The Hilt

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👤 Team Profile No. 6: Page Eaton (Lead Designer)

Favorite cocktail: Old Fashioned
Cats or dogs: Cats4Lyfe
Favorite Sport: Volleyball
Biggest Fear: E.T.
Tenure at the Hilt: 3.5 years

We thoroughly enjoyed developing a new logo for SLU Chamber that better reflected their vision of innovation and connection. We’re also super excited to be a new member! Check out the awesome work they do for their neighborhood: http://www.sluchamber.org/

New Year, new job! We're hiring! Let us know if you or someone you know would be a good fit for our Digital Designer position.

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👤 Team Profile No. 5: Devin Crandall (web developer)

Best Halloween costume: Old Man

Favorite sport to play: Right now I’m playing a lot of softball but golf would have to be my favorite to play. Even if I’m not very good.

Chocolate or vanilla: I'd have to go with … swirl. I know I’m indecisive.

City you’d love to live in: Venice, Italy

Dream job: Head of Washington State DOT. I'll fix this mess!

Human writers matter, folks.

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👤Team Profile No. 4: Kevin Patnik (creative director)

Favorite cocktail: Gin martini

Cats or dogs: Cats. Please.

Best TV show: Transparent

Favorite Sunday activity: Binge reading through as many of my 23 magazine subscriptions as possible.

Current read: I just read We The Animals by Justin Torres twice, back-to-back. Wow.

👤 Team Profile No. 3: Molly Beier (creative resources manager)

Favorite Word: Ubiquitous

Cats or Dogs: Both, and lots of them

Secret Talent: I am electric (I get shocked getting out of cars, I shock people all the time when I touch them, and I hear “I’ve never seen that happen before” from IT people on a regular basis.)

Current song you’re listening to: The lovely hum of my coworkers’ chatter

Best way to spend a weekend: In the woods or near the ocean - or both.

We've been known to show this video to clients occasionally because it's 1. spot-on, 2. informative, and 3. we like swimming metaphors.

What makes a truly great logo How a simple mark ends up meaning something big. Joe Posner, and Michael Bierut (designer of the Hillary Clinton logo) explain. For more from Michael Bierut ...

👤 Team Profile No. 2: Mary Mencke (project manager)

Best thing you’ve ever read on wikipedia: The history of the ampersand (shout out to for that one)

Favorite word: Alight

Wine or Beer: Don't you mean “and”?

Recurring nightmare: Being witty on the internet. Or hurricanes. Depends on the season.

Best brunch spot in Seattle: The one I haven’t tried yet. (Seriously - tell me where I should be going)