Dowling Duncan

Rob has designed superb identity and advertising systems for us and our clients. Thanks to his pedigree wtih Pentagram, Apple and others, you get the quality and rigor of a giant identity firm, but without the overhead.
Rob has a timeless style and seemingly no end of ideas about how to tell a brand’s story visually. Just look at his portfolio. That says it all.
Maybe most amazing for someone so talented, he’s equally nice. It’s that English thing – Americans just don’t know how to be so pleasant.
Joseph Newfield
Co-​founder
School of Thought, LLC.

Based in the UK at the time, Rob was the lead designer for FAST’s global re-​brand, and what he created was an incredibly elegant design scheme that allowed us to unify all our marketing materials with a powerful new corporate image. Before Rob, our look and feel was suffering from a bad case of design creep. In its place, he provided a beautiful new company mark and a suite of multi-​purpose geometrical patterns that allowed us to present our quickly growing collection of products and services in an attractive, scalable and (thankfully) controllable way.
On a personal note, our company’s work style frequently had vendors begging to be placed in a padded cell, but Rob’s calm demeanor and seemingly endless patience made the ongoing process a pleasure. At one point Rob joined us in New York for a web site meeting and we put ourselves and him up in a hotel that was one bullet casing short of being a crime scene — and yet he stayed with us and remained upbeat.
I would work with him again and again if given the chance.
Jeffrey Yerkes
former Marketing Communications Manager
FAST (Fast Search & Transfer, now a Microsoft subsidiary)