Design Kompany's Getting Creative
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DK designs an infographic for Internet marketing firm Dragon Search


An infographic we designed for New York-based search marketing firm Dragon Search

A company we met through Twitter asked Design Kompany to make some drawings for the front page of their web site last year. That was cool, and we enjoyed getting to know Ric Dragon a bit.

So when he asked me to think about creating a graphic for a poster they were making, I got really excited. This month, we launched a custom infographic for them on how to walk small business owners through the process of online marketing. I got a chance to nerd about from my news design gigs, and also revisit the beautiful book by Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information.

Creative Process of a Painter

I met Malo, a painter from Columbia, this past weekend. He was a delight to talk to, and had a lot to say about his process, his burgeoning visual art career (he was previously a fashion photographer, he told me), and the art of relationship-building that it’s based on. All the stuff DK is always [...]

A roundtable in DC on media, the message, and what communication looks like NOW

The Artists are Present in Durham this Saturday

Something new.

Improv art show.

Sidewalk sale. Sharpie tattoos. Us. You.

7 photographers DK loves and recommends


A video by Seattle videographer Patrick Wright

Sometimes we need to hire photographers. It could be for events, for portraits, or for our clients’ web site imagery.

Here are some people we’ve gotten to know personally, and whom we love working with because they’re professional, talented, and probably most important: fun to be around. (Who wants to work with cranky artists? Not me! Yet, there are so very many…)

DK makes a Sharpie slideshow for Fuzzy Quantum Pop talk

A short video of us on AETHER

All-star lineup for Bryant Park roundtable, our first in NYC








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Allied Arts of Seattle
Atlantic School of English
Barka Lounge
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Bonanzle
The Broader View
C'ODA Architects
Case Design + PM
Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce
Celtic Ross Hotel
Cleveland-Holloway Neighborhood
Counting Stars
D+A Studio
Dragon Search
Duke University
Good Dog Art
Home Alive
Flow
Fuse IQ
Green Plus
Group3 Architects
Gupta Insurance & Financial Services
Hindsight Veterinary Care
Honshu Wolf
Japanese Language School of Raleigh
Key Microfinance
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Little Green Software
Loom Foundation
Maekawa Japanese Restaurant
Matchbox Mobile
MD Systems
Million Monarchs
Joji Minatogawa Architects
Miyabi Japanese Restaurant
Modern Business Training Services
MyVoucher
New Hope Acupuncture
Northwest Asian Weekly
North Carolina Community Shares
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Real Science
Red Pill Strategies
Revolt
Row House Cafe
Salon |e| Aspire
Seattle Central Community College
Skibbereen Tool Hire
Snaptotes
Spaccarotelli
Spectator Magazine
Swoon Spa
Vibrance Nutrition + Fitness
WRP Associates
Wedding invitation design
West Cork People
Wonder Puppy
World Beer Festival
Write with Meaning
Zenovation




DK in 20 seconds



Welcome to Design Kompany.

We exist to help you realize your fullest potential as a small business, using dialogue as a key tool to discern your clear, authentic brand message.

If you value thoughtful conversation, accuracy, and exquisite solutions arrived upon through solid design thinking, you might like DK.

We've done naming, branding design, and message design to help people express a strong core identity. But it has to be based on passion. Smaller companies are a great match for DK, because we love talking marketing and strategy with those owners, whose values and affinities often set the company culture's tone.

We work remotely with people anywhere in the world who are: aware, awake, curious, and respectful of the design process, which we think sets the stage for great design when done well. Talk to us! We're listening. -Dipika


Things we like to write about? Travel, art, architecture, museums, and cafes. Design, materials, design thinking, but more than anything else, process. We like to say, "Trust the process." It really makes a big difference if you start with a fresh page, and think together with us on where and what you can become.

Trains are good, too. Small comments on parenting, or what other people are doing, and what other people are saying about creativity, and the creative process, and a shift from the industrial way of thinking towards more free-form association that jogs new waves of thought --- all of that is DK's beat.

Plus we'll write about people we meet, things we learn, and all the cross-cultural and multiple dimensions of interpretations. We have another blog getting going just to consider dialogue design.

But to make this blog easier to sift, here are the topics we're slotting our blog posts within:

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CONTACT DK

Design Kompany is in Durham, NC.

PO Box 1512
Durham, NC 27702
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