DISTINC_

Full-service strategic design firm dedicated to better communication for a better world. https://twitter.com/DISTINC_
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We design positive social impact. We believe good causes drive long-term social impact in our society that ripples beyond our shore to touch others across the world. Change starts with shifting the dialogue and creating conversations about things that matter. Change starts with us, all together. Together, apathy doesn't stand a chance. Together, we can do better.

12/11/2024

Absolutely-amazing visit at San Antonio Botanical Garden. So much to take in and learn. Thank you for the great tour . Grateful 🙏🌷🌹🌺🪻🌸🪷🌵🌳☘️🌿🌱🍃🍁🍁🍂

12/09/2024

Nothing makes us happier than to see our clients thrive in the pursuit of their missions. Here’s to their many accomplishment of 2024 — an incredible year of mutual growth, evolution, and awe.

MIT Sloan School of Management boldly redefined what it means to be a class of one. Science Museum of Minnesota turned ON science. Cleveland Institute of Art celebrated the vastness of artists and designers' voices. Colburn School staged its future with the groundbreaking of its Frank Gehry-designed campus expansion. The Help Group embraced a more helpful, more hopeful, and more human future. Scripps College engaged their alumnae community with creative form and content. Ojai Music Festival created merchandise as dynamic as this years performances. Presidents at St. John's College emphasized the importance of conversation in this year's annual report.

11/01/2024

Grateful for October. Wrapping up a chapter in Highland Park and opening a new one in Pasadena. Forward.

10/05/2024

Focus on people. Your brand will follow.
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07/19/2024

New horizons. The newest Scripps College alumnae magazine is out. The fresh new issue features amazing illustrations by Vivian Monteiro, a proud ’23 alumn who alongside the cover lent her talent to ‘The Guarantee of the Unexpected’ feature. We’re grateful for the continued trust and freedom granted by the marketing and communications team at and we’re already thinking about the upcoming Fall release 🙏

06/28/2024

June, thank you for everything. You’ve been really good to us 🙏Can’t believe it’s been 24 years since we started thinking about prioritizing and putting design thinking to and to make

06/18/2024

We're planning the 25th anniversary of The Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy at USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. We started off yesterday with a constructive critique of our very own work — over a decade of creative collaborations we’re grateful for. We’re excited to keep on elevating the bar.

06/13/2024

All is full of love — as seen and experienced in the Board Room at . We’re thrilled to engage in an exciting branding initiative as we put our heads (and hearts) together to envision a neurodivergent-affirming future for the agency’s schools and programs 💞

05/08/2024

Source is all around us. Source is in front of our very eyes ✨

05/01/2024

Everything we do at appeals to the needs and dreams of real people. Some agencies refer to them as users, segments, or statistics. We prefer to think of them as people. We position brands and architect communication plans with someone in mind—a young student overwhelmed by her college options, or an arts enthusiast in search of alternatives to mainstream definition of beauty. It takes more than creativity to make a brand successful. It takes a stubborn commitment to honoring human connections.

04/12/2024

The office. La officina. Le bureau. The studio. Thoughts generating. Ideas multiplying. Creativity flowing. Concepts going up and up on the wall. Some make the cut. Some don’t. One rallies everyone. It gets refined. It gets iterated. It gets to see the light of day. It amplifies. We amplify.

04/03/2024

Today we helped launch a new website for Park Century School. The visual language we designed gives a voice to students with learning differences. Because neurodiversity makes humanity brilliant. Because no two brains work quite the same way. There are many ways that someone can be neurodivergent. One is dyslexia. Another is ADHD. And there are many more. Traditional education is not designed to help neurodivergent people learn, but Park Century is, proudly and intentionally. Park Century School applies expertise in neuroscience upon a foundation of social-emotional stability: empowering young learners to equip themselves to elevate their strengths, navigate their challenges, and grow into their power to lead us toward the genuinely inclusive world we need.

03/19/2024

The annual report we designed for attempts to answer the question “What is the state of St. John’s College in 2024?” with honesty and complexity. It embraces a contrarian approach to a conventional annual report, and stages a conversation where Presidents Mark Roosevelt and Nora Demleitner explore this question in the characteristically contrarian St. John’s style.
Now, eight years after the launch of the $300 million Freeing Minds campaign (designed by DISTINC_ link in bio), President Roosevelt will soon retire and President Demleitner will assume the collegewide presidency. To help the college community understand the last eight years, the two presidents sat down to discuss how the college has changed during this time, and how it has remained the same.

03/08/2024

We’re thrilled to kickstart a long-time coming brand initiative with . We put our heads together this morning and look forward to finding internal clarity in order to build external resonance for their amazing programs ✨ #.

11/02/2023

Thank you for your warm welcome and for yet another great immersive visit . We can’t wait to return to Cleveland with ideas to shift the dialogue to what matters.

10/24/2023

We partnered with to develop the visual identity of Building Our Future, an ambitious campaign to expand world-class training and performance opportunities for the next generation of creative thinkers. Frank Gehry designed a magnificent new concert hall with a unique ceiling made of acoustic clouds inspired by René Magritte. The new campaign theme was proudly displayed this weekend at Grand Ave Arts All Access.

07/31/2023

(Already) half way through summer! We’ve been thinking and ideating and iterating and planning and writing and designing and surprising ourselves in the process

07/26/2023

Thank you for your warm welcome as we embark on this journey of discovery together.

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Sneak peek at the cover of the upcoming @scrippscollege magazine hitting mailboxes later this week. After publishing the last two issues digitally, we are delighted to return to paper for a genuine page turning experience. We are grateful for the trust the Marketing and Communications team has given DISTINC_ over the years when it comes to creative interpretation. Our continued partnership made for some truly stunning design features in this Fall’s Critical Thinking issue. 🎨 @mattbucknall @jeanmarcdurviaux . #makethingshappen #makethingspretty #peoplenotfonts #publicationdesign #magazinedesign #editorialdesign #collegemagazine #higheredmarketing #criticalthinking #brandevolution

😅 getting a little preview of summer in LA with temperatures over 90 today. Summer programs ‘21 at @newroadsschool designed by @schluditsch . #makethingshappen #makethingspretty #peoplenotfonts

How great is it to visit the objects we designers acquire, collect, and codify over the years? The things of curiosity, things of historical value, rare items and novelties, those things that other people may not see value or beauty in, but we do. . #joy #collection #research #reference #graphicdesign101 #graphicdesigner #designerlife #onceadesigneralwaysadesigner #designerswhocare

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Education is a system. Historically, that system relied on the factory model: top-down management, outcomes designed to meet societal needs, and efficiency at any cost. These days, many schools are reverse-engineered to spit out students ready-made for college. AP exams, standardized testing, and grade inflation contribute to a system focused more on efficiency than student potential. So what is our collective response? Too often, it is to maintain broken methods because trying something new is scary. We can’t change the system overnight: reshaping education will take generations. But that doesn’t mean we should sit idle. The founding documents of our country burst with inspiration. Messages of equity, self-determination, and the right to a good life still ring true. The opening statement of the Declaration asserts that when a system is broken, those within the system should challenge it. So what does that mean for education? We must democratize opportunity, ensuring that all have seats at the table. We must create a habitat where student-driven learning cultivates inquiring minds. We must challenge our assumptions and break bad habits. We must do the hard work of identifying our values, and the even harder work of living up to them. #educationmarketing #makethingshappen #makethingspretty #peoplenotfonts #peoplewhocare #designerswhocare #cousciousness #senseuncommon #brandevolution #publishingdesign #graphicdesign

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