Umpqua Bank: A grown-up community bank
Formed in 1953 in Canyonville, Oregon. Umpqua's ambition has always been to support the needs of their community. This may not be a new claim for a bank, until you see just how far they go to make their brand tangible.
Kenneth Cobonpue: Furniture design and manufacturing
Integrating locally sourced materials with innovative handmade production processes, Cobonpue's brand is known around the world for its unique designs and roster of clientele that include Hollywood celebrities like Brad Pitt and members of royalty.
Rapha: Making the wheels go round
A UK-based bike apparel and lifestyle brand with a passion for road racing. Frosty mornings, mountain air and double espressos.
TED: Ideas worth spreading
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading."
D&AD: The benchmark of excellence
Design and Art Direction (D&AD, formerly known as British Design & Art Direction) is a British educational charity which exists to promote excellence in design and advertising. It's been doing a great job for the last 50 years.
Dieline: Our daily bread
In 2007 Andrew Gibbs created blogsite 'Dieline' out of passion for packaging design. Today the Dieline is a reference point for package design and has become the most followed website by the design community.
Mint: Making it easier to understand what’s going on with your money
Mint.com is a free web-based personal financial management service for the US and Canada created by entrepreneur Aaron Patzer and we like it a lot.
Fast Company: Where inspiration gets inspiration from
Fast Company is the world's leading progressive business media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology.
Ally Bank: Straightforward banking
Ally Bank is a direct bank that markets to customers offering simple, transparent products at competitive interest rates. It offers FDIC-insured savings products, including no-penalty certificates of deposit (CDs), online savings accounts, money market accounts and interest checking accounts. Their ads are a must see.
Ashes & Snow: The beautiful nomadic museum
Ashes and Snow by Canadian artist Gregory Colbert is an installation of photography, films, and words that travels around like a Nomadic Museum. It's a thing of beauty.
Tesla: The next big thing?
Founded by Elon Musk (PayPal) Tesla Motors is named after electrical engineer and ohysicist Nikola Tesla. Tesla is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufacturers and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. We hope it's the next Ford Motor Company.
Lego: Built back up
The Lego Group began in the carpentry workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, in Denmark in 1916. In 2004 after declining sales the family decided to injected their own money and appointed Jorgen Vig Knudstrorp, a former management consultant for McKinsey, as the new CEO.
De La Espada: Managing and creating global design brands
De La Espada is a groundbreaking firm in the field of developing brands for high end and home furnishings consumers around the world. They call themselves a design management firm and currently manage the De La Espada brand alongside seven others.
MyFont: Alphabets with style
The place to see where ambitious alphabets hang out.
Curitiba: A mayor with a vision
"There is no endeavour more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life; when it respects the people who live in it; when it respects the environment; when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate, and this shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream." Jamie Lerner