Quite Strong

Quite Strong is proud to have curated Support; a fantastic show comprised of Lust Listers and Chicago Artists’ Coalition members. This a sampling of the official Support catalog we created to commemorate the evening. Be sure to check out the photos from installation to opening night! Also, read the Support’s preview in TimeOut Chicago!

We had the lovely Dr. Lauren Miller, a local clinical psychologist, come to us during a transition. She was changing offices and needed a new look for her website. Her new website, ChicagoTherapyNow.com, includes the standard fair in additional to a blog-style “resources” page where the doctor is constantly uploading helpful links for her patients [...]

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 [...]

DesignChat is an awesome way to interact with the design community. Once a week via webcast, Ryan McGovern has a special guest on to chat about design, life, and the culture surrounding design. Quite Strong was invited in September. If you missed the show live, you can now catch it on iTunes. Thanks for having [...]

For this year’s Holiday Gala, the STA reached out to local designers to create each letter of the alphabet. All 26 letters will be framed and auctioned off to help support The Jack Weiss Scholarship Fund. The Jack Weiss Scholarship Fund provides talented students in the communication arts with $500-$1000 scholarships to help with their [...]

Three of the Quite Strong girls, Elaine, Jana, and Jennifer participated in the first ever Two Night Stand, a weekend-long creative experiment. There were about 20 creatives & web developers all together that were asked to do some work for two dudes, Jason & Josh, who were brewing beer out of their home and wanted [...]

It’s not official until you can slyly slip someone a business card and give them a creepy “call me” hand gesture. Our cards have five Qs, each one chosen by a member to represent their personal style and personality, all in the spirit of collaboration. The green color you see on the back and on [...]

Quite Strong & friends took a road trip to Wisconsin to tour the Hamilton Wood Type Museum. Operated by volunteers of the Two Rivers Historical Society, the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type [...]

Fast from the hog y’all, and grow up! is part of the chorus in Ghostface Killah’s One on the album Supreme Clientele. It’s rare for your creative director to send you on your way with a quote from a rap song in place of a creative brief. “Go do what you do,” I was told. [...]

The Annual Members Meeting, the most popular event of AIGA Chicago’s year, took place on May 20 at Salvage One in the West Loop of Chicago. 300 people mixed, mingled and listened to presentations from Steve Ryan, Bart Crosby and Kevin Lyons to name few. While the attendees watched the speakers, they were able to [...]

One of the first projects we did as a collaborative was a user interface project for a new GarageBand plug in. Two Quite Strong members, Elaine and Victoria, teamed up to design an easy-to-use interface that creates EQs by allowing the user to sample different treatments and rate them. It was inspired by old sound [...]

The INsight design conference is a one-day event dedicated to helping the growth and knowledge of new or inspiring graphic designers in Northwest Indiana, just outside Chicago. I had the opportunity to attend and review portfolios alongside Atom Groom, Garrett Niksch and Joseph Gonzalez. This conference is a must-attend for anybody in the area. We [...]

The CHIPUBLIB.ORG Design Contest returns for a second year! From April 5 – May 16, showcase your visual creativity through a library-inspired poster design using the URL “chipublib.org”. 30 Finalists will move on to a Judging Night Event held on June 3, 2010, in the Winter Garden of the Harold Washington Library Center in downtown [...]

Back in April, Jennifer emailed us all about a potential pro-bono job. Her good friend Ella was involved with a new program called Out for Justice, a court watch program to support LGBTQI victims of crime in Chicago. The idea is to have a community of people who go and sit in court rooms during [...]