Deroy and Julia are featured in a two part series on Startup Lab. They discuss how they and Hyperakt evolved, from their background as young illustration majors, with little experience in design and business, to the studio it is today. Julia and Deroy touch upon our relationship with Good Magazine, our work with ...

For Print Only is featuring the piece we made for TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). The brochure was the first print manifesto describing the TED Prize.See FPO's feature here

Our ever popular Champions League Bracket Poster was featured on Core 77 yesterday - looks like we have a new fan! Don't forget to check out the poster on sale on Kickstarter ...And read Core's article here!

TechCrunch is featuring our recently created info graphic for Change.org. Change.org is a social networking site of nonprofits, that aims to empower activists around the world by connecting them to its rapidly growing group of 10 million users - the fastest growing site of its type. With social media a widely ...

Urban Times released the first two parts of a multi-section series on Hyperakt which will be featured on Startup Lab. Alexander Phillips, the founder of Urban Times, lists our top 8 projects in recent years, including Voices of Youth for UNICEF, The Future of Car Sharing for The Collaborative Fund, info graphics for ...

Our friends at FastCoDesign not only featured our new Champions League radial bracket poster (which, by the way, we're raising money for on Kickstarter), they prompted us to create a NCAA bracket poster in the same model. FastCo calls our design "space-efficient and attractive," because unlike the sprawling, spiderw ...

Core 77 wrote a review of the PBS mini-documentary "Typography", and highlighted Julia and Deroy's particular insight into how typography helps illustrate complex data in a crisp way. The article includes an image of our data visualization done for GOOD magazine. "Typography" is an intro into the many uses of ...

We were mentioned as an example of an innovative design start up in a great piece on the Huffington Post Arts blog last week. The article discusses a new report from the Center for an Urban Future that underscores the importance of design education in strengthening innovation. The report finds that des ...

Complex featured an interview with Deroy and Julia. Noah Davis visited the office on behalf of Complex, and chatted about our origins, process of development, and our most recent and exciting projects. The interview describes how Julia and Deroy met on their first day of class at Parsons. The two shared ...

We're so thrilled to see a feature on our infographics on CoDesign today! The insightful article parses how graphs and charts, with their appearance of being just "the facts" can actually present a very calculated and carefully selected view of reality. Especially in this hyper-politicized time, the obligation t ...

3rd Ward popped into our studio recently for a little visit. It's always great to chat with like-minded folks! We got to hear a little bit about the infographic geeks they have over on their end, as well as show off some of our own. They particularly loved our work on "The Evolution of the ...

Core 77's lovely feature of us draws on their visit to our studio and conversation with Deroy and Julia. They did a great job capturing the laid back vibe of the office, and particularly enjoyed our music, bar, and backyard, perfect for summer grilling and get-togethers. Core 77 made sure to highlight our part ...

On February 23, AIGA NY hosted a discussion on data visualization with Hyperakt's own Julia and Deroy, as well as Martin Blinder of Tictrac. The conversation was moderated by Cliff Kuang, writer for GOOD, Wired, Popular Science, Nylon, Print, and a founding editor of Fast Company's Co.Design. Julia and ...

Hyperakt's Deroy Peraza was on a Social Media Week panel about "Collaborative Consumption" this week. Other members of the panel, which was moderated by Danny Alexander, included former NYTimes.com design director and co-founder of Mixel, Khoi Vinh, and Nicholson NY's Tom Nicholson. The discussion and Q&A session were ...

A variety of great websites, including CoDesign, GOOD, and EdWeek are featuring Teach. The project rebranded educators for Studio 360, hosted by Kurt Anderson. Studio 360 occasionally hires a design team to rethink an overused trope, bringing it up to the 21st century with fresh new concepts. Aft ...

Hyperakt's principals, Deroy Peraza and Julia Vakser Zeltser have been interviewed for a Changemaker Profile on The New School's Social Innovation website. Deroy and Julia are both alumni of Parsons, The New School for Design.The New School is a hub for social innovation in New York City and the world. The university ...

Our identity for UNICEF's Voices of Youth has been selected as one of the Best Identities of 2011 by Brand New, a popular blog about branding and rebranding. The identity was very popular with readers, having received the highest marks among all the identities published on the site throughout the year. 89% of readers rated ...

We've just been informed that we are among the 18 nominees from around the world for Awwwards Agency of the Year! How exciting!Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world. Their goal is to create a meeting point where web developers ...

We're happy to have our designs for White House Project's EPIC 2011 Awards in the most recent release of Gallery Magazine produced by Choi's Gallery out of Shanghai. Choi's gallery produces design books and magazines, focusing on architecture, fashion, graphic design, interior design, and product design.

Our interactive infographic, The Bright Future of Car Sharing, created for the Collaborative Fund has been featured in Fast Company on October 26, 2011.The site was also selected as the AWWWARDS Site of the Day on November 11, 2011, and will be included in the book "The 365 Best CSS Websites Around the World 2011."

At Hyperakt, we consider ourselves a family and are looking for a new member to help us stay organized. We are looking for a Project Manager to help our Hyperakt team (including contractor help) operate smoothly. This awesome, friendly person should be passionate about social change an ...

Hyperakt is very excited to be featured in Visual Storytelling, a collection of graphic design, illustrations, and photographs that have pushed the boundaries of data visualization. Meticulously curated, this book exemplifies how compelling and beautiful data can be made to be. We are proud to have two pieces featured ...

It's been a crazy journey! Along the way we've gotten to work with amazing clients doing incredible things for the world. We've made great friends and met many of our heroes. We've grown with the help of all the talented Hyperaktivists who form and have formed our team. Individually and collectively, we've learned a ton and ...

