MacFadden & Thorpe

Specialties

MacFadden & Thorpe is a San Francisco-​based studio that believes in an expansive approach to design and its possibilities. Often we’re asked what kind of work we focus on and this inevitably brings a strange moment in which we try to answer truthfully and yet in a succinct manner. The reality is that our studio purposely does not focus on one particular type of client or medium. One of the great joys of design is that content, goals, and form are ever-​changing and of endless variety. Each new client or project is an opportunity for immersion in a new world with it’s own unique challenges. We have worked with large multi-​national companies and with small non-​profits and individuals. Projects types have included identity, brand strategy, publications, packaging, websites, apps, environmental design, art direction and installations. Instead of a narrow lens of specialization, we focus our work through an ethos of quality and craftsmanship, and a boots on the ground approach.

History

Established in 2008.

Studio co-​founders Brett MacFadden and Scott Thorpe started MacFadden & Thorpe after working together at Chronicle Books in San Francisco.