Month: March 2020

In the interest of the health of our community, the Landscape team will be working from home and engaging with our clients remotely. We would encourage our greater network to limit unnecessary social contact to support those whose lives might be touched by COVID-19 and our hearts go out to those whom already have been.

This past week marked Landscape’s eighth year. As a small, independently owned studio, we are thankful for the trust our clients have placed in our team over the years.

Moreover, we’ve been fortunate to have a window into the hopes our clients have for their vision of the future. It is ambitious, often unexpected, and guided by a need to make the human experience better, and more readily accessible to all.

During these challenging times I personally find some comfort in knowing that there is a strong and wildly capable community of people intent on doing good and opening the aperture of our shared lives together.

Landscape was started in a home. Today, Landscape exists in 10 homes, connected to families and friends in San Francisco, Jakarta, Seattle, Hamburg, Seoul, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York.

We will continue to support our community, friends, and clients with the skills and resources that we’ve gathered over the past few lucky years, and hope that you find some shared energy in this spirit. That it guides you towards generosity, love, and hopefully safety.

Warmly,
Adam + Landscape

Working in a studio is an exercise in participation.

When everything happens in one place (work, meetings, reviews; coffee, lunch, perhaps a drink) community becomes more than a catchphrase. For us, we’ve always been happy to work in a house, a sunny duplex in San Francisco’s Lower Haight. Like an atelier, we’re surrounded by the objects we admire, the books we return to over and over. A rare stick plant, a monarch fern. Original work from Sahar Khoury, Jared Jethmal, Koak, Brian Longe. A Nobuyoshi Araki in the bathroom. The influences hanging on the walls are as diverse as the people in the room.

Not just a company, good company.

We caught up with each member of the studio to find out how they got here, what they’re working on, what they’re into, and what’s next. As always, the door is open. Come visit anytime.

Photos by Ryan Lowry

“Every day, we see more brands approaching their offering as gender-inclusive — from fashion, food, and skincare to biology and construction. At Landscape, we try to think about design and brand from a cultural perspective, one that goes beyond gender-based trends and focuses on our needs, shared values, and attitudes as people. For example, we helped craft the brand for Atoms, a unisex sneaker company that embraces openmindedness. Radix, our client from MIT, is offering more approachable science for everyone. And while historically the construction industry has relied upon masculine tropes, our work for Punch List invites dialogue without pretense.”

“Perhaps as design literacy rises, we’re in less need of overt, heavy-handed, gender-based cues. And, as our collective design-savvy rises, so do our expectations for the value these brands deliver — including more honest, open communications.”