Zut Alors!
Left to Right: Brendan Griffiths, Frank DeRose
The Team
Zut Alors! has 2 people. Of those, 2 are studio heads and 0 are managerial.
60% of studios are small-sized (1-5 people).
Gender Breakdown
100% male
0% female
Average height
5’10”-6’
Shortest: 5’10”
Tallest: 6’2”
Average age
30-35
Youngest: 30
Oldest: 35
Number of freelancers/year
1-5
Number of interns/year
3-4
Average: 1-2
Studio Disciplines
Breakdown of Work
Number of studio projects
26–50
Pro-bono projects
1–5
Strategy/Execution
50% Strategy
50% Execution
Primary Specialties
- Branding & Identity (77)
- Broadcast Graphics (18)
- Environmental Design (38)
- Illustration (45)
- Information Graphics (41)
- Interaction Design (36)
- Print (75)
- Web Design (59)
- Web Development (25)
Outside the scope of the studio
- Industrial Design (35)
- Motion (35)
- Sound Design (49)
- Typeface Design (20)
Clients’ Industries
- Advertising (22)
- Finance & Investment (26)
- Media & Publishing (58)
- Movies/Film (19)
- Products (32)
- Technology (37)
- The Arts/Cultural Institutions (71)
Zut Alors!’s Clients
- Bloomberg View (3)
- Brazzers
- Christie’s
- Condé Nast (3)
- Core77
- Creative Time (3)
- Good Magazine (3)
- Print Magazine
- Socrates Sculpture Park
- The New York Observer
- The New York Photo Festival
- The New York Times (12)
- The Suzanne Geiss Company
- Time Magazine (7)
- VH1 (2)
Brendan Griffiths, Partner
Demographics
Age 30, Male, from Eugene, OR, United States, now lives in New York, NY. Formal education is graduate degree, primary design education is school (Yale University School of Art).
What’s been the biggest influence on your design career?
Frank.
Years in Design Industry
8 years
Average: 17 years
Previous Design Employment
- Creative Time
- TODA
Teaching Design
- Pratt Institute — 1 years
- Parsons The New School for Design — 2 years
Time spent designing
30% actual
10% desired
Frank DeRose, Robot #2
Demographics
Age 35, Male, from Douglaston, NY, USA, now lives in New York, NY. Formal education is graduate degree, primary design education is mentor (karlssonwilker).
What’s been the biggest influence on your design career?
I learned a lot working with Jan and Hjalti. I obviously improved as a designer while working with them, but more importantly I learned to try to find joy in what it was that I made (this is basically always possible).
Years in Design Industry
12 years
Industry before design
Court clerk!
Previous Design Employment
- karlssonwilker inc. (2)
- MODco Creative
Teaching Design
- Pratt Institute — 5 years
Time spent designing
60% actual
100% desired
Location
The Space
The studio is about 1000 square feet. It’s rented and they’ve been there for 4 years, 8 months.
Number of times moved
0
Total people in space
2
Amenities
- Bidet (1)
- Bike storage (26)
- Free booze (28)
- Free drinks (27)
- Library/book collection (67)
- Private bathrooms (34)
- Roof access (14)
- Waiting area / reception (26)
Number of conference rooms
0
Client meetings held in studio: Approximately half
Number of plants
1-5
Type of chair
Herman Miller "Mirra"
Decorations
Stuff
Desk Policy
To each their own: some keep their desks tidy, while others like it messier.
Space Satisfaction
It could be better, but it works for now
Working Days
Working week
The work week is 50-59 hours/week, core hours are 10:00-7:00, with the first in at 9:00am and the last out at 9:00pm.
31% of studios work 50-59 hours/week.
The average is 40-49 hours/week.
Work Weekends?
A couple times/month
Take Summer Fridays?
No
Busiest Time of day?
Evening
Favorite Typefaces:
- Lineto
- Nimbus Sans
- Times New Roman (2)
- Zut Gothic
Culture
Music
Plays music for 70% of the day at an average volume. Currently obsessed with Yeezus, and most played over the last year is N-bombs in Paris.
Biking to work
1
127 bikers across all studios
Pick your poison
Beer
Overall Noise Level
Average
59% of studios are average
Extra-curricular activities
Drinking
Working groups
Encourage freelance work?
Indifferent
Internal studio meetings
Every day
Lunch Habits
Eats in small groups
Favorite delivery/take-out: Village Yogurt