overview: site preserves and shares a love of vintage clothing and artifacts

challenge: site must be simple, spare, quick to go live, inspiring for garment designers, and easy to share through social media

solution: used monotype font to emphasize simplicity, focused on ease of use with minimal navigation, populated site with detailed photos, and enriched graphical experience through view-all option

studio: robert girvin

contributions: information architecture, wireframe, prototyping, art direction, graphic design, production, usability testing, seo

related link: lost and worn’s site

overview: a retailer of organic, free-range meat needs a distinct brand image

challenge: branding for a meat retailer must be amusing and lighthearted

solution: carved out a snappy and whimsical identity for this client to represent their high-quality product

client: seni felic grill

contributions: concept, ideation, identity, art direction, production

challenge: to craft a design voice unique to each individual client’s needs while maintaining overall continuity of the big picture

solution: unify customer experience across a variety of design mediums – cross-pollinating design strategy with branding, user interface, graphic, product, and environment design – by applying an individual design voice cohesively across all facets of the brand

overview: “kissing booth” pays homage to rock band kiss on valentines day 2010

challenge: to provide a “cure” for being single by creating a pop-up space where the public gets “kissed” with makeup in the style of the band kiss

solution: converted a refrigerator box into a kissing booth, designed posters based on iconic face paint of original band members, gave away vintage tee shirts that had been screen printed by hand and that read “i got kissed”

project: robert girvin & michelle morby

contributions: concept collaboration, post production, print design, production, screen printing, pop-up assembly, kiss make-up

press: sfist.com

overview: poloppo’s design-your-own product line gets a new game

challenge: to create a fresh, fun flexible, product

solution: channeled children’s curious nature to drive the design of hopper, a game that is as expansive as the player’s imagination

studio: poloppo, inc.

contributions: concept, gaming logic, art direction, graphic design, material selection, production

related links: poloppo’s branding, poloppo’s user interface design, poloppo’s product design – picnic tote,
poloppo’s environment design

overview: citizen: citizen creates a temporary pop-up department store for the holidays

challenge: identify and attract unique products; design and build a temporary space that showcases the collection, and brand the store as an exciting alternative to the mundane retail experience

solution: attracted unique brands such as areaware, jimmyjane, chronicle books, staach, and walteria living just to name a few; fabricated rogue retail space and created an original environment for holiday shoppers while turning a profit in a crippled economy

studio: citizen: citizen

contributions: collaboration, environment concept development, fabrication, merchandising

related link: storeroom’s graphic design

press: id magazine, thrillist