We are interdisciplinary zealots dedicated to blending creativity and code, philanthropy and commerce. Each of us is equal parts nonprofit patron, arts nerd, and tech junkie. We love what we do, and we love what our clients stand for. We are collaborative, inventive, inspired.
Meet the Team
Hannah
As a child, Hannah was a noted marker artist, 4th chair trumpeter, and passionate porcelain cat collector. She was often in trouble for talking in class and named her toys with only adjectives. Studying in Europe, Hannah found that DaVinci’s Annunciation is larger in real life and that identifying shower gel from hand lotion is tricky when you can’t read Italian. When she's not designing for FORM, she enjoys live concerts, cafe mocha, and carving elaborate designs into pumpkins. Except for the Harry Potter logo. Because, come on, the letter “P” is so hard to carve into a pumpkin.
Emily
When Emily isn't managing our projects, she's busy neglecting house plants, sketching ex-boyfriends' cars, and crushing on Monty Don. She tries to grow vegetables and has eaten 730 cupcakes. A creative spirit and self-described lovey-person, Emily is a big fan of romcoms and keeps a hand-drawn record of all the flowers her husband has ever given her. She knows how to collect honey from bees, can make a perfect frosting curlicue while grudgingly dancing to Pitbull, and has a knack for finding the most inconvenient Airbnbs.
Michael
Michael is a man of few words and many board games (150, to be exact). In addition to writing code for FORM, Michael is a proficient hackeysacker and skilled MIG welder. He does not recommend sleeping in a 2004 Ford Taurus before running a full marathon. He keeps a mysterious blackbird on his desk, is a proud descendant of Johnny Appleseed, and likes dogs named after fruit preserves.
Ryan
When he’s not writing code, Ryan is often gardening, singing self-affirming metal songs, or playing D&D as the cursed Warlock Bard Uriel the Younger. He once ate a sea urchin just to prove a point and says tuna salad sandwiches are the perfect food. He collects vintage video games and assures us that, though Gigan can’t beat Godzilla, he would probably win a fistfight with an ankylosaurus.
Steve
Steve is a supersmart, mostly pleasant guy with a penchant for sardonic vinyl toys and Diet Coke. He's an ardent music lover, and though his recent tastes skew toward post-modern shoegaze, he once willingly attended an Air Supply concert. It is rumored that he has quite a high IQ, which is plausible but unconfirmed by MENSA. A serial early adopter, he can’t bring himself to part with his robust laser disc collection. When he's not connecting with clients and guiding our developers, Steve is often skipping stones and building model rockets.
Ashleigh
Ashleigh tells us that, though deep-fried worms taste like potato chips, her favorite food is frosting. A dedicated saxophonist, she has performed a halftime routine wearing only one shoe. When she’s not writing code, she's quarterbacking, scrapbooking, or playing Led Zeppelin on her Fender Cyclone. Though she was once mistakenly detained for grand theft auto, she is the proud and legally titled owner of a vintage Geo Metro. She’s a big fan of making macarons, collecting bottle caps, and watching classic horror films.
DJ
A self-described rule follower, DJ is a fan of well-laid plans, responsibilities, and chicken. But this always-designated driver has an adventurous streak, too. He climbed a mountain to propose to his girlfriend, survived a Monegasque taxi ride, and adopted a puppy during the pandemic. When he’s not writing code, DJ is probably battling beetles in his pickle garden, listening to F1 radio chatter, or avoiding assembling his 43-inch Lego Imperial Star Destroyer because there’s no way that thing’s gonna fit in his house.
Rachel
As a child, Rachel admired the knife skills of Jacques Pépin. Today, she enjoys inventing new taco toppings and putting Old Bay on everything. She became a master of the bassoon because of her distaste for saxophones and eventually performed Verdi’s Requiem for a PBS documentary in Prague. When she's not connecting with FORM clients, she sometimes makes eyeless hand puppets, prays to St. Anthony for her lost Roku remote, and plays Radiohead on the drums. She’s a big fan of public media, minimalism, and melancholia.
Nakiyah
Nakiyah once starred as a munchkin in The Wiz and often composes spontaneous show tunes about things like waiting for takeout. Fascinated by the subconscious, she is the only person we know who actually wants to hear about her coworkers’ weird dreams. She has been rewriting book endings in her head since grade school so it's no wonder she is writing a novel. When she’s not strategizing digital marketing campaigns, she’s organizing her purses by size and utility, looking for elephants, and actively avoiding peas.
