Sweet Suite by Stacy Crabill & featured brand Three Pearls Paperie

Larger than life candy and fortune cookie text fluctuate within the large-scale paintings of Stacy Crabill. This new body of work explores candy and its alluring qualities. Color, texture, sensory gratification, packaging, temptation- what role do they play in our succumbing to the villain of the food world? The recurring element of text derived from the small piece of paper …

Aly Khalifa Awarded Eisenhower Fellowship

Aly Khalifa, owner of Gamil Design, has been awarded a prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship for 2012. “Eisenhower Fellowships engages emerging leaders from around the world to enhance their professional capabilities, broaden their contacts, deepen their perspectives, and unite them in a diverse, global community – a network where dialogue, understanding, and collaboration lead to a more prosperous, just, and peaceful world.” …

CAM-A-DADA Thank you!

Producing CAM-A-DADA allowed us to work with favorite local people – and for our favorite project in town! Send any pics to our Flickr photo stream here. Facebook photos here. Acroentertainment and talent coordination by Katie Bouterse and Kaci Torres Ringmasters, Emoticon Protest Grand Marshalls, and stunning inspiration: Thunder and Junebug Theramin and live looping provided by Billy Sugarfix LED …

Greetings from Raleigh

See Raleigh in a whole new light. Professional photographer, Cheryl Gottschall captures the angles of Raleigh’s spaces in new and interesting ways. Cheryl’s work will be accompanied by a collection of fun Instagram-perspectives of our fair City of Oaks by the locals. The Designbox Shop also celebrate’s Raleigh with predominantly local arts and crafts, including the quintessential “Raleigh” T-shirt by …

INDY article about Raleigh Institute of Contemporary Art

Beth Khalifa quoted saying “RICA can do a number of things: increase awareness of local talent and expertise, increase public understanding of contemporary art, showcase Raleigh as an artistic force on a national scale, increase both the pool of artistic talent and the pool of enthusiasts, and continue to nurture the arts as an element of why Raleigh is a great place to live.”

Holiday Market: Brand Fandango at Designbox

Opens First Friday December 7, 2007, and then will also be open Monday through Saturday through December 21, the Brand Fandango store at Designbox has a host of great holiday gifts designed by over 15 local artisans. Opening night, Friday, December 7, was festive and very successful. We’ve done Brand Fandango for 6 years, and this year has been our …

Pacific Design + Gamila Product Launch Party

Pacific Design, out of Austin, Texas, and Gamila have partnered to create the “Indie Artists Collection” for iPod cases and PSP gaming cases. The Indie Artists Collection is launched under the Pacific Design brand and features 2 local Raleigh artists: David Eichenberger and Paul Friedrich. The First Friday show was a celebration of these cases being launched nationwide and sold in …

Gamil Design Creates blog.gamil

In an effort to better connect with the design community, we’ve launched our very own blog. It’s here that we plan to log “elements of inspiration and moments of distraction from our small design firm.” We plan to have multiple authors from our group of Gamil Design and Gamila Company discuss design in their day-to-day research and everyday lives.

Gamil Creates Branding for SPARKcon 07

Beth Khalifa was Creative Director for the branding of the SparkCon 07 creative conference. She and fellow Gamiler, Britt Hayes, designed all of the collateral, including everything from the website to maps of the city, programs, name badges, posters, and managing lots and lots of information across the efforts of 63 organizers and 12 different “Spark” components!