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How we can help you

The Original Champions of Design is a branding and design agency. We build and implement identity systems.
And – yes – we are obsessive about what we do. We have to be. There is no end-date to a brand. A successful identity system will live well-beyond our work, so every message must telegraph, every decision must be efficient and every file must be clean.

With experience across industries including the fine and performing arts, sports and entertainment, retail, hospitality, technology, real estate development, startups and nonprofits, we get most excited about taking on new sectors.

Our services include brand strategy, identity development, packaging, wayfinding and signage, exhibition design, motion graphics, book design and interactive.

Clients include the National Basketball Association, Girl Scouts of the USA and Friends of the High Line.

Awards include the Art Directors Club, D&AD, AIGA365, Type Directors Club and Print as well as Best of Show and Judge’s Pick in the 2011 Brand New Awards.

Partners

Jennifer Kinon

Founding partner

Jennifer Kinon is a designer and educator based in New York City. She co-founded OCD with Bobby C. Martin Jr. Together they develop brand and identity systems for a broad range of clients that include, among others, the National Basketball Association, Girl Scouts of the USA and Friends of the High Line. Their work has won awards from the Art Directors Club, D&AD, AIGA365, Type Directors Club and Print as well as Best of Show and Judge's Pick in the 2011 Brand New Awards.

Kinon recently served as the president of AIGA/NY. Prior to founding OCD, she worked in the New York office of Pentagram with Michael Bierut, served as design director of New York City’s 2012 Olympic Bid and worked as art director for Graphis Inc. She graduated from the University of Michigan and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Kinon is the first program graduate to join the faculty.

Bobby C. Martin Jr.

Founding partner

Bobby C. Martin Jr. is a designer and educator based in New York City. He co-founded OCD with Jennifer Kinon. Together they develop brand and identity systems for a broad range of clients that include, among others, the National Basketball Association, Girl Scouts of the USA and Friends of the High Line. Their work has won awards from the Art Directors Club, D&AD, AIGA365, Type Directors Club and Print as well as Best of Show and Judge's Pick in the 2011 Brand New Awards.

Prior to founding OCD, Martin developed brand experiences from the inside out while leading internal design teams at Nokia, in London, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has also served on the board of directors of AIGA/NY.

Martin teaches identity design at The Cooper Union and recently joined the faculty of his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, MFA Design Program where he holds a graduate degree. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Team

  • Matt Kay

    Hailing from South Africa, Matt is a graduate of Durban University of Technology. Before joining OCD, he worked as a designer at disturbance.

  • Jon Lee

    A lifelong New Yorker, Jon is a graduate of Parsons The New School for Design. He has freelanced at Pure + Applied, Opening Ceremony and Johannes Leonardo, among others.

  • Jobi

    From the mountains of Switzerland, Jobi’s a working dog in the East Village.