Who we are:
A graphic design studio passionate about clear communication and honest marketing.

What we believe:
1. We are not creative problem solvers 
2. There’s only 3 business problems worth solving 
3. Everything is marketing
4. All design is product design 
5. Your logo is not your brand 
6. We don’t need permission to work

Read the rest of our manifesto here.


What we do:

Design your products and promotions. 

From business cards to books, our award-winning studio creates work that is focused on honesty—communicating the ideas that drive your work—and impact—making the most beautiful, intriguing objects and products that we can.

To learn more, get in touch.


Here’s the latest work, blog posts, and products:

Recent Work

Our Work
Sic Alps—10/17/2012 poster
MCAD Liberal Arts poster series

Series of 5 screen-printed posters to promote 2 series of discussions held at Minneapolis College of Art & Design by the Liberal Arts department.

From the blog

blog

The assignment goes something like this: you need to design an 11x17" flyer for an art exhibition or rock show. You get a short bit of text, no sponsor logos or anything like that and no pictures. And you get the following restrictions: 1 typeface, black type on a white ground, no rule lines, no boxes and no type as decoration (meaning you can’t make a pattern and you can’t build an illustration out of letterforms). Nothing but pure functional typography. 

New in the Book Shop

Book Shop
Sic Alps, 10/17/12 poster

5-color screenprint; designed by The MVA and Landland.