HOUR is a design studio specializing in print, web, and environments. HOUR collaborates with artists, architects, designers, and cultural institutions. If you are interested in collaborating please get in touch.

Contact

People

  • Tobey Albright
  • Mollie Edgar
  • David Maruzzella, publication manager
  • Daniel Miller, developer
  • Shauna Skalitzky, content strategist and editor

Collaborators

  • Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli
  • Eric Latzky
  • Gabriel Melcher
  • Normal Studio
  • Office of Christopher Roeleveld
  • Michael Savona
  • Some All None
  • Spellerberg Associates
  • Austin Watson
  • Austin White
  • Bryce Wilner
  • Michael Worful

Services

  • Art Direction
  • Branding and Strategy
  • Digital Signage
  • Illustration
  • Interactive Installation
  • Information Architecture
  • Exhibition Design
  • Identity Systems
  • Logo Design
  • Packaging Design
  • Photography Art Direction
  • Publication Design
  • Project Management
  • Research
  • Signage and Wayfinding
  • Talks and Lectures
  • Typeface Design
  • User Experience
  • Web Design
  • Web Development
  • Workshops

Positions

At the moment we have no open jobs or internship positions. (Unfortunately, we aren't able to answer every email, please forgive us.)

Credits

  • Select photography by Evan Jenkins
  • Typefaces Boogie School and Diatype Semi-Mono

Clients

  • 826michigan
  • Arts Club of Chicago
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Arts + Public Life
  • Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
  • Bluestar Contemporary
  • Conductor David Robertson
  • Chicago Architecture Biennial
  • Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
  • DePaul Art Museum
  • Design ROI
  • Dream Cake Test Kitchen
  • Gala's Table
  • GERTIE
  • Graham Projects
  • GRAY (Richard Gray Gallery)
  • Headlands Center for the Arts
  • Jane Addams Hull-House
  • False Flags
  • Logan Center for the Arts
  • Media City Film Festival
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • Nicole Mauser
  • Parsons & Charlesworth
  • Primary Information
  • Prime Access Consulting
  • Providence College Galleries
  • Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
  • Rick Valicenti
  • Smart Museum of Art
  • The Open Workshop
  • The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • The Statsinger Cohen Foundation
  • UIC: College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
  • UIC: Gallery 400
  • UIC: School of Theatre and Music
  • UIC: School of Design
  • University of Chicago Press
  • Water Tower Arts District
  • Wrightwood 659

Index

Radical Craft: Arts Education at Hull-House from 1889-1935

Jane Addams Hull-House

2024

Book

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917–1967

DePaul Museum of Art

2024

Book

Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective

The Art Institute of Chicago

2024

Book

Arts Club of Chicago Website

Arts Club of Chicago

2024

Website

dreamcaketestkitchen.com

Dream Cake Test Kitchen

2024

Website

GRAY at 60

GRAY

2024

Book

ISBN: 979-8-9857613-4-4

Purchase
chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org

Chicago Architecture Biennial

2023

Website

in collaboration with Michael Savona (Design)

Benefit Art Auction

Headlands Center for the Arts

2023

Identity

You Will Remember Frank London Brown

Arts + Public Life

2023

Exhibition

mocp.org

Museum of Contemporary Photography

2023

Website

in collaboration with Spellerberg Associates (Dev)

Can You See Me?

SkyArt

2023

Book

galastable.com

Gala's Table

2023

Website

in collaboration with the Office of Christopher Roeleveld (Design)

2023

Website

contemporarysa.org

Contemporary at Blue Star

2023

Website

in collaboration with Spellerberg Associates (Dev)

