CASE STUDY: Culture Lab Detroit’s “Beauty”

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Grandmont Rosedale

Lady of the House

The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia

Culture Lab Detroit: Post-Truth

New Center Park 2018

Will Leather Goods Detroit

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We are proud to be @cranbrook_art alumni and we’re honored to be designing the graphics for the 2020 Cranbrook Alumni Reunion. Our idea was to collage works by CAA alum (which can be weird, wacky, modern) against the historic backdrop of campus to create a series of postcards from a place they once called “home”. Every month leading up to the reunion we’ll be creating a new seasonal postcard. One of the project challenges was to make visuals that represent the community over five + decades, making sure alumni in their 70s can read the typography but still resonate with more recent grads. Alumni, if you’d like your work included in one of the collages, please upload high res images to CAA’s website under the “reunion” tab. Can’t wait to see you all in June!

DID YA HEAR?! Our partner @meagbarry won the Designer Dating Game last night as the opening event to #detroitdesignmonth! She repped Unsold Studio and “took home” the client and this sweet swag bag! Want to know what helped her take home the prize? Send us an email to learn more about what makes us a great match for you! Congrats to @tonywhlgn, winner of the second client round! Thanks to @designcoredet for the invitation, to client Be:Her for selecting Contestant 2, @gspondy for being the host with the most, @algertheater for the great event space, and to all the other participants!

REMINDER: @meagbarry is competing tonight in the Designer Dating Game at the @algertheater for #detroitmonthofdesign. Want a designer who will laugh at your jokes (and her own!), she’s your ideal partner! Come see if she can use her belly laughing and enthusiasm for design as an economic driver for business to convince the mystery client to go back to the office with her! Doors open at 4pm TONIGHT! #detroitcityofdesign #designerdatinggame @designcoredet

When you work with Unsold Studio, you work with US: Meaghan and Lilian. We have our eyes, ears, and hands on every project the studio works on. We answer the phone, we know you by name. We don’t have a rotating cast of employees. We don’t send others on our behalf. We pride ourselves on building relationships with our clients. Many of our clients we are celebrating 3 to 5 years of working together this year. If you’re looking for designers who are not only good, but also reliable, we’re it.

What does the Grateful Dead and Unsold Studio have in common? OUR CLIENT! We had an excellent project kick-off meeting with a new client for a branding/web project. In our first official meetings, we always have a discovery session where we ask the client a series of questions to better understand their business, their goals, and them. Through this process, we learned our client is a “Deadhead” and the band’s ability to improvise inspires her business. So today, we’ll be jamming to Jerry and company as we explore visual directions for her. While we won’t necessarily suggest psychedelic logos, it does help us get in the spirit of our client and her story. The best design teams are invested in your passions and want to learn about you and your business, because that allows them to be the best collaborator and partner. If your design team isn’t excited about learning about you, don’t work with them! And how awesome is this classic Grateful Dead poster design?!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Our partner @meagbarry will be a contestant on the Designer Dating Game on September 5th, the opening event for #detroitmonthofdesign! M will be competing for a client’s attention, and will be using all her business seduction powers to win: she loves reading short efficient emails on the beach, she enjoys the finer design things in life like Japanese stationary, and her ideal client must love dogs in offices. The event is open to the public and will be held at the @algertheater, doors open at 4pm. Come see if her business dating skills get her a first client meeting! Follow @designcoredet for more information and to check out other design-related events taking place the whole month of September.