Design Kompany designs a logo and business card for architect
We met at a jazz bar. Thea Habersetzer wanted a fresh logo design for a company she was going to start soon, and said she knew right away when we met that DK would be her designer. “I liked your energy,” she said. Architects and DK just sort of naturally get along. It’s amazing, too, to find ourselves working with so many architects who have such distinct tastes, values, and ideals. You still find it’s possible to create distinct identities, because the companies are as personal as the people who build them.
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A new business card and fresh logo for a Seattle architect
Every once in a while, we get new business cards.
Not for our own company, but with return addresses of past clients.
These cards just came through the post the other day:
We designed the logo and business card for the Seattle-based architecture and design consulting company C’ODA last year. We helped C’ODA arrive at its identity starting from brainstorming the new company name to designing the above business card.
Only once the vision and name—and in that order—got set could we start on other things. Like concept sketches, typefaces, layout ideas, and colors.
How do you find good ideas?
Often it’s a combination of a million things, like what we’re reading, who we happen to meet and what kinds of conversations evolve in the days and weeks around a deadline.
But there’s a lot more to it than that, of course. Going out into the world to see what people are making elsewhere, visiting museums, asking for book recommendations… all of this plays into getting a strong sense of what a company’s personality shapes into. See Design Kompany’s archive of field reports A trip to Tacoma inspired the design for C’ODA.
Also see DK’s posts on:
Author Haruki Murakami and the creative process
5 Myths about good branding
Nice design. I think it can be added to The Best of Business Card Design gallery
Nice one. I think it can be added to The Best of Business Card Design gallery
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
@The Best of Business Card Design,
Thanks! Appreciate the compliments.
@Simone,
I think living with uncertainty is pretty much what DK has always been about. Coalescing vague ideas into cohesive patterns is our favorite thing to do.
Eddie,
Thanks for the comments! Do you do design yourself?
Wow….Great post… This really gave me lots of insight in to what I should be looking for when I make my new business card. I own a car selling website, and had been looking for a design that will describe my website through images and not through words. I think you did a great job with this design. Could you please elaborate more on your graphic themes available with your readers?
Nice design and it was very simple but nice. It really fits the person behind the designs.
@Brian,
Specifically what kind of themes are you looking for? There are a bunch of great WordPress themes on http://www.SmashingMagazine.com.
Dipika
I love how clean that card in the post looks! Great design!!
It is such a skill being able to express words through images – particularly when it comes to creating a new brand – this is absolutely critical.. Great work guys !
John
Webmaster of bulging disc in neck.com
Wonderful card, one of my favourites on the site
Stuart from ATP Tennis World
Dipika,
I’m looking for concepts on how to design my own personal business card. Do you suggest I go into more casual than fun style?
Adam McCain
Dipika,
I find the card really casual yet classy. What specific aspect or characteristic of the business do you first consider in making the logo and designs?
Nathan Campbell
@Adam @Nathan Since you had the same e-mail address I’m going to guess you’re the same “person.” Hard to respond to this kind of mechanical commentator stuff, but I guess I will try.
All design starts with content. The better your input data, the better the result. Period.
Great designers are good at ascertaining data. Then the work just makes itself.
This site is very nice .It really fits the person behind the designs.
“We met at a jazz bar. Thea Habersetzer wanted a fresh logo design for a company she was going to start soon, and said she knew right away when we met that DK would be her designer. “I liked your energy,” she said.”
That totally sounds like the voiceover at the beginning of some film noir. “Of all the jazz bars, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”
I love the designs i see here they are just great i love them