Design + Print Experts

We create identity programs and creative print and digital communications for clients in education, healthcare, the arts, technology, hospitality, and the environment, primarily in the nonprofit and business-to-business sectors. To provide the best possible service, we work intensively with a small, select group of clients at any one time.

The dog is a Bedlington Terrier, a distinctive and uncommon breed. Michael Logan adopted our first Bedlington, Sophie in 1997, and brought her to the studio. Her constant presence made her so familiar to our clients that we adopted her profile as our logo. Four more Bedlingtons followed: Sophie’s sister Phoebe came next, followed by Lily. Our current Bedlingtons are Fido, our first male, born in 2013, and Rex, born in 2025.

We develop ideas. We give visual form to your communications. We create logos, identity systems, cards, books, brochures, magazines, PDFs, web pages, objects, and especially print projects—browse our portfolios. We wrangle text, photography, illustration, code, type, paper, ink, and pixels into objects that communicate clearly and effectively. And we make sure your project stays on budget and on schedule.

Yes… if you want to. Computers, software, and an ever-growing range of print-on-demand options have made it possible for anyone to create anything from business cards to books, creatively and economically. And it can be great fun—for exploration, for personal projects, for talented amateurs and professionals alike. However, professional design software is complex; typography, once a skilled discipline in its own right, is an increasingly rare art; and preparing files for professional printing is a specialized skill, where mistakes can be costly in direct proportion to the size and importance of the project.

More importantly, computers, software, and now AI—though increasingly sophisticated and helpful—cannot bring creativity and insight to your project; assemble and manage the right team of photographers, illustrators, retouchers, and writers; match your project to the best print solution; ensure that it is delivered on time, on budget, and to a high standard; or suggest solutions and approaches that may not be the obvious ones. Yes, you can do it yourself—and there are times when you may have to—but you should decide whether that is really the best option for you and your project.

Not necessarily. We can help you define and organize your project, and suggest solutions—creative, technical, money-saving, and otherwise—that you may not be aware of. The sooner we are involved, the more help we can offer.

Always. We prefer to work with you or your writer from the start, so that text and visuals develop together into a dynamic, unified experience. With existing copy, we read it for inspiration, and again (several times!) for proofing. We’re happy to suggest headlines, captions, pull quotes, and other text elements to complement the design, or we can bring in our own writers to craft your message from the start.

We keep up with the latest design trends, but we don’t necessarily follow them. We work with each client to develop a distinctive look tailored to their business or organization. If the Pantone Color of the Year, or that new typeface you’re seeing everywhere, isn’t right for a project, we won’t propose it. If anything, we lean slightly away from trends and toward classic, timeless design. Form follows function. We don’t have a “house style,” because we believe good design should reinforce the message.

Yes. Clay created a gallery space at our West Hollywood studio in 1992 to showcase the fine-art work of the talented photographers and illustrators we collaborated with commercially. Over the gallery’s (somewhat erratic) eight-year run, we gave many exciting new artists some of their first exhibitions, including Gary Baseman, Greg Clarke, Ted (and Debbie) Catanzaro, Jeff Burton, Noah Woods (Steve Turk), Craig Smith, Davis and Davis, and Mark Fox. It was great fun, but we closed the gallery at the end of the 1990s to focus on our core design business. Because the gallery predates the web as we know it, almost no documentation of it exists online.