Nonprofit Event Design: In the Room Where it Happens
The NRF Foundation Honors is a night of celebration and recognition of the nation’s brightest retail leaders and rising retail talent — aptly named “the biggest night in retail.” Since 2019, …
Why Your Brand Deserves a Digital Style Guide (and My Farewell to PDFs)
The Case of the Broken-Down Brand Guide Unless you work in marketing, design, or another role that deals with public-facing products, you probably don’t often think about branding. It might …
A Nonprofit Budget Debate: The Box Bash Season 2
From the brains that argue Die Hard is a Christmas Movie – welcome back to season 2 of The Box Bash, the series where ob9 brains bash it out offering …
A Summer of Paint and Interning
This summer has been a blast interning with openbox9. I was given many challenge – from painting to working on branding projects, all while learning Adobe tools. My favorite project …
A Design Debate: The Box Bash Season 1
From the minds that thought of ‘cheese on that’ (a cheese dispensing backpack for sidewalk strolls) comes a brand new debate series where ob9 brains bash it out to bring …
Data Wrangling, How to Begin
Visual solutions to wrangle pesky shoeboxes full of raw data
Entangled Hair, Never Felt so Free — 25 Years of Solutions
Our day 1 mantra remains in style 25 years later: ‘know thy client’
College Sustainability Websites
Design expert’s review of university sustainability department websites – what design choices work, what doesn’t, and why.
AI Solutions for Nonprofits
How your nonprofit can start benefitting from AI.
Actionable Data Insights for Nonprofits: A Love Story
I love spreadsheets. And nothing warms my heart more than witnessing two spreadsheets come together in harmonious information-rich bliss. One of my favorite spreadsheet love stories occurred this Fall while …
Graphic Design Tips for Non-Designers Using Canva
Canva is an online graphic design tool created with non-designers in mind to create materials such as presentations, social media posts, ads, flyers, and more. For organizations who don’t have …