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