Glenn Ligon Website
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is an artist living and working in New York pursuing an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art.
We worked closely with Ligon to produce a website that showcases the full breadth of of his work, from neons, paintings, prints, photo-based, to videos and multimedia installations. The website is designed with minimal interface to allow viewers to discover Ligon’s work as if experiencing the work in a physical gallery space.
Visit glennligonstudio.com
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Amanda Knott
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Fay Qiu
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Chris Manlapid
Web Developer
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Website
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
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The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is a not-for-profit local development corporation that manages the three Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) that make up Downtown Brooklyn, promoting the area as a world-class business, cultural, educational, residential, and retail destination. KUDOS was tasked with designing and implementing a new website for the organization.
Addressing the challenge of attracting new visitors, promoting local businesses, and providing easy content-management functionality for staff, we used WordPress CMS to create a visually engaging, welcoming, and accessible design, optimized for mobile devices and web browsers. We retained and improved specific features and integrations from the previous website—including a dynamic home page, interactive maps, clear real-estate presentations, and events calendar, a blog page, and easy-to-access video content from platforms like YouTube and Vimeo—and integrated social media platforms and an improved navigation function for an enhanced user experience.
View downtownbrooklyn.com
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Jess Mackta
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Jamus Marquette, Owen Febiandi
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Chris Manlapid, Arif Widipratomo
Web Developer
SwAA Branding & Website
Stand with Asian Americans
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Stand with Asian Americans (SwAA) was established as the largest coalition of Asian American entrepreneurs, investors, and activists. KUDOS was tasked with developing comprehensive branding and a website for the organization.
We achieved an iconic visual identity through experimentation with brushed lettering combined with a modern, dynamic, and progressive look. The resulting identity communicates a sense of urgency while avoiding alienation by maintaining an approachable, inclusive, and universal appeal. This branding was featured in Asian American Justice Rally posters and signage, the organization’s website, and a separate workplace-justice website that gave users the opportunity to share personal stories of workplace discrimination. In our website design, we also utilized animation to express unity among diverse ethnicities.
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Amanda Knott
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Jamus Marquette, Fay Qiu, Owen Febiandi
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Chris Manlapid, Christian Juniady Setiawan
Web Developers
Legal Information Institute
Cornell University School of Law
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The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a small, semi-autonomous nonprofit organization within Cornell University. It provides free access to legal information to over 30 million people annually through a university-hosted website (law.cornell.edu) and focuses on making the law more accessible through technology. We were tasked with designing a comprehensive brand identity for the LII, aimed at aligning the organization’s brand with future goals, audience needs, and its relationship with Cornell.
After first extensively researching and workshopping our branding strategy, we developed a new design system to define the LII brand across its various platforms. Incorporating the brand’s existing bracket logo—built around the square typographical brackets used to insert explanatory or citational material in legal reports—we created a new logo and visual language to represent LII’s reliability and accessibility as an informative source, conveying the organization’s commitment to legal information for all.
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Jamus Marquette
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Owen Febiandi
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Putu Yogiswara
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Project Manager
Amanda Knott
Proximity Media Website
Proximity Media
Proximity is a multimedia company founded by Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian and co-founded by Ludwig Göransson, Archie Davis, and Peter Nicks. Their projects include worldwide sensations like Stephen Curry: Underrated, Judas and the Black Messiah, Creed III, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
We developed the company’s website to feature their projects, latest news, press mentions, and company information, with a unique audio podcast widget as a special feature. We also showcased full-screen images and videos on the website, in recognition of the company’s remarkable projects.