Jessica
When she’s not helping our clients with web maintenance or digital marketing, Jessica can be found paddle boarding on Lake Erie, solo traveling in the wild, and thrifting for mid-century knickknacks. She plays funk on a purple Fender and her green thumb is so green, even her plants have plants. She never skips an opportunity to watch Pretty in Pink and she enjoys detailed plans, kitschy cookware, and a healthy frizzle sizzle.
Katelyn
Katelyn says the best of all chemistry constants is 6.02x10 to the 23rd power, and who are we to argue? A rare combination of mathematician, athlete, and artist, she holds a master’s degree in accountancy, runs marathons for fun, and plays the heck out of Chopin’s Revolutionary Étude for piano. When Katelyn's not leading FORM's operations, she enjoys walking her dog, reading tiny dictionaries, and making lemon macaroons. She once broke a picnic table with her head and she's a fan of words, Warren Buffett, and the number 20,710.
Teresa
Though confused by long division and cooking, Teresa can ideate and design like nobody's business. She is a goldsmith in her spare time and enjoys collecting fancy hammers. She once met all of Pink Floyd, counted 17 shooting stars, and was seriously injured by a pot pie. When she's not strategizing and guiding FORM's creative team, she is probably soldering something, trying to get to Utah, or sniffing old books. She likes Icelandic compositional ambient music and spooning with her boston terrier, Hugo.
Michelle
Part philosophy scholar and part trash-talker, Michelle may argue the merits of shared humanity, but don’t challenge her to a soccer match unless you’re willing to lose your pride and a couple of teeth. She dislikes clutter but happily hoards houseplants, fountain pens, and cheese. When she’s not designing logos and websites, Michelle is flâneuring with her dog Rockwell, making perfectly timed carbonara, or singing melancholic post-punk songs at karaoke.
Airport
CloseAn hour
to create.
The creative brainpower is palpable when the studio stops for Desktop Friday, an exercise designed to reset our creativity. A random topic. An hour to create. Who will crack under pressure? Who will lose it all in an epic crash? Who will go rogue and design in Play-Doh?
Someone Said
Overheard and out of context. Hang around with us long enough, and you might find something you said posted here, too:
An ice cream truck drove through this design.”
Our sponsors are our butter, our members are our bread.”
Sassy Cap'n McBeef O'Brady”
Fancy code is the only kind I write.”
Can I be Josh for Halloween?”
I can tell by the look on your face that you're not going to be of any help.”
Dalmatians are not a monolith, people.”
I bought a Chewbacca shirt but I keep forgetting to wear it.”
I don't foresee whales having cell phones.”
He's just mad because he can't be a wizard.”
Let's see, so the chicken goes in the middle...”
Have you heard about the whaler-pirate guy?”
Let's not get in a fight with a horse.”
They're like the seagulls of birds.”
Her abs look like a turtle shell.”
I'm dealing with some very important kangaroo things right now.”
The conference template fills me with dread.”
It’s just weird that this is like a “walkin’-around” place. ”
Something is wrong with the server.”
What don't you think should be converted into a fish tank?”
I'm bringing iFrames back.”
You'd suck at being a zombie.”
I wanna smell how cold it is.”
I got this whole thing of Silly Putty stuck on my sleeve.”
Check your email before you put your pants on.”
Can you bring your horse?”
It's too sausagy.”
I can handle a lot of Jeff Bridges in one movie.”
One time I set myself on fire.”
It looks, feels, and smells great!”
Trash day is the only thing that anchors me.”
It's like a pair of pants, for your car.”
Must. Resist. Cacao.”
What is life if not just a series of great chairs?”
Move. You're where my Diet Coke goes.”
Steve, let's go somewhere, just you and me.”
Well. I guess we're having stock photos for lunch.”
A guy named Jerry has 20 watermelons in his truck.”
You do seem like the type of guy who'd drink pickle juice.”
Who am I, Benjamin Franklin?”
I'm gonna rock that perm!”
I keep thinking about that wolf tie.”
Oh, sorry! I'll just rewrite the Web.”
I'd rather be Garamond than Papyrus.”
I can get behind an animal with a handlebar mustache.”
Entertainment Tonight is where dreams go to die.”
It's not urgent, aside from the building being on fire.”
