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#Zerflin is a design agency. We champion underdog clients & believe in running a company without being evil. Founder: @benjancewicz

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"But Slavery was So Long Ago..."
"Why can't you just get over it?"

We were commissioned to create a graph tattoo showing how it wasn't that long ago at all.

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Happy birthday, Walter Sondheim Jr.!
Thanks to his efforts, Baltimore became the first district below the Mason-Dixon line to desegregate its public schools.

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It's Moon Landing Day. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 put us on another world. This one dreams up three.

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https://t.co/YC3GzgirLA

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Happy birthday, Abdu Ali!
The mind behind the podcast Drumbooty, where intellectuals and activists dig into gender politics and colorism.

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https://t.co/GDpYtu6brX

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Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela!
His birth name, Rolihlahla, literally means to pull a branch off a tree, and colloquially, troublemaker.

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The cross takes its shape from the Church of Saint George in Lalibela, carved into the Ethiopian rock, rooting the faith at its heart in African Christianity. https://t.co/9wyNTEEqxr

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Harambee means "all pull together" in Swahili, so we built a logo that does exactly that: three bands woven into one shield around a cross.

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Gold bars down both edges and the mark drawn as fine blueprint linework curling in from the margins, framing the letter without crowding it.

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For Guider, "the consulting guide," the letterhead carried the compass down the full page.

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The compass logo up in the return corner and a single gold outline of the open compass resting in the lower right, more watermark than decoration.

https://t.co/IeiOHBnhDc

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For Guider, "the consulting guide," the envelope kept it spare.

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A gold band of blueprint linework, the dial, gears, and bearings laid bare. Precision and direction.

https://t.co/qeGUpUF3Ef

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For Guider, "the consulting guide," the business card took the compass from the logo and opened it right up.

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Soak it in. We're in the sunniest stretch of the year, and this one is pure blue sky, green hills, and a star balloon catching the breeze.

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The G became an open brass compass, the instrument you reach for to take a bearing. One warm, classic mark.

https://t.co/5UxakXIcrb

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Guider, "the consulting guide," was Kathy "Kaye" Guider's consulting practice, so we made the logo literal.

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A lace-like damask frames it, all black and white, and the back opens around one photo of a finished dress under "made just for you." Designed by Jocelyn Mathewes.

https://t.co/fY2mr99Q9P

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Gowns by G makes wedding dresses one bride at a time, so we art-directed a card that feels like the gown, not the shop.

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@TeamPodium Every page is one full-bleed photo of a bike with the content in a dark panel over it, the red badge locked in place. A collaboration with Reneé Moss Consulting.

https://t.co/fNXLCqabWW

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Back in 2011 we built Podium Multisport's (@TeamPodium) first website, and treated it like a cycling magazine, not a storefront.

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The trick is the color. Only the top crust and the near side are filled in, and your eye finishes the rest against the cream. One mark, one color, still unmistakably bread.

https://t.co/gJZtKPC5pP

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For God's Kitchen, a caterer whose whole idea is breaking bread together, we drew the logo as a single warm loaf.