Aha! Escape Rooms

Aha Escape Rooms logo

Escape rooms can be a fun family adventure. Many people think they are just for nerds and geeks. Dawn Lingold and her husband Ken had been running a successful escape room business named Locked In Escapes for several years when they decided to expand. Dawn asked Studio 2D to design the logo and branding for […]

Museum IPM Guide

Museum IPM book with promotional swag

How do you keep pests from destroying priceless artifacts? Author and Collections Manager at Spurlock Museum Christa Deacy-Quinn says, start with housekeeping. Her guidebook to controlling pests in a a museum setting is based on integrated pest management, or IPM. Because the subject matter is not very glamorous, she wanted the graphics to add some […]

Brodtmann Consulting

logo design

Sometimes a logo needs a refresh to keep up with an evolving business. This is one of those cases. Bettina von Ruxleben, founder of Brodtmann Consulting, came to Studio 2D looking for a visual rebrand. (I had worked with Bettina on the Vivid Leaf logo and branding.) This was the old logo: She wanted a […]

Hunt Illinois

Hunt Illinois website design

In collaboration with 2wav, Studio 2D designed this comprehensive hunting website for Illinois Department of Natural Resources. This is an example of a “web app” that works beautifully on a phone without having to download a separate app. Just go to the URL. Hunt Illinois has lots of resources, including information by species and a […]

Vivid Leaf

logo design

Vivid Leaf is a company that brings sustainability to private clubs and resorts. Their platform allows clubs, resorts, hotels, and restaurants to optimize resource usage. Member clubs can share their creative ideas for others to pick up on. The Vivid Leaf certification program is the industry’s most comprehensive. Studio 2D consulted with the owners to […]

Manitou Springs Heritage Center

storefront signage design

The Heritage Center had a logo that was provided for free by a student years ago. It had an old-timey, wild west look that wasn’t helping the perception of the organization. The storefront wasn’t visible to people driving by, and even to those standing right across the street! “To further preserve, research, and interpret the […]

Emma Crawford Coffin Race App

logo design

When we were new residents of Manitou Springs, we were excited about all the weird and wonderful festivals that happen throughout the year. The Emma Crawford Coffin Race is one of them. About 60–70 teams race down Manitou Avenue in heats of two. Costumes and creative coffins are more important than speed at this race. […]

Pavlov Media

cover design

Pavlov Media was between designers, and Studio 2D was called in to complete a few essential projects. We were working with an established brand. Using the existing logo and colors, we produced a variety of professional, high quality marketing pieces, including this presentation folder, brochure, and website.

LED 50 Years

LED 50 years logo design

In October of 2012, the University of Illinois celebrated the 50th anniversary of Nick Holonyak’s invention of the LED. Illinois alumnus Nick Holonyak Jr. demonstrated the first practical, visible spectrum light-emitting diode (LED) at the GE Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory in Syracuse, New York on October 9, 1962. His design is the prototype for all high-brightness […]

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