• • Tips and Guides
  • Writing
  • Drawing
  • Clients
  • Contact!

Communicators

Design Agency Co is a boutique consulting firm specializing in strategy, communications, and cultural engagement. Founder and principal Erin Cullerton has more than a decade of experience assisting architects, designers, and related professionals in successfully expanding their brand and market visibility. The former Deputy Director and Director of Communications for the American Institute of Architects and Center for Architecture and Design in San Francisco, Erin leverages extensive knowledge of the practice of design with established industry connections, deep media savvy, and proven best practices to position clients for exposure to the right audience at the right time.

George Calys is an architect turned writer and critic whose work appears in Examiner.com, California Home + Design, The Architects Newspaper, and various design-related publications.

Asato Communications works with architecture and design firms to create strategic tools for connecting with clients, decision-makers and influencers. Yosh Asato’s sixteen years of experience in the architecture and design industry include a long tenure leading AIA San Francisco’s design-related programs and communications initiatives. Most recently, she served as Director of Marketing for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s San Francisco office, where her responsibilities encompassed project-related research and public relations. An active member of the design community, she co-chairs the editorial board of LINE, AIA San Francisco’s online journal.

Kenneth Caldwell, Caldwell Communications + Marketing, consults on both strategic planning and implementation. His philosophy is based on the idea that successful marketing for professional services is a result of effective and targeted communication. Kenneth has placed articles in Architectural Record, Architecture, arcCA (Architecture California), ArchNewsNow, Building Design & Construction, Contract, Interior Design, Metropolis, Modern Steel Construction, San Francisco Chronicle, and Urban Land, as well as other trade and consumer publications. His own writing has appeared in Architectural Record,  arcCA, Design Book Review, L.A. Architect, Landscape Architecture, and LINE.

Andrea Kahn, founding principal of designCONTENT, brings over 22 years of experience teaching architects and urban designers to articulate, elucidate and graphically demonstrate the merits of strong design ideas. Kahn has taught widely in the U.S. and abroad, including at Columbia University and the Yale School of Architecture. Her consulting practice offers strategic presentation and communication expertise to design professionals. She provides project-based (competition submissions, client meetings, public presentations, lectures, etc.) and process-based (communication between design team members, designer-consultant collaboration, presentation formulas/templates, etc) services.

Clark Kellogg is a partner with Erika Gregory, Arnold Wasserman, and Fiona Hovenden in Collective Invention, which inspires novel responses to complex problems in business as well as pressing local, national and global social issues. Clark focuses his work around hybrid uses of design strategy in communication, new media, organizational leadership, and facility design and planning.

Carol Miller founded Red Pentameter in 2004 to start a new conversation about how language creates memorable identities and brands. What moves people, what we recall and what we can imagine are sparked by sensory experience. Language recreates experience: the warm cinnamon smell of home, hot asphalt in an August downpour. A PhD in English and a published poet and critic, Carol speaks to consumers as sentient beings to build meaningful brand experiences.

Founded in 1994 by Julie D. Taylor, Hon. AIA/LA, Taylor & Company creates and implements proactive public relations programs for professionals, manufacturers, institutions, and organizations involved in creative design, architecture, building, furnishings, and the betterment of the built environment.