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Design Team That’s Small, but Mighty

Small But Mighty

By Design

We’re big picture people who’ve set out to change the world in which we live and work. We enjoy working hard, working smart and working together as a design team. We believe in being early, over-prepared and highly influential.

We’re forever building better partnerships with each other and our clients. Our success ultimately depends on our working relationships and we don’t take that for granted. What defines us at Splinter is a strong affinity to be human. We’re people people.

It’s important for us to feel good about what we do, to accomplish our personal and professional goals. We’ve all splintered off from somewhere, coming together to be a part of something better. 

Our design team sits at the intersection of art and commerce, which informs the development of distinct, functional solutions. Always fresh, not from concentrate.

WORDS WE LIVE BY

BE HUMAN

Our working partnerships feel effortless because we value open communication with our clients and within our team. We don’t do stuffy corporate-speak or techie geek-speak. We just do human-speak.

GIVE A SH*T

Passion, enthusiasm and attentiveness drive our work and our lives. When energy is lacking we reach for coffee, when color is lacking we reach for the Pantone. Delivering fantastic work inspires others to care as much as we do.

BE ON YOUR GAME

Become an expert in your craft. Make work you’re proud of — not just for the sake of collecting a paycheck. We design with integrity and give the same level of attention to each project. Regardless of size.

MAKE THINGS BETTER

We know that rules and systems have a purpose. And we also know that sometimes you have to break the mold to make things better. We’re in the business of solving problems, not just making pretty pictures.

SEEKING

  • Designer

    Splinter is looking for a designer who creates visually stunning work based on strategic objectives – someone who sees the bigger picture. For you, taking a project from idea to completion is just the way things need to be. And honing a brand or developing a campaign for a variety of media is a good …

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  • Developer

    Are you a talented developer of all things digital? Splinter is looking for someone that can build and maintain responsive websites, code email templates and Google ads, and interactive digital displays. The ideal person has a strong understanding of how design translates to web and the coding ability to make it happen. You’ll be working …

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  • Design Intern

    Interns at Splinter don’t just get coffee and endlessly retouch photos – you’ll work on client projects, learn what it means to manage a brand, and hopefully pick up some mad keyboard shortcuts (in addition to retouching plenty of photos). As part of the team, you’ll gain experience following projects through from beginning to end. …

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The Sky’s the Limit

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The City of Phoenix Aviation Department selects Splinter as the design agency of record. This encompasses all three Phoenix airports: Sky Harbor, Deer Valley and Goodyear. We’re proud to welcome the City and its aviation team to our circle of partners. We look forward to working with the friendliest airport in the nation and taking their brand to new heights.

Our role will be to create materials to better serve the millions of travelers that come through the airport. This relationship will be a testament to our knack for making complex things simple. Take a look at some of the work.

Best Design Firm Winner – Phoenix 2016

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Being voted the best design firm in the valley is an honor, and we appreciate the high praise from our fellow Phoenicians. We can’t submit for all the awards, but it sure is nice to have one drop our way, simply by the community recognizing our hard work.

We are pleased to wear our new badge: “best design firm”… and hey, we hear there’s also a celebratory bash coming up? If there’s a time to get out and network with other strong local companies, this may be one of those times. We look forward to raising our glasses to all of the companies who received “best of” status this year. Cheers!

Design Award – ADDY’S Take Note

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Initially, the notebooks that won the design award in this series were designed to be functional studio accessories – we go through quite a few notebooks around here. They turned out to be a great self-promotion piece.

The American Advertising Federation (AAF) took note of our hard work and awarded us an ADDY. The AAF is a national organization aimed at evaluating the advertising industry, noting the best in advertising, and educating advertising professionals.

On March 21st, the ADDY award gala was held downtown Phoenix at The Duce, which is quite a decent and unique venue. There were a lot of worthy finalists and loads of great work in this year’s’ contest. We are honored to have won the design award for the non-traditional category.

Take note of our designs here.

A Year in Review

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Working at Splinter is a pretty sweet gig. We work hard, but we have a lot of fun, too. In celebration of that, we thought you might enjoy seeing our year in review video and what goes into a year here. A big thanks goes out to all of our clients, partners, vendors, colleagues, friends and family for the support. We couldn’t have done it without you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3iKMcNyPLM

Take a look at a year in review and what it’s like day-to-day inside our design studio and the people that make it work. Our design team is carefully chosen and the talent here is paramount to our success.

Often after finishing up projects, we dive right into the next. From time to time we like to take a moment and relish in the accomplishments. It’s a good idea to periodically take a breather and recognize what’s gotten done in the course of a year. It’s a lot.