Once again, we're honored to win in our favorite category at the Transform Awards - 'Best visual identity by a charity, NGO or nonprofit.' We took home Bronze for our work rebranding the Vision Zero Fund. (We've already won gold, silver and bronze in previous years). We like the Transform Awards as they judge rebrands not just on design, but on strategy and effectiveness as a complete brand transformation.
Congratulations to Ultravirgo Design Director, Benjamin Tuttle, for being named an Ascender by the Type Directors Club. The Ascenders is the world's premier portfolio-based competition dedicated to type in all its forms, and the inspiring up-and-coming designers who are elevating the medium.
As our campaign for Mental Health Awareness Month gains recognition across the web - with features including AIGA Eye on Design, Design by Women, Fonts in Use, and Awwwards - our Creative Director, Patrick Durgin-Bruce, spoke to Communication Arts magazine about the behind-the-scenes challenges, influences and lessons from working on the campaign.
A few weeks ago, we spoke to the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership about why we love being based in Brooklyn. Read the story here.
We're honored to have won three awards in the annual Transform Awards which honor the best rebranding work - taking one each of Gold, Silver and Bronze. Our favorite awards are the ones - like Transform - that judge not just design, but also strategy and the achievement of the project's goals, and we are honored to be among such esteemed company.
We are proud to announce that the identity system we developed for the Parkinson's Foundation has been chosen as one of 10 winning designs in the Identity Applications category of the 10th Annual HOW Logo Design Awards. And now we need your help - the winners are being voted on to award a Reader's Choice Award.
We're honored to have our recent rebrand for the Parkinson's Foundation gaining more recognition, having been shortlisted in the Transform Awards for "Best visual identity from a charity/NGO/non-profit."
Since our launch earlier this summer, we've been thrilled to read the online reactions to For, our self-published magazine. Initial press coverage has come from a range of media in the design, social good and indie magazine communities.
We're honored to have our holiday card from last year win a Silver Award in the Graphis Typography 4 competition, and will be featured in the upcoming book.
We're extremely proud to announce that our recent rebrand of the Parkinson's Foundation has been named one of the 100 best rebrands of the past two years - winning an Award of Distinction from the Rebrand 100, one of the most prestigious global recognitions for branding.
We're proud to announce that our Creative Director, Patrick Durgin-Bruce, has been invited to join the Board of Directors of Spark Design Professionals, a non-profit founded to empower owners of independent design studios.
An important question for creative people of all ages. It's also the title of my most recent book!
We are deeply honored to be among the winners of the 6th Annual Communications Arts Typography Annual, which was published this week. Our product designs for Mymo were selected as one of 142 winners from over 1700 entries, on the basis of creative excellence and quality of execution. One of the most discriminating awards publications in the industry, CA has a rich history of showcasing the best of communications design.
Our ongoing work with The National Parkinson Foundation continues to gain recognition for excellence. The recently-launched publication Caring and Coping has been awarded with a Health + Wellness Design Award.
Last week, Brand New, the blog of record for branding critique and analysis, featured our recent rebrand of UN Women's Empower Women.
A little fun after a busy week: InVision asked me and a group of other great designers and programmers what is in our work bags.
I recently had the pleasure to sit down with the editors of Cool Hunting to discuss our plans for Mymo, our 3D-printed jewelry line.
Read the article:
Mymo's Reinvented Monograms
We don't often enter award shows, preferring to put our focus on gaining recognition from our clients. But we take the design of health materials very seriously, and are proud to have two of our projects included among the 135 winners chosen in the inaugural Health + Wellness Design Awards.
We've been fortunate to get some great press on the launch of Mymo. But there's still something about print, and it's extra special when the coverage comes from a publication you love to read anyway. So, we were thrilled to be included in issue No. 8 of Offscreen magazine. Offscreen is a beautiful, independent mag that tells the stories of the people behind online businesses.
We've had a great first month since launching Mymo in November. We only had a couple weeks to take orders to make shipment for Christmas, and we ended up way over our expectations. And - without much of an advertising budget - we have the kind words of our peers and the press to thank.
We were honored to be asked by Catalyst magazine to tell the story behind the 7 Billion Actions campaign that we created with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. Published by Pratt, Catalyst (formerly Catalyst Strategic Design Review) strives to "stimulate thinking and encourage conversation about the role of strategic design in defining and developing creative economies and thriving cultures for an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future". We co-wrote the article, which appears in the Designing Peace Issue, to tell the story of the thinking, strategy and tactics behind 7 Billion Actions.
UVC had a great year in 2011, working with clients we love to create design and branding for meaningful campaigns, products, and companies. One of our favorite projects was the UN's 7 Billion Actions campaign, which encouraged people to take action to help the other 6,999,999,999 people on Earth. So, we were thrilled to see the banner we created for the campaign appear in Google's Zeitgeist 2011 Year In Review video. With over 7 million views on YouTube (not to mention over 300,000 people who have seen the banner in person in front of the UN headquarters in NY), it might just be our most-seen project to date. Check out the video to see our work (at the 0:10 mark) and the other events and campaigns that changed the world in 2011.
