Math is beautiful. Arithmetic is simple. Rechner is both. Experience the world's first minimalist gesture based calculator.

Features:
— Gestural functions for + / - / = / clear
— Hidden actions drawer for x / ÷ / ± / √ / % / erase
— 200% more efficient

We sought to create a calculator that is as beautiful as it is simple.
Rechner is that calculator.

Code: aeliox
Video: NVRVR

rechner-app.com
Available in the App Store

Scope of Work: Concept / Identity / UI / UX / Website

Jamie Kripke is a photographer. He creates original images for clients througout the US and around the world.

Through his work he explores the space that exists between reality
and fiction.

Photography: Jamie Kripke

jamiekripke.com / journal.jamiekripke.com

Scope of Work: Identity / Collateral / Website

Tres Birds Workshop is a full-service, sustainable architecture design and general contracting firm, accommodating a range of diverse projects, from retrofits and renovations to new construction; from home design to retail spaces, to private and public sectors; from temporary installations to permanent fixtures.

Simplicity is our ally.

– Mike Moore, Tres Birds Workshop

tresbirds.com

Scope of Work: Website

Michelle Lazar is an active member of the Boulder, Colorado Area Realtor Association and a certified EcoBroker. EcoBroker is the premier green designation for real estate professionals, helping home buyers save money and live comfortably through energy efficiency, renewable energy, and making environmentally-sensitive decisions.

Scope of Work: Identity

David B. Smith Gallery is a Denver Colorado venue for compelling contemporary art. Since its founding in 2007, the gallery has been committed to presenting intelligent and culturally relevant exhibitions featuring the work of some of today's most dynamic artists.

davidbsmithgallery.com

Photography: Jamie Kripke

Identity / Collateral / Catalogs / Website

2011 has been a year of great change for us. We set out to close Cypher13, our small but renown design studio – and did so. The studio had run its course.

We sought to create a new studio. A studio that would uphold heightened levels of accountability, more comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards – a studio that could serve as a model sustainable business, and then to put our names on it.

Berger & Föhr is a Certified B Corporation and a 1% for the Planet Member. The studio provides design and direction for entities and individuals in possession of socially equitable information, ideas and assets.

Enduring these changes has not been easy, but the commitment has been a simple one – simple, because we know it to be just and honest and true.

We have chosen to pursue quality in all things – over quantity. This choice more than any other has come to define our craft and those with whom we wish to partner and to serve. We have chosen objectivity over subjectivity, accountability over bureaucracy, and personal responsibility over ambiguity.

In this year, more than any prior – we have learned to trust our instincts and to do what we believe to be right in order to realize our full potential, to inspire others to do the same, and to be the change we want to see.

Henrique Oliveira is a Brazilian contemporary artist. In February 2011, Oliveira spent three weeks in Boulder, Colorado creating a large, site-specific installation for BMOCA. The installation was comprised of reclaimed materials brought from his home town of São Paulo. It was produced with the assistance of fellow Brazilian artist Francisco “Chico” Togni. In addition to this installation a selection of complimentary paintings and sketches were presented.

Although many installation artists today produce work that reaches far outside the established bounds of both painting and sculpture, the work of young Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira seems to be almost without peer.

Photography: Jamie Kripke

Scope of Work: Catalog

Icarus is a custom bicycle frame builder out of Somerville Massachusetts. Owned and operated by Ian Sutton, Icarus uses classic brazing techniques in a modern context.

Icarus is now my life -- each frame is an opportunity to expand the look and design of Icarus. People aren’t stock so neither are my bikes -- each one crafted for the particular client, in fit, ride characteristics and aesthetics.

– Ian Sutton, Icarus

icarusframes.com

Photography: John Watson

Scope of Work: Identity / Collateral / Website

HelvetiNote™ is the iCloud synchronized note taking application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod. We designed it explicitly to simplify and improve the note taking experience.

App dev: Rage Digital

helvetinote.com
Buy Now

Scope of Work: Identity / UI / UX / Collateral / Website

A limited edition run of 30 letterpressed posters designed to announce the release of HEX, a geometrically conceived typeface designed atop an isometric triangular grid. The hexagonal, rational structure of HEX's letterforms conveys the typeface's highly organized, yet organic nature.

