Quite Strong

Quite Strong is proud to have curated Support; a fantastic show comprised of Lust Listers and Chicago Artists’ Coalition members. Support is presented by Twelve Galleries Project Quarterly Site #9 and hosted by CAC’s Hatch Projects. Twelve Galleries Project is helmed by the incredible Chicago curator, Jamilee Polson Lacy. Featuring: Designers. Alanna MacGowan / Cave [...]

The Butcher and Larder moved in down the street from the Quite Strong studio earlier this year. I was thrilled to have a shop specializing in delicious beef, poultry, charcuterie and sausage on the block. Rob and Allie, the owners of B&L, are established chefs in Chicago and have gone back to their passion of [...]

Po Campo is an accessory line developed by two female industrial designers Emily Taylor and Maria Boustead gives female cyclists attractive and functional bag options. They hired us for a new catalog for their 2011 Spring line. On a tight budget and timeline, Elaine designed and art directed while Jana provided some illustrations to give [...]

The National Science Foundation gave out a grant to the Girl Scouts of America in order to encourage young, multicultural women to choose careers in engineering. By a stroke of luck, our good friend Chrissie Brodigan of Think Vitamin fame hooked us up with the task of developing the website. Victoria and Elaine very excitedly [...]

On June 11th, 2011, we were asked to speak at Weapons of Mass Creation Fest in Cleveland, OH. Although most of us had some sort of previous speaking engagements, we were really excited and honored to take the stage all together. Being that WMCFest is a grass-roots DIY-type conference, with admission for the weekend being [...]

On May 14th, we participated in a career day at Marwen. If you aren’t familiar with Marwen, it’s an incredible organization. Marwen provides the highest quality art education—free of charge—to Chicago’s under-served youth. As a collaborative that knows how important it is to support the creative community, we think Marwen is just amazing. Each year, [...]

Typeforce 2 makes a strong case for Chicago’s place as the second city of typographic design. – Chicago Weekly ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Quite Strong was delighted to be chosen as a participant in the second annual Typeforce; a Showcase of Emerging Typographic Allstars. We created a [...]

This project was just about as fun as they come. I was contacted by Jason Schwartz of Bright Bright Great who was looking for a truly hand-crafted wordmark for the upcoming website redesign of a gem of a restaurant in Logan Square, Bonsoirée. Bonsoirée is a well-respected Japanese/French restaurant that puts heavy emphasis on locally [...]

To celebrate the release of the November/December issue, Design Bureau Magazine teamed up with The Impossible Project and asked 10 different creative entities to capture their daily inspiration on Polaroid film. With Death’s Door Spirits generously providing vodka and gin, the photographs were displayed to a packed house at Chicago’s Bar Deville — a fittingly [...]

Elaine and Victoria teamed up to give a Chicago start-up a new identity. Evolyte is a marketing agency focused on design, development and strategy, owned by Jeff Ringgenberg and Sean Everett. Looking for a female perspective in their all-male company, they saw us on Design Chat (thanks to Lust Lister Mikey Kinney), and asked us [...]