View proximitymedia.com
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Ashley Wu
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Amanda Knott
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Owen Febiandi
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Putu Yogiswara
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Imam Fadilah
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Chris Manlapid
Web Developer
Proximity Media
- Pete Nicks
Einhorn Center for Community Engagement Branding & Website
Cornell University
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In this comprehensive branding and website project for returning client Cornell University, KUDOS successfully leveraged our past collaborative experience with Cornell AAP and Cornell Tech to develop and implement design and communication strategies to reach current students and faculty at the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
To ensure our website’s new visual identity sat clearly under the larger umbrella of the Cornell brand, we first conducted an extensive design discovery and strategic consultation process. We then created a visually appealing and cohesive visual identity and website, along with UX/UI design for an enhanced user experience and WordPress development for easy maintenance. We executed the content-entry and migration process seamlessly and provided ongoing support as needed, ensuring that the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement’s website provided a fully integrated, user-friendly, and highly engaging resource across platforms.
View einhorn.cornell.edu
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Jess Mackta -
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Jamus Marquette, Fay Qiu, Owen Febiandi - Developers
Cornell Johnson Museum Website
Cornell University
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In 2022, Isometric rolled out a wide-ranging new visual identity and website design for the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the museum, the new design celebrates its architecture by I.M. Pei, abstracting its iconic ribbon window into a simple, dashed line motif to signify the view from the museum onto the picturesque landscape of Ithaca and its role in interpreting the world beyond. KUDOS was tasked with developing the website, created in close collaboration with the museum and Isometric’s design team.
The resulting site is a transformative online platform that gives visitors unprecedented access to the Johnson’s astounding collection of 40,000 works that span six millenia and most world cultures. Beyond serving as a crucial archive, the website also acts as a dynamic educational platform, offering a variety of activities for children via the Johnson Kids portal, and an opportunity through the Community Exhibition Creator for visitors to create their own online exhibitions incorporating artworks from the museum’s collection. Through these functions, visitors are empowered to engage with the collection on their own terms, creating an egalitarian and inclusive experience of the museum.
View museum.cornell.edu
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Isometric
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KUDOS Design Collaboratory
Web Development
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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Amanda Knott
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Chris Manlapid
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Christian Junaedi Setiawan, Faris Hanugraha, Arif Widipratomo
Web Developer
AIA Las Vegas Website
AIA Las Vegas
Las Vegas has a 100-year history of attracting unconventional, strongly independent individuals—including the maverick architects who joined together in 1956 to establish the Las Vegas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Today, more than 60 years later, the Chapter is still a vital entity in the community, with over 500 architects and design professionals proudly proclaiming AIA Las Vegas membership.
Tasked with designing AIA Las Vegas’s website, KUDOS endeavored to capture the essence of Las Vegas while preserving the organization’s design ethos, an effort that culminated in a visually captivating website featuring vibrant pops of color, glamorous graphics on the landing page, and consistent visual brilliance across all elements. The website incorporates a “Find a Firm” function that enables users to browse the Chapter’s registered members and submit inquiries to them directly.
View aialasvegas.org
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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Owen Febiandi
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Putu Yogiswara
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Amanda Knott
Project Manager
Journal of Architectural Education
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
This branding and website project for the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) embodies the journal’s longstanding commitment to scholarly discourse and progressive architectural education. As a peer-reviewed international journal published under the auspices of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), JAE serves as a vital platform for fostering inclusive, just, and sustainable architectural practices.
Through meticulous design choices and a commitment to visual storytelling, the JAE branding and website project exemplifies the journal’s mission to shape the future of architectural discourse and education. Our vibrant branding reflects the journal’s unique ethos, featuring a scholarly serif typeface for the main logo and an abbreviated logomark symbolizing social connectivity with a red stroke linking the letters a and e. Incorporating a diverse palette that represents the breadth of essays included in the journal, the website offers a dynamic interface for architectural educators, scholars, and designers to engage in thoughtful discussions about the evolution of architectural education and practice, contributing to the journal’s relevance and impact for future generations.
View jaeonline.org
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Fay Qiu
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Amanda Knott
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Chris Manlapid
Web Developer
UIII Branding
Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia
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Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII) is Indonesia’s premier institution for higher education in Islamic studies, aiming to become a hub for Islamic research globally.