Letterpressed by: Birks & Birks
Photography: Jamie Kripke

Scope of Work: Poster / Typeface

James Surls is an accomplished East Texas born artist living and producing work in Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley.

As reminders of the temporal nature of life, Surls’ works seem anxiously suspended between spirituality and doubt, balance and chaos. Associations occur across and between symbols, functioning more like a dream remembered. By and large, the pieces betray a penetrating and evolving awareness of the way natural forms impinge upon each other and upon us.

– Susie Kalil, 2011

Photography: Jamie Kripke

Scope of Work: Identity / Stationary / Catalogs

Paul Budnitz is the founder of Kidrobot, the world's premiere creator of art toys, fashion apparel and accessories. He also owns and runs Paul Budnitz Bicycles, a titanium bicycle company, is an author of several books, exhibits as a photorapher and filmmaker, and has founded over a dozen companies.

paulbudnitz.com

Scope of Work: Identity / Website

OpDemand provides next-generation cloud platform management. Cloud infrastructure is complex but, your tools don’t have to be.

OpDemand's Command & Control Technology (C2) automates the deployment and management of cloud computing infrastructure. C2 orchestrates this infrastructure to provide a wide range of cloud-based IT services. With an interface as simple as "start, stop, clone and destroy," C2 puts you in command of your cloud infrastructure.

opdemand.com

Scope of Work: Identity / Website / Stationary

Paul Budnitz Bicycles are the result of founder, Paul Budnitz's obsession with creating the lightest, fastest, and most elegant city bicycles in the world. Paul believes that in order for people to choose a bicycle over an automobile specific conditions must be created making the bicycle the preferred means of transport. Paul's bicycles are the sum of those conditions.

Paul is a proponent of simple, quality living. Owning few things that are built to last and that make us happy is a big step towards environmental and social sustainability.

Photography: Jamie Kripke

budnitzbicycles.com

Scope of Work: Identity / Headbadge / Chainstay Plate / Website

Mono no aware, literally "the pathos of things", also translated as "an empathy toward things," or "a sensitivity to ephemera," is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of impermanence. In Japan the cherry blossom often serves as a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life, and is considered to embody the concept of mono no aware.

Mono no aware was screen printed in an edition of 13 for Super Ordinary Gallery's Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Poster Show. All proceeds were donated to the Red Cross.

Screen printing: Good Thoughts 4 All
Photography: Jamie Kripke

Scope of Work: Poster

Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner is a corporate transactional and business law boutique that represents businesses, financial institutions, private equity funds, investors and individuals in a broad range of sophisticated transactional matters. KKO is a trusted advisor to their clients, including as outside general counsel for many businesses. KKO's attorneys have worked with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies and have assisted clients with deals ranging in values from the thousands to the billions.

kkofirm.com

Scope of Work: Identity / Website / Stationary

Title and exhibition graphics design for the sister exhibitions, "What is Modern?" and "Olivetti: Innovation and Identity." For "What is Modern?" the title design resulted in the creation of an original typeface based on the famed Bodoni designed by Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Bodoni in 1798.

What Is Modern? features imaginative furniture, industrial, and graphic designs that span more than 200 years, from the early 1800s to the present day. The objects—representing a trajectory of innovative thinking and a variety of methods, materials, and concepts—explore the ways in which design has expressed the modern experience.

Olivetti: Innovation and Identity showcases the Italian company's groundbreaking approach to product design and promotion. After World War II, Olivetti's quality office machines and distinctive advertising graphics helped establish Italy’s reputation as the cradle of modern design. The company's graphic designers, architects, artists, writers, and advertising experts took an active part in the design of not only the company’s products and advertisements, but also the visual appearance of its showrooms and corporate architecture.

Photography: Jamie Kripke

Scope of Work: Bespoke Typography / Exhibtion Graphics

Title: Deceit
MDF, Styrene, lacquer
51 x 24 x 24 in (130 x 61 x 61 cm)
2011

An exercise in deception.

Deceit received Design After Dark's "Best in Show" award.

Designed and developed in collaboration with Kristian Kluver
Photography: Jamie Kripke

Scope of Work: Sculpture

An alphabetically organized aggregate of select logos, marks & symbols.

To view our work from 2004 – 2010, please visit cypher13.com