Archive for March, 2009

Uisce beatha, the water of life

Design Kompany was out on the town the other day dining at Harvest Vine and couldn’t help overhearing the next table.
Two couples. One of them was expounding about Life as an Expat in Australia. It was uninteresting, but that didn’t stop DK from intruding as we were paying our check and making our way […]

Design Kompany brands Copenhangen microfinance startup Key

We came up with this design for Key, whose goal will be to provide basic education to poor and underprivileged children in West Bengal, India:

Key design by Design Kompany 2007

Will it snow?

They’re saying it will, and currently there are small flecks of snowlike substance tapering down from the sky.
If the snow gets big, this’ll be the third snow since Christmas.
Somehow, it’s not as exciting anymore. It’s just cold.

3 artsy film screenings tonight at Northwest Film Forum

Here’s what’s happening today at Northwest Film Forum:
Seattle Moves:
Screening and Discussion
March 7 at 4pm
Seattle motion graphics designers will screen recent projects and discuss their inspirations, creative processes, technical challenges and their ever-evolving field. Moderated by photographer/filmmaker Matt Daniels, the panel will include creative minds from SuperFad, Lustre and Digital Kitchen.
Entropy: New Short Works
March 7 at […]

Bhangra tonight at Seattle Asian Art Museum

Being of Punjabi descent I am really fascinated by this.
The Seattle Asian Art Museum is throwing a bhangra party tonight.
Yes.
The art museum is throwing an Indian party.

DJs I Heart Shiva play bhangra and other hot dance music from India to celebrate the cosmically beautiful exhibition Garden and Cosmos. Tour at 8:30 pm, followed by a […]

Where are they now: Six years on, one of our Irish clients praises DK

Six years ago Design Kompany created a logo design and brochure for a school in the southwest corner of Ireland.
Atlantic School of English and Leisure commissioned DK to come up with this brand identity design.
Even in 2009, they’re still using our original logo design:

We caught up with the company’s owner, Barbara Connelly, who had this […]

Chatsworth, a Film Project That Could

I am listening to songs that accompany scenes unwitnessed.
Yet, it’s easy for me to picture the scene, thanks to an ingenious device called “Transmedia Arti(fiction)“.
What?

Here’s Rick Liebling, a marketing professional who writes insightful blog named eyecube.com, by way of explanation:
Foundtracks is a creative mash-up, appropriating from the worlds of literature, music and […]

The case for newspapers: a kind of public space

I like newspapers. And I like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. When I heard they were up for sale back in January, because they were losing money, I thought, wow. That’s business for you. But in the weeks since the announcement and landing somehow on the mailing lists for groups like NoNewsisBadNews I’ve started to think, wait. […]







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Seattle Tech Startups invites DK to speak on branding
First short film at Southeast Asian Womens Film Festival in Seattle

 

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