Confronted with the challenge of establishing a world-class presence for the university, we refined its existing logo to meet legal standards and developed a comprehensive visual identity to match, including photography, videography, and communication guidelines. The enhancements to UIII’s brand have led to an increase in international applications and greater recognition of the university as a prestigious LPDP scholarship destination, effectively marrying the institution’s Indonesian roots with its global aspirations.
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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Andini Pratiwi -
Brand Strategist
Andini Pratiwi -
Brand Strategist
Andini Pratiwi -
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Zaki Fitria, Andini Pratiwi -
Motion Designer
Rias Amalia -
Public Relation
Fahmi Ramdhani -
Web Developer
Arif Widipratomo, Faris Han -
Project Manager
Robi Dafit
Raymond Jungles Website
Raymond Jungles
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Since 1985, design firm Raymond Jungles has developed a dynamic practice inspired by the ethics of stewardship of the land. The firm’s work is innovative yet timeless, proposing design solutions that respond to surrounding natural systems while restoring nature’s balance and harmony on a micro scale. Raymond Jungles’s completed gardens personify timelessness and beauty, with verdant spaces that entice participation and soothe the psyche.
The firm’s design priorities are generated by the scale and functionality of a space. Simple, clean, and well-detailed hardscape elements are the quintessential bones of a garden. Planting volumes vary and bold colors and textures are used with intent. The firm is guided by Raymond’s personal and design principles: integrity, relevance, and nature’s honor. RJI’s informed designs tread lightly on the land, provide habitat, and incorporate elements of surprise.
For this website-design project, KUDOS designed and developed an immersive website that brings the viewer into the space through videos and full-bleed imagery, emphasizing the firm’s characteristic bold colors and textures and simple, clean, and well-detailed hardscape elements.
View raymondjungles.com
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Sumit Paul
Web Design & Development
Between Four Freedoms
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy
Artist Shaun Leonardo’s 2021 outdoor installation “Between Four Freedoms” reinterpreted and celebrated Franklin D. Roosevelt’s seminal 1941 address calling for freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The interactive experience for the installation at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park redefines public engagement with art and social discourse.
Guided by Leonardo’s vision, our branding mirrors the project’s ethos, employing a brown color scheme evocative of human skin tones and the “Martin” typeface, inspired by the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968, to represent a message of non-violence and inclusivity. Leveraging innovative technology such as image recognition, we enabled visitors to engage with the artwork by scanning QR codes, launching the mobile website, and exploring workshop videos led by Leonardo. With over 25,000 images collected, the installation ensured accessibility and interactivity on both the Manhattan and Long Island City sides, inviting visitors to delve into the narratives of vulnerable communities and rediscover Roosevelt’s timeless call for freedom and dignity.
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Fay Qiu
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Christyan Junaedi Setiawan
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Imam Fadilah
Animator
TenBerke Architects Website
TenBerke
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TenBerke Architects is a New York–based architecture studio driven by a sense of purpose and promise to design projects to be the instruments of meaningful and sustainable change.
KUDOS was tasked with reimagining TenBerke’s website to speak more directly to the three types of audience groups the firm works with: Institutional, Residential, and Commercial. We designed our website with an open aesthetic, which was structured while allowing for organic, dynamic moments that reflect insights from the studio’s various partners.
Visit tenberke.com
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Fay Qiu
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Chris Manlapid, Arif Widipratomo, Faris Han
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Robi Dafit
Project Manager
TenBerke Architects D.P.C.
ARITA: Eternally Modern at NY NOW
Made in Japan Project
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Awards
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GDUSA 2018 American Web Design
This was a collaboration with Made in Japan Project, funded by the Saga Prefectural Government. For the project, we completed the overall brand strategy, naming, exhibition design, art direction, website, and product design consultation for a government-led initiative promoting porcelain creators from Arita and their efforts to bring innovative Japanese design to the American market through NY NOW.
RESEARCH & CONSULTATION
Over the course of nine months, we visited Arita—the birthplace of porcelain in Japan—to consult with participating kilns and distributors over ideas for their product design, brand positioning, and marketing strategy for the U.S. market.
