Designing Books, Brands and Websites / Since 1995

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This elaborate project was a large-format legacy-style book honoring Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. The book was to be as luxe and stylish as the magazine was in its heyday but packaged with a bold modern-day punch. After over a year, the project under this title was killed, and our work on it ended. In the ensuing years Taschen continued to redesign and negotiate with Hefner until finally they merged this book and the Decades books into an oversized set of 6 volumes—including the suggested acrylic case. (Hardcover with fabric wrap housed in molded plastic box or sleeve, 12.5 × 13", 600 pages)

Since joining forces in 1995, we have worked with clients from the corporate, independent and advertising worlds—producing works for print and electronic media. Our current areas of focus are fine-art book design and branding projects with a strong web component. All coding and development are done in-house (CSS, JS, Ruby on Rails, Flash). The two of us approach design from different angles—Ben handles the tech side and Carrie the art. We look for the unique visual voice of a project but know the strength of design lies in the structure and organization of information. Both aspects of design keep us searching for the simplest solutions—both in front of and away from the computer.

Carrie Worthen & Ben Pope inquiries(at)thirdthing / 213.250.3144