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We create champion brands. Founded in 2008, ColorJar revitalizes brands at key moments of change.
ColorJar is a Chicago-based brand strategy and design firm that drives business results for brands that obsess over the guest experience. We work with a wide range of clients — from Fortune 500 brands such as Google, MillerCoors, and CareerBuilder, to corporations such as HBK Engineering, Lettuce Entertain You, and Bella Bridesmaids, to venture capital startups such as BucketFeet, ParkWhiz, and Ka
29/06/2023
Talented baby Lucy landed a coveted branding internship at – her dad pulled no strings, honest.🥇
Thanks for the cute gift !
A rare opportunity to join the ColorJar team – we're hiring an Account Director with 10+ years of experience to serve our firm's brand strategy and design clients.
We'd be grateful if you shared this post with the best account director you know, whether you believe they're looking to make a change or not.
https://colorjar.com/career/account-director/
02/10/2019
ColorJar is celebrating 10 years!
You’ve all played a role – the right introduction, a helpful insight, or simple words of encouragement have all added up to help us become one of Chicago’s top-rated brand strategy and design firms.
Thank you, truly – we all lift each other up and move forward together. Here’s to the next ten years!
03/06/2019
“Don’t overlook the small things that make you different. The chimpanzee shares 99% of DNA with humans. That 1% matters a lot. Even in a commoditized industry, you can build a brand around a seemingly small difference” said ColorJar Founder David Gardner at the COLBA panel discussing the role of branding in Real Estate. Thanks for having us COLBA!
Your next trip down Lake Shore Drive is going to look a little different from now on. Navy Pier has a new visual brand identity, designed by ColorJar.
To design for Navy Pier is to design for Chicago itself, as the Pier is an iconic element of the city’s famous skyline. ColorJar is honored to have partnered with Navy Pier to bring brand strategy to life to create its new visual brand identity, designed to help fuel the world-class destination's next 100 years and beyond.
Congrats to Navy Pier on this big step and shoutouts to Lipman Hearne for their great research and strategy, to TimeZoneOne for the new campaign, and to Spurrier Group for the media placements.
Tell us what you think! colorjar.com/navypier
01/05/2019
Our own David Gardner was recently featured by Newcity as one of the top 50 people shaping design in Chicago. Here's the blurb:
"'The power of great brand design will transform Chicago,' says David Gardner, founder of brand consulting and design firm ColorJar, which specializes in revitalizing brands at key moments of change in order to drive more effective business results. 'As ColorJar reinvents iconic Chicago brands, they each add fuel to the city becoming its best,' he says. 'We see ourselves as part of a larger creative community of brand, design and art professionals who work to shape the city we love.' Gardner, who was a pro basketball player before he founded, from his bedroom, the company that has grown into one of Chicago’s top-rated branding firms, is about keeping busy. His latest venture: The Big Jump—a podcast about human reinvention where, as he explains it, he sits down with pro athletes to discuss how they’ve leveraged their athletic minds for success beyond sports."