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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
I want a corn dog scented candle.”
1-2-3 Cheeseburger Lane!”
I just wanna eat this sandwich.”
Are we going to a place I can wear slippers?”
Steve's probably listening to Fiona Apple.”
Must. Resist. Cacao.”
Stop counting the dents in my can of food.”
It looks like a big dinosaur protecting a translucent bag of smaller dinosaurs”
I'm sitting down here with Hot Popcorn Hands.”
Mister-I'm-Never-Wrong!”
The wild cheeses grow aplenty here.”
I wish I could draw RoboCop.”
No, *YOU* need megadoses of vitamin D.”
Gonna write up the changes on a stone tablet like it's the Jurassic era.”
Dark Mode is ruining my life.”
It's too Skittly.”
It's been two days since Monday.”
More bugs than expected. 4 stars. ”
Entertainment Tonight is where dreams go to die.”
That's a lawsuit pickle right there.”
I’m getting a full-on chest plate tattoo of FORM riding on the back of a magical unicorn to show my appreciation.”
Math is black.”
I don't think real cowboys do this much ironing.”
Can you bring your horse?”
Young Sam Elliot is a head-turner!”
Trash day is the only thing that anchors me.”
Why'd you walk over here like Stone Cold Steve Austin?”
How would you get DNA from Elvis?”
I've never seen the 80s.”
He's building a car and doing his spy run.”
I just keep making ears by accident.”
I can't wait to dance on the grave of that site.”
I think I was bitten by a rattlesnake in a past life.”
I've been to New Jersey?”
I have a weird cheese story for you.”
Did you say "jQuery" or "Katie Perry"?”
They're switchin' browsers and clearin' cookies!”
I'm bringing iFrames back.”
She’s like the Taylor Swift of silversmithing. ”
How much bread would it take to feed a scorpion for a week?”
We have flippage!”
Move. You're where my Diet Coke goes.”
My goal is to live until 2085.”
Full of secrets and bees. ”
Sassy Cap'n McBeef O'Brady”
Birthday Mullet Hammer Pants”
I keep thinking about that wolf tie.”
It's like The Sixth Sense, but with tacos.”
The 80's called and they want their wine back.”
I forgot outside was a place I could go.”
It's what's for dinner.”
I switched to the California Raisins pillowcase last night.”
Never get into a fistfight with a puppeteer.”
I am the ghost of Tractor Supply Company.”
My version of a beard is a hat.”
I need to know more about that cat!”
I'm sorry I'm not a sock connoisseur.”
He sucked at watching TV.”
I'm not at a place in my heart where I can eat a bear.”
I'm not giving my money to YouTube. YouTube is all horsey and gross.”
It's like, the future.”
Your hat smells like bologna.”
It's like a statue of my dog with a mustache on it.”
I said something about sausage, but I don't remember what it was.”
I've looked at that alpaca all day.”
You're always picked last and your pasta smells.”
Whoa! That's the monkey!”
My whole life is a circular formula.”
That's why I'm walking away while you look at pictures of Rob Van Dam.”
All caps, all the time.”
Acknowledge my math!”
What are these ribbons your horse keeps winning?”
It's the web equivalent of a junk drawer.”
That's a good lookin monkey.”
But, Saul Bass already used all the good shapes.”
It's dark and gloomy with zombies, but I think I'll keep my sunglasses on.”
I didn't want to spend $40 on a banana costume.”
Activate the chicken!”
You just have to hope for the best until it doesn't happen.”
I don't want to chase the red sweater. I just want to buy the red sweater.”
Murderer at nine o'clock!”
I'm dealing with some very important kangaroo things right now.”
I can handle a lot of Jeff Bridges in one movie.”
I hate Internet Explorer.”
Rhinos are a big deal.”
Teresa, you haven't given me an answer, you've only given me s*!%.”
It was like B-side Tony the Tiger.”
Internet Explorer is ruining this.”
Oh, sorry! I'll just rewrite the Web.”
I don't like wearing pants.”
It looks, feels, and smells great!”
No amount of money is worth your husband having a mustache.”
No cults or dying, please. It's Friday.”
Eating beans from a can like a hobo!”
It doesn't work in Safari.”
I don't foresee whales having cell phones.”
I don't know who you think you are, coming up in here with a taco.”
Come and get it, Sammy Hagar!”
Michael do you want something pumpkin-spiced?”
(on St. Patrick's Day) Happy Thanksgiving!”
Can you Swissify it?”
Why is there a piece of cheese in my purse?”
You can't out-do the fish with sneakers.”
You're eating the chicken crust.”
A person can be positive, AND also inappropriate.”
What kind of single-finger crimes can you commit?”
It's like if I had muscles but with quarters.”
There is no reason for Bob Evans.”
I can tell by the look on your face that you're not going to be of any help.”
Stay in your happy little design world.”
Why is the llama-cam shaking?”
It wasn't like that a minute ago.”
This phone call is messing up my hair.”
I'd go to a goat rodeo.”
