Jessica Kartalija, WJZ-TV reporter and news anchor, is starting her own strategic communications company. She sought us out to design and create the identity and business cards for Jessica Kartalija Media.
The goal is not to cram as much as possible onto a page. The goal is to communicate a message. It's not a sin to use white space.
York College of Pennsylvania
"Get Set," mailed to students admitted to York College, is another component of this year's admissions stream. The piece shows the many ways York can prepare undergraduates for a career while working toward a degree.
Barnes Foundation Educational Materials
In our continuation with the Barnes Foundation Educational Department, we’re adding to their school program materials. We designed four new classroom posters and a new section to the curricular binders we originally created.
Look! Reflect! Connect!: Art Exploration for Young Children is a PNC Grow Up Great initiative for underserved children in pre-kindergarten and their teachers that provides pathways for developing personal relationships with art. The program, implemented in 2014, uses in-class learning for children led by Barnes educators.
Effective pacing creates reader-friendly magazines, allowing readers to choose entry points when scanning a publication. Visual and editorial pacing keeps a magazine lively and engaging. Just as editorial content contrasts short news items with longer feature stories, good design juxtaposes contrasting images, typography, and colors.
Art Books: Creating a Keepsake
Museums often create books that serve as an overview of their collection, or of a particular aspect of the institution, that can be sold to visitors as a recollection of their experience. Compressing selections from an entire museum’s collection into 128 pages or less requires a critical level of editing…
Interpretive typography sparks understanding, adding depth and nuance to the written message. Inspired type design brings ordinary words to life.
York College of Pennsylvania
We recently completed the first of three yield mailings for York College’s admissions marketing campaign. The brochure fills you in on the advantages of attending York. "Get Set" and "Go" are already in the works.
AIGA Winner!
The Order of Things catalogue we designed for The Barnes Foundation is an AIGA 50 winner!
AIGA is the professional association for design. The 14th AIGA 50 design competition celebrates the best design created in the DC area over the past two years. The 50 winning entries will be on display at the AIGA 50 gala in the spring.
We’re very proud of this piece and of our collaborations with both The Barnes Foundation and printer Brilliant Graphics!
To read more about this catalogue, see Art Books: Judging a Book by its Cover.