Glyphics and Gartner Design collaborated on a rebrand and redesign the American Heart Association Museum in Tempe, Arizona. They pulled together an incredible team to curate, design, illustrate, fabricate and install eight interactive exhibits that teach students of all ages how to take care of their hearts. An updated mascot named Lub-Dub “raps” the information so you can easily remember key points. Glyphics helped organize and art direct two videos and countless photoshoots that added a specialized quality to the exhibits. Custom displays were designed to recognize supporting donors from the community. The Halle Heart Children’s Museum is the only cardiovascular museum in the world. Please come experience it for yourself! You’ll have a great time and learn healthy tips all along the way.

The Pacific Science Center in Seattle hired Glyphics to turn a drab hallway into an exhibit space. Bastyr Institute is an accredited private institution, internationally recognized as a pioneer in the study of natural healing. Glyphics took photos of the campus herb garden and combined them with historical images of their founder and medicinal elements to create an interactive exhibit that blew new life into the space. We were proud to be involved in teaching new doctors about natural health care, or what we like to call Original Medicine.

In the 50’s, Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale Arizona, was a premiere desert destination for vacationers, as well as movie stars such as Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner. After a beautiful renovation in 2008, they found drawers full of old brochures, postcards and three dimensional objects such as silverware, matches and ash trays. Glyphics took these treasures and turned them into multiple shadow box exhibit panels that were displayed near their executive offices. Now guests can come upstairs to view their exhibit and learn about their unique history. 

L.A. Kitchen is a culinary school for ex-cons and young adults growing out of the foster care system that helps them get into the work force through learning about food. Students create healthy, delicious meals from unused food from local farms, then give them to the elderly and homeless communities.

Glyphics was choosen to design their curriculum book and supplementary guides and were happy to be involved in such a great concept and an extensive, well-written curriculum. Becky and Terry creatively photographed fruits and vegetables on various textures such as cement, asphalt, ceramics and wood. Then, in the design and layout of the book, bordered these images with colorful photos of graffiti art from downtown Los Angeles. They wanted to ensure it had a clean, colorful, sophisticated design that also represented the flavor of the streets of L.A.

The Garden School Foundation implements gardens in elementary schools in Southeast Los Angeles, California. Glyphics designed curriculum books that could be used in a coloring book format to showcase their interactive learning style. Not only do the students from K-6 learn how to garden and cook with their produce, but they are learning grammar, math and science at the same time.

When L.A. Kitchen approached Glyphics to design their curriculum, Terry read it and said, “The only thing that it’s missing is what the food does in the body.” Terry had been teaching an anatomy and physiology class at the Boys and Girls Club in Phoenix through stenciling, drawing and painting systems and parts of the body, so when LAK asked her to write that section, it was right up her alley. It was the perfect combination of her two passions: preventative health and design. Terry also teaches a class on preventative health modalities, or what she likes to call original medicine.

The Arizona Burn Foundation gave Glyphics the opportunity to write, illustrate and design a curriculum that teaches kids burn prevention and education. The large format book stands up and has flaps between each page that allow for interactive game playing. Volunteers ask the kids, ages K-2, to find the hot items on the page while telling the rhyming story about a dog, Milo, who helps his hummingbird friend Moxie to not get burned.

Along with the big book we designed a “What’s Hot” Flash Card Game, a Teaching Guide and a Parent Guide / Activity Book, for the kids to take home, color, and learn more through simple activities.

The response to the curriculum was so great that the AZ Burn Foundation wanted to create a small book that could be distributed across the country. We are so happy to help educate and prevent kids from getting burned because BURNS REALLY HURT!!

Gartner Design and Glyphics were approached by Villa Montessori School in Phoenix, AZ, to rebrand and design interactive, outdoor educational environments on three campuses. Who would have more fun – us or the kids? We developed many different themed gardens and play structures that would include music-making and all types of creative, imaginative fun in nature. These illustrations were rolled into printed fundraising event materials to get their community excited and involved. 

