To get out of the gray for a bit, Design Kompany headed to Palo Alto, California on a recent last-minute deal.
Here are some pics:
I love taking trains, so of course we had to go up to San Francisco by the ol’ Caltrain. It’s changed so much since the days of the early 1990s, when I was last there. No more little tickets to put above your seat, no more clunky dusty yellowing compartments. Although I have to admit, I liked the clunky dusty yellowing compartments. Very different from the superclean bullet trains of Japan, they felt more home to me. Rough around the edges Americana. Like wearing plaid.
You might have noticed we really like looking at things for inspiration for our logo designs. This (above) was particularly neat, and relevant to a study of type we were doing at the time.
I like the way this frozen yogurt store, Red Mango, does their whole interior design:
That’s it! It was a really short trip.
Great pics! Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome!
I hope your trip went fine, These are good pictures, I really like the first one (it captures generations of waiting), well actually the third one is good as well.
Thanks, Dave. You know, I used to shoot photos for a couple of independent newsweeklies. I like looking for stories in a composition.
Not to be a big ad or anything, but branding—the work we do at Design Kompany—is really all about telling visual stories. We’re good at that.