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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Josh

Josh is one of the few people we know who has lived in a shipping container. On purpose. Twice. When he's not directing FORM's digital design or blushing about his pile of AIGA awards, he is probably communing with nature or learning to tie a fly. He once led a clandestine effort to poster Frankfurt with messages about healthy work-life-balance. His doodling and handwriting are so geometrically perfect that some say he uses The Force to conjure it. He is the second-tallest FORMie, which comes in handy when retrieving errant Nerf darts. He loves stuff like outer space, red shoes, sriracha sauce, and Tycho.

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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?

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Someone Said

Overheard and out of context. Hang around with us long enough, and you might find something you said posted here, too:

Is that a convertible hearse?

I tried the peanut butter trick with Jelly before.

I'm sorry about the div.

Yeah I'm turtlin'!

Your sweat smells like Dolce & Gabbana.

Gettin' mean... in a nice way.

Location ID = 23 Bread Bowl = False (AKA: The Breadbowl Module is Broken.)

Don't come at me with your popcorn problems.

Thankfully, Mercury in retrograde ends today.

A guy named Jerry has 20 watermelons in his truck.

It's like The Sixth Sense, but with tacos.

She’s like the Taylor Swift of silversmithing.

Check your email before you put your pants on.

I'm sorry I'm not a sock connoisseur.

I'm trying to use your design elements but I'm not sure I like them.

C'mon. Lemme see your turkey burgers.

If you had a hot dog roller and went shopping for sausages, things might change.

Those weren't professional quality mustaches.

Wait 'til I get this gas station food, then order in.

I had a pencil sharpener shaped like a boat.

These people drive like animals.

I'm programming in my head.

I think I was bitten by a rattlesnake in a past life.

I want the whole tomato.

You're eating the chicken crust.

What can I say? I have uncontrollable eyebrows.

I need a more magical word for "practical."

I'd try human. (on the topic of cannibalism)

This sushi is quite delicious. If you like the taste of death.

Helvetica Light makes me think you're lying.

Is this the collective smell of humanity?

That horse looks like Burt Russel Crowe.

These zombies look like cauliflower.

How would you get DNA from Elvis?

I just blew my nose in my notes.

Come and get it, Sammy Hagar!

I try not to have too many hobbies.

I've been to New Jersey?

This phone call is messing up my hair.

I got this whole thing of Silly Putty stuck on my sleeve.

Let's talk about donuts.

I'd rather be Garamond than Papyrus.

It's been two days since Monday.

Move. You're where my Diet Coke goes.

What kind of shoes, cotton candy?

It's like Top Chef, but with vodka.

What is life if not just a series of great chairs?

What don't you think should be converted into a fish tank?

Facebook's telling me I'm fat.

Remember when you threw décor at me?

I don't want this bacon on here any more.

I don't recall there being an h in leprechaun.

There is no light, only Dark Mode.

I'm out here changing the Internet.

Emotionally, my hands are in my pockets.

I don't like the weather tellin' me what to do.

Squirrels don't have pants.

Dark Mode is ruining my life.

Try not to make it too caskety.

It looks like a big dinosaur protecting a translucent bag of smaller dinosaurs

I'm going to pull out the Real Joe Pesci Hat.

It's like Smash Mouth in the 90's

I hate Internet Explorer.

The football game or the moon landing?

I think what we should probably do, is nothing.

Shrimp is too squeaky for the morning.

This is not your grandmother's website!

That's why I'm walking away while you look at pictures of Rob Van Dam.

It was like B-side Tony the Tiger.

But, Saul Bass already used all the good shapes.

I just wanna eat this sandwich.

If it's not moist, I'm not interested in having it thrown on my desk.

Fancy code is the only kind I write.

I have a weird cheese story for you.

There are four purses in my purse.

I'm trying to figure out what kind of harvester to use for canola.

IE is the DMV of the Internet.

I can’t type expletives without the expletives.

You have some mustard on your forehead.

If the Long Island Medium were here, she'd freak out.

Are pigs becoming extinct?

It's like a new Tool album for me.

Did you say "jQuery" or "Katie Perry"?

Why is the llama-cam shaking?

1-2-3 Cheeseburger Lane!

The donut button isn't working.

Can you Swissify it?

Then I thought, why not just make it Helvetica?

They'll do anything for a ribbon and a hamburger.

Adam Driver is the Sarah Jessica Parker of men.

I'm gonna rock that perm!

Oh I'm smart! I'm artificial!

Maybe it’s coincidence, maybe it‘s Oppenheimer.

A person can be positive, AND also inappropriate.

Oh, sorry! I'll just rewrite the Web.

Cat-flavored ice cream?

I need to know more about that cat!

You forgot the witch supplies!

Well, we have mustaches upstairs.

I've looked at that alpaca all day.

