MendeDesign is a creative firm that operates at the intersection of graphic design, environmental graphics, and public art.
We translate abstract concepts into experiences that attract, motivate, arrest, and inspire. We believe that beauty has a social value. We believe that good work – work that is meaningful, well made, dynamic, and durable – makes the world a better place.
MendeDesign seeks out opportunities to work with individuals and organizations that are interested in the potential of design to build vital connections between people and ideas. If you have a project that would benefit from poetry, originality, and specificity, we'd love to hear from you.
Homepage interaction: a collaboration between MendeDesign and Julie Kelner.
- Exhibitions [+]
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PassportProsperity & Displacement
San Francisco Arts Commission
October 22, 2017
DRIFT/Designing experience through shaping the sensesStorefrontLab
Dec 5-18, 2016
Take This HammerYerba Buena Center for the Arts
Guest Curator: Christian L. Frock
Mar. 11–Aug. 14, 2016
Inside/Outside: Working Our Way Out of the Damaged Now (Design as Dialectics)What We Know So Far (giclée with screenprinting)
San Francisco State University Design Gallery
Feb. 16–Mar. 30, 2017
In_Sight On_SightAIA SF
Curators: Deena Chalabi, Jenn Doyle Crane, Karsen Maruca, Amy Ress
Jun. 10–Jul. 09, 2016
Untitled (This Is a Metaphor, No. 3)155 Grove Street
Mar. 27–Jun. 5, 2015
Necessary Force: Art in the Police StateUniversity of New Mexico Art Museum
Curators: Karen Fiss and Kymberly Pinder
Sept. 11–Dec. 12, 2015
Making ( ) That MattersSan Francisco Toile
Sept. 03–24, 2014
All Possible FuturesNarcissus II
Jan. 14–Feb. 14, 2014
2016 AIGA Design ConferenceDesign as Inquiry/A talk by Jeremy Mende
Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 17–19, 2016
Headlands Center for the Arts, Open StudiosNarcissus I
In collaboration with Bill Hsu
Jul. 29, 2012
International Biennale of DesignLateral/Vertical, Celebrate the Process, Data Space
Jun. 21–Oct. 28, 2012
Working TitleThe Liberator Cycle
Sept. 04–26, 2013
Public WorksSan Francisco Toile
Oct. 10–25, 2012
Rethink LAFuori La Mura
Collaboration with Radical Craft
Aug. 04–Sept. 04, 2011
Getting UpperUntitled #9 (The Letter “I”)
May 15–Sept. 4, 2011
Open Studios100 Years From Now
May 23–27, 2011
Virtual Reality: Against the Grain (Lecture)Aesthetics, Emotion & Communication in VR
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, UCB
Nov. 7, 2019 - Publications [+]
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Two Monographs Showcase Design that Does Good9 Ways to Make Housing for People
10/26/2023
Archigraphia ReduxSamsung User Experience Lab California (UXCA); University of California San Francisco
October, 2016
SF GateVictoria Colliver
November 13, 2015
San Francisco MagazineLamar Anderson
September 30, 2015
San Francisco Design WeekTalk + Film Screening
June 11, 2015
Juxtapoz MagazineJune 5, 2015
NBC Bay AreaJoe Rosato Jr.
April 10, 2015
The Architect’s NewspaperDiscussion of collaborative book project between John Marx, Pierluigi Serraino, and Jeremy Mende
March 25, 2015
The Architect’s NewspaperBook review of Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California & Graphic Design, 1936-1986 by Louise Sandhaus
February 25. 2015
The Social MirrorMarch, 2014
Idea Magazine2014
Parallel UniverseJanuary 22, 2014
FastCo Design (online)by Mark Wilson
2014
The Huffington Postby Kalup Linzy
September 12, 2012
Inside City Limits (Cable TV)June 2012
FastCo Design (online)Featuring the 1% User’s Guide
March 15, 2012
Designing for Social Change (Princeton Architectural Press)The 1% graphic identity and User’s Guide
2012
WIRED Italiaby Matteo Bittanti
2011
Graphic Design SolutionsLateral/Vertical, AIA Design Awards identity, Riefenstahl posters
2011
The Language of Graphic DesignAIA Design Awards identity
2011
É Ancora Dolce Vita?2011
Print Design Annual2010
Coupe Magazine2010
Words and Pictures Strung Together to Form the Illusion of Meaning2010
Graphis Poster Annual, Gold Award2010
Step Magazine Q&A2008