Here’s a slideshow of some of our brand designs.

Our promise to you

Start with Design Kompany to discover your brand identity. Four of our clients vouch for DK’s savvy in our video, Say Hello to DK.

DK’s strength is finding and giving voice to your brand’s core identity. To describe your company, you may start with words like “professional” and “clean,” but those are pretty commonplace once you stand back and consider everyone else. We’ll help you find more punchy descriptions to separate you from “them.” Words like “dynamo,” “radiant,” and “sprezaturra.”

What we do

We create:

  • compelling and unique brand messages
  • brand identity designs (logotype, accompanying motifs, and color scheme)
  • business stationery
  • websites
  • media kits for traditional and new media campaigns

Say it strong

DK’s process is about delving into great conversation-–interviews last three meetings. Only once we’ve whittled your brand’s main idea down to three succinct sentences do we put pencil to paper, and later, pixel to screen.

More about our design services.

What our clients say

You guys really helped us out with finding our niche, —Richard Stott, Matchbox Mobile, Seattle 2008

Thank you again for your patience and creativity in guiding the design process and for producing such beautiful branding for us. —Karen Armstead, The Broader View, Seattle 2008

I really am pleased with the work the three of us did. The logo is a perfect fit for our company. —Dave Eva, A1A Inc., Seattle 2008

Setting out to launch a new organization, our board and staff were appropriately all over the map about what we’d call it. Design Kompany gave us synergistic tools to get us all to the same place and of the same mind. We wouldn’t be who we are without Design Kompany’s expertise and facilitation. —David Yeaworth, Allied Arts of Seattle, Seattle 2008

Thank you so much for all your hard work, everything came together so well :) Anna Mihkels, Group3 Architects LLC, Seattle 2007

Wow! It’s catchy. —Bill Harding, Bonanzle, Seattle 2007

I love working with the new design–it’s much more beautiful and easier to assemble as well. —Ann-Marie Stillon, NW Asian Weekly, Seattle 2007

Our invitations turned out to be more beautiful, elegant and sophisticated than we imagined they could be. —Carol Vu, wedding invitation design, Seattle 2007

Love it. I really like the freshness of it. Most health care stuff is too somber, serious, wonkie, depressing or obvious drug company marketing hype. —Terry Gardiner, MyVoucher, Seattle 2007

Akira and Dipika at Design Kompany recently came to the rescue of our new organization. They helped us build our new identity and brand, and the whole process was FUN! I have years in marketing, PR and I learned a lot working with DK. Their methodical, creative, curious approach was refreshing and productive. When we were tempted to incorporate too much, they’d gently guide us back to our own mission. When we got confused, they got us back on track. Their ability to work at both a birds-eye and granular level concurrently impressed me and I’d work with them again in a heartbeat! —Amani Ellen Loutfy, Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, Seattle 2006

I had a great experience working with Akira and Design Kompany. His designs and input played a valuable role in growing the business. The website he produced is clean and concise, the logo looks great, and the business cards inspire compliments from everyone who receives one. I learned a lot from participating in Design Kompany’s idea charettes and have continued to incorporate those ideas into my own creative process with much success. I would highly recommend working with Akira and Design Kompany. —Sarah Marsh, D+A Studio, Seattle 2006

Your touch is really delicate and modern. Quite lovely. —Ponzi Pirillo, Gnomedex, Seattle 2007

Thanks DK for getting me going- I needed a plan and you helped me formulate one. I’ve created a online business with your help. —Nancy Schutt, GoodDogArt.com, Seattle 2007

We’re confident we could not improve on this and will not need to update for many years. Many thanks for all your hard work and professionalism. —Barbara Connelly, Atlantic School of English and Active Leisure, Co. Cork, Ireland 2004

Dipika and Akira are an excellent team and that they offer customers a great and above all original stand out design service, allied to a world savvy understanding of what you need to do to get noticed in the busy world we all live in… wonderful people to work with! —Kieran Hanrahan, Modern Business Training Services, Co. Mayo, Ireland 2001


DK helps you figure out who you are, why you matter, and why customers should care.

Think through how you're different from the inside out.

Let DK help you find the voice to inspire and motivate the exact people you'd love to work with.

We've helped dozens of businesses differentiate themselves in Seattle, Cork, Raleigh, and Tokyo. Try us for an international, modern style of graphic design.
Say hello to Design Kompany

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SELECT Work


A1A
Allied Arts of Seattle
Atlantic School of English
Blitz!
Blue Gecko
The Broader View
Bonanzle
Case Design + Project Management
Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce
C'ODA
Counting Stars
D+A Studio LLC
Durham World Beer Festival
Flow
Global Village conference
Group3 Architects LLC
Good Dog Art
Gupta Insurance & Financial Services
Hindsight Veterinary Care
Joji Minatogawa Architects
Kikokugo
Matchbox Mobile
MD Systems
Million Monarchs
Miyabi
Modern Business Training Services
Northwest Asian Weekly
Open Money
Petites Fleurs
Potters Bar
Portland Paws
Real Science
Redpill
Revolt
Row House Cafe
Spaccarotelli
TILU
Write with Meaning
Vibrance Nutrition + Fitness
Zenovation



Guest appearances



A walk-through of how we do it
Lori Waxman reviews DK's Sharpie art
DK talks branding with architects
Seattle gallery features DK art
Watch our blog get critiqued
DK sponsors a park opening
Invited to UW's professional night
DK film screens
DK talks to Seattle Tech Startups


 

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We publish a quarterly-ish newsletter with updates on our work, our forays into parenting, and special events. Here's an example:
Newsletter from Design Kompany June 2010


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