Design Citizens

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 [...]

I’m fairly certain that Michael Osborn has a heart made of pure gold. He has an obsession with design, a true-love for it that keeps him designing round-the-clock for some amazing charitable organizations.
This is a picture of Michael Osborn and I moments after I met him for the first time. It was a unseasonably warm [...]

Several months ago we told you about a sort of grassroots holiday called PARK(ing) Day where urban parking spaces are transformed into temporary parks for a day in cities across the world. It just so happens that TODAY is PARK(ing) Day 2009. You can check out their website all day today to see photos of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am so excited that DC is finally getting some love from big design conferences! Next year, SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Design) will host its 2010 conference right here in the nation’s capital at the new(ish) Gaylord National Hotel. (Which, if you haven’t seen it, is worth a trip just for the building. It’s [...]

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 [...]

We recently finished installing environmental graphics at Change to Win, an organization of seven labor unions headquartered in DC. A representative from Change to Win is often present at union marches and protests. The goal for the environmental graphic design system was to communicate the energy of a protest and the idea that a group [...]

Design Citizens is turning 50! 50 posts, that is. To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of the top 50 reasons to keep tuning in for our NEXT 50 posts.
1. It’s informational AND entertaining.
2. If you’re lucky, you’ll catch that one post Jill uploads every month and a half.
3. It’s the #1 preferred design blog by [...]

Design for a Living World, Cooper-Hewitt’s latest exhibition - co-curated by Abbott Miller and Ellen Lupton, opened last week. There are some great photos of the space on Pentagram’s blog and I’ve posted a couple of my favorites here. DEFINITELY worth checking out in person. How much do you LOVE that modular wool rug??