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Sensical Design & Communication is a premier provider of graphic design, publication design, and web design to Washington, DC. We have provided professional, affordable services to the following clients:
Among Washington DC graphic design firms, Sensical Design leads the way as a print design, web design and creative strategy firm located in the Capitol Hill area of Washington DC. We provide a full range of creative strategy and graphic design services for corporate branding projects, print collateral, advertising, marketing, book design, magazine design, and web site development. Top Shelf Design is led by owner and founder Daniel Kohan. We can deliver an exceptional level of customer service and outstanding results. Call today at (202) 546-8049 or email info@sensicaldesign.com to learn more about how Sensical Design can bolster your look and your bottom line.
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Our sister company, Ruka Press, has signed its first author, Dr. Joan Maloof. The details are over on that site. We’re starting up the design of the book now, so watch for updates here over the next couple of months.
The cover we designed last year for Avi Jorisch’s book Tainted Money, highlighted here, has won an award in the Washington Book Publishers’ annual Design and Effectiveness competition. The cover won Best in Class in Typographic Covers, Commercial Publishers. This is our second win in this competition in three years. We’re very grateful for this recognition from our peers, and thankful to Avi for his trust in us.
The awards ceremony will be June 10. Details are on the Washington Book Publishers website. You can see the cover and lots of other design in our portfolio.
Online media may be less green than print, thanks to mountaintop removal. Photo by Unanimousgraphics / CC BY 2.0
For the 40th anniversary of Earth Day today, we wanted to share a few thoughts about sustainability and print design.
One of the more visible signs of “sustainability thinking” in our daily lives is the effort by companies to reduce the amount of paper we, their customers, receive. Banks, utilities, and the like, for example, have been encouraging people to switch to paperless statements and online billing “for the sake of the environment.” And we’ve all seen the common email tagline, “Please consider the environment before printing this message.”
But paper and printing have gotten a bad rap here. In fact, digital media can be just as much of an environmental problem, if not more. Why? Much of the electricity used to power the data centers where the Internet lives is derived from coal, one of the greatest contributors to global warming. And the mountaintop removal system of coal extraction widely used in Appalachia is directly responsible for deforestation (another global warming trigger), biodiversity loss, and pollution of rivers and streams. (We’re indebted to Don Carli for his excellent work on this issue. See “Is Digital Media Worse for the Environment Than Print?”)
The new decade is here, and we at Sensical Design & Communication have decided to start it out by launching a new venture. We’ve had a great time running a graphic design business these past six years, and continue to love doing what we do. But for the past few years, we’ve also been harboring a dream. So we’ve decided to start a publishing company.
Without further preamble, then, let us introduce Ruka Press: An Illuminating Publisher. Ruka Press is a new, independent publisher of nonfiction books designed to beautifully and intelligently explain the world. We intend to publish nonfiction books with a strong information-design component for a general audience. (more…)
I will be moderating an AIGA DC Salon on the Living Principles of Sustainable Design on December 9.
In this members-only Salon, we will review AIGA’s newly-unveiled Living Principles framework to bring clarity to integrated sustainability. Our discussion will focus on what this means for working designers, the next steps in developing the framework, and how we can put these principles into action in our own practices.
Details and registration are here.