CASE STUDY: Culture Lab Detroit’s “Beauty”

ARTICLE: Unsold Studio in Singapore Series “Inclusive Design”

CASE STUDY: New Order Coffee

DLECTRICITY

Grandmont Rosedale

Lady of the House

The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia

Culture Lab Detroit: Post-Truth

Will Leather Goods Detroit

New Center Park 2018

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Come hear all about Unsold Studio at #AMPDet next Tuesday, April 30 at @techtowndetroit during lunch time presented by @aigadetroit. Eat some pizza while learning how we use design to solve problems, hearing about our recent trip to #singaporedesignweek, and get to know us in-person. We’ll be presenting alongside @j.milhouse and @pingreedetroit at the event, “a bold series focused on local creative change makers, their projects and impact in Metro Detroit. As a part of many design communities, AIGA Detroit strives to amplify the creative voices in our neighborhoods, cities and towns.” Register for the event today at detroit.aiga.org!

While doing some spring cleaning, @lil_crum found our original business cards. We had letterpressed them at @signalreturn during a class with @joelgrothaus. We had the idea we only wanted one set between the two of us (keeping overhead low!) and we could use the squiggly line to personalize ourselves or write a specific note to the person we were sharing with as a way to remember us. Maybe we should go back to something like this - what do you think?

Congrats to our partner/designer @meagbarry for winning a Faculty Recognition Award in the area of Teaching at @oaklandu today! She is among 32 selected faculty being recognized university-wide for their contributions. Both our partners continue to teach graphic design at the undergraduate level in Metro Detroit. Our experience in the classroom directly translates to the studio with our clients. Let this now award-winning professor teach you about how design can better your business on your upcoming project! Congrats, Meaghan! 🙌🤘🍾

For the beginning of each project, we always present at minimum three different directions to the client. We have folders and folders on our computers stacked with the ideas that DON’T get chosen. Sometimes we recognize these ideas/sketches are second place to a better solution, and sometimes we love them but have to say goodbye and go another route. Either way, we all have ideas that never see the full design process and enter the public sphere, like these sketches for the 2017 New Center Park promotions. Instead of this direction, the @midtowndetroit team chose a set of diverse illustrated people and a cool color palette we presented as another option. Designers, what happens to your “failed” ideas/sketches/directions? Do you try to recycle them, dump them in your digital trash can, or keep them for the portfolio?

We are attending @ladieswinedesign_detroit PORTFOLIO REVIEW on April 18th and are excited to get critiqued by local talent, make some new friends, and relax post-work day with wine. @ladieswinedesign is “a salon night for creative lady professionals” started by designer @jessicavwalsh. Who else is joining the Detroit chapter this month?! #ladieswinedesign #ladieswinedesigndetroit

Give our extra cool intern @bseyka a round of applause for performing last night at his Senior Thesis exhibition opening at @detdesigntech. A gifted musician, he found a way to mix his degree in graphic design with his stage presence. Congrats, dude 🤘🤘🤘!