Seattle Branding and Graphic Design creative team. Brand marketing and identity design. A Capitol Hill, Seattle business.
I made this after watching a very intriguing movie. It’s called Bella. These are the colors the movie made me feel, and the mood it put me in.
This is a movie that makes me glad Hollywood (and Bollywood) aren’t the only things out there.
Here is a trailer:
DK had some internal dialogues about this, concluding […]
This is a picture from the archives of Design Kompany’s film collection.
It’s from India.
More specifically, Rajasthan. That’s where DK rambled a lot in the early days trying to see what we could see.
It’s a similar approach to our branding work, too: see what’s there, traverse every square inch, incubate, and then make something […]
Illustrator Joshua Huisenga and DK’s Akira Morita teamed up as artist and art director for the fall poster for Blitz. Read more about Blitz, the Capitol Hill Art Walk.
Design Kompany first noticed Joshua’s work on a pole outside of the Little Theatre on 19th Avenue last spring.
This is the design Akira and Joshua arrived […]
Say your piece. Say it strong. Be clear, and be succinct.
Beam is a short version of our branding process. Really short.
Start with a blank page, walk away with a solid idea of where and how to target your marketing efforts.
Find out more about Beam.
Below is a blog post special to DK from artist Mark von Rosenstiel, whom DK met three years ago at Victrola’s Coffee Shop on 15th Avenue. Since then, Mark has been a speaker at Dream Kitchen, collaborated with us to create Case Architects’ website, and exhibited paintings for a party at Kornerhaus. This Friday, Mark […]
Talk about nail-biting experiences.
Our blog was the first in line to get critiqued LIVE in front of 250 people.
And those people were bloggers. This was WordCamp Seattle, an “unconference” for people who want to get nerdy about Wordpress.
Internet marketer Ian Lurie, wrote about the experience for his blog, Conversation Marketing. Check out Watch […]
Forget the highway, take the scenic route.
That’s one way to think about how to live life.
Someone asked me today if I was a risk-taker. I wasn’t sure how to answer, exactly. This is how I thought about it afterwards.
Risk: Bite-sized vs. Huge-leap
Gearing up to start something new certainly means taking a risk.
There are tiny, […]
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