Champions Design

09/08/2021

“There’s nothing quite like the magic of experiencing music in person, but digital will remain a central and complementary part of what we do to reach eager audiences who may never have the opportunity to visit Carnegie Hall.”

Clive Gillison, Carnegie Hall's Executive and Artistic Director, on the importance of a strong digital brand.

Carnegie Hall refreshes brand toolkit, templates, guidelines, and assets using Adobe Creative Cloud

07/16/2021

How Do I Land a Killer Assignment?

“If I ask ‘what was the process in coming up with this,’ what I’m really asking is ‘why does this look the way it does?’ I’m just trying to get people to talk about their work.” — Bobby C. Martin Jr.

The first step to getting work is building an impressive portfolio. The second step is less obvious: pitching your portfolio, and yourself. The perfect pitch—does such a thing exist? It depends on who you ask, so we asked five art directors, each hailing from a different set of coordinates across ...

06/25/2021

Instagram's spent a day with Bobby C. Martin Jr., a member of their grant committee, at our East Village office. Watch to hear about his visionary approach to design.

06/14/2021

"Overall, this is a great redesign that gives Carnegie Hall two very strong and highly ownable and unique elements in the new wordmark and monogram that aptly represent the essence of the venue"

Carnegie Hall's brand update is reviewed on Brand New.

New Logo and Identity for Carnegie Hall by Champions Design and In-house

06/09/2021

New work: A visionary new brand identity for Carnegie Hall.

Carnegie Hall is synonymous with music. The Hall’s legacy of excellence in programming and world-renowned acoustics make it the most admired performance venue in the world, giving great significance to an artist’s “Carnegie Hall debut.” 

06/08/2021

Carnegie Hall introduces a new visual identity that captures its magical history and visionary spirit.

05/12/2021

We had the pleasure of working with Amazon Design to build a visual identity along with a custom display typeface for their annual Conflux Conference.

Case study now live on our site.

Amazon's Conflux 2020 conference was about decolonizing design to re-center the voices of Black, Latinx, and Native American designers.

04/22/2021

As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration, each week over the course of one year we shared a different Champions-made brand identity from the past decade. Our work on each of these fifty-two identity systems helped make us who we are today and serve as the foundation for a permanent online collection that we’ll update with new projects as they roll out.

04/19/2021

"Champions Design consistently exceeds expectations, delivering thrilling, innovative designs."

From an exciting feature article written about us in the upcoming issue of Communication Arts.

This New York design studio digs deep into research to create meaningful brand solutions.

03/12/2021

“When it’s integrated into the programming, and proceeds go back to fostering community and equity, and having a very blatant anti-racist approach, that’s what’s exciting about it" Bobby C. Martin Jr.

If your brand is dropping work requests in the inboxes of creatives of color in mid-January, and that’s it? Try again.

03/02/2021

Bobby C. Martin Jr. joins the esteemed jury for American Illustration.

Deadline March 12th. Enter Now!

02/25/2021

The One Club for Creativity asks Bobby Martin to kick off season 2 of their inspiring Creative Perspective series.

Bobby C. Martin speaks on creating and destroying, overdelivering, and the unsung legacy of creatives of color.