My middle toe went numb and I thought I had something in my shoe.”
That's great, now there's bacon bits in my keyboard.”
You can't ship pickles.”
I mean, how much Jeff Bridges can you have in one movie?”
An ice cream truck drove through this design.”
I'm going to pull out the Real Joe Pesci Hat.”
Let's see, so the chicken goes in the middle...”
They have that dirty ketchup money.”
I'm just not used to Kory wearing pants.”
One time I set myself on fire.”
I thought I was done with zombies.”
He's just mad because he can't be a wizard.”
There's wine on your motherboard.”
It was working a minute ago.”
PBS is very : colon-y.”
I was working, until I got distracted by this Madonna song.”
He's got an eyepatch sorta vibe.”
It'll be in the Someone Said that's in your heart.”
Emotionally, my hands are in my pockets.”
What is life if not just a series of great chairs?”
This sushi is quite delicious. If you like the taste of death.”
Well, we have mustaches upstairs.”
IE is the DMV of the Internet.”
I'm no stranger to a rotten banana.”
C'mon. Lemme see your turkey burgers.”
It’s just weird that this is like a “walkin’-around” place. ”
He's magic. He's practically a leprechaun.”
Wait 'til I get this gas station food, then order in.”
You have some mustard on your forehead. ”
No one is as f*#¥%#! good as Katelyn. She’s got two degrees.”
Steve, you should come look at these sandwich pictures.”
These zombies look like cauliflower.”
It's too Skynrdy.”
I would rather have moist than wet food, thank you very much.”
Beige is not a color.”
I'm trying to think of a more magical word for practical.”
I think what we should probably do, is nothing.”
A pickle chip got caught in the wheels of my chair.”
That horse looks like Burt Russel Crowe.”
Our sponsors are our butter, our members are our bread.”
Long story short... I'm a genius, and we don't need a new Roomba.”
Bring it all to the corn dog party!”
You wanna do hot dogs Friday?”
Who is Batman and The Drumstick?”
Look at his bag of hot dog boxes on the floor!”
You forgot the witch supplies!”
Always cut toward your innards.”
Is this the collective smell of humanity?”
I'm gonna crop out the crusty parts.”
This is too helpful.”
I'd try human. (on the topic of cannibalism)”
Helvetica Light makes me think you're lying.”
I'll die if I smell like a hamster.”
Location ID = 23 Bread Bowl = False (AKA: The Breadbowl Module is Broken.)”
Not wearing black is Emily's pink.”
Settle down, Mailchimp.”
Look at the eyes on that Red-Legged Honeycreeper!”
The Muppets are my Downton Abbey.”
It's like an easy bake oven for adults who like chicken.”
The dog arrived before the paintings.”
It's too sausagy.”
I've been here before - I was looking for a baby!”
Beige is not an image.”
I can turn my funks off.”
I don't recall there being an h in leprechaun.”
You should watch Labyrinth if you're into Muppets.”
I'm sorry about the div.”
They should do Animal Crossing on the moon.”
Please pray for Mrs. Haskel's tomatoes.”
Try not to make it too caskety.”
I'm trying to figure out what kind of harvester to use for canola.”
What about ferrets? Ferrets are weird.”
I only got to Utah before I quit.”
I'm trying to use your design elements but I'm not sure I like them.”
That egg is dumb.”
I'm going to look up thesaurus in the dictionary.”
What can I say? I have uncontrollable eyebrows.”
Her abs look like a turtle shell.”
...And that is why you don't wear sandals to Blossom.”
Where did you live, a coal chute?”
I don't like the weather tellin' me what to do.”
The conference template fills me with dread.”
I can still smell Steve.”
I've been thinking about that wolf tie.”
Let's not get in a fight with a horse.”
Cat-flavored ice cream?”
It's not urgent, aside from the building being on fire.”
I can't wait to put that on a T-shirt.”
The football game or the moon landing?”
I can't solve a three-year-old's bee jokes.”
Lower case "m" is the best letter.”
I'm programming in my head.”
We're not counting the tiny chickens.”
I don't want this bacon on here any more.”
I can get behind an animal with a handlebar mustache.”
You look at your astronaut food. I'm gonna work.”
I once smuggled a Subway footlong in my sweatshirt pocket. ”
The cats came with the man.”
Every time she raises her hand an egg dies.”
You do seem like the type of guy who'd drink pickle juice.”
The air doesn't taste like pancakes!”
I'd rather be Garamond than Papyrus.”
I just blew my nose in my notes.”
It's a pickle wearing a cape; I think it's self-explanatory.”
Where we're going, we don't need rollovers!”
I got this whole thing of Silly Putty stuck on my sleeve.”
If you had a hot dog roller and went shopping for sausages, things might change.”
The donut button isn't working.”
I haven't had a muffler since 2020”
I would put that in Someone Said if it wasn't so disgusting.”
Make it extra-white. #GGGGGG”
I know how I like my files: Large.”
Steve, let's go somewhere, just you and me.”