BRANDING
For the visual identity, we designed a lemniscate ∞ paired with the town’s name and the tagline “Eternally Modern,” pointing to how Arita creators continue to evolve four centuries of tradition, craftsmanship, and innovation into distinctively modern everyday products.
WEBSITE
Our responsive bilingual website was written for both Western and Japanese readers, with distinct messaging catered to each audience. We art-directed all of the website’s videos and photography, including a portrayal of key products falling in slow motion, close-ups in 360-degree rotation, documentary photos of Arita, and a video showing the porcelain-creation process.
EXHIBITION BOOTH
For the NY NOW market exhibition in February 2018, we designed a corner booth divided by a diagonal wall archway similar to those typically found in traditional porcelain kilns. Each creator had a museum-like stage and hidden storage underneath.
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Kiki Katahira
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Ashley Wu
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Sumit Paul
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Mika Yoshida & David Imber (Maniform)
Copywriter
MANIFORM
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David Imber
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Mika Yoshida
Copywriter
Photography
- Sam Morgan Photography
The Swiss Grid
Poster House
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Poster House (New York City) is the first museum in the U.S. to be dedicated exclusively to posters, presenting a global view of the medium from its earliest appearances in the late 1800s to present-day uses.
The Swiss Grid was a Poster House exhibition that launched on February 26, 2020. Ten days after the opening, the museum shut down due to COVID-19. We helped Poster House transition the exhibition into a remote-learning tool that provides historical and pedagogical context for some of the technical teachings of design.
Using core material from the original exhibition, the microsite shows how a particular aesthetic—referred to as “The Swiss Grid”—developed in post–World War II Switzerland and spread around the world through generations of practitioners, and how that aesthetic was used to create incredible posters for the cultural sector. The site interweaves contemporary attitudes toward teaching mid-century Modernism and the desire to both break free of and find new use for grid systems in contemporary design.
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Ashley Wu
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Fay Qiu
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Chris Manlapid, Arif Widipratomo
Web Developer
Conduit Branding & Website
Conduit
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Conduit is an interdisciplinary design consultancy led by Robert de Saint Phalle, based in Boston with partners in New York City. They work closely with a network of inspired designers, engineers, artists, and architects.
In crafting the studio’s portfolio website, we prioritized excellent functionality and a clean design profile to effectively showcase Conduit’s diverse array of projects.
View conduitprojects.com
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Sidiq Nurmawan
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Owen Febiandi
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Chris Manlapid
Developer
Style Sourcebook Website
Style Sourcebook
Style Sourcebook is a web-based digital mood board application tailored for interior styling, which serves as an essential tool for Australia’s real estate, design, architecture, and startup sectors.
To address the need for a user-friendly mood board tool, we crafted a visually stunning and highly functional web app that integrates products from local furniture vendors and collaborations with renowned interior designers, creating a central resource for custom interior design projects. The result is a responsive and award-winning web app that delivers real-time updates from a comprehensive vendor database. This innovation not only won the Australian Web Awards 2017 in the Best Startup category, but has also seen continuous growth, with over a thousand mood boards created to date.
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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Jennifer Clark
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Lisa Cousens
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Zaki Fitria
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Andini Pratiwi
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Arif Widipratomo
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Rachmat Kurnia
Web Developer
AIA Brooklyn Website
AIA Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), established in 1894, is the second-largest of the Institute’s five chapters in the New York City region. KUDOS was tasked with creating AIA Brooklyn’s website.
The website boasts a highly functional design, incorporating key elements such as effective typographic hierarchy, color blocks for information grouping, and clear calls to action that guide users seamlessly through the site. Its standout feature is the “Find an Architect” function, which empowers users to effortlessly locate architects in the Brooklyn area from a curated list and access their contact information, fostering community engagement and enhancing opportunities for architectural services.
