we don’t have a car.
Feet are useful, but so is public transportation.
And speaking of public transportation, two local nonprofits—Allied Arts and Seattle Architecture Foundation—will host a seminar next Monday called “Moving Seattle Forward: A Transportation Vision.”
Might be interesting.
Here’s who’s coming:

Grace Crunican, Director, Seattle DOT,
David […]

City of Seattle hosts open house Tuesday on future of Pike/Pine

We’ve written here a bit about how rapid condo development is putting the squeeze on the arts community in Capitol Hill. Since the spring, city staff and arts organizations as well as local commercial artists like us at DK have been convening to talk about whether the arts and real estate development in Capitol Hill […]

‘The Invisible Hand:’

A few months ago I went to a workshop at the library on making zines.
Collage is one of my favorite ways to “sketch,” so I showed up for it.
We learned this really neat format that’s easy to xerox one 8.5″ x 14″ paper. A double sided xerox, folded and cut a certain way, […]

Broader View continues with ‘Breathe’

Gobo Enterprises, one of our clients from this summer, is hosting an event on Tuesday, October 14 called ‘Breathe.’
Gobo’s carried out the brand identity theme Design Kompany set up for their inaugural workshop, The Broader View, an in-city retreat event just for women this past June.
It’s neat to see that titles of some […]

Why there’s a desktop in this picture

People come to this Seattle cafe to enjoy the warmth that comes with being around a lot of people, yet still having the privacy to compute.
Some even bring their desktops.
“There was just so much to think about, and I needed to get out of the house. But all my information is stored on this […]




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