raven + crow studio is a brooklyn-born, los angeles-bred, RVA-based design studio that specializes i
raven + crow studio is a brooklyn-born, los angeles-based design studio that specializes in not being jerks. also, non-profit, corporate, and small business branding; logo development; print design; marketing strategy; illustration; and art direction for print and the web. we like to say we make the world a prettier place in two ways—first, by being good at our job, creating beautiful, effective d
raven + crow studio is a brooklyn-born, los angeles-based design studio that specializes in not being jerks. also, non-profit, corporate, and small business branding; logo development; print design; marketing strategy; illustration; and art direction for print and the web. we like to say we make the world a prettier place in two ways—first, by being good at our job, creating beautiful, effective d
Operating as usual
Our design studio marks 16 years officially in business this week, having filed our LLC paperwork with the state of New York August 10th in 2006.
Here we are that same month, celebrating in Montauk after an early client—a now-defunct Hamptons/Long Island culture mag—gifted us a stay at a b+b for the weekend.
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#2006
New cards v old.
New ones are full-color Luxe Business Cards from Moo, printed on 32pt, double-thick, Mohawk Superfine stock with color seams made using wind power.
Old are two-color letterpress, first printed in Brooklyn in 2009, then again in 2014 in Milford, Ohio on 40pt Fluorescent White Lettra from Crane’s.
No idea who’s at the other end of our old Los Angeles studio phone number.
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We did some logo + branding work for Louis Abramson, a scientist, community organizer, and renter who’s running for California State Assembly in our old home district—AD 51, which runs southwest from Griffith Park all the way to the Pacific coast of Santa Monica.
His campaign’s highlighting the massive income gap and housing shortage in the district, addressing the needs and challenges faced by unhoused residents, and climate change.
Check him out over at + louisforca.com and remember to vote, California! Election Day is June 7th and your last day to register to vote is next Monday, May 23rd!
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Our hand-done, vector illustration that compiles the ten individual illustrations we made of our top ten favorite albums from last year.
Side note—if anyone needs any illustration work done in this vein, give us a shout and/or feel free to share. We’d love to do more like this and past similar illustrations.
This work accompanies a larger piece on our web journal with text, all ten original album covers that inspired the art, five runners up, and a playlist with 15 songs from those 15 total albums, all of which you can check out here: https://ravenandcrowstudio.com/journal/
Last year was seriously an amazing year for music—a huge thanks to all the artists who gave us much-needed escape, inspiration, and beauty.
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Some pages from the 2021-2022 Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion school calendar we created for First Book—tag a teacher here or forward on to anyone in the education field who might find this piece useful. Here's the link:
https://bit.ly/DiversityCal2122
From the project intro—The U.S. population is becoming more and more diverse, and the need to embrace the many cultures in our classrooms is more important than ever. When a student’s learning environment respects their history, values, beliefs, and traditions, students and their families are better positioned to thrive in school.
This calendar was designed in response to First Book member feedback that revealed the challenges many educators face in finding time or resources to regularly celebrate culture, diversity & inclusion with their students. Each month, you’ll find a suggested day to celebrate that includes recommended resources from First Book and suggestions for a class, group, or family focused activity. You will also see month long observances, religious observances, and added dates of cultural, historical, or inclusive significance that have been included for 2021-2022.
Being culturally competent—having the ability to successfully teach students who come from cultures other than one’s own—is critical to the success of our increasingly diverse student population and society.
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Meet Alice Cherng + Belinda Wei, two best friends who bonded over their mutual love for vegan ice cream and opened Dear Bella Creamery in Hollywood.
We’ve been working with Alice + Belinda for the past year to develop a new brand as they grow their business, creating a new logo to go with a new name (fka Cocobella), brand color ways and treatments, brand elements to extend into the look of the brick + mortar, and products to create a cohesive look, like in-store menus, tees, cooler bags, business cards, and more. We even made some transitional pint labels (pictured) as they work through blank pints before debuting the new ones we designed for them.
If you’re in Los Angeles or visiting soon, check them out—they’re in the heart of Hollywood at Fountain + Vine.
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Feelings on the trajectory of our newly readopted home *state*—not great.
Feelings on the trajectory of our newly adopted *home* state—the opposite.
We’ll get pics up of the new office space as we work to spruce it up, along with some brand sprucing for r+c in the new year.
