Archive for March, 2007

Current Projects: brand design, naming

Design Kompany’s naming an architecture company that’s still in incubation stage. We’re branding a B2B consulting firm. Creating an identity for a new line of beauty products. And some other stuff we’re not allowed to talk about quite yet. See brands Design Kompany’s made in the last six months.

Touring Tacoma

Last Friday the DK crew woke up early, rented a Flexcar, and headed south for a goodwill tour of Tacoma.
As a former resident of The Gritty City, I was delighted to show Dipika and Akira around town, and to share some of my favorite places. We visited the sundial at Jack Hyde Park on […]

Roland Kelts | ‘Japanamerica’ | Look who’s on KUOW’s ‘The Beat’

We’ve never met him, but we know a lot about Roland Kelts, an author and professor at the University of Tokyo, and a friend of one of Design Kompany’s collaborators, Chin Music Press.
Roland flies in from Japan this week to talk about how Japanese pop culture and the American mainstream influence each other. For example, […]

Bookshelf: ‘Designing Brand Identity’

Design Kompany’s creative staff is reading this great book that anyone thinking about doing a new brand should know about. Designing Brand Identity is by Alina Wheeler, who has her own blog about managing perceptions.

Design Kompany is in the midst of naming and branding a totally new business, and so we were particularly interested in […]

New Testimonial from Home Alive for invitation design package

“Early feedback on the Home Alive invitations has been very positive (as in “LOVE the invites this year!”) Chris Harvey, Seattle, WA.
See other testimonials from Design Kompany’s clients at the bottom of the right-hand column of our home page.

New Services: Copywriting and Newsletter Design

If you want to amp up your business image, ask Design Kompany about our newsletter design and copywriting services. Find out more about Design Kompany’s creative team.

DK sponsors auction for Capitol Hill nonprofit Home Alive

Home Alive auction invitation 2007

John Spillane, the Jimmy Cake and the Irish Seanchai

Design Kompany is all about visual storytelling–we do branding–but creative directors Akira Morita and Dipika Kohli learned a lot about how to put a story together after living in Ireland for three years.
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, today I am just going to tell you a story. There are three things I will […]







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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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