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January 5, 2012

The Best Of 2011

Wunderlist Radiohead – The King of Limbs eBoy visits Seattle  – Maru Hipster Ipsum: Placeholder text that combines the latiny flair of lorem ipsum with the sullen sensibility of hipster speak.  MakePhotoshopFaster.com: Exactly what it says! Just two quick changes to your preferences make all the difference. The Great Discontent: One of the most beautiful [...]

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December 28, 2011

Joining the Team

We’re happy to welcome the latest member of the DC team, Michael Barakat. A recent Philly transpalant, Michael leading our product team, supporting both Luxe Plates and UIStencils.com . Clearly, dude’s got his work cut out for him. Welcome aboard, big guy.

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November 9, 2011

Seattle Creative Mornings: Episode 1 – Matt Shobe

I’ve been helping a friend get Creative Mornings going here in Seattle and we held our first event last week. It was a fair amount of work to make this whole thing happen, but fortunately I met the wonderful Bryan Zug and he continues to be instrumental in making our events possible – Thank you [...]

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August 29, 2011

Looking for a good cause?

If you are looking for a way to give back and support a great cause, may we suggest you attend the annual Art With Heart Color of Hope Benefit Breakfast? If you aren’t familiar with Art with Heart, definitely check them out – from their web site: Art with Heart helps kids through the healing [...]

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June 10, 2011

Fresh Designers Straight from Spokane

Last week, DC hosted a tour for a group of design students from Spokane Falls Community College who are graduating in just a few days. In their short time here, we showed them around the studio and our UI Stencils production area, and talked to them about the variety of different creative work that comes [...]

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May 27, 2011

Sharpening Our Creative Edge

At Design Commission, we spend most of our time looking at screens full of pixels. After all, the screen is our medium of choice for crafting innovative products that meet the needs of our clients and their customers. As beloved as our super-high-resolution displays are to us, though, we are also firm believers in exploring [...]

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April 7, 2011

Seattle 2.0 Awards Finalist!

Our very own Jay Dokken has been selected as part of the finalists for the 2011 Seattle 2.0 Awards. This is huge for us – Jay’s been instrumental in designing some of Seattle’s many great start-ups and it’s an honor for both him and the studio to be selected this year. If you’re keen on [...]

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February 14, 2011

DC: In Our (o so awkward) Youth

I’m not sure how this idea was brought about, but a few weeks back a fellow DC’er had one of those ideas that’s bound for glory for the second it’s uttered: DC in our painfully awkward years, the blog post.  We’ve been comparing and embracing our most gawky-nerdy-buck-toothed-pre-tween snaps and taking a good long strolls [...]

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