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Some of the many, many, many reasons we're voting for Virginia state Democrats up and down the ballot this November 2 election. Chances are, if you're reading this, you know someone who can vote in our newly re-adopted home of Virginia—we ask you to reach out to anyone you know who can, right now, and urge them to vote to keep Virginia healthy, to keep Virginia blue.
Today's the deadline to apply to vote by mail and Election Day in Virginia is a mere two weeks away—visit IWillVote.com today to check your registration status, find your polling place, and apply to vote by mail. And please do share this post. Thanks, y'all.
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Us, the last time we called Virginia home, almost 22 years ago.
Since then, we've called DC, NYC, and LA our homes, each bluer and more progressive than the last. But in all that time away, while we built our lives together afar, residents of our home state have been building a bluer, more progressive society right here, standing up for fellow Virginians to make this state a more just, safe, and vibrant place to call home, which we do now again, after so many years. We've moved our business and our family to Virginia and we're fully invested in keeping it the deepest of blues.
Which is why we're urging everyone reading this to reach out to anyone you know who's registered to vote in Virginia—the election is less than two weeks away and this is a big one, with lives on the line, here and elsewhere, and all eyes on how successful the GOP can be post-2020.
That's also why we're voting Democrat up and down the ballot, very much including incumbent Attorney General Mark Herring whose record on the environment, women's rights, and accessible health care here in the state speaks for itself. Katie and I met at James Madison University's student activities night across a table for the student environmental association and we were both also heavily involved in the college feminist group throughout school, so those issues are inherently close to our hearts, especially now that our family's grown and we look to a future of Nico growing up here. We need an Attorney General who will stand up for what we think is just and right for all the state's residents, not one who's going to spend the next four years dismantling all the progress that's been made here in the past decade.
Please share, please reach out, please vote on November 2.
Democratic Attorneys General Association
And, full disclosure—this post was Paid for by DAGA PAC, dems.ag. Not authorized by a candidate or candidate's committee.
But we mean every single word--encouraging everyday Virginia residents like us to make their voices heard and get out there to encourage others to push for positive change at the ballot box. Peace and wish us luck, y'all!
Glass Animals easily have the best site on the web
https://opensource.glassanimals.com
Pre-order new album Dreamland, get latest news, listen to music, watch videos & download files via Glass Animals Open Source.
A new book goes micro to show the wonderful world of close-up chemical reactions.
we've been working with the United Nations OCHA on this report on new + emerging tech for over a year now—this week, they commemorate its release with a launch event co-hosted by the kingdom of the netherlands and featuring speakers from the UnitedNations, the kingdom of the netherlands, Microsoft, emerging impact, and more, and we're proud to have been a part of the entire effort.
the art direction celebrates the united nations’ 75th anniversary with the cover illustration of the un's first mainframe computer system, an IBM 7044/1401, first used in 1965. prior to this date the ibm mechanical punched card tabulator was used for tabulating + computing summary statistics, with member states providing data on magnetic tape or punched card format.
download the full report and/or two-page summary we created for them over at ocha's site:
https://www.unocha.org/research-and-reports
Your favorite logo designs get a retro-inspired makeover
Get inspired by this graphic designer's collection of retro-inspired logo designs.
art we did to accompany the best of 2020 mixtape we released in january—compiles illustrations inspired by the album art from our favorite releases of last year. give the mix a listen via mixcloud and on our web journal—link in bio.
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#2020
hanging over our current workstation in rva
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over six years ago at kcrw's 2014 halloween masquerade ball when we went as tippi hedren and a raven from hitchcock's the birds—actually made the finals for their costume contest that year, which is saying a lot given the highly talented creators that attended that party.
ah, parties.
we'll get there again one day.
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#2014
intently wishing for a peaceful week in washington, in capitals across the country, and specifically here today, in our newly-adopted home of richmond, virginia, as gun-rights groups in the state again turn what is nationally recognized as a day honoring peace + service into a day of hate + fear-mongering.
this is the site of the robert e. lee memorial in richmond—the last standing confederate monument on namesake monument avenue after all the others were torn down by the city last year in this, the former capital of the confederacy. the circle where it stands was central to last year's anti-racist uprisings here—the statue is on state property and also set to come down later this year, but its remaining served as a call to action to the activists here. in the early days of the protests, someone left a piece of paper at the base of the statue reading "welcome to beautiful marcus-david peters circle". marcus-david peters was a 24-year-old black high school teacher in richmond who was fatally shot by richmond police in 2018 while experiencing a mental break, naked and unarmed. even after a new review of the case last fall, no charges were filed against the police for the murder. that piece of paper honoring peters grew into this—memorials, protest art, lending libraries, and a peaceful gathering place for area activists intent on making their city a better place for all.
