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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lately I’ve been infatuated with googling everything. Even if I know the domain’s address by heart, I’ll still Google it. Why? Because it really tickles my pickle to see the other search results and the respective quantity. It’s a small glimpse into the way humans use search on the internet today. A discussion of search [...]

Courtesy of Curbed LA, apparently a company called Cool Haus was selling architecture-themed ice cream sandwiches from a truck at Coachella a few weekends ago. The names make me smile, but if the actual product was shaped like the pictures on the menu they must have been really messy. Read more here.

This is appropriate as I’m working on a presentation. Thank you Seth Godin:
A presentation is a precious opportunity. It’s a powerful arrangement… one speaker, an attentive audience, all in their seats, all paying attention (at least at first). Don’t waste it.
The purpose of a presentation is to change minds. That’s the only reason I can [...]

Some rather gorgeous packing from DJ Stout at Pentagram… I think these images speak for themselves, so all I’ll say is that I love how they’re packing a line of fruit energy drinks without showing any fruity imagery (literal or metaphorical.) And that I LOVE the type and how the whole line just makes a beautiful cohesive system. [...]

The NY Times City Room blog posted an entry last week asking readers to submit logo ideas for the soon-to-be-built tallest skyscraper on the World Trade Center site (formerly known as the Freedom Tower.) Most of the submissions, which were posted today, are pretty awful. (I’m not even going to get into a discussion about [...]

The Verizon re-brand posted yesterday on Brand New was, as suspected, an April Fools Day prank.
Click here for today’s entry on Brand New about the joke.