For the first time Gartner Design and Glyphics were asked to not worry about a budget, but to think about what could be offered at the most imaginative camp of the future. Well, talk about a dream job! The challenge: only 28 days to accomplish this design. Tasks included: surveying 200 acres for land erosion; deciding the location of a man-made lake, and dreaming up the layout, building structures, learning environments and play areas for two complementary camps - one in the trees and one underground. These two camps were designed to be totally different, yet enhance each other so that kids would want to attend both. We not only designed cabins, lodges and swimming pools with a rope course, but we thought of what curriculum would be taught and why.

We love a challenge – especially when work is play. Educating our youth in new and interactive ways is one of the only things that will really change the world. We’re all about that.

Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Vail, Colorado, is one of the most renowned classical music festivals in the country. Glyphics branded and designed all of their printed marketing tools for over 25 years. We have too many great designs to show on one website, so we whittled them down to our favorites.

Ocean Reef is another Music Festival Glyphics designs for, which takes place in the Florida Keys. They wanted their design to be all about location, so each year Glyphics designed a distinctive cover and artistic theme that reflected warm water, sun, sailing, florals, and other elements typical to the area. 

Located in northern New Mexico near Taos, Music from Angel Fire chamber music festival is top notch! With Ida Kavafian as the Music Director, you would expect no less. What they do for students and the community is also first rate.

Terry, being very familiar with slim, non-profit budgets, finds ways to give high quality results using creative ways to save money.  Keeping the structure the same every five years,  but changing only color, kept the design fresh and costs down for brochures and program layouts.

Glyphics is proud to be working with MFAF for over 30 years and still having fun. It must be because music and design go hand in hand!

We love working with Keith and Melissa. They are great photographers that specialize in portraiture, weddings and events. They asked Glyphics to brand and custom package a leave- behind promo for parents looking for high-end photography of their family. Who doesn’t love Play-Doh with adorable kids on the package?

Glyphics teamed up with Gartner Design Company to create branding and interior architectural design for a market and cafe that provides healthy, local, organic food at a low cost to a neighborhood in southeast Los Angeles.  A classic example of how environment can impact sales and bring a community together. Check out our blog post to learn more about With Love Market.  

In Mexico, Zócalo is a term that means town square.  Glyphics created a logo and brand for the restaurant,  Zócalo Spanish Fusion, that combined vibrant colors with simple, playful and modern continuous-line drawings of Latin-style buildings. These illustrations were layered over paintings by Terry Duffy, to create custom digital wall coverings for the inside of the restaurant, as well as background images for menus and collateral. Both Becky and Terry are fine artists that bring their unique creativity to Glyphics wherever it’s appropriate. 

Our client at Body Heart came to us to design a line of cards that explored healthy body imaging for young women. We wanted to show diversity in all different shapes and sizes to sensitively illustrate the client’s beautiful poetry. Teaching girls to appreciate who they are is a wonderful and much needed theme to explore.

With the expanding knowledge of the importance of organic food in our world, Glyphics was excited to help High Country Farms with their branding. Once an apple orchard, it is now a thriving marijuana farm set under Colorado sun, fed by crisp spring water and clean mountain air.  The client wanted a logo that represented this, and although the thought of a “Sun and mountain” logo seemed cliché, Glyphics felt a clean, modern rendition of this felt just right.

Back in the day, Terry cut her teeth designing books at a publishing firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s continually been a labor of love. Glyphics wants to be a part of anything to do with developing new education and creating well-designed and creative materials that make a difference in the world.

The Arizona Questers association asked Glyphics to design six exhibit panels commemorating the women who struggled and fought for 72 years to pass the legislation to allow women the right to vote. This legislation was passed in 1920, 100 years ago. These panels will travel from library to library. They can also be used for openings celebrating 2020 as a year that we all can appreciate what these women did for us and get out and vote. You can contact us if you would like these historical panels to come to your town or library.

These women lead by example, now it’s our turn to make change that makes history. Let’s make them proud.

