We all know that our emotional state has a huge influence on our ability to navigate. More...

The answers might lie in our evolutionary heritage. More...

A typical street scene in this gracious South Carolina town

From November 17-19, our team comprised of Mark VanderKlipp, Heidi Jones and Jeff Frank were invited to do an assessment of wayfinding for Georgetown, South Carolina. This beautiful, historic town has so much to offer both… More...

A blog post on the Quad Cities CVB Web site addresses in detail (much better than we could!) the anticipated benefit to the region once a comprehensive wayfinding signage program was implemented. Joe Taylor, President of the Quad Cities CVB, was a dedicated project champion and truly brought the region together in support of this initiative. More...

We’re poised at the threshold of doing absolutely brilliant things at the interface of design and psychology. More...

A new article I had the pleasure of writing for the January/February edition of Design Intelligence, this exploration of the larger issues around a given project challenge encourages us all to look deeper at our clients’ challenges, our networks and ourselves. It proposes a renewed focus on collaboration, rather than competition, to find solutions to our society’s… More...

Just off an early AM flight from Traverse City to MSP, and I had a marvelous time. Not.

Generally when I fly, I try to be as innocuous as possible: greet the flight attendant, make myself as small as I can in the seat (at 6′3″ it’s not that easy), bring a book to read, and quietly mind my own business. On this morning’s flight, I decided that I… More...

Corbin Design and NAVTEQ have entered into a partnership aimed at giving our clients the opportunity to reach a potential audience of millions. While attending the IDA Annual Conference in Milwaukee, we met with NAVTEQ representatives to discuss the advantages of this partnership for our clients.

From our friends at the IDA… More...

Taking a cue from “Mavericks At Work,” we’ve instituted a new segment here at Corbin Design that takes advantage of our (previously hidden) expertise and turns our design minds to a most pressing problem: how to develop the kinds of new business that can continue to sustain us, especially in these challenging times.

The Corbin Team took time out on a Wednesday afternoon to tackle this problem in… More...

Corbin Design has had FileMaker Pro in our software arsenal since the early ’90s. However, we were not using it to its potential. We had some basic databases that someone here had started for our sign message schedules. Everyone just cloned that file made a few adjustments, and went on with their business. It was just another application for us. Then last year all of that changed… More...