We are absolutely excited to hear that AWWWARDS has selected Acumen's 10th Anniversary site as Site of the Day! It will also be included in the book "The 365 Best CSS Websites Around the World 2011"

We are super excited that Design Observer noticed our Acumen site! Design Observer features news and critical essays on design, urbanism, social innovation and popular culture."Acumen Fund, the New York-based organization that invests in social enterprises in disadvantaged parts of the world, is marking its 10th annive ...

Communication Arts has selected our Sullivan St. Bakery product packaging system for their 52nd Design Annual, "the most prestigious competition for creativity in graphic design".

In their article on "4 Tips on Choosing the Right Logo Design Services," Inc. asked Deroy about bartering for projects. They also talk with JB Osborne of Red Antler about making clients more comfortable, Steven Heller on understanding the firm, and Titi Branch of Miss Jessie's about having a clear vision of your brand ...

PBS Arts sat down with Deroy and Julia to talk about type and the ways we use it in visualizing data. This episode in the Off Book series focuses on tools with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, identity with Paula Scher, texture with Eddie Opara, and visualizing data with Deroy and Julia. View the video hereThe ...

Design Made In Germany is packed with current trends, projects, events, and developments of the German and international design scene. Recently, they interviewed Deroy about our logo design for the international Human Rights logo competition. He gives excellent insight on why even though crowd sourced, we chose to be involv ...

The design blog idsgn.org featured an interview with Hyperakt's co-founder, Deroy Peraza for their article "The Good and Evil of Infographics". Deroy and Josh Smith discussed the hidden difficulties of reading and creating infographics.

We've been thrilled to be working with the Ford Foundation for the past few months. As a supplement to our printed 2010 annual report, we've tackled the interactive experience. As noted by Center for Digital Information, three features in particular stand out. Take a look and tell us what you think! Helping Traditional ...

Visual.ly is a new platform for exploring, sharing, and promoting great visualizations. We were asked to redesign the site before its official launch. The site demanded organization and structure, so we approached the design as we would an infographic. Our solution was a comprehensive icon navigation system, with intense fo ...

Organized by UnderConsideration, the FPO Awards is a judged competition that celebrates the best print work from around the world during 2010 — a direct extension of the popular blog FPO: For Print Only. As a response to other award formulas, past and present, the FPO Awards strive to provide a competition that places ...

Our map of the Guangzhou BRT will be included in the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Design Museum's forthcoming exhibition "Design for the Other 90%". "Of the world's total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted; in fact, ...

Fast Co.Design called The Opportunity Gap "a powerful infographic" and made it their infographic of the day for June 15th, 2011.We were also giddy to learn that DataVisualization and Quipsologies also posted about the piece.

This spring Cite du Design invited us to be involved in their Design & Football exhibition in France. The exhibition was imagined and designed by les Sismo (Antoine Feniglio and Frederic Lecourt), associated designers. Being huge football fans, of course we were delighted and sent over our World Cup Radial Bracket poster. I ...

Hyperakt is pleased to be included in Basic's latest publication, Brochures. Basic, published by Index Book, is a series about the basic disciplines of graphic design. The first three of the series were about Logos, Packaging and Corporate Identity. The fourth one is about Brochures and is classified into three categories: ...

We are honored to have received a merit award from Art Directors Club for the American Energy Spectrum Infographic we did for GOOD Magazine! "The ADC Annual Awards competition, currently in its 90th year, recognizes the best work of the year in print and broadcast advertising, interactive media, graphic design, publication ...

In April we launched one of our favorite projects we've ever worked on; a comprehensive branding platform for UNICEF's Voices of Youth. This project has been dear to our hearts for months, so we were completely humbled by the wonderful publicity and comments from the design community. In fact, we are completely blown away f ...

We've had a design crush on Eight Hour Day for a few years now, so it was quite a wonderful surprise to see Let's Swap featured on their blog this month. Eight Hour Day is a design boutique from Minneapolis, creating "work that is honest" and "designing with the belief that process and collaboration shou ...

Hyperakt is so excited to have one of our most recent projects featured on both Lovely Package and The Dieline, "the world's #1 package design website". With Sullivan Street Bakery making some of the best bread in New York City, we simply could't resist the opportunity to work with them. So we partnered up with creativ ...

Inspire Conf is certainly not your average design conference. Creatives just like you are gathering in the Netherlands to chat about their amazing insights and ideas- you know, all the stuff you love to hear. This year, Hyperaktivist Deroy Peraza was asked to join the festivities as a guest speaker. Check out Inspire C ...

Our Annual Report for The White House Project has been getting featured on several sites these days. We at Hyperakt agree that a great cause like TWHP deserves to look great, too. That's why we made this annual report into something more than a standard financial document. This poster, using only 3 colors, illustrates ...

Hyperakt was thrilled to be featured in GOOD Magazine's Most Popular Infographics of 2010. Out of the "nearly 100 original infographics" released by this magazine in the past year, we made it in the top 10! It was really fun making injury reports look this beautiful, so we're thrilled to see it featured in one of our ...

Hyperakt principal Julia Vakser was interviewed by German radio station Jump about our recent project for Adobe, I have PSD. Julia speaks about the inspiration and thought processes behind the video concept. You can listen to the piece here (German).

Hyperakt is featured in How Magazine's Designer Spotlight for December! Principals Deroy Peraza and Julia Vakser were interviewed about Hyperakt's history, the collaborative environment of the studio, and our commitment to promoting social change through design. You can read the article here. We'll also be mentioned in the ...

New York Times sports writer Jack Bell has written an awesome feature article in Goal, the official New York Times soccer blog. Bell interviewed Hyperaktivist Deroy Peraza, who designed the poster during the tournament this summer. Here's an excerpt from the blog post:And if you’re looking for a novel and innovative so ...

