Our new name and brand reflects how we’ve grown over the past three years from a research focused company to what we’re all about today—creating truly unique custom mobile solutions for our clients. You guys really helped us out with finding our niche. —Richard Stott, Matchbox Mobile

It was a great experience working with you both, not only did we end up with a great end product but I felt the whole process really helped us grow as a team and a company, Design Kompany did a great job, I’m really happy we chose to work with you. —Andrew Farrell, Operations Director, Matchbox Mobile

Working with Akira and Dipika was nothing short of sheer joy! Their communcation and creativity allows space for a very natural, authentic process. Together we seamlessly created a brand that truly, effectively speaks volumes. —Aimee Gallo, Vibrance, Seattle 2007

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

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

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Avenue Medical Products
Allied Arts of Seattle
Atlantic School of English
Barka Lounge
Blitz
Bonanzle
The Broader View
C'ODA Architects
Case Design + PM
Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce
Celtic Ross Hotel
Cleveland-Holloway Neighborhood
Counting Stars
D+A Studio
Dragon Search
Duke University
Good Dog Art
Home Alive
Flow
Fuse IQ
Green Plus
Group3 Architects
Gupta Insurance & Financial Services
Hindsight Veterinary Care
Honshu Wolf
Japanese Language School of Raleigh
Key Microfinance
Kikokugo
Little Green Software
Loom Foundation
Maekawa Japanese Restaurant
Matchbox Mobile
MD Systems
Million Monarchs
Joji Minatogawa Architects
Miyabi Japanese Restaurant
Modern Business Training Services
MyVoucher
New Hope Acupuncture
Northwest Asian Weekly
North Carolina Community Shares
North Carolina State University
The Pink Goonies
Real Science
Red Pill Strategies
Revolt
Row House Cafe
Salon |e| Aspire
Seattle Central Community College
Skibbereen Tool Hire
Snaptotes
Spaccarotelli
Spectator Magazine
Swoon Spa
Vibrance Nutrition + Fitness
WRP Associates
Wedding invitation design
West Cork People
Wonder Puppy
World Beer Festival
Write with Meaning
Zenovation




DK in 20 seconds



Welcome to Design Kompany.

We exist to help you realize your fullest potential as a small business, using dialogue as a key tool to discern your clear, authentic brand message.

If you value thoughtful conversation, accuracy, and exquisite solutions arrived upon through solid design thinking, you might like DK.

We've done naming, branding design, and message design to help people express a strong core identity. But it has to be based on passion. Smaller companies are a great match for DK, because we love talking marketing and strategy with those owners, whose values and affinities often set the company culture's tone.

We work remotely with people anywhere in the world who are: aware, awake, curious, and respectful of the design process, which we think sets the stage for great design when done well. Talk to us! We're listening. -Dipika


Things we like to write about? Travel, art, architecture, museums, and cafes. Design, materials, design thinking, but more than anything else, process. We like to say, "Trust the process." It really makes a big difference if you start with a fresh page, and think together with us on where and what you can become.

Trains are good, too. Small comments on parenting, or what other people are doing, and what other people are saying about creativity, and the creative process, and a shift from the industrial way of thinking towards more free-form association that jogs new waves of thought --- all of that is DK's beat.

Plus we'll write about people we meet, things we learn, and all the cross-cultural and multiple dimensions of interpretations. We have another blog getting going just to consider dialogue design.

But to make this blog easier to sift, here are the topics we're slotting our blog posts within:

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CONTACT DK

Design Kompany is in Durham, NC.

PO Box 1512
Durham, NC 27702
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