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 [...]

Over the summer, Debbie Millman emailed me and asked that I participate in the AIGA National Design Conference (which I just blogged about) as one of the 20/20 presenters. 20/20 is a short skit that started a couple of years ago as an inspirational addition to the main stage presentations at the AIGA conferences where [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

From the Wall Street Journal: The Obamas are in the process of choosing art for the White House (which will be loaned to them from different museums, galleries and private collectors for the duration of Mr. Obama’s presidency) and it looks like they prefer modern, abstract pieces to some of the more traditional art that [...]