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