- CLIENT: Garden Mentors
- YEAR: 2010
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: We love this logo. It was great working with our friend and owner of Garden Mentors Robin Haglund. This was one of those logos that just came easy. Chalk it up to great client input, a good company name and multiple sources of inspiration. This is one of our favorites to-date.
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- CLIENT: Music Hub
- YEAR: 2011
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: We were tasked to create new conceptual logos for T-Mobile’s music service. We not only needed to communicate music, we needed to create a mark that would work both as a unique mobile-application link but also as the logo displaying its full name.
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- CLIENT: Microsoft
- YEAR: 2010
- TYPE: Logo Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: We worked closely with the Microsoft team on the OEM logo. With multiple rounds of iteration, when all was said and done, we ended up with 28 or so variations and output 192 different versions consisting of multiple formats for various regions across Microsoft’s global network.
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- CLIENT: Intoxica
- YEAR: 2010
- TYPE: Logo Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: The Intoxica logo was created for a small record company that's been around for almost a few decades now. Located in London, they specialize in rare vinyl. It’s truly one those unique places you’d be hard-pressed to forget. The logo was recently chosen & published in the latest edition of Logo Lounge.
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- CLIENT: Rain City Vodka
- YEAR: 2011
- TYPE: Logo Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: New spirits distilleries are cropping up all over Seattle these days. We were thrilled to create the new Rain City Spirits brand and logo design for its flagship line of Vodka. We can’t wait to see those shinny new labels go into production.
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- CLIENT: BigOven
- YEAR: 2010
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: Steve Murch, the owner and creator of BigOven.com, contacted us late in 2008. Starting with the company logo, we were commissioned to re-create the brand from the ground up. Since then we’ve created a web site and a recent iPad application, which gives users access to over 170,000 user-create recipes.
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- CLIENT: thePlatform
- YEAR: 2010
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: Seattle-based company, thePlatform has been a long-standing client of ours. We didn’t create the original but in early 2010 we were tasked to update the existing logo. They were looking for something a bit more modern yet maintained the integrity of the original mark.
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- CLIENT: Rockhound
- YEAR: 2011
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: Based in rural Oklahoma, Rockhoud is a relatively new company that specializes in finding oil and natural gas wells for its clients. With a great name like “Rockhound” how couldn’t we refuse. This is another one of those marks that came really natural.
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- CLIENT: Chef
- YEAR: 2011
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: Opscode is the leader in cloud infrastructure automation. In 2009 Opscode commissioned us to create their company website and logo. Leveraging the existing look and feel of the company logo in 2011 we were tasked to create a new logo for their flagship product Chef.
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- CLIENT: Sync Fitness, Inc.
- YEAR: 2004
- TYPE: Sync Fitness Brand / Identity Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: Sara Sutherland, a personal fitness trainer needed a logo that spoke to her audience. We came up with a less-is-more approach — a simple barbell was reversed out over the S. The Sync Fiteness logo is featured in the 2005 edition of Logo Lounge III.
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- CLIENT: Plantilism
- YEAR: 2007
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: We worked closely with Julie Garwood the owner of Plantilism to design a logo that would speak to the company's target audience—plant enthusiasts who are interested in purchasing cards, tapestries and stock imagery that are plant related.
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- CLIENT: Direct Trainer
- YEAR: 2011
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: DirectTrainer is an online marketplace for physical trainers to link up with their clientele via web-cam. We were tasked to create a company logo that speaks to a fitness enthusiasts and professionals. Get connected with your trainer today.
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- CLIENT: Elixir Studios, Inc.
- YEAR: 1999
- TYPE: Elixir Brand / Identity Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: The Elixir Studios identity system was created in 1997 for a design firm in Wichita, KS. The mark has stood the test of time. The Elixir Studios logo is one of many inspiring logos that is featured in the 2005 edition of Logo Lounge II.
- CLIENT: Opscode
- YEAR: 2009
- TYPE: Logo Brand & Identity Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: We worked closely with the super smart, Seattle-based Opscode team to create their logo and identity system. They wanted something very simple, clean and iconic. Once the logo was complete we were commissioned to created their printed business system and website.
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- CLIENT: Fat Mornings
- YEAR: 2009
- TYPE: Logo Brand & Identity Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: In collaboration with site owner Allison Klein, we were tasked to create a new logo and website to house Klein’s numerous recipes—lots of yummy goodness and a super-creative project!
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- CLIENT: Red Sky Blue Water Consulting
- YEAR: 2002
- TYPE: Red Sky Blue Water Brand / Identity Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: The logo and identity system was created for Red Skye Consulting, a web design, development, usability and business consulting firm located in Seattle, Washington. In 2007 they expanded thier brand system to reflect the Red Sky Blue Water logo family.
- CLIENT: RealNetworks, Inc.
- YEAR: 2003
- TYPE: RealArcade Logo Prototypes
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: Preliminary logo roughs were created for the RealArcade Game Developer's web site. The logo prototypes were never used but helped to dictate the identity for the new web site.
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- CLIENT: Inviso
- YEAR: 2005
- TYPE: Logo Design Roughs
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: Preliminary logo roughs were created for Inviso, a local web design and development firm in Redmond, Washington. The project was brought in-house therefore the logo was never finalized. We however feel like the logo types are portfolio-worthy.
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- CLIENT: Union Restaurant
- YEAR: 2003
- TYPE: Union Brand / Identity Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: We worked closely with the architect, interior designers and the owners to establish the Union identity. We not only created the logo but all of Union's graphic design collateral as well. In 2005 they were voted "Best New Restaurant" by Esquire Magazine.
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- CLIENT: Switch'd, Inc.
- YEAR: 2007
- TYPE: Switch'd Brand / Identity Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: We collaborate on many web projects with Matthew Willis the Owner and Senior Developer of Seattle firm Switch'd. We were tasked to create a company logo for Matthew that would take a unique spin on the word switch and speak to the target audience.
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- CLIENT: Korrio
- YEAR: 2010
- TYPE: Logo & Identity System Design
- TASK: Creative Direction & Design
- COMMENTS: Located in Seattle, Korrio is one of those rare clients who comes along and really appreciates the value of good design. We were fortunate enough to create their whole identity system from the ground up including brand, web and print collateral. The work is ongoing and has been incredibly rewarding.
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