Torkwase Dyson: A Dark Plunge

GRAY

2023

Book

ISBN: 979-8-9857613-8-2

Purchase

Citing Black Geographies

GRAY

2023

Book

ISBN: 979-8-9857613-3-7

Purchase

Alex Katz: Autumn

GRAY

2023

Book

Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets

GRAY

2023

Book

979-8-9857613-2-0

Purchase

Citing Black Geographies Exhibition

GRAY

2023

Identity

2022

Website

Monochrome Multitude

Smart Museum of Art

2022

Exhibition

in collaboration with Michael Savona (Design)

bothand.art

Nicole Mauser

2022

Website

theallureofmatter.org

Smart Museum of Art

2022

Website

statsingercohenfoundation.org

Statsinger Cohen Foundation

2022

Website, Identity

2022

Website

in collaboration with Spellerberg Associates (Dev)

thekatrisgroup.com

The Katris Group

2022

Website, Identity

Solo(s): Krista Franklin

DePaul Museum of Art

2022

Book

ISBN: 9781737760917

Purchase

Evelyn Statsinger: Currents

GRAY

2022

Book

ISBN: 979-8-9857613-0-6

Purchase

Remaking the Exceptional

DePaul Museum of Art

2022

Book

ISBN: 9781737760900

Purchase

Staples Jr. Singers: When Do We Get Paid? (In Full)

GRAY

2022

Book

David Klamen: Life Trophies

GRAY

2022

Book

ISBN: 979-8-9857613-1-3

Purchase

On Both Sides of My Line: Susan Rothenberg’s Early Horse Paintings

GRAY

2022

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-8-7

Purchase

(A)Part: A Recipe Guidebook to Chicago

GERTIE

2022

Book

Alex Katz: The White Coat

GRAY

2022

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-9-4

Purchase

Stockyard Institute

DePaul Museum of Art

2021

Book

ISBN: 9780578827780

Purchase
davidgrider.com

David Grider Architect

2021

Website

pcgalleries.providence.edu

Providence College Galleries

2021

Website

in collaboration with Some All None (Design)

theopenworkshop.ca

The Open Workshop

2021

Website

in collaboration with Some All None (Design)

makeplacehappen.com

Graham Projects

2020

Website

in collaboration with Graham Coreil-Allen (Design)

Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer

Soberscove Press

2020

Book

ISBN: 978-1-940190-25-9

Purchase

McArthur Binion: DNA:Work and the Under:Conscious Drawings

GRAY

2020

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-7-0

Purchase

Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy

University of Chicago Press

2020

Journal

Theaster Gates: Every Square Needs a Circle

GRAY

2019

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-4-9

Purchase
ccct.uchicago.edu

Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory

2019

Website

2019

Website

GRAY Rebrand

Richard Gray Gallery (GRAY)

2019

Identity

Ritual Howls 2012-19

Ritual Howls

2019

Book

pac.bz

Prime Access Consulting

2019

Website

cada.uic.edu

UIC CADA

2019

Website

in collaboration with Normal Studio (Design)

watertowerarts.org

Water Tower Arts District

2019

Website

in collaboration with Michael Savona (Design)

Some Kind of Duty

DePaul Museum of Art

2019

Book

ISBN: 9780996235006

Purchase
catalogfortheposthuman.com

Parsons & Charlesworth

2019

Website

in collaboration with Michael Savona (Design)

Leon Polk Smith: Endless Space

GRAY

2019

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-5-6

Purchase

Alex Katz: Flowers

GRAY

2019

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-6-3

Purchase

Ewan Gibbs: New York / Chicago

GRAY

2019

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-3-2

Purchase

Omnibus 11

826michigan

2019

Book

conductordavidrobertson.com

David Robertson

2018

Website

josephfriebert.com

Joseph Friebert

2018

Website

falseflags.institute

Kristi McGuire

2018

Website

josephfriebert.com

Joseph Friebert

2018

Website

parsonscharlesworth.com

Parsons & Charlesworth

2018

Identity, Website

Winterthur Portfolio Publication Redesign

University of Chicago Press

2018

Journal

wrightwood659.org

Wrightwood 659

2018

Website

Doubling The Cube

Third Object

2018

Book

Jim Dine: The Black Paintings

GRAY

2018

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-2-5

Purchase

David Hockney: Time and More, Space and More...

GRAY

2018

Book

ISBN: 78-0-9964540-0-1

Purchase

Alex Katz: Grass and Trees

GRAY

2018

Book

ISBN: 978-0-9964540-1-8

Purchase

DL-44

Kate Conlon

2018

Book

Detroit Robot Factory

826michigan

2017

Identity

Hour Clock

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Selected works