Design Kompany is a brand design studio. We do: corporate identity, brand identity, branding, logo design, corporate communications, creative marketing.
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.
We collaborated with designer Melissa Rygalski to get the right drawing style.
The neighborhood blog, with the brand applied.
It’s pretty flattering when you move into a neighborhood to be asked to create a brand identity design for it. When DK first landed back in Durham after 10 years away in Ireland and Seattle, we were in [...]
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:
WHO'S TALKING