What happened to BBK Studio?
Hello, welcome to People Design.
BBK Studio is now People Design. Here's why.
We translate value propositions into stories, then we make things.
Recent work
Pulse Roller
Creative Byline
Harden Furniture
Innovation Works
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Discovering Design
Spout
Izzy
Cumberland
Whirlpool
Bloomscape
Design for a Cause
Graphic designers design for many reasons. Because it’s a job for a lot of us, we design for the client and their customers, and their respective needs. Some of us design for personal reasons — flyers for a friend’s band or cookbooks for your wife’s grandma. Many choose to lend their design skills to a greater [...]
Talkin’ bits with Mark Hurst
Inspired by Mark Hurst’s book, Bit Literacy, I tracked down the author and engaged him the way he suggests we all engage the various bit streams that inundate us with information every day: head-on and purposefully. Here’s how it went down… Curt: Where did the idea for the book come from? Mark: Everyone’s going to end up with [...]
Bye-bye, bits
I once worked for a company that installed a new email server every time the volume of messages in the system got too high for the old server to handle. For a small company doing business in the Information Age this way, such an upgrade can become an annual event. At the time, it was encouraging [...]
Experientia.com
Just returned from a week-long class at the Institute of Design in Chicago. It was a mix of classroom study and hands-on implementation giving us an overview of the school’s approach to innovation. The attendees were a balanced cross section of designers, IT, healthcare, and strategist. One person shared this incredible innovation blog which I hope [...]
A Brief Meditation On A Small Remedy For Workplace Malaise.
For people with office jobs, staying strong and healthy can be difficult. If one person is sick, the contagion can spread quickly through poorly filtered ventilation systems, community food bags, and casual contact. The sedentary nature of office jobs doesn’t help. We sit immobile for long periods as our blood thickens and pools in our abdomen [...]
Graphic designers design for many reasons. Because it’s a job for a lot of us, we design for the client and their customers, and their respective needs. Some of us design for personal reasons — flyers for a friend’s band or cookbooks for your wife’s grandma. Many choose to lend their design skills to a greater [...]
Talkin’ bits with Mark Hurst
Inspired by Mark Hurst’s book, Bit Literacy, I tracked down the author and engaged him the way he suggests we all engage the various bit streams that inundate us with information every day: head-on and purposefully. Here’s how it went down… Curt: Where did the idea for the book come from? Mark: Everyone’s going to end up with [...]
Bye-bye, bits
I once worked for a company that installed a new email server every time the volume of messages in the system got too high for the old server to handle. For a small company doing business in the Information Age this way, such an upgrade can become an annual event. At the time, it was encouraging [...]
Experientia.com
Just returned from a week-long class at the Institute of Design in Chicago. It was a mix of classroom study and hands-on implementation giving us an overview of the school’s approach to innovation. The attendees were a balanced cross section of designers, IT, healthcare, and strategist. One person shared this incredible innovation blog which I hope [...]
A Brief Meditation On A Small Remedy For Workplace Malaise.
For people with office jobs, staying strong and healthy can be difficult. If one person is sick, the contagion can spread quickly through poorly filtered ventilation systems, community food bags, and casual contact. The sedentary nature of office jobs doesn’t help. We sit immobile for long periods as our blood thickens and pools in our abdomen [...]