Hamilton Hughes Design was founded in 1998 with a simple goal in mind: to create great communications materials for clients that are doing their part to make the world a better place.
We're good at taking complex ideas and boiling them down to their essence. We believe in good ideas, collaboration, experimentation, honesty, hard work and fun.
Ask us to whip up some interactive design, print collateral, advertising, branding or identity design. We shall comply.
Please check out our sister company, Hairpin Communications. Hairpin figures out what makes its nonprofit clients so special, then figures out how to tell the world -- through brand strategy, presentations, advertising, media relations and innovative design for print and the world-wide web.
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Our principals
Kristen Hughes : Principal, Art Director
Kristen has been producing inspired and thought-provoking print, interactive and branding communications materials for over 12 years. Her daily grind looks like this: after some wise words for her two kids, a double Sanka and a quick but thorough look at the Times online, she's at work taking on the missions of her clients as she works with them, offering atypical energy and dedication to each job. Her obsessions; political justice, emotional insight and honest feedback.
Before co-founding Hamilton Hughes Design, Kristen worked meaningful spells as an inner city teacher and an art image librarian at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. She spent her glorious college days at the Massachusetts College of Art and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she studied Journalism. She has never failed gym class and was once a vegetarian. About every three years, she thinks she needs glasses.
Robert Hamilton : Principal, Art Director
Robert got his start over twenty years ago during the final days of mechanical boards and hot wax machines at Polese Clancy, a fine Boston design firm. By day he'd learn the brutal truth of creating annual reports for banks and other above ground institutions. And by night he'd discover the pleasure/pain principles behind the design of rock album covers. These were the years that Robert developed his skills as a designer, art director and sometimes even film and video director.
But too many days stuck in the spray-glue booth pushed him to the pavement to start his own freelance career. Looking back and balancing the merits of all of the stuffed corporate shirts against the shaggy-haired droolers, Robert (or "Bob," as his friends would by now affectionately be calling him) decided to focus his work on things he found loosely "significant" while not overly "stupid."
It was when Robert met Kristen Hughes, that he knew he'd found the perfect accomplice for creating a company with the goal of doing great work for people who are doing meaningful work in the world. HHD was born.
Robert lives in Boston and spends way too much time downloading pathetically obscure music.
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Anna Engle : Designer, Website-Wrangler, Information Architect
Anna has taken the slow boat to a design career. She studied math and geology at Smith College, programming at Harvard University Extension School, and graphic design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has worked for a conservation research and travel organization, a university health sciences library, a startup dating website, a financial automation company, and a nonprofit promoting Jewish women's history. When not whipping unruly websites into shape, she enjoys letterpress printing, cooking, reading library books, visiting new cities, and swing dancing.
Aaron Bouvier : Designer, Public Radio Enthusiast
Aaron is a crack designer, a talented photographer and a walking collection of useful resources. He earned his BFA at Montserrat College of Art in scenic Beverly, Massachusetts. His design work often draws from his unique background in drawing, painting, and printmaking to create a fresh and distinctive style. He was vegan for nearly a decade and now has a fondness for fresh seafood with lemon. When Aaron isn't busy watching Antique's Roadshow and browsing design blogs, he's probably doing something outdoors or enjoying some live music.
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