I need a more magical word for "practical."”
This is a website for birds!”
They're switchin' browsers and clearin' cookies!”
There's a lot of outer space.”
Birthday Mullet Hammer Pants”
What can I say? I have uncontrollable eyebrows.”
What about ferrets? Ferrets are weird.”
'M', as in Machu Picchu.”
That's great, now there's bacon bits in my keyboard.”
Why is the llama-cam shaking?”
It looks like a big dinosaur protecting a translucent bag of smaller dinosaurs”
Facebook's telling me I'm fat.”
It's been two days since Monday.”
Make it extra-white. #GGGGGG”
Bring it all to the corn dog party!”
I'm no stranger to a rotten banana.”
I'm going to pull out the Real Joe Pesci Hat.”
I don't like wearing pants.”
They have that dirty ketchup money.”
I would put that in Someone Said if it wasn't so disgusting.”
I can't wait to put that on a T-shirt.”
How would you get DNA from Elvis?”
I just had an Emeril moment.”
Batteries? Seriously? What is this, 1985?”
My version of a beard is a hat.”
Math is black.”
She’s like the Taylor Swift of silversmithing. ”
Where did you live, a coal chute?”
I've been here before - I was looking for a baby!”
It was working a minute ago.”
It's a torsional thing.”
Then I thought, why not just make it Helvetica?”
I just smelled fries in my head.”
Come and get it, Sammy Hagar!”
It's broken.”
My whole life is a circular formula.”
No. They don't have budget for robots.”
The air doesn't taste like pancakes!”
I once smuggled a Subway footlong in my sweatshirt pocket. ”
It's a pickle wearing a cape; I think it's self-explanatory.”
Settle down, Mailchimp.”
This is too helpful.”
The hands are the face of the arm.”
Those stupid little pickles.”
Kohl's and casinos — no windows.”
You forgot the witch supplies!”
I've been thinking about that wolf tie.”
The wild cheeses grow aplenty here.”
The 80's called and they want their wine back.”
What are these ribbons your horse keeps winning?”
Acknowledge my math!”
I found Pickle Doritos at a rest stop.”
Don't come at me with your popcorn problems.”
We're not counting the tiny chickens.”
You're always picked last and your pasta smells.”
Look at his bag of hot dog boxes on the floor!”
I'm going to look up thesaurus in the dictionary.”
I'm sorry I'm not a sock connoisseur.”
Long story short... I'm a genius, and we don't need a new Roomba.”
It's the web equivalent of a junk drawer.”
You see that giant hot dog?”
I thought I was done with zombies.”
Eating peaches with a spoon stinks.”
I haven't had a muffler since 2020”
I've never had much luck with rabbits.”
My middle toe went numb and I thought I had something in my shoe.”
I'm not trying to make my turnips rot you guys.”
I had a pencil sharpener shaped like a boat.”
I have an item of boot business to discuss.”
The football game or the moon landing?”
If the Long Island Medium were here, she'd freak out.”
Try not to make it too caskety.”
Is toe box one word or two?”
It works!”
I'm sitting down here with Hot Popcorn Hands.”
I wish I could draw RoboCop.”
He's building a car and doing his spy run.”
I think what we should probably do, is nothing.”
There is no reason for Bob Evans.”
I don't recall there being an h in leprechaun.”
I can't wait to dance on the grave of that site.”
Is hot dog one word or two?”
He sucked at watching TV.”
Dark Mode is ruining my life.”
There's a lot of dirt down here.”
It's like, I read books, but I also party.”
That egg is dumb.”
I'm out here changing the Internet.”
But, Saul Bass already used all the good shapes.”
It's like, the future.”
I'm gonna crop out the crusty parts.”
I switched to the California Raisins pillowcase last night.”
Activate the chicken!”
I've been to New Jersey?”
No, *YOU* need megadoses of vitamin D.”
It should be a little Burt Reynolds.”
It's like drinking a little garden.”
I'm trying to think of a more magical word for practical.”
I think what we should plan to do, is nothing.”
I need to know more about that cat!”
I don't want to chase the red sweater. I just want to buy the red sweater.”
Light the content candle!”
I can still smell Steve.”
It's like Top Chef, but with vodka.”
Oooh, it's propagating!”
I'm trying to use your design elements but I'm not sure I like them.”
The donut button isn't working.”
No cults or dying, please. It's Friday.”
I've never seen the 80s.”