Food for Thought, illustrated and printed by Hyperaktivist Jason Lynch, will be shown this spring at the Society of Illustrators 53rd annual exhibition. The society was formed in 1901 to promote the art and history of illustration though lectures, exhibitions and education. We are honored and excited to have our work s ...

Hyperakt's latest collaboration with GOOD Magazine, an interactive infographic visualizing political climate, has been mentioned on two popular infographic and data visualization blogs, Flowing Data and Infosthetics. Both blogs offer up a serving of the latest in information design, and explore how we can better understand ...

Two of Hyperakt's recent branding projects have been featured in Beijing-based Designerbooks' new publication, Magic Branding (Chinese). This beautifully printed and well-edited compilation of contemporary branding work illustrates that sometimes design seems like magic, but even the most mysterious and impen ...

We're super excited to see our "I Have PSD" video spread across the web - we even found a cover of it made by some students in Taiwan! The project came about after Adobe asked us to respond to the prompt "World Without Photoshop." We're always interested in experimenting, and we decided that making a f ...

Hyperakt was prominently featured in a Harvard Business Review blog post on September 17, 2010. The article, titled "Green Shots: MyGengo and Hyperakt" and written by economist blogger Umair Haque, talks about the the "Great Transition" from the age of superficial, consumer driven design to an age of meaningful design that ...

Hyperakt principals Deroy Peraza and Julia Vakser sat down with our friends at Design Taxi for an in-depth interview on the intersection of social good and design. Design Taxi, a global network where creative professionals of all stripes can meet and connect, spoke to Deroy and Julia about working for social justice through ...

Hyperakt's piece for GOOD Magazine on the correlation between obesity and how people get to work was featured on Flowing Data, one of the preeminent blogs on the web covering the subject of data visualization.

Hyperakt's set of Obama prints has been featured in Scott Thomas's gorgeous collection of Obama artwork, Designing Obama. Design Director for the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas compiled an extensive collection of work to create this beautiful, interesting, and inspiring volume. We're honored to be included!

Big Think, a self-described global forum for connecting people and ideas, interviewed Hyperakt principals Deroy Peraza and Julia Vakser on Hyperakt's devotion to design as social change. In it, Deroy and Julia talk about the importance of visual identity for social causes, the intersection of idealism with business-minded p ...

Infected by World Cup fever? We are too, but luckily, there's a cure. Well, maybe not a cure — but it'll at least relieve some of your symptoms. Our radial World Cup bracket poster, designed by Hyperakt's resident football fanatic, Deroy Peraza, will be sure to scratch your itch for slick and snazzy World Cup graphics. ...

Hyperakt has been featured on designer Simon Corry's blog, as the latest in a series profiling his favorite creative studios. Simon is a UK-based designer, illustrator, and budding scientist blogging about the design industry and craft — and apparently, he's a huge fan of Hyperakt. We were really tickled - and flattere ...

Hyperakt.com has been included in the June 2010 list of the Top 10 Websites for Designers at How Design. How Magazine offers creative inspiration, career advice, and business strategy to designers at every career level and in all corners of the industry. It's a great publication that we at the studio love, and we're honored ...

We are featured as site of the month for June on The CSS Awards! The CSS Awards recognize the best CSS-built websites, and are strictly judged by a panel of international contributors. We were site of the day in early May. Thanks, CSS Awards! You can read our interview for the award here.

You can now follow Hyperakt on Facebook! Our profile is updated daily with new projects, new news items, new blog posts, new Tweets, and new photos, so you can follow all our activity just by becoming our fan.We've also made it easier to share our Hyperakt work and news on Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and Google Buzz. ...

The Hyperakt site has earned a few more laurels over the past week. Here's a quick rundown of the blogs and galleries that have featured us:qindex - a blog tracking current trends in web design.QNT Gallery - a gallery of the best CSS designs.CSS Smooth Operator - a showcase of semantic and well-designed CSS-based websi ...

On May 4th we'll be featured as Site of the Day on The CSS Awards! The CSS Awards recognize the best CSS-built websites, and are strictly judged by a panel of international contributors. We're thrilled and honored to be chosen!On April 30th we were site of the day on Eyes on Pixel, a compendium of the best portfolio sites o ...

GD USA mentions our 2008 annual report for NAACP. ""Hyperakt's design team used the report to highlight the power of the vote"

Hyperakt had the pleasure of attending the White House Project EPIC Awards on April 7, 2010, at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in New York City.Among those in attendance were Meryl Streep, Jill Scott, Gina Davis, and Megan Mullally. Several awards were presented to women making a positive impact through art and activ ...

For Print Only (FPO), a graphic design blog about the great things going on in the world of print design, has featured yet another recent Hyperakt project. This time they've chosen to spotlight our work for The White House Project's EPIC Awards invitation system. They had this to say about it:"The triangles graphically popu ...

This week, our NAACP feature on For Print Only was re-blogged by designer Roger Allen and Hannah Dollery Creative. We also landed a feature on Looks Like Good Design, a great design inspiration blog featuring the best of graphic design, motion graphics, architecture, and product design. LLGD featured a variety of our i ...

For Print Only (FPO) is a design blog dedicated to proving that print isn't dead by featuring the best of contemporary print design, including business cards, stationary, posters, and our speciality, annual reports. Today they've featured the NAACP 2008 annual report and given us a nice little write-up: "In this annual ...

We're featured on Death By Kerning today! A top-notch typography and design blog, Death By Kerning is featuring our recent work for The White House Project's Epic Awards. Thanks, DBK!We're also featured on Minimal Sites today. Minimal Sites, a website showcasing the best clean and minimal site designs, added ...