I'm gonna make websites out of wood.

I can't wait to dance on the grave of that site.

The Muppets are my Downton Abbey.

I had some chicken wings in my car that I was going to give you. 

I forgot outside was a place I could go.

It's like a clown car of drawers.

Haven't we tortured cauliflower enough?

The hands are the face of the arm.

He sucked at watching TV.

I'd go to a goat rodeo.

That's a good lookin monkey.

You just have to hope for the best until it doesn't happen.

My version of a beard is a hat.

I'm dealing with some very important kangaroo things right now.

Where we're going, we don't need rollovers!

I've never had much luck with rabbits.

Babies aren't supposed to look like Woody Harrelson.

People are weird in the spring, man.

The dog arrived before the paintings.

Activate the chicken!

It's like a statue of my dog with a mustache on it.

They're switchin' browsers and clearin' cookies!

It works!

I'm not at a place in my heart where I can eat a bear.

I only got to Utah before I quit.

I’m getting a full-on chest plate tattoo of FORM riding on the back of a magical unicorn to show my appreciation.

Can you bring your horse?

In Belgium, there's a tax for things that are too multitasky.

Long story short... I'm a genius, and we don't need a new Roomba.

I don't foresee whales having cell phones.

I've been here before - I was looking for a baby!

I am the ghost of Tractor Supply Company.

Our sponsors are our butter, our members are our bread.

I bought a Chewbacca shirt but I keep forgetting to wear it.

It's too Skittly.

Why is there a piece of cheese in my purse?

Rhinos are a big deal.

You do seem like the type of guy who'd drink pickle juice.

Did I do that during the pandemic?

Teresa, you haven't given me an answer, you've only given me s*!%.

What kind of single-finger crimes can you commit?

I can't wait to put that on a T-shirt.

Pockets full of coffee.

Beige is not a color.

I'm just not used to Kory wearing pants.

It's a torsional thing.

Why'd you walk over here like Stone Cold Steve Austin?

It's a pickle wearing a cape; I think it's self-explanatory.

It reminds me of an old calculator.

I'll die if I smell like a hamster.

That's why I don't eat it out of a can; I eat it out of a bag.

Whoa! That's the monkey!

We have flippage!

He's magic. He's practically a leprechaun.

Steve, let's go somewhere, just you and me.

This is too helpful.

That's just how I like my mugs: Cheap and Swiss.

There's wine on your motherboard.

No one is as f*#¥%#! good as Katelyn. She’s got two degrees.

I was just there for the Year of the Spatula.

It's like a pair of pants, for your car.

They're like the seagulls of birds.

They're like little rock possums!

(on St. Patrick's Day) Happy Thanksgiving!

It doesn't work in Safari.

I can turn my funks off.

I'm not giving my money to YouTube. YouTube is all horsey and gross.

Who is Batman and The Drumstick?

I can handle a lot of Jeff Bridges in one movie.

It's like, the Jedi.

I don't like wearing pants.

It's not urgent, aside from the building being on fire.

I can't solve a three-year-old's bee jokes.

Settle down, Mailchimp.

The wild cheeses grow aplenty here.

Please pray for Mrs. Haskel's tomatoes.

You're the Sherlock Holmes of the digital age.

I can still smell Steve.

Look at his bag of hot dog boxes on the floor!

I haven't had a muffler since 2020

Every time she raises her hand an egg dies.

Acknowledge my math!

What's that band? 100 Haircuts?

Never get into a fistfight with a puppeteer.

No, *YOU* need megadoses of vitamin D.

Was that Rod Stewart?

You should watch Labyrinth if you're into Muppets.

I said something about sausage, but I don't remember what it was.

There are no conifer trees in here.

Math is black.

I just had an Emeril moment.

Let's see, so the chicken goes in the middle...

I can tell by the look on your face that you're not going to be of any help.

It’s just weird that this is like a “walkin’-around” place.

Something is wrong with the server.

I mean, how much Jeff Bridges can you have in one movie?

...And that is why you don't wear sandals to Blossom.

It's too sausagy.

That's great, now there's bacon bits in my keyboard.

I think I'm gonna have to set something on fire.

The conference template fills me with dread.

It's like an easy bake oven for adults who like chicken.

Beige is not an image.

You wanna do hot dogs Friday?

They have that dirty ketchup money.

You're always picked last and your pasta smells.

I keep thinking about that wolf tie.

I switched to the California Raisins pillowcase last night.

I feel like I just try too much sometimes.

My whole life is a circular formula.

Batteries? Seriously? What is this, 1985?

I can't juggle a fish, that's for sure.

I have an item of boot business to discuss.

I want a corn dog scented candle.

If this were a book, I would totally read it.

A pickle chip got caught in the wheels of my chair.

I'm not trying to make my turnips rot you guys.