I can turn my funks off.”
That horse looks like Burt Russel Crowe.”
You just have to hope for the best until it doesn't happen.”
No one is as f*#¥%#! good as Katelyn. She’s got two degrees.”
That's a lawsuit pickle right there.”
This sushi is quite delicious. If you like the taste of death.”
I can't solve a three-year-old's bee jokes.”
Why'd you walk over here like Stone Cold Steve Austin?”
I'm not at a place in my heart where I can eat a bear.”
A person can be positive, AND also inappropriate.”
Eating beans from a can like a hobo!”
Are we going to a place I can wear slippers?”
1-2-3 Cheeseburger Lane!”
Those weren't professional quality mustaches.”
Wait 'til I get this gas station food, then order in.”
Location ID = 23 Bread Bowl = False (AKA: The Breadbowl Module is Broken.)”
It doesn't work in Safari.”
Are pigs becoming extinct?”
I'm just not used to Kory wearing pants.”
These people drive like animals.”
Stop counting the dents in my can of food.”
Michael do you want something pumpkin-spiced?”
Did you say "jQuery" or "Katie Perry"?”
I would rather have moist than wet food, thank you very much.”
Thankfully, Mercury in retrograde ends today.”
You should watch Labyrinth if you're into Muppets.”
This phone call is messing up my hair.”
I love mint-forward. ”
There are four purses in my purse.”
I think I was bitten by a rattlesnake in a past life.”
That's why I'm walking away while you look at pictures of Rob Van Dam.”
It's what's for dinner.”
I'm programming in my head.”
You look at your astronaut food. I'm gonna work.”
I'm sorry about the div.”
Salad's nasty.”
I can’t type expletives without the expletives. ”
This is not your grandmother's website!”
Always cut toward your innards.”
I'll die if I smell like a hamster.”
I'm gonna make websites out of wood.”
This knob makes me want to get drunk.”
They should do Animal Crossing on the moon.”
Beige is not a color.”
I am the ghost of Tractor Supply Company.”
It's too Skittly.”
I was working, until I got distracted by this Madonna song.”
Is that a convertible hearse?”
I don't like the weather tellin' me what to do.”
You're the Sherlock Holmes of the digital age.”
I’m getting a full-on chest plate tattoo of FORM riding on the back of a magical unicorn to show my appreciation.”
IE is the DMV of the Internet.”
No amount of money is worth your husband having a mustache.”
I want the whole tomato.”
It reminds me of an old calculator.”
We have flippage!”
That's a good lookin monkey.”
Lower case "m" is the best letter.”
Did I do that during the pandemic?”
Stay in your happy little design world.”
You reach into your heart and pull out a potholder.”
It's dark and gloomy with zombies, but I think I'll keep my sunglasses on.”
Did you just raise the roof on jQuery?”
400 pounds plus adrenaline, and I could flip a car, easy.”
Who is Batman and The Drumstick?”
I'm trying to figure out what kind of harvester to use for canola.”
I'd go to a goat rodeo.”
(on St. Patrick's Day) Happy Thanksgiving!”
I feel like I just try too much sometimes.”
That's just how I like my mugs: Cheap and Swiss.”
It smells like the 80s.”
It doesn't work in IE.”
C'mon. Lemme see your turkey burgers.”
Steve, you should come look at these sandwich pictures.”
That's why I don't eat it out of a can; I eat it out of a bag.”
Why is there a piece of cheese in my purse?”
I just blew my nose in my notes.”
I've looked at that alpaca all day.”
These zombies look like cauliflower.”
Hot yoga, Steve? No, goat.”
Where we're going, we don't need rollovers!”
Remember when you threw décor at me?”
It's like, the Jedi.”
Beige is not an image.”
I don't want this bacon on here any more.”
He's magic. He's practically a leprechaun.”
I said something about sausage, but I don't remember what it was.”
Rhinos are a big deal.”
What kind of single-finger crimes can you commit?”
What's that band? 100 Haircuts?”
I just wanna eat this sandwich.”
I had some chicken wings in my car that I was going to give you. ”
I try not to have too many hobbies.”
I call those dinosaurs daddy long necks.”
It's like if I had muscles but with quarters.”
Well, we have mustaches upstairs.”
Full of secrets and bees. ”
There's wine on your motherboard.”
It's too Skynrdy.”
People are weird in the spring, man.”
