Span Employee Directory
Design ServicesIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
Span is a design studio operating across the spectrum of communication design, producing work in multiple media. The practice emphasizes challenging expectations through wit and logic, combining precise typography with bold expression to enhance how visual messages shape culture and communities. Span treats design as a research and development lab for both client needs and the studio's own inquiries, pursuing imaginative experimentation to increase the impact of communication. Based in Chicago, Illinois, the studio operates as a small to mid-sized firm that has attracted international media coverage and industry recognition, including features from Wired, The Economist, Smithsonian Magazine, US News and World Report, and the Associated Press, and acknowledgments from Communication Arts, Brand New, the Society of Typographic Arts, and the Type Directors Club.