Seattle Branding and Graphic Design creative team. Brand marketing and identity design. A Capitol Hill, Seattle business.
Sometimes, expertise gets confused with articulateness.
Let’s think about it from the point of view of walking into a room full of strangers. Pretend those people are each brands walking around with stuff to sell.
When we’re meeting new people in social situations in real life and they’re kind of boring, we can just move away. […]
I was cutting and gluing a batch of zines this morning at a cafe in downtown Durham, when in walks independent record label and next-door-neighbor Merge Records.
Well, a person from there, I mean. And someone who was here from New York to visit. I couldn’t help overhear a bit of the conversation they were […]
It was the art and beauty of mathematics that did it. The idea that math could lay order on the unknown—and that it was deduced by some people with imagination and intuition—that I decided to study so much math in college. This thing—I’ll call it “abstract preciseness”—is what DK offers our clients, too. Creating a […]
I really miss my comfort latte every morning in Seattle. But I have weaned myself from both caffeine and the Northwest.
If you live in climates where the sky is gray most of the time, as DK did in 2000-2004 in Cork, Ireland, and 2004-2009 in Seattle town, you learn to appreciate warm cozy drinks.
Caffeine is […]
Designers at French agency H5 made this. It’s a great exploration on the theme about how major corporations are bombarding us with dumbed-down messages, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket. It’s also kind of funny to see how, as always, France has a love/hate thing with America.
Very creative and intense at […]
Check out these seven tips from three top marketing executives on how to set up the sale.
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A bonus if you make it to the end: a great book we now recommend to our clients as part of creating a brand marketing campaign.
Cows and people have more in common than we think.
Here’s what DK wants to know.
What do social media directors and new media designers think and feel about the way the web is evolving?
What about marketing people? What do YOU think brand designers need to know about marketing in this digital search-and-find-a-person era?
Design Kompany’s clients […]
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