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Brand Communication
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Environmental
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Information Architecture |
Trial Communication and Graphics
User Interface and Interaction |
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Business communication system—print
and web—for a manufacturing consulting firm |
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| Visual brand identity design, information
design, promotional design, web design and build, digital
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I would highly recommend Nate for
information design for both print and web. His unique
approach to
understanding his clients’ business and their customers
allows him to develop differentiated brand identities.
His professionalism is unmatched. |
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Lisa Reisman, Managing Director,
Aptium Global
Chicago,
Illinois |
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Business communication system—print
and web—for a strategic marketing firm |
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design, promotional design, web design and build, digital
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My firm engaged his services to
help define our visual, print, and web image to the market.
He was able to
quickly translate our concepts and thoughts around our
image into a visual representation that was
exactly what we were looking for. He did it efficiently,
on budget, and on time. Since that initial engagement,
his services have remained invaluable as we continue to
refine our web image and create brochures
and collateral. |
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Jason Busch, Managing Director,
Azul Partners
Chicago,
Illinois |
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| Publication series for an academic organization |
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For five years, we created an
annual publication for an Arts and Architecture College.
The results had to reach
a wide range of populations,
encourage multiple responses and support many different
relationships.
One of the best collaborative experiences I have ever
had! |
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Jane Saks, Director of Advancement,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois |
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| Property communication system—print,
web, environmental—for a real estate developer |
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design, promotional design, web design and build, environmental
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From printed and online communication
to environmental graphics and signage, Nate provided a
highly focused
and attractive information design system for identifying,
selling and marketing our Glenshore property.
He took in a diverse and dense amount of content and transformed
it into an organized and effective brand
to our intended customers. |
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Kristin Buss, Director of Sales
and Marketing, Heimbaugh Capital Development Corporation
Northbrook, Illinois |
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| Executive white papers for an information
technology firm |
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| Editorial design and illustration, digital
production |
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Nate designed our firm’s best
piece of marketing collateral. It achieved exactly the
right look for what we needed,
and has been very well received by all. Nate’s insight
into how a particular complex concept could be
presented visually was perfect. |
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Jim Lawton, VP / General Manager,
Dun & Bradstreet
Boston,
Massachusetts |
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with Azul Partners, Inc. |
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| Information product for an investment
management firm |
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| Information design, Digital production
set-up |
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I have worked with Nate on a number
of projects over the years. In every case, he has exceeded
my expectations
from a design and services perspective. |
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Steve Billimack, Managing Director,
West Hills
Chicago, Illinois |
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| Online product section for an investment
research firm |
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| Nate is one of the best designers
I’ve worked with. He is hard-working and passionate. |
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Walter Huang, Senior Analyst, Morningstar
Chicago, Illinois |
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at Morningstar. |
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About |
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Nate Burgos is committed to helping people,
Fortune 5,000,000* to Fortune 500, make the best
communicative design in the areas of brand, product and
service development. Believing
in the poetics of information to enable people, clients
and the consumers they serve, he strives
to practice design as an asset of compassion and competition. |
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He is the first recipient of MDM (Master
of Design Methods) degree from premier “D-school”
Institute
of Design,
Illinois Institute of Technology, where he engaged user-centric
coursework, such as Observing Users (above).
He was also part of Fast Company’s debut Fast
50 Champions of Innovation and acquired an Ideas
that Matter
grant—given to support design for the public good—from
Sappi Fine Papers.
He taught with John
Massey, an AIGA Medalist, and worked for him on
projects for clients such as the
Chicago Community Trust and American Planning Association.
Adjacent to his work and initiatives,
he also collects rare examples of innovative book design,
such as
first editions of Eric
Gill’s An Essay on Typography (1931),
Paul
Rand’s Thoughts on Design (1947)
and Ladislav
Sutnar’s Catalog Design Progress (1950). |
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Selected Initiatives |
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Design Feast has grown into a wonderful
resource. Providing one of the most comprehensive resources
of design-related content. |
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Lukas Dryja, Founder, CGART
Toronto, Canada |
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Design Feast is a wonderful bibliography
for the wider design community, and a great place to find
links
to a range of thought-provoking sites. |
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Gitte Jonsdatter, User Researcher,
IDEO
Evanston, Illinois |
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Thoughtful Leadership by Design
is a rousing collection of some of the best design quotes
and an invaluable resource. |
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Kevin Silver, User Experience Designer,
Clearwired
Albuquerque,
New Mexico |
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Design has a big impact on business and
this book offers inspiration and motivation to help us
make design and business more meaningful. |
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Fabio Terracini, Consultant
Brazil |
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Started Design
Feaster: the Design Feast Blog, 2008
Invited to contribute to write about Sustainability
and Design Activism for Green Printer Blog
and Green Options network, 2008
Innovation Resolution Manifesto published
at ChangeThis, 2007
Response to Bruce Nussbaum’s BusinessWeek
blog post “Are Designers the Enemy of Design?”
published in NextD Journal of NextDesign Leadership
Institute, 2007
Selected to be published in Critical Digital
Studies Reader, University of Toronto Press, 2007
Brand identity for Glenshore property selected
as case study in Color Management for Logos
published by RotoVision, 2006
Comments to article about Simplicity as competitive
advantage published
as lead Letter to the Editor, Fast Company, 2005
Prompted by National Public Radio for article
on political design for voter turnout, 2004
Comments to article about Architect Michael
Graves published
as lead Letter to the Editor, Fast Company, 2004 |
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Contact |
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Opportunities, requests for portfolio documentation,
other design work samples, and questions should be addressed
to Nate Burgos via email. |
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