John Howrey · Design leader, formerly IBM, DigitalOcean, SCAD
Working to make things better tomorrow than they are today.
Some of the things I have helped make better. A selection below.
Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer)
Hollow Core
Packaging system and process book for an Arm & Hammer fabric care concept
Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer)
Zoofari
A workshop, a team, and the process book that empowered them
Signet Education (formerly Veritas Tutors)
Signet Education
Renaming and rebranding a Harvard Square tutoring institution for national expansion
The Long Center for the Performing Arts (Austin)
LongCenter.EDU
A master brand and three pillars for the Long Center for the Performing Arts' education and outreach
The Long Center for the Performing Arts (Austin)
Musical Theatre Awards
The annual print system for Greater Austin's high school musical theatre awards
- 6 min
The Tools Change. The Work Doesn't.
The tools have always changed. What has not changed is the person at the other end of the experience. They still have needs. They still get confused, frustrated, delighted, lost.
- 4 min
We Don't Need Another Framework
We don't need more frameworks, more clever diagrams, more performative rigor. We need experiential authority.
- 4 min
Design Leadership Is Cultural Leadership
Before a designer sketches a screen, something else has already been designed: the conditions under which they work. Culture.
- 4 min
Designers Should Own the Narrative
If you don't own the story of the work, someone else will.