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Designing the Experience for Your Brand
I’m not an experience designer. I’m not even a graphic designer. What I am is a fan of how design influences experiences. One of my favorite experiences is going out…
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Keeping Sight of the Big Picture in Agency-Client Relationships
My dad always tells me stories from the days when he managed small businesses. One of my favorites is about his former boss and the many women in his life:…
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Better Life Packaging Design Recognized by Graphic Design USA
Atomicdust is proud to share that our work for Better Life Natural Cleaning Products has been awarded an American Packaging Design Award from Graphic Design USA. Working on Better Life…
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New Branding and Package Design for Better Life
Every small business owner dreams about it: a big break that puts their company on the path to becoming a household name. Companies that find sudden success often find themselves forced…
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Let’s Talk About Experience Design!
For years I hated the term “experience design.” In my mind it was just a high-brow way to describe good web design. Labeling something as “experience design” seemed like a…
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The Meaning of More: A New Website for Thomas Wirig Doll
When CPA firm Thomas Wirig Doll approached Atomicdust for a new web presence, their goals weren’t unusual: they wanted to generate leads and build trust in their brand. It wasn’t…
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Designing a Second Restaurant Location for Revel Kitchen
I’m still relatively new to Atomicdust, but one of the first teams I joined when I got here was the Revel Kitchen crew. Talk about an exciting brand. When I…
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Pushing and Pulling in Design
I was presenting a web design concept to a client the other day, and was trying to explain why 90% of the layout looked a certain way, while the rest…
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Restaurant Branding Comes Alive at Porano Pasta
The opening of James Beard award-winning chef Gerard Craft’s fifth restaurant has made huge waves on the St. Louis food scene. The fast casual Italian eatery has drawn praise regionally…
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Celebrating Simplicity with the New Revel Kitchen Website
A name change and a rebranding is often enough to warrant a new website. But that reasoning was just the beginning for our client, Revel Kitchen (formerly Athlete Eats). Our…
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Food, Art and Design
Often with high-profile, highly visible design and branding projects, there’s added pressure on the creative team that might not exist when making, say, a sales brochure. Some projects, like the…
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Building for the Future: New Branding and Website for Green Street St. Louis
Riding through North St. Louis’ frequently forgotten areas in a Tesla Model S may not seem like the most conventional scenario for learning about the ups and downs of local neighborhoods.…