We Love Baltimore
I find it interesting that I work at a Baltimore design firm – that was founded in Baltimore – yet, I am the only one that was born and raised and is “from” Baltimore. I have lived in Baltimore all of my life. I wouldn’t call myself an expert on the city, but I do love [...]
Orange Element is Hiring!
We are looking for an experienced web developer as well as a marketing intern to add to our team. More details about the full-time position can be found below, and intern inquiries should be sent to intern@orange-element.com. We’re looking forward to meeting you!
Font Hour is back.
Orange Element is really excited to welcome back Font Hour next week! For those of you who are not familiar with OE’s Font Hour, it is a monthly OE office event in which each OE employees vote on a typeface that we’d like to see added to our collection.
Soar, baby, like an eagle.
(Okay, a birdie is fine too.) Good luck today golfers! Orange Element is a participant and proud sponsor of The Brick Companies’ Seventh Annual Classic Charity Golf Tournament. Today, hundreds of golfers descend upon Queenstown Harbor for a day of play and giving back. TBC supports programs and initiatives that benefit the heritage, residents and environment [...]
Some Curb Appeal for Our Corner of Fells
If you’ve driven by our office in the past few months you may have noticed some changes happening to our storefront. This summer we put our intern, Irene, in charge of wrangling vendors and measuring dimensions to get the project underway. Here is a sneak peak at the process. Left: The original storefront… and even on [...]
Sarah’s Seven
Hey thanks, Garret! To repeat: My task is to share seven things about me that not many people know, and then choose 7 people to go and do the same. Here we go! 1. My career in design started early. My first award-winning design piece (above, left) was created when I was in 3rd Grade [...]
Trouble The Water :: Go See It
A couple of us went to go see an advanced screening of the documentary entitled “Trouble the Water” at MICA the other night. The screening was a part of the Maryland Film Festival’s Friends of the Festival screening series – if you’re not a member, you should be. Find out more HERE. Trouble the Water [...]
We Have Been Challenged!
Last Thursday started out like any other Thursday, really. That all changed when I checked in on Twitter (are you following me yet?) and found a link posted by another Baltimore marketing communications firm at 9:03a.m. that directed me to this image: From that point, I knew something was brewing. I waited patiently for this challenge [...]
Tilt-Shift
Hi all – I’ve missed blogging over the past few days due to our move. I’m glad to say we’re now in our new office in Fell’s Point and we’re very excited to be here. Please note our new address: 330 S. Broadway Baltimore, Md. 21231 We’ll post pictures and more information soon, but now [...]
Some New Faces!
I’d like to take a moment to welcome two awesome new folks here at Orange Element: Rachel Stuart and Jasmine Sarp. Rachel is our newest graphic designer and Jasmine is our intern for the Fall semester. Let me tell you a little more about them… Rachel is a recent graduate of the University of Delaware [...]
Orange Element Has A Visitor
Happy Friday all. It’s beautiful today here in Baltimore – no humidity, sun, breeze, etc. A great day from start to finish – especially since we’ve had a visitor in the studio… I brought Layla to work today. She’s been on her best behavior all day, and got a great tour of the Inner Harbor [...]
Soft Incentives = Happy Employees = Stronger Work
What better way to celebrate our 200th post on Orange Element’s blog than to talk about some recent coverage we received in a national magazine called Incentive! The magazine caters to executives looking to improve company performance and we were very flattered to be featured in an article on ‘soft incentives’ or non-financial incentives. You [...]
Md Film Festival @ Artscape
Artscape is coming up this week. In case you don’t know what Artscape is, get out from under your rock and go to their site at www.artscape.org to find out more! It’s billed as the largest free public arts festival in America, and it’s always a great time. Stop on by to check out some [...]
Font Hour Winner :: Wrongway
We just had our most recent version of Font Hour here at OE and I wanted to share the news. Those of you who don’t recall Font Hour, can go HERE to check out a recap of the prior Font Hour. This time, we had some really stiff competition. Among the potential new fonts that [...]
Meet Kaley
We are all very excited to announce that Kaley Hymiller, a senior at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), has accepted a full-time intern position here at Orange Element. Kaley is a super-talented Industrial Design major there, which was really interesting to us as a graphic design and marketing communications firm. As you [...]
Fort #2
Isn’t this a killer…SCREENPRINT? Yes, folks-the above image is not a photo, but a limited edition Art Print by none other than Dan MacAdam of Crosshair Studios in Chicago. Dan’s work is absolutely outstanding, and if you haven’t seen it in person, you don’t know what you’re missing! His attention to detail and color is [...]
I’m On Board
Hi all – I’m very proud to announce that I have been selected as an interim board member of the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance. I couldn’t be happier about this, both because it’s an extraordinary young organization that has a lot of potential and because it furthers Orange Element’s commitment to operating as a sustainable [...]
New Header
Thanks to Beth Brady for designing the May version of the Orange Element Insights header. It looks amazing. I never thought I’d look so dashing as an astronaut petting my dog sporting “The Jessica.” Good work as usual, Beth! Garret Ohm www.orange-element.com
Say Hi To Sarah!
Today we’re very excited to welcome Sarah Rosenthal to the OE team. Sarah is fantastic. We’ve had our eye on her for several months now and the timing was finally right for her to join us. She’s a perfect addition to our team, both because she’s a super awesome designer, but also because she clicked [...]
Font Hour
Yesterday was a really exciting day for our crew at Orange Element. It was the inaugural monthly Font Hour. Font Hour was an idea of Aaron’s in which we each vote on a Font that we’d like to see added to our collection. Each team member was asked to bring an idea for a font [...]
New Client :: Peace Corps
Hi all – We’re thrilled to be working as a sub-contractor to fellow Baltimore design firm Novak Birch for one of our dream clients: The Peace Corps. The contract is for print design work on collateral materials that will be used to further the Peace Corps recruitment campaign “Life is Calling. How Far Will You [...]
Meet Saskia
We’ve had a special guest this week at Orange Element. While she’s not a great designer and is incredibly hairy, Saskia has served as a fantastic office mate. She’s been calm and quiet all week and has been motivating us to push our designs while her home has been undergoing some construction. We will miss [...]
Oh What A Night!
Last night was a blast. Not only did Orange Element take home 5 Addys, including two Gold Addys, we also found out that one of our entries, Matt Mendelsohn promotional kit, won another Gold at the AAF District 2 competition! This means that it will automatically move on to the National competition! We had a [...]
Baltimore’s Got Talent
The office is currently abuzz about tonight’s Addy celebration, which is just a couple of hours away at this point. I’m sure you’re excited to know that I’m prepared to spend some time tomorrow giving you a full recap of the night’s events! I won’t let you down. In the mean time, I wanted to [...]
