Design

Your Meetings Don’t Have to Suck

by Anthony Closkey, February 14, 2020

Meetings have a nasty reputation as 30-to-90-minute wastes of time. Meetings also come with a human cost. They poke holes in your daily workflow and detract from your focus. But, this doesn’t have to be your reality — your meetings don’t have to suck!

Preparation Leads to Great Design: Annual Report Tips for Success

by Sarah Mayer, September 10, 2019

Annual report design does not need to be an afterthought. Lift up the visibility of your organization’s story with a thoughtful design that makes an impact. Make the most of your annual or impact report with these preparation tips.

How much impact can one straw have? The Straw Forward Project

by Shift Collaborative, July 8, 2019

How do you persuade people to rethink something that is deeply embedded in their lives — so embedded that daily life would be radically different without it? With the Straw Forward project, we encouraged conversation about a nuanced issue.

The Dialect of Design

by Shift Collaborative, August 7, 2018

When you travel, you realize a lot of things about the way you communicate. During a recent trip, I began to think about the fact that graphic design has its own “regional accent,” not unlike spoken communication.

PUMP Brand Refresh: Elevating a Storied Brand

by Shift Collaborative, September 27, 2017

At Shift Collaborative, we love creating brand identities because it’s a chance for our whole team to get together and contribute to something meaningful that will be visible in our community. We were especially eager to work on a new brand identity for the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project, or PUMP as it is known to […]