Keating & Keating

keating & keating

Taking another look back into San Francisco design studios as they stood in the late ’70s, I bring you the second in a series of posts from the book Graphic Design San Francisco. Today, we’ll take a look at Keating & Keating, who in present day is known as Kate Keating Associates, Inc., a heavy hitting SF corporate design firm.

“Keating & Keating have an attitude toward their work that can be stated in a definition of graphic design as ‘the architecture of visual communication.’ They believe that a project should entail not just applied cosmetics, but rather must be approached from a thorough problem-solving process in order to be successful.”

keating & keating

keating & keating

keating & keating

keating & keating

Images:

1. 1977 Annual Report. Systron-Donner Corporation.
2. Poster for an Art Directors Club event. San Francisco Society of Communicating Arts.
3. Product catalog for an outdoor manufacturer. Alpine Products, Inc. Photography: Peter Thompson
4. Poster for a ski competition. International Ski Trials. Sandy Liman Associates.
5. Trade Mark for a ski area. Alpine Meadows of Lake Tahoe.
6. Trade Mark for a retail store. McIntosh’s Sports Cottage.
7. Trade Mark for a recreational resort. LodgeWood.

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