Our work for North Star Fund's 30th anniversary gala and the NAACP 2008 annual report has been chosen by Design and Design to appear in volume three of their Book of the Year, and each project will have a spot on the front page as design of the day on April 12th and April 14th, respectively. In addition, several of our othe ...

We've earned spots on graphic design blogs bitique and 40fakes. The former features our work for NAACP, The White House Project, and loft_2c, and the latter our recent annual reports for NAACP and North Star Fund. Thanks for the recognition!

Hyperakt's business cards have been featured in the first beautiful volume of MyOwnBusinessCard! Written by designer Marc Praquin, the MyOwnBusinessCard series from Design and Design showcases beautiful and eyecatching business card designs by designers and design studios from across the globe. You can purchase your ow ...

The new Hyperakt.com gathered up some more recognition last week. We earned a mention by Russian design blog Be Inspired, a project devoted to delivering the best of modern web design from an independent source. Our site also got a spot on Six Revisions's list of 50 beautiful, clean, and simple web designs. Six Re ...

Doremus, the agency we partnered with to create the CFA Institute Recognition campaign, received a Media Strategy Award for the campaign from the Journal of Financial Advertising and Marketing last week. Congratulations, Doremus! Check out the list of winners here.

Hyperakt's set of Obama prints has been featured in three collections of artwork celebrating Barack Obama's campaign, election, and presidency. These three beautiful volumes showcase art and design from around the world inspired by Obama's message of change and hope, and we're honored to be included. Perfect for supporters ...

More web recognition on the menu for today! Hyperakt.com is back on the scene at DesignCharts, and the loft_2c website is charting there for the first time. The Cobble Hill Towers website has made the cut at Designfridge, while the good people at Netdiver have this to say about us and our new website:"Hyperakt works wi ...

Two of our websites - the new Hyperakt.com and loft_2c website - were featured on iBlog last week, a collection of interesting sites chosen by the folks at Chubzz Technologies.

We're getting lots of recognition for our web work these days. Three of our websites - including the new version of Hyperakt.com - have been featured on web design inspiration gallery siteInspire: one of them (CobbleHillTowers.com) in the Selected section, where "the very best examples of web design" are showcased. The ...

Packaging design site Packaging of the World added our work for Miss Jessie's to their list of the best bath and beauty packages. They've also featured our work for Frolick pet on their line of dog leashes and pet snacks. We're happy to be included in these archives of beautiful, innovative package designs from across the g ...

Need more Hyperaktivity in your life? You can start by checking out the Hyperakt Sporadical, our mighty little email newsletter that we use to let Hyperakt fans know about our goings-on. You can find the Sporadical at home on the brand new Follow page, where you can sign up to receive the Sporadical and view an archive ...

Hyperakt-designed logos have been included in the first volume of LogoLounge's new Master Library, their "ultimate collection" of logos. The ultimate inspirational resource for logo designers, this collection is also your chance to see some of our older logo designs no longer displayed on our website.

Hyperakt's latest adventure, Let's Swap, has been recognized by many as a totally crafty idea. We figured it doesn't get much more simple than exchanging art for art, right? So here's how it works: There's one limited edition featured swap at all times. If you want it, hit the Swap button and propose what you want to e ...

Add another accolade to the list: the new version of Hyperakt.com has earned a score of 86 from American Design Awards, putting us in the top tier of their list of winners for October. We were one of the 44 winners selected from 675 entries for the month. You can view the full list of winners at ADA's website here.

Premier packaging design blog The Dieline recently featured our work for Frolick's line of dog leashes and snacks. We're honored! Thanks, Dieline!

Our new website has made a splash in the design blog-o-sphere! Since its launch, we've been featured on several design sites and blogs, including Moluv, Design Charts, and many more. Thanks to everyone for all the recognition! We worked hard on the new site and are delighted at all the positive response. Check it out! Moluv ...

Our 2007 Annual Report for North Star Fund is so hot, its still getting love even two years later. Graphic Fetish and Fuel Your Creativity have both included it in their recent lists of gorgeous brochures and sexy typography. Rawr! Get down with your bad self, girlfriend.

Introducing Hyperakt iPhone: the Hyperakt.com experience designed specifically for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. More and more people are doing their web browsing on the go via mobile devices. Websites today are largely unequipped to accommodate these mobile users — but here at Hyperakt, we believe they don't have t ...

Partners Julia Vakser and Deroy Peraza have been featured in Parsons the New School of Design's alumni magazine called re:d (Fall Issue). Julia and Deroy are graduates of Parsons Illustration Department, 2000 and 2001 respectively. The article provides a synopsis of their work at Hyperakt, listing recent accomplishments and ...

Indexbook has published Hyperakt's work once again. This time they are showcasing the packaging work we did for Miss Jessie's hair products a few years ago in a new book by Pedro Guitton called Packaging Identity. The book contains 324 pages worth of solid design work. You can pick it up from Indexbook or at your nearest de ...

Hyperakt is pleased to announce the evolution of our brand mark and a completely new studio website, rebuilt from the ground up.Download the press release.The New Brand MarkHyperakt's new brand mark is a reflection of our mission and values. We help our clients deliver clear, bold messages that reach their targets like well ...

North Star Fund's 'Tools for Democracy' 2007 Annual Report received a Merit award from HOW Design's 2009 Promotion Design Competition, and will be featured in HOW Design Magazine's Self-Promotion Design Annual, their October 2009 issue. The piece featured typographic illustrations of the ingredients necessary to build and m ...

