What we do

  • uncover compelling and unique brand messages
  • create brand identity designs (logotype, accompanying motifs, and color scheme)
  • design business stationery

Our process is thorough and rigorous, but it’s also illuminating and fun! We’ll challenge you to find the very best angle to position yourself in a crowded market. Most importantly, we won’t rest until we truly learn how your brand can deliver what you do best (and care about most) to the world.

Voice to your vision

DK’s strength is finding and giving voice to your brand’s core identity.

DK’s process is about delving into great conversation. This is often the highlight for many of our clients, because reflective questioning makes people really think through what it is they want the world to see and understand about them. We’ve been called “brand psychiatrists,” even!

We really believe that without a clear understanding of self, it won’t matter how snazzy the design is that you buy. Some people come to us after working with someone else, maybe in a less rigorous process where the end result just didn’t do it for them after all. Hard-earned money down the drain.

The final design has to be something you feel great about. If your passion doesn’t come across when you pass out your business cards and start talking about your work, for example, no one will tune in.

That’s why we spend so much time up front getting to know you and what you care most about, and more importantly, why customers you want to work with will care.

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. It’s a really fun process that so many people have enjoyed, and we’re learning along the way every time, too. We read, we study, we engage. The whole process is playful, intelligent, and revelatory for our clients. For us, it’s the retrieving of the exactly perfect brand essence that is the challenge and reward.

It’s no wonder we build and value long-term relationships as a major part of working with you.

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CASE STUDIES



Green Plus brand refocusRebrand design and brand focus for Green Plus
“Nuts and bolts of doing green.” Nailing the core benefit of a Durham-based national nonprofit’s work. Talking to members, understanding the value.

Loom Foundation naming and brand designLoom“Weaving people and place.” Finding the authentic story for a new grantmaking foundation in Seattle.

Matchbox Mobile naming and rebrandMobile app software company
“Setting your mobile vision alight.” Starting from the core. Resculpting the image for this Brighton, U.K., and Seattle-based software developer.

Maekawa Japanese restaurant menu designDesign for a menu for a Japanese restaurantElegant doesn't have to cost a fortune.

Million Monarchs naming and brand designNonprofit in Portland's business card design
How we found a name that sparked hearts for this Portland nonprofit energy startup.

Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce branding designChamber of commerce logo design Business cards, stationery, and logo design for a startup chamber of commerce in Seattle.

New Hope Acupuncture brand identity designAcupuncture clinic brand design
“Chi your way to better.” Brand storymaking for a startup community clinic in Durham.

Northwest Asian Weekly 25-year anniversary rebrandNewspaper design
"A window to the world." A new page grid design. New logo. New look and feel.

Wedding invitation designWedding invitation design
A modern take on wedding invitation design.

Snaptotes brand refocusSnaptotes holiday promotion photography and graphic design
Total refocus for a custom bag manufacturer based in Durham.

SELECT CLIENTS



Allied Arts of Seattle
"The public square." Brand storymaking for a placemaking nonprofit advocacy group.

Atlantic School of English
Deep refocus for marketing an Ireland-based English as a Second Language school by the sea.

Avenue Medical Products
Branding for a Seattle-based national distributor of medical devices for surgeons.

Barka Lounge
Brand design. A Portland dog day care needed a fun but also trustworthy look and feel.

Blitz Art Walk
A playful, malleable brand identity design for a community festival. Each art walk, a different design studio gets to dress the logo in its own style.

Blue Gecko
"We've got your back." Teambuilding and brand storymaking for a Seattle-based remote database administrator with an international presence.

The Broader View
Branding and invitation design for a high-end, women's exclusive miniconference in Seattle.

Case Design
“Earth sense design.” Brand storymaking and ground-up identity design for an architect in Seattle.

C'ODA Architects
Brand storymaking for an architect.


Cleveland Holloway

"Durham's front porch." A neighborhood finds its logo and a new brand message.

D+A Studio
Total branding suite for a women architects’ boutique.

Group3 Architects
“Real. Fun. Thoughtful.” The three words that best describe a Seattle architecture studio’s new brand.

Gupta Insurance & Financial Services
"Sound advice for life." Brand storymaking for a smart Los Angeles advisor team.

Hindsight Veterinary Care “See. Learn. Heal.” Naming and brand design for a vet who does both Eastern and Western medicine.

Joji Minatogawa Architects
“Far is near.” Brand storymaking for an architect in Seattle.

Little Green Software mobile app design
Collaborating. Art direction for a game design from concept up.

Miyabi Japanese restaurant logo design
Brand design for a fun-loving restaurant south of Seattle.

Modern Business Training Systems
Brand design for an Irish trainer's national business.

MyVoucher
Brand design for a political initiative to guarantee healthcare for everyone.

Open Money
“Let’s play.” Barter in local currencies, an initiative by Victoria-based organization Open Money.

Potters' Bar
Logo design for a restaurant in Ireland.

Salon |e| Aspire
Brand design for an architect's startup salon series.

Spaccarotelli
His own wild Alaskan salmon label: a fisherman's dream.

Vibrance Nutrition & Fitness
Health and wellness.

Write with Meaning
A writing coach's vision.

 


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