# The Design Office of David McGillivray

> The Design Office of David McGillivray is a creative studio in New York working across brand, web and software. It works with founding teams, often at new technology ventures, to shape how their companies look, feel and work, from identity through to digital experiences.

- Founded in 2015 by David McGillivray, a British-born designer and creative director based in New York.
- Engagements are shaped around what needs to be made: a single discipline or several together, with specialists brought in as needed.
- Brand: identity and visual systems for new and evolving ventures.
- Web: digital experiences that bring brand, story and product together.
- Software: product design and prototyping with character and brand coherence.
- Projects are charged at a flat fee, with the scope and timeframe agreed upfront. The About page has the details and starting fees.

Contact: [office@dmcg.co](mailto:office@dmcg.co)
Elsewhere: [Twitter](http://x.com/dmcgco), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmcgillivray)

Every page here is also Markdown: add .md to its address (the homepage is https://www.dmcg.co/index.md).

## Projects

- [Infinite Machine](https://www.dmcg.co/work/infinitemachine.md): Defining the visual language and web design for electric vehicle company Infinite Machine. (Web, Brand)
- [Archiv](https://www.dmcg.co/work/archiv.md): Brand and iOS app design for Archiv; a new way to collect, organize and return to visual references. (Brand, Software, Prototyping)
- [Tolan](https://www.dmcg.co/work/tolan.md): Brand design for Tolan; an alien friend in the form of an AI app. (Brand, Web)
- [Hedroom](https://www.dmcg.co/work/hedroom.md): Brand and web app design for HEDROOM™; a space for people making music to share what they're working on, without having to package everything as a finished release. Fragments, loops, experiments and finished tracks all have a place. (Brand, Software, Prototyping)
- [Groth](https://www.dmcg.co/work/groth.md): An identity and digital landscape organized around light, surface and movement. (Brand, Web)
- [Americana](https://www.dmcg.co/work/americana.md): Brand and platform design for Americana; a marketplace for buying and selling physical collectibles, combining NFC technology and blockchain records to verify authenticity. (Brand, Web)
- [Sandbar](https://www.dmcg.co/work/sandbar.md): Website design and visual language refinement for the Stream ring form Sandbar; a voice-first ring that lets people capture thoughts, talk through ideas (Web, Visual Language)
- [Evara](https://www.dmcg.co/work/evara.md): Evara is a wellness technology company founded by Courtney Wright, an aerospace engineer who previously worked at SpaceX. With an ambition to make calm more accessible, the company is developing a new kind of consumer hardware built around the idea of returning to center. (Brand, Hardware)

## Studio

- [About](https://www.dmcg.co/about.md): The Design Office of David McGillivray is a creative studio working across brand and software, building coherent worlds for people inventing new things.
- [Catalog](https://www.dmcg.co/archive.md): A catalog of work by The Design Office of David McGillivray, by type of work. 106 pieces of work from 24 projects.
- [Think With Your Eyes](https://www.dmcg.co/incubator.md): Think With Your Eyes is the in-house incubator of the Design Office of David McGillivray, dedicated to independent ideas and experimental, design-led ventures.

## Optional

- [The whole site in one file](https://www.dmcg.co/llms-full.txt): every page above, in full.