The kor designed BOND corporate identity won 1st Place at this year’s SMPS National Marketing Communications Awards!

SMPS is the Society for Marketing of Professional Services and their ‘Build Business’ Awards Gala was held last Thursday at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. The SMPS Awards program is the longest-standing, most prestigious awards competition that recognizes excellence [...]

Talk about pushing your creative brainstorms to the limit! That’s what we are doing at kor group. Thanks to ideapaint.com we now have the freedom to sketch and jot ideas on our 12ft x 25ft conference room wall — and we don’t have to worry about mom yelling at us.
This product is a paint (ours was applied by www.paintingunlimited.com) [...]

This past weekend (October 2-4) I attended a better world by design conference in Providence, RI organized by RISD and Brown University. An inspiring group of attendees from students to professionals, across disciplines, from researchers, business leaders, designers, artists, economists, architects, engineers, entrepreneurs, and educators came together with a common goal of making this world [...]

Last month MB Jarosik and I (James Grady) were invited to speak at the CASE Design Institute: Creativity in a Challenging Environment conference. Our lecture focused on our process of getting started, vetting new ideas and engaging clients with nontraditional designs. We talked about our effective methodologies and presented some of our cutting edge educational communications.

In order to deliver effective and creative results, kor [...]

 

The debate about speculative work is growing with the rise of “crowdsourcing,” as discussed in this recent Wired blog post. The term applies to a number of websites where designers compete to win projects by submitting concepts from which the client can choose. This trend, working towards the lowest common denominator, can only commoditize the [...]

Yesterday, we had Samira Daswani spend the day with us. She is currently a first-year Wellesley College student as well as an intern at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cutural Center. We have been working with The Davis since 2007, so when Barbara Levitov, Marketing Manager extrordinaire, asked if Samira could shadow us for a day; [...]

MB and I (James) just came back from a great trip to Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was a whirlwind of a trip from getting stuck on the runway in Boston to overdosing on salty snacks on the 2 hour ride from Detroit to KZOO. We really enjoyed meeting and talking to Kalamazoo College about kor group, our process and capibilities. [...]

With the change in the economy and growing competition to win new business, we have noticed an increased trend in companies requesting spec work (speculative or free work) from us. kor group internally calls it “the design bake off.”
The pressure to compete in this activity is intense, but kor group holds strong to the belief that it is [...]

Gary Hustwit, the director that bought us the film Helvetica, is working on a new film - Objectified. Described as ”a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design,” it is due for release in March, 2009. As part of this film, the director gained access to Apple’s exclusive design facility to interview Jonathan Ive as well as interviewing designers [...]

On Friday, October 24 and Saturday October 25 I attended GAIN – AIGA Business and Design Conference at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. 1st of all the conference was great! I found it to be inspiring, informative and highly entertaining. There was rarely a dull moment. The speakers that were selected were all [...]