What we do

  • uncover compelling and unique brand messages
  • create brand identity designs (logotype, accompanying motifs, and color scheme)
  • design business stationery

Our process is thorough and rigorous, but it’s also illuminating and fun! We’ll challenge you to find the very best angle to position yourself in a crowded market. Most importantly, we won’t rest until we truly learn how your brand can deliver what you do best (and care about most) to the world.

Voice to your vision

DK’s strength is finding and giving voice to your brand’s core identity.

DK’s process is about delving into great conversation. This is often the highlight for many of our clients, because reflective questioning makes people really think through what it is they want the world to see and understand about them. We’ve been called “brand psychiatrists,” even!

We really believe that without a clear understanding of self, it won’t matter how snazzy the design is that you buy. Some people come to us after working with someone else, maybe in a less rigorous process where the end result just didn’t do it for them after all. Hard-earned money down the drain.

The final design has to be something you feel great about. If your passion doesn’t come across when you pass out your business cards and start talking about your work, for example, no one will tune in.

That’s why we spend so much time up front getting to know you and what you care most about, and more importantly, why customers you want to work with will care.

Only once we’ve whittled your brand’s main idea down to three succinct sentences do we put pencil to paper, and later, pixel to screen. It’s a really fun process that so many people have enjoyed, and we’re learning along the way every time, too. We read, we study, we engage. The whole process is playful, intelligent, and revelatory for our clients. For us, it’s the retrieving of the exactly perfect brand essence that is the challenge and reward.

It’s no wonder we build and value long-term relationships as a major part of working with you.

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DK in 20 seconds



Welcome to Design Kompany.

We exist to help you realize your fullest potential as a small business, using dialogue as a key tool to discern your clear, authentic brand message.

If you value thoughtful conversation, accuracy, and exquisite solutions arrived upon through solid design thinking, you might like DK.

We've done naming, branding design, and message design to help people express a strong core identity. But it has to be based on passion. Smaller companies are a great match for DK, because we love talking marketing and strategy with those owners, whose values and affinities often set the company culture's tone.

We work remotely with people anywhere in the world who are: aware, awake, curious, and respectful of the design process, which we think sets the stage for great design when done well. Talk to us! We're listening. -Dipika


Things we like to write about? Travel, art, architecture, museums, and cafes. Design, materials, design thinking, but more than anything else, process. We like to say, "Trust the process." It really makes a big difference if you start with a fresh page, and think together with us on where and what you can become.

Trains are good, too. Small comments on parenting, or what other people are doing, and what other people are saying about creativity, and the creative process, and a shift from the industrial way of thinking towards more free-form association that jogs new waves of thought --- all of that is DK's beat.

Plus we'll write about people we meet, things we learn, and all the cross-cultural and multiple dimensions of interpretations. We have another blog getting going just to consider dialogue design.

But to make this blog easier to sift, here are the topics we're slotting our blog posts within:

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CONTACT DK

Design Kompany is in Durham, NC.

PO Box 1512
Durham, NC 27702
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