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Leaving Seattle

Written by dipika November 11th, 2009 in Design Inspirations, News at DK and Desk Notes.5 Comments

If I could skip this step, I would. I hate goodbyes.
But they matter.
They mean, “I care.”
That’s why I’m writing.
Design Kompany is leaving Seattle.
We’re having a yard sale this weekend at Kornerhaus.
The good things

I want to share with you why we’re moving.
Every couple of years, DK does this.
We started in Raleigh-Durham, in North […]

Bubbles

Written by dipika November 6th, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Desk Notes.3 Comments

I am experimenting lately with patterns.
Making them.
Often.
It’s nice to have a computer for this stuff. You can just try something and poof! It’s there.

I heart gulab jamuns

Written by dipika November 3rd, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

D: Do you want a gulab jamun?
A: What?
D: A gulab jamun. Remember how my mom brought that box, that you can just make on the spot?
A: Don’t you want to save that for something?
D: For what? I feel like a gulab jamun.
A: How many…. [checking box]… this makes 20!
D: Like, whatever. I’ll eat 20. “Open. […]

Unpretentious filmmaking

Written by dipika October 31st, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

I made this after watching a very intriguing movie. It’s called Bella. These are the colors the movie made me feel, and the mood it put me in.
This is a movie that makes me glad Hollywood (and Bollywood) aren’t the only things out there.
Here is a trailer:

DK had some internal dialogues about this, concluding […]

Was T.S. Eliot right?

Written by dipika October 26th, 2009 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

This is a picture from the archives of Design Kompany’s film collection.
It’s from India.
More specifically, Rajasthan. That’s where DK rambled a lot in the early days trying to see what we could see.
It’s a similar approach to our branding work, too: see what’s there, traverse every square inch, incubate, and then make something […]

DK art directs fall poster design 4 Blitz

Written by dipika October 23rd, 2009 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.1 Comment

Illustrator Joshua Huisenga and DK’s Akira Morita teamed up as artist and art director for the fall poster for Blitz. Read more about Blitz, the Capitol Hill Art Walk.
Design Kompany first noticed Joshua’s work on a pole outside of the Little Theatre on 19th Avenue last spring.
This is the design Akira and Joshua arrived […]

FREE this Friday: Prescriptions for Awe and Wonder

Written by dipika October 22nd, 2009 in Design Inspirations and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

Below is a blog post special to DK from artist Mark von Rosenstiel, whom DK met three years ago at Victrola’s Coffee Shop on 15th Avenue. Since then, Mark has been a speaker at Dream Kitchen, collaborated with us to create Case Architects’ website, and exhibited paintings for a party at Kornerhaus. This Friday, Mark […]

Hey, is this all there is?

Written by dipika October 18th, 2009 in Design Inspirations, Desk Notes and Interesting Finds.0 Comments

Forget the highway, take the scenic route.
That’s one way to think about how to live life.
Someone asked me today if I was a risk-taker. I wasn’t sure how to answer, exactly. This is how I thought about it afterwards.

Risk: Bite-sized vs. Huge-leap
Gearing up to start something new certainly means taking a risk.
There are tiny, […]