I met Carol Cumes in Peru. I read her book, Journey to Machu Pichu, and I knew I needed to go to her wellness retreat, Wilka TIka, and meet her on the way to Machu Pichu. She heard that I was a book designer and needed help with a brochure, so I was happy to help her. While staying in this exquisite sustainable luxury hotel in Peru’s Sacred Valley, Carol and I bonded. Ten years later when my son traveled to Peru I urged him to go see Carol. He was treated like family and fell in love, as everyone does, with Peru and Wilka TIka. He came home and said “Carol has another project that she would like you to work on”. When I heard that it was a deck of 52 cards with a book in a box, similar to a tarot deck, as any designer would be, I was thrilled. The thing that was the best was that the subject was saving indigenous traditions of thanking the earth for all that we are given. During these times of incredible earth changes, to me this is the first gateway to a solution. I have been incredibly grateful to work on this project! The paintings were beautifully done by one of Carol’s employees at Wilka Tika - Mario (like Picasso, one name). They depict the Andean culture and traditions with incredible color, texture and style. Carol’s writing takes a complex, ancient tradition and makes it simple and to the point, affirming to sustain this cultures ways, before they are lost. She is on a mission and I am blessed to be by her side on this crusade of Loving Pachamama and treating our planet with respect and kindness.

At this time with so many wild fires blazing across the world, especially across the western US, Glyphics was so honored to work on this project, to teach kids of all ages how to prevent wildfires. This is our second book for the Arizona Burn Foundation and we love working with them. We got to bring back Milo and Moxie the adorable dog and hummingbird mascots, illustrated by Greg Ham, who give us all instructions as to how to prevent wildfires and keep our homes, families and of course our pets safe. We paid homage to our incredible fire fighters who are consistently risking their lives to keep us from getting harmed. The Arizona Burn Foundation gather a band of enthusiastic volunteers who go from school to school to read these books to kids and then they all bring parent guidelines and activities home to teach their families. Teaching kids who teach others is how we change the world and save our beautiful planet.

The Prescott Valley Boys and Girls Club asked Gartner Design and Glyphics to remodel and theme their club to inspire creativity on all levels. We wanted the kids, counselors and parents to have a space to grow herbs and food, cook and learn about nutrition, have a room to do art where they could store all their supplies and show their work as well as having a state of the arts room to film everything that they are creating. For safety you can see all of the kids in each room and all rooms open up to each other to create a large viewing area out to the court yard but also close off to one another to create sound proofing. If you want to make great change in the world teach your children creativity and kindness as many B&GC alumni role models have successfully done.

Gartner Design and Glyphics were asked to help design and install an exhibit that taught people about the rich history of the downtown Presidio area. In the late 1800’s this neighborhood was predominantly Asian American and Pacific Islanders. As a result of several historical events such as the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943), the 1925 earthquake, the Great Depression (1929-1939), Japanese Incarceration (1942-1946) and revival of Santa Barbara's colonial heritage (1915-1940), many communities have unfortunately been displaced from this area over many generations. Reclaiming space through the Year of the Dragon festival upon this sacred Chumash land and the Presidio State Park, is our homage to all those who have come before us.

Exhibit design is all about being part of educating people about history and celebrating it’s rich culture through creating an event. Being able to install a mural, curate an Asian art show, have venders, dancers and music brought in the Year of the Dragon with cultural pride. We are proud that we were able to be on this great team.

Our hopes are to spread cultural pride, compassion and understanding that we are all one people on this planet who need to work together to create peace.

This is the second book that we have designed for Aleta Antoinette who’s writing inspires thoughtful, caring generosity. In this young adult book she tells the story of a sea turtle and an octopus who are best friends and help to save their friend from getting caught in plastic debris. Aleta then asks the reader what they can do and maps out ways for all of us to help to clean up the ocean. Her writing will intrigue readers and inspire teachers to use her book as curriculum to ignite action to help save the ocean.