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- Adam King
- Adam is a graphic designer who develops singular, timeless design with an emphasis on the creation of letterforms, logotypes and wordmarks. With deep experience fusing strategy with design, Adam brings his love for typography, pop culture, technology to King Design Office. Adam's aspiration is to create logos and logotypes that stand the test of time, like those of Paul Rand and Saul Bass.
- Adam's most recent work has focused on print and interactive design for Hilton Hotels, Wolfgang Puck, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Restaurant Associates, the Patina Group, Sun Microsystems, HiFi, Kaiser Permanente, classmates.com, Bridge Imaging, Face the Music and Yoshinoya.
- Adam was instrumental in helping shape the brand identity and brand communication system for the Wolfgang Puck Catering brand, the development of several restaurant identities for the group's museum restaurant portfolio and the design and development of the Wolfgang Puck Grab N Go system.
- Adam studied graphic design at the School of Visual Arts, New York and at the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita where he earned a BFA. He teaches hand-set type and letterpress at both California Institute of the Arts and Otis College of Art & Design.
- Emily King
- Emily is equally adept at design and brand strategy. Armed with a unique skill set that covers the spectrum from brand strategy through realization, Emily understands the power and resonance of strong brands, as well as the discipline and attention to detail needed to get branding right. Today, driven by her relentless desire to solve problems and infuse meaning into her design work, Emily believes in the power of ideas to bring a brand to life and drive sustainable competitive advantage.
- Before King Design Office Emily worked as a graphic designer for RLR Advertising Agency and later as a brand analyst for Siegel + Gale, where she learned the rigor and acumen required of both disciplines.
- Emily has worked with a diverse array of clients on a range of branding and communication initiatives including the Los Angeles Galaxy, Los Angeles Dodgers, University of Southern California, Surfer Magazine, the Los Angeles Zoo, Sun Microsystems, Jiffy Lube, and the Los Angeles Community Design Center. During her work on the repositioning of the Lexus brand, Emily worked on-site at Lexus headquarters for almost a year to manage all aspects of the strategic brand development and implementation.
- Emily worked extensively over the last three years with the Wolfgang Puck Catering organization overseeing a range of communication materials from the website to brochures to advertising. She also led the development of the Wolfgang Puck Grab N Go program system.
- Emily studied Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and holds a BA in Art History from the University of California at Santa Barbara.