I’ve long enjoyed using Google Maps’ street view to peruse memories as well as places. Walk the streets in Italy from my college study abroad, finding the amazing restaurants I can remember by sight but not by name. When I feel like a real nostalgia bomb I dial up my old house. It’s hard to [...]
Aaron is heading up to Rhode Island this Friday to speak at their 2011 kickoff event, Reflect/Respond/Resolve. He’ll be talking with Friends of Type cohort Jason Wong about collaboration, working across geography, & having fun.
To celebrate each new year, we send out a small batch of print cards to friends and clients as a way of jump starting some positivity. This year, with as many as eight people (wahoo!), we thought we’d make it about the group and share our resolutions—a blueprint for 2011.
The posters were printed on cyanotype [...]
Are the behemoths AT&T, Walmart and Royal Bank of Scotland more ethical than Carrefour or Credit Agricole? According to research, they are perceived so. Researchers at Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management have done research that seems to show a relationship between ethics and symmetry. While this obviously bears no impact on the reality of [...]
Check out the newly launched identity, website, and print collateral for Athena Capital Research we designed!
While integrating the latest technologies in quantitative trading and investment strategies, Athena Capital Research suffered from a stodgy and outdated identity. They needed a modernized brand that reflected their position as trendsetters and trendforecasters as specialized investment managers.
We created a [...]
Governments work for us. From the local fire department to national defense, processes and interests of government are ultimately beholden to its constituents, in one way or another. As another election cycle rages on in the United States, the debate about the size of government is once again in the headlines of the nation’s discourse. But how does one know it’s too big if we don’t know all that it does?
Our own Aaron Carámbula and his Friends of Type cohorts—Erik, Jason, and Dennis—spoke to a capacity-crowd at the Type Directors Club last night. They upped the ante by providing their favorite beer, Duvel, and cocktails featuring Celtic Crossings to make the discussion a lively one. Topics spread from the group’s origins, inspirations, and process. It [...]
We recently launched a new brand for esteemed maritime law firm DeOrchis & Partners. The process began with a holistic, cross-media design exploration in which we looked at multiple typographic and photographic ways to express the firm’s primary legal focus and prestige in the field.
A simple and bold direction, combining traditional elements in a unique [...]
The business news pages are blazing with the news that two of the U.S.’s legacy airlines are to merge to become the world’s largest. United Airlines, the name the new entity will retain, will aim to improve its competitiveness by offering the widest range of destinations to its domestic corporate clientele, while offering emerging markets [...]
Again late to post, but we found our friend and sometime collaborator Christian in the pages of Wallpaper. A handsome portrait taken inside his gallery in Berlin, Exile, is accompanied by a bit about his venture.