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CK, Marty. Marty, CK.

One of my favorite design authors is Marty Neumeier. I first became aware of his work in the 1990s when he + more

Movie Night

The creative field can be exhausting at times, with long hours spent on everything from painstaking detail and pixel-pushing to grand, yearlong + more

One of Our Own

Sadly, we lost an important member of our design community a couple of weeks ago: Monte Mindt, most recently creative director + more

Changing Minds, One Person at a Time

It turns out that carefully planned, creatively developed, and strategically executed image campaigns actually work. Who’d a-thunk it? (Why, yes—that’s helveticka’s handiwork + more

The Retro Look Never Gets Old

When Pressworks asked us to help them with their letterpress promotion, we were delighted. For years, I’ve been wanting to + more

For Type Geeks Only

Hey, it turns out that Helvetica isn’t the only font with an interesting story. (Who knew?) The New York Public + more

Eight and Counting

Over the last twenty years, our firm has expanded into the area of 3D design—and, along the way, had the good + more

Radical Inspiration 

Dan Friedman was an extraordinary designer. His work is currently on display at the American Institute of Graphic Arts National + more

Voices from Ground Zero

The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City is easily the most powerful exhibit experience I’ve ever seen. Even the + more

An Original Mad Man

One of the great things about visiting NYC is that you never run out of things to see. The Museum + more

A Life in Design

So what do Mobile, Xerox, PBS, Chase Manhattan Bank, and National Geographic all have in common? Their graphic identity programs + more

Hanging Cranes

When we moved into our new office building earlier this year, we gave over a portion of the lobby space + more

French Flyers

On a recent trip to Casa Barardi – Hecla Mining Company’s gold property in western Quebec, we enlisted the help of + more

A Higher Calling

Though we originally ran this post back in July, it seemed appropriate, given the content of our latest news release, + more

Philanthropic Experience

A recent visit to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle proved to be a treat. A series of + more

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