I found Pickle Doritos at a rest stop.”
I'm thinking like four, maybe five steps ahead of you.”
Oh I'm smart! I'm artificial!”
There is no light, only Dark Mode.”
I'm gonna make websites out of wood.”
Babies aren't supposed to look like Woody Harrelson. ”
No. They don't have budget for robots.”
Well. I guess we're having stock photos for lunch.”
Are pigs becoming extinct?”
Thankfully, Mercury in retrograde ends today.”
I had some chicken wings in my car that I was going to give you. ”
Instructions unclear, I have peanut butter on my hands.”
This tastes like Steve's car.”
I'm wing-dingin' it.”
I can’t type expletives without the expletives. ”
I wanna smell how cold it is.”
It's like a clown car of drawers.”
Gettin' mean... in a nice way.”
I think what we should plan to do, is nothing.”
It's like Top Chef, but with vodka.”
You'd suck at being a zombie.”
They're like the seagulls of birds.”
You're the Sherlock Holmes of the digital age.”
Can I be Josh for Halloween?”
I just smelled fries in my head.”
Oooh, it's propagating!”
If it's not moist, I'm not interested in having it thrown on my desk.”
It's like a new Tool album for me.”
It's a torsional thing.”
Facebook's telling me I'm fat.”
400 pounds plus adrenaline, and I could flip a car, easy.”
Like, the food kind, or the magical kind?”
Haven't we tortured cauliflower enough?”
It's like drinking a little garden.”
Who am I, Benjamin Franklin?”
Did I do that during the pandemic?”
It's like a pair of pants, for your car.”
Hot yoga, Steve? No, goat.”
They're like little rock possums!”
I have an item of boot business to discuss.”
It should be a little Burt Reynolds.”
Fancy code is the only kind I write.”
It's like, I read books, but I also party.”
It reminds me of an old calculator.”
I call those dinosaurs daddy long necks.”
I've never had much luck with rabbits.”
It's like Smash Mouth in the 90's”
Have you heard about the whaler-pirate guy?”
Why'd you put me out like that about the Lion King?”
Eating peaches with a spoon stinks.”
There are no conifer trees in here.”
'M', as in Machu Picchu.”
If this were a book, I would totally read it.”
There are four purses in my purse.”
What don't you think should be converted into a fish tank?”
Is that horse wearing shorts?”
It doesn't work in IE.”
This knob makes me want to get drunk.”
Adam Driver is the Sarah Jessica Parker of men.”
It works!”
Please ignore me collating behind you.”
Maybe it’s coincidence, maybe it‘s Oppenheimer. ”
Squirrels don't have pants.”
Let's talk about donuts. ”
In Belgium, there's a tax for things that are too multitasky.”
There's a lot of outer space.”
These people drive like animals.”
Also, they have a great toe box.”
If the Long Island Medium were here, she'd freak out.”
I try not to have too many hobbies.”
Light the content candle!”
I tried the peanut butter trick with Jelly before.”
It's like, the Jedi.”
What kind of shoes, cotton candy?”
I just had an Emeril moment.”
I love mint-forward. ”
Yeah I'm turtlin'!”
Batteries? Seriously? What is this, 1985?”
Don't come at me with your popcorn problems.”
I feel like I just try too much sometimes.”
You see that giant hot dog?”
A guy named Jerry has 20 watermelons in his truck.”
People are weird in the spring, man.”
Remember when you threw décor at me?”
Did you just raise the roof on jQuery?”
Is that a convertible hearse?”
It's broken.”
What's that band? 100 Haircuts?”
It smells like the 80s.”
I'm not trying to make my turnips rot you guys.”
I want the whole tomato.”
Your sweat smells like Dolce & Gabbana.”
Pockets full of coffee.”
The meatball machine is broken.”
Those stupid little pickles.”
I need a more magical word for "practical."”
That's just how I like my mugs: Cheap and Swiss.”
Shrimp is too squeaky for the morning.”
We're not eating it, we're just looking at it!”
Check your email before you put your pants on.”
This is not your grandmother's website!”
I had a pencil sharpener shaped like a boat.”
You reach into your heart and pull out a potholder.”
Those weren't professional quality mustaches.”
That's why I don't eat it out of a can; I eat it out of a bag.”
There's a lot of dirt down here.”
I'm out here changing the Internet.”
They'll do anything for a ribbon and a hamburger.”
Salad's nasty.”
How am I supposed to get through my workday when I have to take care of all these tiny people in my phone?”
I bought a Chewbacca shirt but I keep forgetting to wear it.”
I was just there for the Year of the Spatula.”
Was that Rod Stewart?”
Something is wrong with the server.”
I'm gonna rock that perm!”
Is toe box one word or two?”
I can't juggle a fish, that's for sure.”
Then I thought, why not just make it Helvetica?”
I think I'm gonna have to set something on fire.”
The hands are the face of the arm.”
Is hot dog one word or two?”
Kohl's and casinos — no windows.”