We’re closing out the year with the 10th edition of our COLLINS Sounds playlist. We’ve put together some of our favorite tunes from the last year. The playlist is also perfectly suitable for this coming winter, as well as for looking back (or looking forward) to the sunny days of spring and summer.
And, of course, happy holidays from all of us at COLLINS in San Francisco and New York City to you.
Since its founding, magazine GDUSA has argued that graphic design is a valuable tool for culture and causes as well as commerce - and should be recognized and rewarded as such. Never has this proposition been more true than today. Watch out for our colleagues Jing Qi Fan and Nicole Cousins, who have been honored by GDUSA as important voices to watch in 2022.
Every legend has a beginning.
The possibilities of evocative design are always amplified with a great story. So we are beyond honored to have worked with the great people at Riot Games in helping build the brand and identity for Arcane. We can’t wait to share our full case study with you – but for now, enter the world of Arcane and discover the adventures and characters of Piltover and Zaun. The story begins on Netflix tomorrow, November 6th.
The American flag is our most potent piece of national iconography, but its design shifted frequently until the early 1900s. What if it were redesigned today? What might artists and designers explore? The New York Times invited us to do just that. Although we remain champions of the original stars and stripes, we explored a uniquely American story to tell: E Pluribus Unum.
COLLINS welcomes Nicole Cousins, our former high school intern, now RISD graduate, to the company as Associate Designer.
George Lavender, design director here at COLLINS, speaks with Transform Magazine about how powerful storytelling can help brands stand out, build new futures and gain the relevance they seek.
As we approached evolving the Clubhouse brand, we didn’t want to just design another big ‘C’, we wanted to expand on what they’ve been great at since the beginning: Designing experiences with the belief that people are at the center of every moment.
Stay tuned for a full case study showcasing all of the work we did in partnership with our friends from Clubhouse.
Photographer: John Canon
We celebrate #pride all through the summer. Well, frankly, all year round.
And with music from 1975 to last week. We hope you will, too.
Well, this was a nice surprise. Our good crew did well at the TDC Design Awards with our good clients, including Crane/Mohawk, Medium, Primary and San Francisco Symphony. Bravo to our friends at Pentagram, The NY Times and all of this year’s winners.
We are all book-crazy here at COLLINS. Our Design Director, Megan Bowker, shares five books that shaped her career and impacted her life with our friends at Creative Boom.
Megan has a dazzling body of work. Originally from Wasilla, Alaska, she now lives in Manhattan. And she works across a spectrum of emerging to established organizations. Her work always sits (energetically) between strategy and insanely complex brand and design systems.