A moment. It could be anywhere-an airplane over the Pacific, a living room in Berlin, a street corner in Rio, a store shelf in Iowa. It could be as long as a nanosecond, short as a day, or simply last as long as the story takes.

But for any brand, every moment matters. So whenever and wherever someone comes across your brand, you want to make sure that moment is as engaging, vivid, and lush as possible.

That’s what we do.

We find, refine, and activate the words and pictures that build strong relationships with consumers. Strong relationships lead to great brands — vibrant, relevant expressions of life, which enhance the human experience and change the world.

Our work tells brand stories at a glance, and offers more as readers look deeper. It is vivid and viral, humanistic and systemic. And while less is more, sometimes lush is better.< BACK

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If you’ve spent a few moments with a Coca-Cola, visiting the MoMA, flipping through a Conde Nast magazine or glancing at MTV, you’ve probably already spent a moment or two with Barry.

As designer of 20 typeface families, including Template Gothic (called “the typeface of the 90s” by Rick Poynor), Barry has been helping brands find their visual voice since he received his MFA in Visual Communications from the California Institute of the Arts back in 1989.

Since then, he has spent nearly two decades pushing edges and leading creative teams in innovative branding initiatives for global consumer brands and extending visual languages across media and platforms from environments to interactive and TV.

In addition to two years at Ogilvy and Mather’s Brand Integration Group (BIG), his clients have included Coca-Cola, MTV Networks, DuPont, SAP, AT&T Wireless, Atlantic Records, Conde Nast Publishing, Sundance Channel, Monsanto, MCI, and MoMA.

His work has been published in numerous books, such as History of Graphic Design by Philip Meggs, as well as periodicals including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Metropolis, Émigré, and Graphis. He has lectured and taught internationally and his work is in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

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William makes smart, honest, hard-working solutions for people. Over the years, he’s lead all sorts of projects big and small, many with the help of a pool of extraordinary collaborators to whom he is full of thanks.

Some past clients include Motorola, American Express, Sundance Channel, Amnesty International, Saucony, Bravo TV, Coca-Cola and Miller Beer.

William graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and (other than a couple of years living in Rio de Janeiro) he has been in New York ever since.

These days, he teaches community and collaboration at Parsons the New School for Design, because he believes education IS the future.

As well as making contributions to publications including Metropolis and Good magazine, his work has been honored by such institutions as the Type Directors Club and Print magazine, and has been published by Die Gestalten Verlag.

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Emily has spent over a decade in agencies and branding firms in Asia and North America leading talented, passionate teams to build brands that live long beyond promotional campaigns. She believes that powerful brands begin with people who care, doing work they love. This belief is the lens through which she views her clients and her teams.

Raised in Singapore and educated in the United States, she has a natural understanding of Eastern and Western culture.

Her work has helped amplify and extend brands like Chipotle, Coca-Cola, Cathay Pacific, Audi, Landsend, Harley-Davidson Singapore, Motorola, NASDAQ, United Overseas Bank, Novartis, and Merck, while winning many awards.

She has an MFA in Visual Communications from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in Graphic Design from Daemen College.

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Anita, owner of Current Issue BV, (we like to work with them) would rather do great work than write her bio. Even though she’s led projects for Wieden+Kennedy, DreamWorks SKG, Razorfish LA, and Warner Bros., she insists nobody reads bios and the work should speak for itself.

Her work has helped define and enhance brands like Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola, Heineken, Electronic Arts and Vodafone, winning numerous awards.

Her education at The Jagiellonian University in Cracow, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and California Institute of the Arts has yielded a BA, a Certificate, and two Masters degrees, none of which hang on her wall.

When she’s not designing great experiences for consumers, she can be found mentoring young creative talent and serving the design community.< BACK