The City of Chicago
The City of Chicago and Ogilvy asked us to develop a new series of typefaces for the city’s new design system, with an unusual series of requirements: the typefaces needed to be open and free to anyone. From that brief, we developed Big Shoulders to become Chicago’s logotype, amplifying Ogilvy’s design direction, and to work […]
Radius Global Market Research
Stauber Brand Studio came to us with an interesting problem for their client Radius Global Market Research: is it possible to create a browser-accessible sales presentation? Radius management had found that, lacking a central repository for sales materials, their team was creating one-off PPT presentations without brand guidelines or consistent statistics. to that end, we […]
Movieline
In the 1990s, Movieline was a widely-loved source of snark-flavored film journalism. In 2010, PMC Media bought the brand and commissioned us to bring it back from the dead, for which we built a CMS and interface to bring its flavor of journalism into the 21st century, with art & tone direction for each day’s […]
Betteridge’s Law
“This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “no.” The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, […]
Open Transcripts
Open Transcripts unlocks and shares interesting thought about the humanities that’d otherwise be left to moulder on YouTube or Vimeo. In many cases, conference presenters try to openly share video presentations after the conference is over-but that’s usually done with the absolute minimum of effort. The result is that academic conference video channels and podcast […]
Measure & Fit
Measure & Fit is a small typographic engineering company, specializing in customizing fonts for specific uses and languages. For the company, we created an abstract M&F form, set it atop pastel bars, and used each bar to repesent a third of the phrase, “Thinking about & helping create better letters,” Measure & Fit’s purpose statement. […]
Butch
Butch was a punny name for a swimwear label which largely targeted a gay audience. In keeping with that pun, we designed a mark and a typography program based on blocky letters from college sports jerseys. We chose color as a contrasting design element each year, utilizing gentle pastels and floral patterns. The sites were […]