Test Your Brand’s Strength
Successful companies are built on strong brands — take our new test to find out how yours measures up!
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 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 …
Entangled Hair, Never Felt so Free — 25 Years of Solutions
Our day 1 mantra remains in style 25 years later: ‘know thy client’
5 Iconic Horror Movie Posters
5 favorite horror movie poster designs and why they’re effective at quickening your heart rate
Getting the most out of my Design Internship
I spent the summer before college practicing the rhythms of: organize, support, learn, create, and reflect.
Star Wars: The Last Theory
Poster reading
openbox9 turns 9
A photo journal recap!
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 …
Accepting the Eggs
Ideas for a journal cover that never came to be
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 …
Don’t Judge a Tea by it’s Package
Or maybe you should. As consumer options grow limitless, design decisions become more crucial to ensure your brand communicates the right message. Knowing the goals and priorities of your audience …
6 Geese a Laying
A look back at our 2015 happenings