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Spark’s Roof & Foundation–
Sponsors, Supporters, Partners & the Founders Program
We are proud to have the support and endorsement of many leading organizations.
Past and present sponsors and partners include Autodesk, Studio Hinrichs, Pluo Consulting (creators of this fine website), RIOT Color, FGI Interactive, Pentagram Design, Automobile Magazine, Dwell Magazine, frog design, Hewlett-Packard, major media like Bravo Media, Silverfish Productions, colleges and universities like the California College of the Arts, Rutgers University (NCPP), UC Berkeley CED, Academy of Art, Quangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, University of Michigan Taubman College, Tongji University, Samsung Art & Design Institute, HongIk University and the School of Visual Arts.
Spark is very proud of it’s association partners, the Global Design Network, Guangdong Industrial Design Association, Taiwan Design Center and the Hong Kong Designers Association. This is an opportunity for increased collaboration and sharing of design DNA.
We are also very pleased to be associated with ArchNewsNow, Product Design Hub, Australia’s Curve Magazine, Archinect, Bustler and Design Month (Korea).
FOUNDERS GROUP PROGRAM
The Spark Founders provide a strong platform for the mission of supporting and promoting designers, creativity and innovation. This Program helps to stabilize the ebb and flow of resources inherent in an annual competition and enable the development of new initiatives. The Founders represent a diverse multi-disciplinary group of design firms, architectural practices, in-house and individual designers and architects. The Founders concern is “keeping the Spark hot.” That is, the sustenance of the basic Spark infrastructure and healthy continuance of the project.
O+CO: A great branding firm:
Studio Hinrichs continues to enrich Spark with dazzling, compelling graphics and authoritative brand guidance. This, folks, is the best:

Studio Hinrichs, founded by Kit Hinrichs in 2009, is a San Francisco-based design consultancy engaged in all aspects of design, including packaging, brand identity, corporate communications, environmental graphics, interactive media, and publishing.


