Archive for August, 2006

Limited Edition Art Stencil Shirts on Sale

Here’s one of the stencils we made for the T-shirts we’ve been selling. See news post for details.

Stencil T-Shirts On Sale

Did you notice how expensive T-shirts with any kind of design on them can be in Seattle? You can now buy 100% cotton T-shirts with our stencil designs for normal prices. Like this one by Luke Kemp.
Here’s Luke outside our office the day we made shirts. Stop by our office to check out what […]

Notes on Finishing Up

This month we’re wrapping up new logo designs for two clients. One is a restaurant owner, the other a glass artist. I’ll post the finals and tell you how we got to them once they’re officially approved.
Just like finding the right personal “look,” branding a new business means getting to think about all the possibilities, […]

Charlotte

Design Kompany’s Dipika Kohli heads to Charlotte, NC, this week with a reporter’s notebook and a couple of pencils. We’re writing copy. It’s going to go into a brochure we’re designing for a glass artist with a new line of sinks. We’ve hit on a great name. We designed a logo. Now it’s time to […]

Simple Marketing Tip: Register on Google

I just registered Design Kompany’s new location with Google’s local search listing, which has been on my to-do list for quite a while now. So last time I listed where we were, it took a while. In fact, we didn’t get listed until they confirmed that we were in their local yellow page listing. And […]

Alternative Graffiti

I just went out looking for good stencil art in Capitol Hill around the Design Kompany office (see previous post) and I ended up finding a lot of graffiti that wasn’t hand-sprayed and wasn’t stencilled either. Here’s some alternative forms of graffiti, the most surprising being the huge knit sock on a street sign on […]

Stencil Art Part II

Here’s some new stencils I’ve found around Capitol Hill, since my last post. As before, there’s some sprayed on stickers, some on dumpsters and construction sites, some directly on the sidewalk. I particularly admire the different forms of text, whether made from computer fonts, or hand-drawn (as in the love/birds one). I find most of […]

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Seattle art gallery solo show
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Seattle Tech Startups invites DK to speak on branding
First short film at Southeast Asian Womens Film Festival in Seattle

 

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