If you can’t believe that we finally decided to take down the silly static JPEG that we called our “website” for approximately 4 months then, well… you better believe it!
Check it out: http://www.citizen-creative.com
This fresh and shiny website is actually a Woo Theme, AKA a premium WordPress theme built on a solid code framework which [...]
You may have noticed a few changes here at Design Citizens over the last few days. There’s a good reason for that!
Our studio, FOX Graphics, has been steadily evolving over the last couple of years. We’ve had awesome opportunities to work with great clients and we’ve enjoyed every minute of it! To acknowledge and celebrate [...]
On Sunday, I got back from 5 bliss-filled days in Memphis, Tennessee, where I was volunteering at and participating in the AIGA National Design Conference, Make|Think. AIGA, the professional association for design, holds a National Design Conference every two years. I was in Denver for the 2007 conference and in 2005 I was in [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...We are proud to announce that Citizen has won three American Graphic Design Awards! The AGDAs are handed out by Graphic Design USA magazine, and the winners will be published in their Design Annual in December. Our winning projects are Pepperdine University environmental graphics (above); Change to Win environmental graphics (below); and Virginia Theological Seminary [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Recently, Jill and I took on the challenge of concepting some environmental graphics for the BISNOW space, just off Dupont Circle in DC. We had a great time visiting the office last week, and today they ran this photo of us going over some of the designs on their famous ping pong table. Thanks to [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...From idsgn.org: IKEA, the assemble-it-yourself furniture store beloved by college students and people who are still paying for college, years after graduation, has changed its typeface after 50 years. They’ve switched from a customized version of Futura to… wait for it… VERDANA.
Verdana can be found all over the web (it’s a safe bet for web [...]
That’s right ladies and gentlemen, the creative masterminds behind Design Citizens (in conjunction with their marketing cohorts) won a first place NATIONAL Marketing Communications Award (MCA) last night at the SMPS National Build Business Conference Gala for FOX Architect’s Internal Newsletter - The Yellow Pages! We are absolutely thrilled to be presented with this award [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...I know this rumor has been circulating for a while now, but I’ve been out on a little vacation (it IS summertime, after all - even for your friendly design bloggers.) A week or so ago I heard on the radio that GM may be considering changing their familiar blue logo to green to emphasize [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...This project was completed months ago, but we have just now gotten the photos done, so here it is! American Association for Justice (AAJ) needed a display system for photos of their past association presidents. They recently moved into a new space (designed by a team from FOX’s DC Interiors Studio!) and the old system [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Grubb & Ellis, a large real estate services and investment company, recently rolled out a new logo and tagline (as seen on Brand New.) Since we’re part of the commercial real estate industry, I’m especially interested in this particular rebrand. For the most part, I think it’s an improvement.
I love the colors (especially the pumped-up yellow - [...]