today—martin luther king jr. day—was co-opted as 'lobby day' by a racist gun-rights group years ago in virginia as part of the second amendment sanctuary movement. at last year's rally, there was fear of violence from neo-nazi groups and the governor declared a state of emergency. with the recent violence in washington, everyone here is even more on edge and some from the gun-rights community have promised to follow their rally near the science museum where the general assembly will convene with a march here, to beautiful marcus-david peters circle to "take back their state".
so if you're reading this, wish us peace, wish us reason above fear, and wish that love really does win against hate in the end.
we're not going to pretend we haven't done our fair share of sourdough-baking, zoom happy hours, and just general freaking out throughout these past ten months. but we also made an active effort as a creative agency to put our talents to good use and try to work more with groups we think are making communities a better place in this very important time of social change.
so we were honored when los angeles' SELAH neighborhood homeless coalition asked us to help them revise and evolve their brand identity. honestly, their initial logo + brand was something we already loved—it was fun + lively in a line of work that usually begs stoicism and un-fun. our role was more about giving some overall, ongoing brand advice and to address some functionality issues with the original colorways and forms while maintaining the things that made the brand effective in the first place.
for anyone who doesn't know them, SELAH facilitates direct action with the unhoused in los angeles—providing food, clothing, resources, and advocacy, amongst other things—but they also recognize unhoused individuals as fellow members of the los angeles community, worthy of the same dignity, respect, and representation afforded to any housed person and are working to educate + encourage others to do the same, which is really one of the things that made us fall in love with them when we were introduced to their work last year. plus they were co-founded by our old district's new city council member, nithya raman, who we're pretty sure is not only going to make los angeles a far better place, but influence other cities all over to do the same when they all see her success in putting people first in society (no pressure though, nithya).
we're continuing to work with SELAH and a larger group of amazing creatives they've assembled to build a stronger brand, all in the effort to build a stronger, more compassionate, more effective community-centric city; one that we'll always consider a home, even while we no longer live + work within its physical boundaries.
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draft branding in the wild.
when we're working through our branding process with clients and exploring different concepts, we always like to show draft logos as they would be used on branded products—websites, socials, print products, merch—so clients can more clearly envision how their brand would look in the real world, not just in a void.
these are two concepts we developed for a los angeles hypnotherapist, one stemming from the hypnotic patterns created by the flight paths of birds depicted by various artists, the second inspired by the ouroboros, an ancient symbol depicting a snake eating its own tail, which, in turn was inspired by the client's personal story about how he got into hypnotherapy in the first place. carl jung saw the ouroboros as a representation of ‘devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process...a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite.’
we ended up going a more maze-like route with imagery, but we always liked these two and the site mocks we did for them. you can always check out more branding and other design work—and some of the stories behind it all—on our site; link in profile.
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four years ago today, marching in the streets of los angeles protesting the trump presidency, followed by a night of celebrating 30 years of farm sanctuary, the farm animal sanctuary we rebranded so many years back. my how things have/haven't changed.
plus a vegan candy with the logo we created for fs and our late great mooshoes los angeles team ringing in the night. love y'all!
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#2016
raven + crow studio—specializing in not being jerks since 2006.
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who needs to break up their feed with cute animals? us too.
these are some print ads we recently did for last chance for animals, a los angeles based animal rights nonprofit that's worked since 1985 to eliminate animal exploitation through direct action, education, investigations, legislation, and media attention. they do some great work—check em out.
you may now return to your doom-scrolling (but no, don't).
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a plea:
even if you believe our political systems are broken (they are), even if these are not our chosen progressive candidates (they're not), even if they both have questionable records in many areas (they do), vote biden-harris.
for fear of coming off as a bit hyperbolic, we cannot survive another four years of this administration, some of us very literally.
if you can't bring yourself to vote for biden-harris, tell yourself you're voting against hate and do it anyway.
also, let's all do our part to educate ourselves in our local elections, which are in many ways even more important than these national ones. go nythia!
that is all. thank you.
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