We have been building brands for professional design service firms for over eight years. We engage clients in the custom built environment: architects, engineering firms and construction companies. We create integrated branding solutions, from strategy through implementation, in the most important touchpoints: identity, web sites and literature. Our 5d Perception Branding process defines and differentiates our clients and expresses their essential brand message.

From blueprint to finishing touches

Cultivating a Healthy Brand

Touchstone Essentials Brand Launch

Touchstone Packaging Design

The Nexus of Seeking & Solving

Architectural Nexus Website

Vision Made Real

MHTN Architects Identity

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Form Following Function

FFKR Website

Engineering a Strong Foundation

Dunn Associates Website

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A Strong Brand is a Good Sign

YESCO Brand Identity

A Diverse Array of Projects

All Things Print

Design with tangible results

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Brand Identities

Logos and so much more

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Websites

The Web is Today’s Brick & Mortar

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Brand Strategy

An Important Business Tool

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For modern8 this year, the Salt Lake AIGA100 Show was particularly fun. Everything we entered was accepted into the show, and we received one of only ten Copper Ingot awards for our Bookjigs packaging design. The packaging has already won a Gold Addy this year from the Utah Chapter of the American Advertising Federation and will be featured in the 2012 Design Annual of Communication Arts magazine.

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modern8 at the Utah Addy Awards

modern8 walked away with two gold awards at the Addy’s from the Utah Chapter of the American Advertising Federation. The work we created for our own self-promotion and the Bookjig product and packaging for Franklin Mill were both acknowledged with the organization’s highest recognition. The work now moves on to the national competition.

 

May 10, 2013

Thinking About Design, aka Design Thinking

Innovating systems, rather than designing "things"

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The design industry is undergoing profound changes (and I’m not talking about technology—that’s nothing new). I’m talking about the basic definitions of what designers do. A couple weeks ago, another professor from the University of Utah forwarded me a PowerPoint presentation on the changing nature of graphic design and how these changes are, or should [...]

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