The American Design Awards' Monthly Contest has rated the DiNoto site created by Hyperakt among the top 100 entries, out of the 297, for the month of July 2009. The sleek, flash-intensive site is designed to act as the advertising agency's online portfolio: eye-catching and sexy, while leading you through the company's phil ...

The website we designed for DiNoto was featured on Design Chart's Top 40. Design Chart's Top 40 compiles a weekly chart tracking the best new website designs.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of the polished, flash-rich website Hyperakt created for DiNoto? According DesignLicks.com, it'll take just one click on their homepage to see DiNoto featured as their 'Site of the Day'! Design Licks aims to reward the most creative and well designed websites around the world ...

Our Rhetoric posters have been chosen by AIGA, the American Institute of Graphic Artists, for 365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 30. The poster series will be included in a public exhibition in September 2009 at the AIGA National Design Center in New York. Then, along with an excellent group of other chosen designers, the ...

For the second year in a row, Hyperakt is being featured in the Graphis Poster Annual, which introduces the best poster designs of the year selected from thousands of international entries. Two of Hyperakt's poster series have received a gold certificate, and will be published in the 2010 Poster Annual, which features all t ...

Dirty Mouse, a design blog that aims to provide designers with visual inspiration, recently posted a shout out to Hyperakt's latest work on their website. They liked what we created for North Star Fund's 30th Anniversary Community Gala. Take a look!

Our friends in Brazil from the design blog, DesignFlakes, recently posted some Hyperakt news about our recent projects, including our work on The White House Project's New Face of Leadership campaign. if you can read Portuguese, or just enjoy glancing at cool design blogs, check it out here.

welovetypography.com, a blog that features the bloggers' favorite typography, posted the identity set we created for Miss Jessie's. This Brooklyn based line of premium hair care products was created by the granddaughters of Hair Queen Bee, Miss Jessie. Check it out here.

Chow.com featured our inaugural poster design in the graphics for their Hope Grows feature, a menu celebrating the first 100 days of Obama's presidency. Check it out here. Yummy!

We have a feature article about our studio up on Swiss magazine cominmag! They spoke to our creative director Deroy Peraza about the ins and outs of running a design studio in Brooklyn and design in New York in general. You can download the article in PDF format here. Of course, it's in French; but trust us that it's pretty ...

Barcelona design company, Mito Design, has put out the second book, through Index Book, in their "From North to South America" series. This time it's all about 'Brochures', or as their book title graphic suggests, "Brochures, Brochures, Brochures". As the publisher explains about their penchant for printed works, 'Most desi ...

American Design Awards has bestowed Hyperakt with two wins in their Monthly Design Contest for websites we created for Flux Laboratory's New Hope exhibit in Geneva, Switzerland in November 2008. The exhibit focused on our original artwork inspired by the politically charged atmosphere of the historic presidential election o ...

Designer blog Graficante ('El Blog') mentioned Hyperakt on their blog for the exhibit we did in Geneva's Flux Laboratory. They discuss our 'New Hope' posters and also the retrospective we included, which featured a highlight of Hyperakt's work throughout the years.

We've recently been featured in PIE BOOKS latest, Relaxing Graphics. Based out of Tokyo, this chic little publishing house enjoys perusing graphic designs from all over the planet to feature in their publications. Their picks from Hyperakt for this calm-inducing edition included our work on the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conserva ...

Hyperakt is in the news in Geneva again. Maya Samara and Geneva for Obama put on a huge inaugural party at the Confédération Centre. Over 600 happy people attended and our t-shirts and posters were in high demand. The Tribune de Geneve had lots to say about it. If only we could speak French.

Flavorwire, a blog featuring cultural news and critique, wrote up our Billboard for the People Initiative in an article titled "Obama and the Wheatpaste Lobby." Here's a little nugget from the article:"If you weren't in DC to celebrate the inauguration and gawk at the artwork our new president has already spawned, take hear ...

Hyperakt's Deroy Peraza has been invited to participate in Manifest Hope DC, taking place in Georgetown during the weekend before the presidential inauguration. Several of Deroy's pieces will be included along with artists such as House Industries, Luba Lukova, Ray Noland, Robert Indiana, Ron English, Shepard Fairey and Zol ...

Hyperakt created Billboard for the People, a campaign to publicly congratulate president-elect Obama through grassroots, outdoor advertising media in New York City. We'll place 1000 Obama posters at over 75 NYC locations! The posters will go up on January 10th and will remain up until January 27th, 2009. They will appear in ...

The NAACP, which celebrates it's centennial this year as we welcome our first African-American president, has asked us to create a commemorative poster for the inauguration.

Our newest poster, We Made History, celebrating Barack Obama's Presidential election victory last night, is on the front page of LeTemps, the website of a leading Swiss newspaper. Deroy designed the poster as election results came in. A limited edition of 100 signed, silkscreen prints is available for each of four color com ...

Deroy is in Geneva, for the opening of our 'New Hope' exhibit at the Flux Laboratory. The show is getting some love from the Swiss press. He was interviewed by Television Suisse Romande (TSR), the main French language channel in Switzerland. Le Temps, one of Switzerland's leading daily newspapers printed a half page article ...

Once again, the Miss Jessie's packaging is getting some love from the blogs. This time, Smashing Magazine's website is featuring the Curly Creme packaging in their Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase, which focuses on how certain styles of typography have continued to permeate the modern design world.

Design blog Creattica Daily recently had some niceness to say about the North Star Fund Annual Report, 'Tools For Democracy.' As usual, Julia's unique illustration style grabs attention. Her concept of placing related words into the shape of tools elevates a plain-old annual report into art. Thanks to Niki at Creattica fo ...