Can you Swissify it?”
Mister-I'm-Never-Wrong!”
This tastes like Steve's car.”
It's like a statue of my dog with a mustache on it.”
Steve's probably listening to Fiona Apple.”
PBS is very : colon-y.”
Pockets full of coffee.”
In Belgium, there's a tax for things that are too multitasky.”
It's like a clown car of drawers.”
How am I supposed to get through my workday when I have to take care of all these tiny people in my phone?”
You can't out-do the fish with sneakers.”
Is that horse wearing shorts?”
Maybe it’s coincidence, maybe it‘s Oppenheimer. ”
Why'd you put me out like that about the Lion King?”
The meatball machine is broken.”
It's like an easy bake oven for adults who like chicken.”
I forgot outside was a place I could go.”
Did Ben Franklin even know that dinosaurs existed?”
Teresa, you haven't given me an answer, you've only given me s*!%.”
It's like The Sixth Sense, but with tacos.”
It was like B-side Tony the Tiger.”
If it's not moist, I'm not interested in having it thrown on my desk.”
Oh I'm smart! I'm artificial!”
Gonna write up the changes on a stone tablet like it's the Jurassic era.”
I hate Internet Explorer.”
I have a weird cheese story for you.”
What kind of shoes, cotton candy?”
I mean, how much Jeff Bridges can you have in one movie?”
They'll do anything for a ribbon and a hamburger.”
I'm wing-dingin' it.”
He's got an eyepatch sorta vibe.”
Your hat smells like bologna.”
I don't know who you think you are, coming up in here with a taco.”
In kindergarten we had a wedding for the letters Q and U because they were always together.”
More bugs than expected. 4 stars. ”
Babies aren't supposed to look like Woody Harrelson. ”
My goal is to live until 2085.”
I didn't want to spend $40 on a banana costume.”
Gettin' mean... in a nice way.”
If you had a hot dog roller and went shopping for sausages, things might change.”
Internet Explorer is ruining this.”
If this were a book, I would totally read it.”
The Muppets are my Downton Abbey.”
You just had to bring up Toe Day, didn't you?”
Whoa! That's the monkey!”
The dog arrived before the paintings.”
It'll be in the Someone Said that's in your heart.”
The cats came with the man.”
Is this the collective smell of humanity?”
I just keep making ears by accident.”
It's like Smash Mouth in the 90's”
We're not eating it, we're just looking at it!”
I tried the peanut butter trick with Jelly before.”
They're like little rock possums!”
Also, they have a great toe box.”
I know how I like my files: Large.”
How much bread would it take to feed a scorpion for a week?”
Haven't we tortured cauliflower enough?”
Look at the eyes on that Red-Legged Honeycreeper!”
I want a corn dog scented candle.”
You can't ship pickles.”
I can't juggle a fish, that's for sure.”
All caps, all the time.”
Never get into a fistfight with a puppeteer.”
I'm not giving my money to YouTube. YouTube is all horsey and gross.”
I'd try human. (on the topic of cannibalism)”
Shrimp is too squeaky for the morning.”
It's like a new Tool album for me.”
Young Sam Elliot is a head-turner!”
...And that is why you don't wear sandals to Blossom.”
Helvetica Light makes me think you're lying.”
Please ignore me collating behind you.”
A pickle chip got caught in the wheels of my chair.”
Please pray for Mrs. Haskel's tomatoes.”
Murderer at nine o'clock!”
Like, the food kind, or the magical kind?”
Yeah I'm turtlin'!”
It wasn't like that a minute ago.”
You're eating the chicken crust.”
I don't think real cowboys do this much ironing.”
Let's talk about donuts. ”
I think I'm gonna have to set something on fire.”
I only got to Utah before I quit.”
Emotionally, my hands are in my pockets.”
I was just there for the Year of the Spatula.”
Squirrels don't have pants.”
You wanna do hot dogs Friday?”
There is no light, only Dark Mode.”
There are no conifer trees in here.”
I'm thinking like four, maybe five steps ahead of you.”
Every time she raises her hand an egg dies.”
You have some mustard on your forehead. ”
Your sweat smells like Dolce & Gabbana.”
Not wearing black is Emily's pink.”
Instructions unclear, I have peanut butter on my hands.”
Adam Driver is the Sarah Jessica Parker of men.”
Cat-flavored ice cream?”
Was that Rod Stewart?”