View aiabrooklyn.org
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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Fay Qiu
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Owen Febiandi
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Amanda Knott
Project Manager -
Chris Manlapid
Web Developer
Bathhouse Studios Website
Bathhouse Studios
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Bathhouse Studios is a beautifully renovated bathhouse building in the heart of Manhattan that has been converted into a private street-level luxury event venue. The space hosts various events such as product launches, press events, seated dinners, runway shows, film screenings, brand activations, galas, and retail pop-ups. Notable clients include Nike, Lacoste, Vogue, Lamborghini, and Ford.
The website KUDOS designed for Bathhouse Studios includes detailed information on its event spaces, functionality for making reservations, past events hosted by the studio, the building’s history, and much more. The website’s design adds to the studio’s luxury appeal by seamlessly blending captivating visual elements like animated graphics of the front facade, a subtle parallax animation of images and text, prominent large typography, and a sleek full-screen menu.
View bathhousestudios.com
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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Fay Qiu
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Owen Febiandi
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Putu Yogiswara
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Amanda Knott
Project Manager -
Christian Juniady Setiawan
Web Developer
ACT Report
Snap Inc. x The Aspen Institute
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The Action to Catalyze Tech (ACT) Report is an ever-evolving repository for accountability and engagement in the tech industry, created in response to an industry-wide call to action to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the sector.
KUDOS created a comprehensive PDF report hosted on a responsive website that features ever-expanding video archives of talks on this topic. We incorporated a call to action for engagement and accountability, along with multimedia integration and annual updates to reflect the organization’s current summit. Engaging visual elements like illustrations and color blocks were used to offset the heavy amount of information, making the report accessible and visually appealing.
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Ashley Wu
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Owen Febiandi
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Chris Manlapid
Software Developer -
Christian Juniady Setiawan
Software Developer
SPIDERHORSE Visual Identity System & Swag
SPIDERHORSE
Focus Area
Client
Based out of New York City, SPIDERHORSE is an award-winning beatbox duo composed of Chris Celiz and Gene Shinozaki. The two have been creating music together for seven years and expanding the capabilities of the human voice in an innovative and exciting way. The group’s symbolic mascot—a character called Mr. SPIDERHORSE—and logotype were hand-drawn by ReepsOne, their artistic idol (who is also a beatboxer).
To develop SPIDERHORSE’s new identity, we digitized that original artwork and developed a complete visual branding system and supporting assets around it that work in various formats, including an animated version. We also designed and developed their new website. We used SPIDERHORSE as a versatile character to narratively accompany the group’s music; animated, he acts as the show’s MC, guiding the event and expressing the music’s mood. (He can even multiply his legs to double as a hair comb!)
We also enjoyed pushing the boundaries of SPIDERHORSE merchandise with unique materials and techniques, including hand-dyed T-shirts, wooden combs sourced from a local woodshop in Indonesia, bamboo-handled fans, and plush toys incorporating a plethora of pastel colors to reflect the group’s vibrant artistry.
View spider.horse
KUDOS mgmt
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Kiki Katahira
Creative Director, Designer
SPIDERHORSE
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Chris Celiz and Gene Shinozaki
Conceptualizers
ReepsOne
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Openlab Branding & Website
Wesleyan University
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OpenLab is an online community platform created by Wesleyan University professor Lisa Dierker to provide project-based learning and collaboration opportunities.The project is funded through a National Science Foundation grant and supports the sharing of projects, both among students within partner classrooms and across partner schools.
KUDOS was engaged to create branding for the program, including web design and content planning. Centering our approach around the Spark—an original graphic element we created to symbolize the brand’s passion, creativity, curiosity, and divergent thinking—we developed a comprehensive visual branding system and style guidelines, complete with naming, a tagline, and a dynamic logo mark. The resulting platform was engaging, cohesive, and elegant, inviting engagement through elegant, fun design.
View openlab.studio
KUDOS Design Collaboratory
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John Kudos
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Amanda Knott
Project Manager -
Jamus Marquette
Lead Designer -
Christian Juniady Setiawan
Developer