North Star Fund's 'Tools For Democracy' annual report gets yet more blog luvin from graphism. 'C'est hype, c'est typographique, c'est Hyperakt!' Merci beaucoup, Geoffrey Dorne! Check it out. Check it out in English!

Throughout this election season, Hyperakt has been inspired to design artwork that reflects the current political atmosphere that is piercing the collective consciousness in most of the world right now. One of the pieces we created, KidsVote2008, is a flash-based site that allows kids to 'vote' for their favorite president ...

DESIGN AND DESIGN will be featuring two Hyperakt projects in their upcoming book, 'DESIGN AND DESIGN BOOK OF THE YEAR'. Apartment 138 and Breakthrough are being honored and will be included in the book, which is being released in January 2009. The book is published by INDEX BOOK and will feature 768 pages of design excellen ...

Hyperakt has been invited to exhibit its political posters and socially engaged art work at Geneva, Switzerland's Flux Laboratory arts & business gallery. The show, entitled 'The New Hope,' will open November 1, 2008 and run until November 17, 2008.Read the Press ReleaseCheck out our flickr photostream for more images.

Design junkie website Graphic-exchange recently featured their favorite Hyperakt design campaigns and pieces, including Miss Jessie's and Apt. 138 branding and North Star Fund's 'Tools For Democracy' annual report. We appreciate the nod to our quickly growing collection of logo and branding work!

French magazine etapes recently featured our design for Miss Jessie's hair care packaging in their September '08 issue. The issue focuses on advertising, packaging and artwork that promotes Afro-centric products and culture. While Miss Jessie's products do come from a proud African-American heritage, they'd tell you that th ...

Deroy's 'New Hope' posters have gotten a lot of attention from all over the world ever since we posted them up on our blog. Recently, we were asked by the Manifest Hope Gallery to submit the poster for display in their exhibit at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO. Partnered with MoveOn.org, the Manif ...

Design blog Faye & Company bestows some praise for our branding of Camp, Brooklyn’s favorite woodsy-themed watering hole. They also had some love left over for our website. Nice quote, btw. Someone at Hyperakt sure knows how to write her (ahem) stuff ;-)! Check it out!

Here are the latest places that Hyperakt is taking up virtual space:Chek Group on random inspirationDowntime Baby on random inspirationBrooklyn Arts Council's Folk Feet on Why We RockAnd check out our fancy new business cards on iainclaridge.net.

QBN, a site that presents the current most progressive and interesting websites around, chose to feature Hyperakt's website on their homepage as an editor's choice today. We share their philosophy about design and how it contributes to the landscape of our world, so we're very excited that they chose our site. Thanks (again ...

We recently got posted on Computerlove, a web source for online inspiration. We're really happy that our site is a positive influence on the design community. Thanks, Paul! Check it out!

Index Book's newest publication, Well-Seasoned: Best of Restaurant Graphics poses the question: Can the graphic identity of a restaurant transmit the aromas, colours and flavours of the dishes presented in a menu, even before the first dish arrives at the table? Well, sure. Perhaps that is why Hyperakt's branding for Apartm ...

Hyperakt's poster design for fashion branding firm Chek Group has been selected to appear in Graphis's upcoming 08/09 Poster Design Annual Book as a winner in the 'Gold' class. Thanks to Graphis, the international design journal, for the recognition and to Chek for giving us room to play on this one. This is Hyperakt's firs ...

Thanks to Smashing Magazine's blog featuring beautiful and expressive packaging design, Hyperakt's design for the Miss Jessie's hair care product line continues to feel the love from design blogs with an appreciation for elegant packaging and carefully crafted typography.

OK, we haven't done this in a while, so its time to collect a few links to recent recognition for Hyperakt work on the blogosphere. Check out who's been talking about us! Dirty MouseOn YongoTheeyedropperVisual EvasionLe Club-ClubDesign FlakesGroundswell CollectiveWe Heart ItZen BlogPain d'epice

Inspired by our love for serious cocktails, rock & roll and graphic design, we bring to you a set of four limited edition coasters. Guess the bands that inspired each coaster and you'll get your very own set delivered to your door!

We just got us a snazzy new Zazzle store! First up, some Barack Obama to support the campaign and show our love for the soon-to-be Presidential candidate.

Hyperakt's website is currently ranked #2 in Brooklyn and #10 in NYC on CommandShift3, the Hot or Not of the website design world. CommandShift3 allows users to vote on their favorite sites, see the best-designed sites in various categories, and submit and vote for the top website designs. As they say themselves, it's aweso ...

We love our information at Hyperakt. From design blogs to technology, music and pop culture, we are constantly devouring new information. To make things a bit more efficient, we've created a Netvibes Universe with all our favorite feeds; all nicely organized, and best of all, its public.

Now you can travel outside our cozy little Brooklyn borders to see what other shenanigans Hyperakt gets into as you peruse the brands we work with whose reach extends beyond NYC and into the broad spectrum of consumer advertising. Hyperakt works with ad agencies on projects for global brands like the NHL, Ford, Colgate and ...

Touted as 'The world's leading package design blog' (and who are we to argue?), TheDieline.com recently presented Hyperakt's design for Miss Jessie's hair care product packaging with the simple acclaim of 'beautiful design' on their website. Thanks Dieline! Check it out.

Death By Kerning, a blog dedicated to the art of typography "that is smart, memorable, or simply beautiful," gave Hyperakt's work on Miss Jessie's hair care product packaging some kind words for its stylish homage to the brand's "old-school" roots. Check it out!

Deroy's interview with Spraygraphic, the design blog, was published and then recorded again for posterity in Parsons' Illustration Blog.

Spraygraphic, a visual arts-centered blog, recently got inquisitive with Hyperakt principal Deroy Peraza and is featuring the interview on its blog. Deroy shares some wisdom about his creative process and the collaborative environment of the design studio.

