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Design Kompany's Process
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Written by dipika May 4th, 2012 in Getting Creative and Process.0 Comments

Naming a company takes thinking it through

Written by akira May 1st, 2012 in Process.0 Comments

Here are 8 questions we ask to stack candidates when we’re asked to brainstorm names for a rebrand design.
How to pick a name
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Rebranding is costly, not just in terms of money but in terms of time, too. You’ll want to make sure to set up [...]

7 photographers DK loves and recommends

Written by dipika April 19th, 2012 in Around Town, Beautiful Stuff, Found, Getting Creative and Process.1 Comment

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…)

In Search of Meaning (34): ‘You often need a lot of new input’

Written by dipika April 17th, 2012 in Around Town and Process.2 Comments

To Buda or Pest?

DK makes a Sharpie slideshow for Fuzzy Quantum Pop talk

Written by dipika April 3rd, 2012 in Around Town, Getting Creative, Portfolio and Process.1 Comment

A short video of us on AETHER

Written by akira April 2nd, 2012 in Around Town, Found, Getting Creative and Process.0 Comments

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

Written by dipika March 30th, 2012 in Around Town, Getting Creative and Process.0 Comments

Dispatch from Brunswick Georgia

Written by dipika March 23rd, 2012 in Around Town, Found, Getting Creative and Process.1 Comment

I am writing from the public library in Brunswick, Georgia, after four days of not seeing flush toilets. Camping.
I like blogging from these distant parts, ‘the road,’ and thinking about what is going on in other people’s lives around the world, across the universe. The Internet plug-in, suddenly, reminds me of that. The ‘aether,’ and [...]

SELECT CLIENTS

Avenue Medical Products
Allied Arts of Seattle
Atlantic School of English
Barka Lounge
Blitz
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
Kikokugo
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
North Carolina State University
The Pink Goonies
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
@designkompany facebook.com/designkompany
o. 919.886.6332
c. 206.778.5136 | email

Design Kompany is a brand design studio. We do: corporate identity, brand identity, branding, logo design, corporate communications, creative marketing.

Design Kompany's Process
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