Our generative passion for the arts, education, technology and design is reflected in our clients. Unique among firms our size, we combine leading-edge visual design with the capability to undertake complicated projects – and transform institutions. Our designers and developers work tightly together and are inspired by one another.
Our approach to creativity and context embraces flexibility, agility, and evolution as both design and strategic values.
Some of our clients
- 2x4
- Amant
- Architectural League of New York
- ArtAsiaPacific
- Aspen Art Museum
- Bloomberg
- Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
- Canadian Center for Architecture
- Center for Urban Pedagogy
- Columbia University
- Deborah Berke Partners
- Do Ho Suh
- E. & J. Gallo Winery
- Good Shepherd Services
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Menil Collection
- MOS Architects
- Museo Jumex
- National Academy of Design
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- New Art Dealers Alliance
- New Museum
- Powerhouse Arts
- Printed Matter
- Public Art Fund
- Smithsonian Institution
- State Street Global Advisors
- The Shed
- Tang Museum
- TEFAF
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Yale University
- Zone Books
Some places we have taught, lectured, or given workshops
- AIGA/NY
- Bard Graduate Center, New York
- Chicago Architecture Biennial
- Columbia GSAPP, New York
- ECAL, Lausanne
- Google, New York
- IDEO, New York
- International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno
- Maine College of Art, Portland
- Naver/NHN, Seoul
- NYU Visual Arts Administration MA program
- NYU ITP
- Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
- Parsons/The New School for Design, New York
- Pratt, New York
- Princeton University
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Stroom Gallery, The Hague
- SUNY Purchase
- University of Seoul
- Washington University, St. Louis
- Wesleyan
- Yale University School of Art
We’re occasionally included in publications or exhibitions.
- Eleanor Lambert, Snap Back to Reality, The Creators Project, November 4, 2016
- Dan Michaelson, Ultralight, 27th Brno Biennial Catalog, The Moravian Gallery in Brno, 2016
- Jake Solyst, Why We Play It Safe, August 29, 2016
- Tamara Maletic, Lights On, Grafik #188, London, 2014
- Liz Robbins, One Long Night in Puzzle City, The New York Times, October 11, 2013
- Dan Michaelson and Tamara Maletic, Two Translations in Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers, Michael Rock ed., Rizzoli, 2013
- Jack Balkin and Dan Michaelson, Governance Structures in Graphic Design, Decorative Form in Law, and Schools in the Public Sphere, Graphic Magazine #22, Seoul, 2012
- “Only”, Brno Graphic Design Biennial, Czech Republic, 2012
- Helen Armstrong and Zvezdana Stojmirovic, “Linked by Air”, in Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content, Princeton Architectural Press, 2011
- Angharad Lewis, Linked by Air’s progressive web design, Grafik #188, London, 2011
- Dina Helal, Brad Henslee, and Dan Michaelson, Barn-raising: Building a Museum Website Using Custom Wiki Tools, Museums and the Web, Denver, 2010
- “Identity for Zagreb Dance Center”, with Lana Cavar, Graphic Magazine #13 (Visual Identity Issue), Seoul, 2010
- X Exhibition, 07 Graphic Design in China, The International Judges Nomination Exhibition, Shenzhen, 2008
- Dan Michaelson, Street View, Modern Painters, September 2007
Past team
Libby Safford, Hilla Katki, Lauren Adolfsen, Mary Voorhees Meehan, Brian Watterson, Laurel Schwulst, John Friel, Nika Simovich Fisher, Minkyoung Kim, Alexander Wolf, Jonathan Zong, Dylan Fisher, Jeffrey Scudder, Maurann Stein, Sasha Portis, James Oates, Andrea Lausevic, Lukas Eigler-Harding, Aarati Akkapeddi, Kieran Gillen, May Kim, Nina Muccia, Karen Tian, Biba Košmerl, Greta Skagerlind, Surabhi Sakhalkar, Alison Abreu-Garcia, Luke Underwood, Cole Shapiro