The American Design Awards' Monthly Contest is featuring 100 N3 Lofts among the top 30 entries out of 726 reviewed during the month of October. As we move further into designing more complex websites, we're really encouraged by the positive reaction to our work.

The American Design Awards' Monthly Contest is featuring 475sterling.com among the top 30 entries out of 726 reviewed during the month of October. As we move further into designing more complex websites, we're really encouraged by the positive reaction to our work.

Hyperakt.com is being showcased among the best in progressive CSS & Flash design on the web by WDA at websitedesignawards.com as a source of inspiration and recognition. Thanks to the crew at WDA!

The discerning website that judges websites, NewWebPick.com, has given our newly re-vamped website here at Hyperakt their veritable seal of approval. We could not be more pleased. Thanks!

ACLU's Ideological Exclusion site has been getting recognition in the design community lately. Cool Homepages, a website dedicated to featuring the best in current website design, is now featuring the ideological exclusion site as well. We're happy that our work is being recognized and proud to help the ACLU bring more atte ...

475 Sterling Condominiums' website is being featured on Adobe's showcase as the Site of the Day. 'Adobe recognizes websites based on their use of strong visual designs, superior functionalities, and innovative uses of Adobe products. We want to give credit to the creative and engineering talent behind the scenes.' What a gr ...

Design-centric site Styleboost.com offered Hyperakt some praise for our design of the ACLU Ideological Exclusions website.Thanks for the link. As it is a great site for a good cause, I just posted it on Styleboost.Wow, thanks Johan! Check it out.

The 11th Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour was a huge success! More than 3,500 visitors and over 140 artists participated. Visitors of A.G.A.S.T. have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the creators of photography, drawing, printmaking, mixed-media, video, ceramics, glass, installation, paintings, sculpture & more i ...

Hyperakt's work on The ACLU's ideological Exclusions website is being featured on NewWebPick.com, as a web pick.

We didn't get a golden pencil from The One Club's One Show Design for our work on the New Nordic exhibit, but we were finalists, and we designed the exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum for the show awards ceremony. We're honored to have been considered among the likes of Ogilvy and Apple. Check out our flickr photostream for ...

The Downtime Baby Logo is being featured in the new Logo Lounge book. We're thrilled to be counted among other great designers for our work on the logo for Andrea Verity's Downtime Baby. It's being published in 2008, keep your eye out for it!

Hyperakt is a finalist in The One Club's 'One Show Design' competition for our identity and signage work for the New Nordic Exhibit, and exhibit that presented innovative Scandinavian advertising and design. It sure is nice to hear that the work we created for an event that showcases good design work is getting recognized f ...

After a tough (and lengthy) selection process in which 7% of applicants are accepted, Michael will be moving clear across the Atlantic to attend FABRICA, Bennetton's Center for Design & Communication in Treviso, Italy. Michael will be working alongside fellow "Fabricanti," tackling various projects in product, retail and en ...

The addition of the Hypermarket retail space to the design studio at 401 Smith Street blurs the boundaries between Graphic Design, Architecture, Industrial Design and Fashion; a reflection of how Hyperakt creators Deroy Peraza and Julia Vakser approach their work. We filled the shop with furniture, jewelry, clothing and art ...

Take a sneak peek at Hypermarket, our new design boutique for friends and family.

When Barcelona Graphic Design Publisher 100% Proyectos Personales' (100% Design Portfolios), they included shots of our website. It's such an honor for us to see our work published in something that's meant to appeal to design-savvy readers all over the world and act as a resource and inspiration to other designers. Gracias ...

invent. rethink. create is a tribute to the creative community that lives in our neighborhood, and an optimistic call to action and reminder for the community at large. The mural's simplicity, universality, and scale will immediately engage passersby and transmit its constructive message. The site will become an area landma ...

Deroy was asked to speak at

Visitors of A.G.A.S.T. have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the creators of photography, drawing, printmaking, mixed-media, video, ceramics, glass, installation, paintings, sculpture & etc. in their own working studio environment. Artist studios are located in large industrial buildings as well as garages, brownst ...

A local neighborhood association asked us to help out with the signage for the Transit Garden, a local community space across the street from our studio that is right next to the elevated subway tracks. It's a great public space in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn which hosts events throughout the year.

While Jules works on the latest Hypraktivist character "Ampy" we've been plying him with design projects. As a Brooklynite from Seattle, he's a little bit country and a little bit rock 'n' roll. That's ok, we here at Hyperakt could use a bit of Neko Case mixed in with our Tribe Called Quest every once in a while. It's good ...

Happy 5th Birthday, Hyperakt!Check out our flickr photostream for more images.

MICA graduate and designer extraordinaire, Michael (Mikey) Ciancio has joined the Hyperakt team as a full-time designer. This will mark Mikey's first "real" job in design, if you don't count that time he worked his creative magic for "Bagels 'N' A Hole Lot More" during high school. Seriously, we loved Michael's work as soon ...

Hyperakt is psyched to have our work on the Firehouse 735 Condominium Website featured on Digital Thread, an awesome website that promotes only the coolest in current design work. We used subdued, matte colors to showcase both the sunlit interior shots and the charming photos of Firehouse 735 as it once was in past times to ...

We recently noticed the lack of fresh vegetables in the surrounding neighborhood after a few supermarkets gave way to mega-pharmacies and decided to create a proposal for a weekend fresh fruit and vegetable market across the street from our studio. There is a very wide sidewalk across the street from the studio next to the ...

With a history of making things better, Rosemary Hahn steps on to the Hyperscene, ready and willing to make our lives a living heaven. Welcome, Rosy!

