Archive for December, 2007

Free D.I.Y. Holiday Calendar

This “holiday calendar” — desktop calendars just for the two months of transition between the old and the new year — just started as a little stocking-stuffer idea. As I was making a prototype, though, we had an insight; why don’t we make it available as a PDF and let you make one for […]

DK Goes International

Design Kompany is working on a brand identity for a Copenhagen-based microfinance nonprofit. We’re also finishing up a Los Angeles-based financial services company’s new logo, letterhead, business cards and envelopes this week.
And we’re nearly done with the design for a Capitol Hill-based architect, too. I’ll post these new designs in the coming weeks. Oh, […]

‘Pencil:’ A Short Moving Sketch


Body Centered Cubics and Max Planck

Been doing some brushing up on the atomic packing factor of body-centered cubic crystal structures for a new idea I’m working out…
Along the way I started thinking about x-ray diffraction and small particles and what goes on at the measure of angstroms (tenth of a nanometer!!, ie 1 E-10 m). Tiny, tiny stuff! Well, […]

‘Drift:’ Design Kompany’s latest short film


Design Kompany’s field report: the Venice art festival ‘La Biennale’

I decided to veer a bit from a planned Scandinavia tour to study modern graphic design, and trek south to Italy, too.


Biennale photograph by Design Kompany 2007

That’s a wrap! “Designers’ korner” finishes its first year

“What’s your pleasure, sex or sudoku?”
–so I overheard during our last installment of the 2007 season of “Designers’ Korner” meetings. It sums up nicely the kind of irrelevant, casual, comfortable vibe we wanted to create in the “korner”; I wanted a gathering of creative types that isn’t hampered by power point presentations or business […]

‘Portrait:’


Portrait by Dipika Kohli 2007
This is the portrait I made using the Chuck Close gridding up method. It’s 16″x20″, pencil on paper.







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