Notable & News

Redbud Red

This spring has been spectacular for the redbuds in Kentucky. The distinctive magenta color of the early blooms brings a beautiful splash of contrast to the many hues of green emerging along the roadways. Redbuds are easy to spot… as...

Voice at Work

Local artist and actress Theresa Kibby recently lent her voice to our television spots for the Somerset-Pulaski County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Audio engineer Mike Murphy is at the controls.

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Beaux Cheveux
By Julie Harris

OK friends, quiz time. What’s a beau font do-bust?(Cue the Jeopardy tune.) Don’t panic. You probably haven’t heard of it. In fact, I’m pretty sure my childhood girlfriends made it up. I can so vividly recall one of them walking down...

Our Studio Wetlands

Bob Gibson, aka the Carvin Artist, creates beautiful decoys from the cedar on his Washington County, Kentucky farm. When KSD was tasked to develop a website to showcase Bob’s work a few years ago, one of the first challenges was...

We’re Still Playing with Our Food

Food Fight!, our first iPhone game, is a little over a year old now and we’ve just released an updated version with a new character in the lineup. The fast and elusive “Sherry Cherry” is a score multiplier. Hit Sherry...

KSD Working in Seattle

Kirby Stephens Design has been selected from dozens of design firms across the country to create a new interpretive brochure for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Seattle, Washington. The brochure is to highlight the Lake Washington Ship Canal...

KSD Wins Awards for Web & TV

SOMERSET, KY – March 3, 2005 –The Kentucky Auctioneers Association has awarded Century21 Godby Realty & Auction Co., Inc. two top honors for its website and television commercials. At their annual convention in Lexington, the statewide auctioneers organization awarded Century21...

Web Site for Local Schools Wins Prestigious Design Award
ARTICLE FROM PRINT MAGAZINE, 2002

It’s hardly news to our readers that things have been, one might say, a bit shaky in the dot-com market during the past couple of years. Its decline, already accelerating when we put together last year’s annual, continued throughout the...

Kirby Stephens Design Talents Behind Valley Oaks’s Image
ARTICLE FROM COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL, AUGUST 23, 2002

The Valley Oak Technology Complex will be sporting a smart, new, technologically-inspired logo just in time for its Sept. 3 groundbreaking ceremony. KIrby Stephens Design Inc., of Somerset, was recently selected, following a competitive procurement process, to design the complex’s...

KSD Featured in Graphis

One day, while thinking about our website, we did a Google search for Kirby Stephens Design and came across a directory of winners in the Graphics Promotion Design 2. We didn’t remember even responding to the call for entries, but...

Kentucky Kicks off Fresh Promotion for Produce
By David Goetz The Courier-Journal, July 2, 2002

The Kentucky Department of Agriculture yesterday kicked off its first unified effort to promote the sale and use of Kentucky-grown produce within the state by unveiling a logo that will symbolize the program. The logo — a stylized cardinal bird...

Surviving and Thriving—Designers Share the Good and the Bad of Working Outside “Design Central”
ARTICLE FROM STEP INSIDE DESIGN MAGAZINE, 2002

I began to suspect I might have made a mistake moving so far into the country when making a mad dash one evening for the only FedEx office in the area open past 2:30 pm. Unfortunately, it was 55 miles...

Kirby Stephens Design Unveils New Logo for Artist Group
ARTICLE FROM COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL, MAY 18, 2001

Kentucky’s premiere showcase for the work of artists and craftsmen has been “touched” by a Somerset design firm. A new logo for The Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen was created locally by KSD, just in time for the organization’s...

Kirby Stephens Helps Local Organization Create an Identity
ARTICLE FROM COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL, JULY 19, 2000

When Pulaski citizens drive through the county, several landmark signs let them know they are “home.” But what they probably don’t realize is that many of these signs were all designed by the same group of people–Kirby Stephens Design Inc....

Featured Design Projects

DUO Broadband

Hammond Group

Smoky Mountain School of Cooking

City of Somerset, Kentucky

Factor

Belle City Amusements

MedPark West

Russell County Industrial Development Authority

Villas Ventures

National Scenic Byways

Amon’s Sugar Shack

Lake Washington Ship Canal

Nextband

The SEED Academy

Union College Bulldogs