Random Acts of Cardness
Can you design for delight? Our Pilot New Year’s cards say yes. Read about how we helped our clients build their complimenting muscle.
Planetary Perks
The best companies know that supporting their employees as they take time off to work for the planet is the way of the future.
How to achieve swag/life balance
How can you promote your company without producing large amounts of swag? We have some ideas.
Don’t Waste A Race!
Don't Waste A Race! is research and design challenge to make running races more sustainable. Created in partnership with iRUN Magazine and Pollara Strategic Insights.
The Think + Do Manifesto
In the midst of designers attempts to thoroughly define what they do, we may be losing what's really important about design thinking: doing away with unnecessary layers, and getting to the substance of things
Putting a bow — and a card — on 2017
Celebrating a great year by leaving an indelible mark
Bikes and bias
Can a bunch of designers and creative types with greater-than-average bike knowledge draw a bike from memory?
They’re boxy but they’re good: the rise of the quadrilateral
For a while, circles dominated logo design. But now we're seeing the rise of the quadrilateral as design swings back toward plain old text-based truthiness.
Design without sludge
On the design-led side of sludge, there are fussy flourishes that get in the way of good communication, things that look cool but complicate comprehension.
Bad puns, good cheer, the Pilot holiday card is here!
It's holiday card time! At Pilot we send one out every year. We contemplated going digital, but there's something so nice about a card. Made of paper. That you can touch.