Is toe box one word or two?

I'm trying to think of a more magical word for practical.

All caps, all the time.

Entertainment Tonight is where dreams go to die.

It's dark and gloomy with zombies, but I think I'll keep my sunglasses on.

There is no reason for Bob Evans.

The air doesn't taste like pancakes!

The 80's called and they want their wine back.

I would rather have moist than wet food, thank you very much.

I don't think real cowboys do this much ironing.

Are we going to a place I can wear slippers?

One time I set myself on fire.

Those stupid little pickles.

Did you just raise the roof on jQuery?

Michael do you want something pumpkin-spiced?

Have you heard about the whaler-pirate guy?

Steve, you should come look at these sandwich pictures.

What are these ribbons your horse keeps winning?

There's a lot of dirt down here.

It'll be in the Someone Said that's in your heart.

I call those dinosaurs daddy long necks.

I've never seen the 80s.

It doesn't work in IE.

Also, they have a great toe box.

I think what we should plan to do, is nothing.

I'm sitting down here with Hot Popcorn Hands.

I'm thinking like four, maybe five steps ahead of you.

You can't out-do the fish with sneakers.

I'm no stranger to a rotten banana.

It looks, feels, and smells great!

You look at your astronaut food. I'm gonna work.

Well. I guess we're having stock photos for lunch.

It's the web equivalent of a junk drawer.

An ice cream truck drove through this design.

How am I supposed to get through my workday when I have to take care of all these tiny people in my phone?

I wish I could draw RoboCop.

You can't ship pickles.

Is hot dog one word or two?

Is that horse wearing shorts?

This tastes like Steve's car.

Lower case "m" is the best letter.

You see that giant hot dog?

It's too Skynrdy.

We're not eating it, we're just looking at it!

No cults or dying, please. It's Friday.

No. They don't have budget for robots.

Birthday Mullet Hammer Pants

You reach into your heart and pull out a potholder.

More bugs than expected. 4 stars.

Why'd you put me out like that about the Lion King?

Oooh, it's propagating!

Bring it all to the corn dog party!

I would put that in Someone Said if it wasn't so disgusting.

We're not counting the tiny chickens.

I don't know who you think you are, coming up in here with a taco.

I just smelled fries in my head.

Mister-I'm-Never-Wrong!

I wanna smell how cold it is.

Full of secrets and bees.

My goal is to live until 2085.

Stay in your happy little design world.

I'm bringing iFrames back.

What about ferrets? Ferrets are weird.

I can get behind an animal with a handlebar mustache.

Always cut toward your innards.

I found Pickle Doritos at a rest stop.

Look at the eyes on that Red-Legged Honeycreeper!

Please ignore me collating behind you.

Your hat smells like bologna.

Gonna write up the changes on a stone tablet like it's the Jurassic era.

I thought I was done with zombies.

There's a lot of outer space.

It's broken.

'M', as in Machu Picchu.

He's got an eyepatch sorta vibe.

400 pounds plus adrenaline, and I could flip a car, easy.

It should be a little Burt Reynolds.

That's a lawsuit pickle right there.

I love mint-forward.

Her abs look like a turtle shell.

Trash day is the only thing that anchors me.

I'm going to look up thesaurus in the dictionary.

Sassy Cap'n McBeef O'Brady

I'm gonna crop out the crusty parts.

Like, the food kind, or the magical kind?

It's what's for dinner.

Internet Explorer is ruining this.

PBS is very : colon-y.

Stop counting the dents in my can of food.

It's like drinking a little garden.

The meatball machine is broken.

It's like, I read books, but I also party.

Salad's nasty.

Instructions unclear, I have peanut butter on my hands.

I once smuggled a Subway footlong in my sweatshirt pocket.

I didn't want to spend $40 on a banana costume.

Murderer at nine o'clock!

Light the content candle!

I'm wing-dingin' it.

My middle toe went numb and I thought I had something in my shoe.

I don't want to chase the red sweater. I just want to buy the red sweater.

No amount of money is worth your husband having a mustache.

It smells like the 80s.

How much bread would it take to feed a scorpion for a week?

Steve's probably listening to Fiona Apple.

I've been thinking about that wolf tie.

It was working a minute ago.

I know how I like my files: Large.

He's building a car and doing his spy run.

They should do Animal Crossing on the moon.

Not wearing black is Emily's pink.

Make it extra-white. #GGGGGG

The cats came with the man.

Must. Resist. Cacao.

This knob makes me want to get drunk.

That egg is dumb.

It wasn't like that a minute ago.

I just keep making ears by accident.

I was working, until I got distracted by this Madonna song.

It's like if I had muscles but with quarters.

Kohl's and casinos — no windows.

Eating peaches with a spoon stinks.

Can I be Josh for Halloween?

It's like, the future.