Seattle Branding and Graphic Design creative team. Brand marketing and identity design. A Capitol Hill, Seattle business.
Here are some thoughts from illustrator Aaron Barker on a popular style in advertisement design today: the hand drawn look.
Hey, can you find what’s wrong with these pictures?
Remember those picture puzzles that contain wacky absurdities waiting to be discovered? Take a look at these two illustrations. That’s right! There IS a giraffe riding in the […]
I just met a marketing person from T Mobile and inquired how they measure the effectiveness of direct mail campaigns. He said getting the message across right is a delicate mix of selecting a particular group of people, coming up with an enticing offer of products or services, and making sure what the creative team […]
Sometimes you find inspiration for ideas in the most obscure places. Like the music library at the University of Washington. Design Kompany is creating a brand identity for a new company that will be in part influenced by this:
What a Japanese ad agency guy says about getting fresh ideas.
UPDATE: December 2008
Here is the business card […]
The “it” between Design Kompany and you
A friend told me about this book by the Austrian-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber called I and Thou. It came out in the early 1920s. My friend, a psychotherapist, found Buber as part of her research on interpersonal relationships. Wikipedia says Buber wrote a ton on consciousness, relationships, and community, […]
Design Kompany is a Capitol Hill graphic design studio with a focus on branding. What we’re best at is boiling down complex messages and helping you articulate your identity clearly and simply.
We’re branding a line of beauty products, a packaging scheme for Alaskan wild salmon, and a political initiative to reform healthcare. This last […]
One of the projects we’re working on right now is a rebrand for a Capitol Hill building developer. Whenever we do a design identity, we like to bring together what in design lingo is called “a mood board.” This is a collection of clippings that help us visualize and confirm with you what kind of […]
Spoken word poetry is on this weekend. I first got introduced to poetry slams in Brooklyn, and more recently have stopped into some of the ones Eleventh Hour Productions puts on in Fremont. What’s neat is being in the same room with a bunch of people saying what’s really on their minds–the kind of stuff […]
Imagine a room of people saying stuff like this:
“Yeah, maybe. But is there another way to say it, I mean a way that’s more precise, more engaging, more…. I don’t know what. Isn’t there a better way? Let’s caucus. Let’s take more time. Let me ask my sister. Let’s leave it open. Let’s not decide […]
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