Lewis Pogue Artisan Chocolate

Lewis Pogue Artisan Chocolate emphas!s created a comprehensive brand identity system and packaging for Lewis Pogue Artisan Chocolate, a family-run, bean-to-bar company in Atlanta, Georgia. The name, composed of maternal and paternal names from the founder’s family line, is a nod to the family tradition of adventure, ingenuity, and a future for the art of [...]

City Harvest

City Harvest Capital Campaign City Harvest is NYC’s largest food rescue organization. When forced to find a new rescue and repack facility, City Harvest asked emphas!s to design capital campaign materials and signage for their new home that will scale and innovate their operations to feed even more New Yorkers. emphas!s branded the campaign and [...]

Brooklyn Friends School Capital Campaign

Brooklyn Friends School Capital Campaign The Brooklyn Friends School had a long-held dream to relocate its Upper School to accommodate its growing student population. emphas!s design created capital campaign materials to support a new state-of-the-art Upper School facility for Brooklyn Friends School. In addition, this campaign raised money for the school's endowment for academic and [...]

DUMBO Improvement District

Dumbo Improvement District emphas!s design created the branding for the DUMBO Improvement District in Brooklyn. DUMBO (whose name is an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) was a neighborhood in transformation. Originally a gritty industrial district, it was now a community of families, galleries, and tech start-ups. The identity reflects the Belgian block, [...]

The Gateway Schools

The Gateway Schools emphas!s rebranded The Gateway Schools, an innovative school for children with learning differences in NYC. When Gateway added a Middle and Upper School, emphas!s created a color-coded identity that represented the school as a unified whole that also had independent divisions. emphas!s applied this elegant and flexible system to various promotional and [...]

Opera America

Opera America emphas!s design rebranded and created promotional materials, publications, and a new website for OPERA America, an organization dedicated to opera's creation, presentation, and enjoyment. emphas!s also designed placemaking, wayfinding, and donor signage for the National Opera Center, founded by OPERA America to meet the pressing need for facilities and support services for its [...]

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy emphas!s design created promotional and fundraising material for this 85-acre post-industrial waterfront park along Brooklyn’s East River edge, which features lawns, playgrounds, bike paths, and a promenade with spectacular views of the NY Harbor and Manhattan skyline. For the Conservancy, emphas!s created brochures, posters, web and print advertisements, event graphics, and [...]

Brooklyn Friends School

Brooklyn Friends School emphas!s design created promotional, fundraising, and event material for Brooklyn Friends School, a K through 12 Independent Quaker school in downtown Brooklyn. Over the years, emphas!s created brochures, posters, invitations, publications, logos, and advertisements to promote the school's fundraising events and cultural and education programs. CLIENT Brooklyn Friends School SERVICES Print & [...]

The Open Society

The Open Society The Open Society is one of the largest philanthropic organizations globally and is committed to building inclusive democracies. For the Open Society, emphas!s design created internal and external promotional and grant-making materials, including brochures, posters, digital graphics and presentations, and infographics. CLIENT The Open Society SERVICES Print & Digital Communications, Infographics SECTOR [...]