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