Test Your Brand’s Strength
Successful companies are built on strong brands — take our new test to find out how yours measures up!
Stranger Things from a Nerdy Designer’s POV
A solid 40% of the office is a die hard fan of Stranger Things (sad, I know) and you can only imagine the hype the four of us share (yes, our …
(Little) Lights, Camera, Action: Video Production at Its Best
This Summer we produced a video that premiered at the…
openbox9 turns 9
A photo journal recap!
A Designer’s Guide to D.C.
Art exhibitions, architectural details, and local street art often go unnoticed in the epicenter of national and international political affairs. However, as a Washington, D.C. native and an aspiring designer, …
Remote Learnings
This summer I worked remotely – not at a coffee shop in town, or even across a state line, but 5,000 miles and 6 time zones away from my co-workers …
Monarch Highway Logo
I-35 highway — runs up the center of the country, starting at Texas and goes all the way to Minnesota; in the heart of corn belts, tall prairies and miles of …
Accepting the Eggs
Ideas for a journal cover that never came to be
Jargon Often Heard When Talking to a Developer
Decoding a coder
4 Album Design Trends of 2016
Always curious to which albums define a year in music, I find NPR’s list of top 100 albums go beyond popular to influential and cross cutting cultural lines. In looking …
Comparing Inkling vs. Pressbooks
The battle for the better online publishing tool
Typography IS important
It was only three years ago that I learned that typography is (if not the most vital part to) publication design. My professor sat the class down, gave us oversized …
Background Videos, More Background Videos
Tips and guidelines for using looping background videos