Archive for January, 2007

Design Kompany’s creating a brand for secret project in Capitol Hill

Here’s Design Kompany’s Akira Morita working on a brand development for a new client in Capitol Hill.
We’ll be able to share with you the process and the final picks in a couple of weeks when we’re done.

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Illustrator Sketch #2.2

Just made this on Illustrator:

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More green space for Seattle: SAM opens Olympic Sculpture Park

When Cal Anderson Park opened up in Capitol Hill just a few blocks from Design Kompany’s office, we got really excited. In fact, so refreshing was the idea of open space in this dense urban landscape, we took the park’s silhouette as a motif for our company’s visual identity.
And the local park was where […]

New York Design Scene(?) Field Report:

UPDATE—March 2008:
More than a year after this field report, Design Kompany’s own Dipika Kohli makes her gallery debut by “tagging” a wall with sharpie markers, in a style very much inspired by street arts.

Design Kompany’s Akira Morita just took a trip to New York City, and here shares some of the graffiti art he recorded […]

Design Kompany puts new energy into business card design

Identity design for Seattle company Write with Meaning.

Business Cards for Writing Coach

New Business Cards for Miyabi Japanese Restaurant

Design Kompany came up with this new look and feel for Miyabi, a Japanese restaurant in Tukwila. Read more about the logo design development for Miyabi >

Miyabi Japanese Restaurant

DK does newspage design for ID’s ‘Northwest Asian Weekly’

Front Page of NW Asian Weekly

Newspage and newsletter layout design tips

Design Kompany just wrapped up newspage design for two issues of a Seattle community paper called the Northwest Asian Weekly. Here, Dipika Kohli (below) shares tips on how to lay out information on a page.
Anyone who’s working with images and text on a desktop publishing program ought to keep a few pointers in mind […]







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A1A
Allied Arts of Seattle
Atlantic School of English
Blitz!
Blue Gecko
The Broader View
Bonanzle
Case Design + Project Management
Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce
C'ODA
Counting Stars
D+A Studio LLC
Flow
Global Village conference
Group3 Architects LLC
Good Dog Art
Gupta Insurance & Financial Services
Hindsight Veterinary Care
Joji Minatogawa Architects
Kikokugo
Matchbox Mobile
MD Systems
Million Monarchs
Miyabi
Modern Business Training Services
Northwest Asian Weekly
Open Money
Petites Fleurs
Potters Bar
Portland Paws
Real Science
Redpill
Revolt
Row House Cafe
Spaccarotelli
TILU
World Beer Festival
Write with Meaning
Vibrance Nutrition + Fitness
Zenovation



DK in public



Guest post on Processed Identity
Lori Waxman reviews DK's Sharpie art
McGraw-Hill asks DK to judge in architecture competition
Northwest architects invite DK to talk branding
Seattle art gallery solo show
Watch our blog get critiqued
DK sponsors a park opening
Invited to University of Washington design school's professional night
Second short film screening in Seattle
Seattle Tech Startups invites DK to speak on branding
First short film at Southeast Asian Womens Film Festival in Seattle

 

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