Kurtis
Kurtis
Kurtis

Durfey
Durfey
Durfey

Strategic Marketer
Graphic Designer
Manager
3D XMas Cards

My wife and I used to go all-on for Christmas cards, investing indefensible amounts of time and money on an annual creative venture that was as fun for us to produce as it (hopefully) was for our family and friends to receive it. One year, we shipped a stack of printed 3D photos with the old-school red-and-blue 3D glasses for a genuinely old-school immersive look into our holiday season!

Dawn (my wife) was in charge of the photography, and I pieced the results together by manipulating the channels in Photoshop. The final product was a single card with a URL to a website that hosted a flurry of other fun 3D photos.

Family Projects

Family Projects

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Highlights from dozens of pro bono family projects As the only graphic designer in a family with eight siblings, I was often involved with the design and printing of announcements and invites for special occasions. My twin brother would famously volunteer me for for design work claiming that "it would only take ten minutes." The truth it, I enjoyed these projects immensely as opportunities to...

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Identity + Business Systems

Identity + Business Systems

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Old-school standard deliverables for new logo design clients. Before the world was consumed by smart phones and Facebook, the go-to means of business communication was still old-fashioned direct mail. Letterhead and envelopes were printed en masse and stashed in the office cupboard (often with blank stock for second pages) and often in a dedicated LTR tray in the office printer so invoices,...

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DTN Brand Refresh

DTN Brand Refresh

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The case of the blasés: a much-needed corporate brand overhaul When I joined DTN in 2017, the company's logo was suffering from a serious case of the blasés, featuring a decades-old "all-lowercase" treatment for the acronym mark with a predictable early 2000s light/heavy type treatment, a cliché mid-90s mouse icon, a random swoosh, and a gloomy blue, sea green, and dark grey color palette: The...

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