We're a small design consultancy, and each of our clients has a great importance to our lives. We can measure time through our collaborations and the experiences that came with each project. We're a creative couple and we love what we do.
We're also busy co-founders of the Peruvian NGO, Threads of Peru. We have kids, a cat and we’re always debating about whether or not to get a dog. We have a garden and two hives of honeybees in our yard. We’re always creating something. Whether it’s a Halloween costume, or a Christmas decoration; a new design for a beehive, or a visual identity for one of our clients - creativity surrounds us.
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Great design is not style; it does not have a look. Great design is born of a great conversation; a sharing of collective strengths between capable people. A design should fit the needs of people - people should not be made to fit their lives around a design. Great design appears in many forms, and in many “styles”.
As you look through examples of our work, you are seeing the culmination of human interactions. You are looking at the results of vastly differing processes of collaboration. These are design solutions to a variety of real-world problems, and what they look like reflects the great variety of needs and circumstances that surrounded their creation. We like to see our clients in our work, as their perspectives necessarily shape the outcome of our design process.
Adam holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design, and a Bachelor of Communication Design degree. He has worked as a designer in the offices of large corporations, as well as within the design studio of renowned architect, Brian MacKay-Lyons. Adam taught university design for several years, including senior-level studio courses in collaborative design.
Angie holds of Bachelor of Design Interdisciplinary degree. Core to Angie’s philosophy is the idea that design should be used to help people; to have a positive impact on society. Angie worked in magazine publishing, and as a freelance graphic designer for several years before the establishment of Violet.
Somewhere along the way, during our art school days, we happened upon some of the attributes and meanings associated with violet. Here are a few of them:
• The colour violet has the highest vibration of any colour in the visible spectrum of light, making it is the most difficult to see and accurately identify. It’s an interesting metaphor for design. If something is designed well, its design becomes invisible as the product functions and human needs are served. People get on with their lives. Design becomes most visible when there is a need for it - when something doesn’t function well and problems arise.
• In Chinese painting, the color violet represents the harmony of the universe because it is the perfect balance between the warmest (red) and coolest of colours (blue).
• Violet represents the future and is associated with imagination and inspiration.
• Violet is the colour of creativity. It encourages creative pursuits and seeking inspiration and originality through creative endeavors.
In light of these associations, the colour violet has always meant good things to us. It’s as simple as that.