Seattle Branding and Graphic Design creative team. Brand marketing and identity design. A Capitol Hill, Seattle business.
Today after one of our meetings, the topic came up of chiaruscuro .
We talked about strong darks and lights, large-format images.
“Kind of like Caravaggio,” I said.
Check out this one, Amor Vincit Omnia. c. 1601-02, oil on canvas.
It’s been a while since I thought about painterly painting.
Interestingly, they say you have to […]
I love sailing. Especially in Seattle.
This is a picture of me and Akira last summer. We like to go on this sailboat tour they run from the waterfront here. On a quiet day mid-week it’s so low-key. You just show up when you want and join the next tour. Easy.
Not being yacht owners, here’s the […]
Design Kompany visited the Belltown Art Walk for the first time this month—it happens on second Fridays.
Here are a couple of pix:
I liked the idea here, but not the stuff inside. Halogen is in the same spot as what used to be the BLVD gallery.
Man, if you’re into trippy art, check out the show […]
A few weeks ago I was in the park with swings.
There were these middle school kids running around. Three of them.
Two girls, and one boy.
One of the girls clearly liked this boy. It made me think of middle school and how it is and you know how you get all awkward and start blushing and […]
People who know DK realize we are all about getting people together.
We do this over lunch. Over drinks. And sometimes we invite people to our office to mingle with friends at parties. Some of my favorites: Sugar, Dazzle, and most recently, Start.
Getting people in the same room is good because it means we’re […]
Design Kompany is working on a new secret project!
I’m so excited. It’s modern and stuff, but it’s also a lot of fun.
We’ll announce it in April.
And invite you to come and see it live and in person in May.
Hint: The May stuff will be more like this secret project and less like […]
Just browsing Behance, a networking site for creative professionals (they also sell nice notebooks), this morning, and saw a video clip featured in their homepage, a music video from 2007.
That’s funny, I said. I remember that song from 2003.
It was December in Dublin, 2003. We were at some kind of a media award celebration […]
Last night Design Kompany had the pleasure of participating on a panel discussion on how to find solutions.
Here’s what it was about:
This month we’re talking about solutions. Not necessarily about specific answers to our problems, but about the nature of good solutions themselves. We’re looking for answers about answers, a way of thinking about […]
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