The fantastic photography duo of BJ and Richelle Formento walked into our studio for the first time on this fine day. Eyecandy Images has since become our favorite go-to team for all our photography needs.

Wilson, who has been Hyperakt's Marketing, Operations & Business Director is off to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center where he will be Events Manager. We'll miss you, Wilson!

We got back to our illustration roots when we created this year's holiday promo. Chestnuts Roast Here: The Case of the Missing Tin Cans is Hyperakt's first illustrated story. Sit back, relax and meet the cast of characters who wander through the streets of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, the neighborhood we call home. The Case o ...

CoolHomepages.com recently combed through our site, and designated several of the sites we designed as "New Cool Sites." The following sites were featured:Visit Brooklyn WebsiteLMD Design Website

German design portal Crossmind.net has featured Hyperakt.com! Crossmind.net provides design professionals with the best work samples from the industry, featuring outstanding creativity, innovation and professionalism.

We launched our newly designed website less than three months ago, and already Hyperakt has four outstanding and well-regarded awards recognizing the design! Last month Coolhomepages.com featured Hyperakt.com as one of two "Sites of the Week". The other "Site of the Week" was winglatino.com, also designed by us! In fact, Co ...

Visitors of A.G.A.S.T. have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the creators of photography, drawing, printmaking, mixed-media, video, ceramics, glass, installation, paintings, sculpture, and more in their own working studio environment. Artist studios are located in large industrial buildings as well as garages, brow ...

Society of Illustrators is honoring Hyperakt's design and illustration work for Perry Street Theater's Shylock, the Off-Broadway one-man piece about Shakespeare's complex Jewish character in "The Merchant of Venice."

The American Design Awards was established in the year 2000 in San Diego, California, to recognize and reward designers of all experience levels who display outstanding abilities and potential in the field of graphic and web design. The Monthly Design Contest is open to graphic and web designers from around the world who h ...

Taxi Design Network is comprised of the most comprehensive resources for the design industry; a web site by designers, for designers. Taxi Awards the Web Site of the Day to outstanding sites that display unparalleled creativity or amazing content that are of interest to the design community. All the sites are reviewed and a ...

A design surveillance system in Melbourne, Australia, known as Res72, featured Hyperakt.com as a design inspiration.

De afmeting Is van belang! Or rather, for those of you who do not speak Dutch, we meant: Size does matter! Okay. We don't speak Dutch. But our handy automatic translator told us what Delijst wrote: "These design studio established in New York have packed a dik filled portfolio, in a cleane and easily at overziene Internet s ...

"Big, bold, and ... orange - that is the new site for the Hyperakt Design Group. Not only do they have an impressive portfolio, they also know how to present it with large graphics, clear navigation and an abundance of images." - K10K.netRegarded as one of the most reviewed, referred to and revered conglomerate of graphic d ...

Membership has its privileges. And as a valued member of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Hyperakt is now a featured member on ibrooklyn.com!

In the world of graphic design, one of the most bookmarked and referenced websites is Design Is Kinky. Started as a forum to profile and highlight new developments and happenings in multi-media design, Australian-based founder Andrew Johnstone created Design Is Kinky. They had this to say about our new site: "[Hyperakt] has ...

Visitors of A.G.A.S.T. have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with the creators of photography, drawing, printmaking, mixed-media, video, ceramics, glass, installation, paintings, sculpture, and more in their own working studio environment. Artist studios are located in large industrial buildings as well as garages, brow ...

Hyperakt and Atelier present PJ Loughran's "Cowboy Portraits," limited edition giclee prints and ink drawings on paper. PJ's work will be on display from July 22nd - August 18th. The opening reception will take place Saturday July 24th, 7:00 @ 9:00 PM.

Having left her profession as a sculptor, Domenech strives in her current conceptual work to adorn the human body. Adapting her sculptural pieces to the scale of the body, she succeeds in transforming them into these small prostheses we call jewelry. "From Sculpture to Jewelry" incorporates over 100 pieces made of various m ...

REfUSE is the first exhibition at 401, Hyperakt's new Smith Street studio. All objects on display were made from recycled materials. The show features glass bottle coat hangers by Sybille Homann (Hamburg, Germany), bags made from vinyl advertising banners by Demano (Barcelona, Spain) and bags made from inner tubes by Cyclus ...

After a year of sharing home and work space, Hyperakt has invested into the future of our growing business by moving into our very own home at 401 Smith Street. Check out our flickr photostream for more images.

Deroy was hired to teach as an adjunct professor at Parsons. He'll be teaching a Professional Practices class to seniors in the Fall semester, followed by a Digital Presentation class in the Spring.

Art4Now strives to create ways for students who reside in New York City's economically under-resourced neighborhoods to explore, express, and develop their voices through art. Art4Now is a non-profit arts education organization that supplements and expands existing school curricula to create a hands-on program for inner-cit ...

Julia has accompanied her husband, Lenny, on a two-year hiatus to Boston while he completes a Master's program at MIT. Enter the age of teleconferencing. It's a good thing Apple's iSight came out around the same time.

Deroy's new loft work/live space on Smith Street is Hyperakt's new home.

After graduating from Parsons School of Design in May, 2001, and 5 months of freelancing, Deroy Peraza reserves the domain name Hyperakt.com. The name Hyperakt was chosen for a variety of reasons. It originates from a loose translation of Deroy's childhood nickname "Trompo Loco," which is directly translated from Spanish as ...

It's the first day of Freshman Foundation (other wise known as boot-camp) at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Future Hyperakt principals Deroy Peraza and Julia Vakser are placed in the same foundation group. For the next year they have pretty much every class together. After foundation year, both major in Illustra ...