Studio SC’s New Space

Welcome to our Studio! We’ve recently expanded and want to take you on a tour.

Our office is in the US Rubber Building in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square. Over the years, the building has retained its industrial nature and Pacific Northwest vintage character. A three-story spiral chute, a remnant of the rubber manufacturing process, still stands in our entrance hall. Inside our space, natural light floods through the oversized windows on to the original brick walls and enormous exposed wooden beams.

After spending years in tight quarters, we recently increased our floor plan by nearly one-third. We took out an adjoining wall, exposing the spine of the building and the amazing timber structure of the old factory. We also designed custom partitions to give everyone a bit of their own space. These updates give us room to grow and provide us more opportunities to infuse our design principles—and our personalities—into our own environment.

Happy New Year!

Last week, the entire Studio pitched in on a holiday art project: hand-painting our 2^nd floor office windows with a New Year’s message for our Pioneer Square neighbors.

We chose Bodoni Poster as the font, because it is stylish, simple, and readable. We printed each windowpane section to create transfers, outlined the letterforms with grease pens, and squeegeed the transfers onto the windows. Once the outline was applied, we used Tempera paint to fill in the letters.

It was a fun way to spend a day and gave us a chance to get away from our computers and recall the industry’s hand-crafted past while looking forward to the future.

Happy Holidays from Studio SC

We’ve recently had our own Santa’s workshop in our office building, where we’ve been creating a set of Studio SC Cornhole boards.

If you’re not from the Midwest, you may be wondering what in the world we’re talking about. Allow us to enlighten you:

Cornhole or Corn Toss is similar to horseshoes except you use wooden boxes called cornhole platforms and corn bags instead of horseshoes and metal stakes. Contestants take turns pitching their corn bags at the cornhole platform until a contestant reaches the score of 21 points. A corn bag in the hole scores 3 points, while one on the platform scores 1 point.

(via the American Cornhole Association, which counts our own Cory Binau as one of its 34,000 members.)

Cory and Faith, native Ohioans, introduced the rest of us to the game this summer, and we were hooked. We decided a set of homemade boards would be a fun addition to the office and a great Christmas present for Mark and Billy.

We wanted the design to be simple, highlight the natural wood of the boards, and jive with Studio SC’s brand colors of white, black, and grey. We decided to stain the boards to let the natural wood take center stage. To bring in the brand, we’d paint a white border around the edges and the hole, include Studio SC’s logo, and create a set of bags in both black and white.

Cory started building the boards in October and then brought them in to the office, where we set up a makeshift art studio in the basement. Armed with wood stain, white paint, painter’s tape, brushes, Exacto knives, and vinyl stencils, we logged several cold and clandestine hours, sharing stories and jamming to KEXP.

After a few months of work, we surprised Mark and Billy with the boards yesterday morning. So if you’re ever up for a game of Cornhole—whether to show off your skills or just learn the game—stop on by!

Happy Holidays from all of us at Studio SC, we hope you’re having a fun and festive season!

Everybody grab your hard hats

Studio SC is expanding! We’re in the process of demoing a long wall in our studio to take over the neighboring space. The extra room will allow us to have another conference room, additional workspaces, a home for our plotter, some much-needed storage space, and more room for our most important piece of office furniture: the foosball table. Stay tuned over the next several weeks for more updates and photos!