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Archive for February, 2007

The Making of a Logo: Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce

Written by dipika February 21st, 2007 in News at DK.0 Comments

Some time ago we told you we were working on a *secret* logo design project in Capitol Hill. Recently we just wrapped up the final color scheme and image design for the newly formed Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce’s brand identity scheme.

This design project was a textbook example of the Design Kompany approach: work […]

Dream Kitchen is Wednesday, Feb. 21

Written by dipika February 20th, 2007 in News at DK.0 Comments

Design Kompany hosts Dream Kitchen on Wednesday, Feb. 21. This is a limited series of open brown bag lunch sessions at DK’s office on East Olive Way in Capitol Hill. The sun fills our conference room on days like today, and local artists, web developers, writers and other creative folks swing by to chat about […]

‘Pink is for Monica:’

Written by dipika February 19th, 2007 in Interesting Finds.0 Comments

‘Brown Sugar’

Written by akira February 19th, 2007 in News at DK.0 Comments

Design Kompany hosts ‘Sugar’, a dessert party for sweet friends, on Saturday, February 24.

Akira, Dipika, Jace, Laura and Aaron host ‘Sugar’ this Saturday to celebrate the good things in life. What better way than to indulge–and in this time, the month they’ve devoted to a thing called love. More on serving up ‘Sugar,’ coming […]

Design Kompany makes a logo for Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce

Written by akira February 16th, 2007 in Portfolio.6 Comments

Helvetica.
What a gorgeous font. It’s no wonder they made a movie about it* and that the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce picked Design Kompany’s Helvetica-based option for their final logo design. DK created an identity scheme that takes Helvetica by the cap of its H and breaks it apart.
Seriously. Graphic designer Akira Morita did a […]

The Strangers

Written by akira February 15th, 2007 in Interesting Finds.0 Comments

Everyone loves to loathe the Stranger weekly mag, but I personally think they have great art direction. They did two covers on last week’s Valentine’s Day issue, each featuring a handsome boy/girl holding out a bloody heart… Eew. Seriously, the type treatment, colors and layout worked beautifully together, IMHO. C’mon, Seattle Weekly! […]

Secret Project Almost Unveiled

Written by dipika February 15th, 2007 in News at DK.0 Comments

Next Wednesday, Feb. 21, we’ll have a post for you about the secret Capitol Hill identity design project we mentioned a while back. What we did. How we did it. The whole shebang. Stay tuned.