Oxide Design Co. Celebrates 15 Years

This October marked 15 years of business for Oxide Design Co. (oxidedesign.com), an Omaha-based branding and design firm that has earned international recognition for its caliber of work. To celebrate, Oxide held an open house on Oct. 21 at its office at 3916 Farnam Street.

Since 2001, Oxide has worked with nearly 300 clients on a wide variety of projects numbering more than 1,000. This includes working with higher education institutions like Metropolitan Community College, restaurants like Mula Mexican Kitchen & Tequileria, and non-profits like The Nature Conservancy.

Oxide believes very strongly in the power of design to create progressive change; over 50% of Oxide’s work is donated — in whole or in part — to a wide range of non-profit and charitable organizations such as Omaha Community Foundation, Film Streams, The 1877 Society, Omaha Performing Arts, Maha Music Festival, the Omaha Zoo Foundation, Nebraska Loves Public Schools, and Refugee Empowerment Center.

In addition to its local presence, Oxide also works with a wide range of national and international clients.

In its 15 years, Oxide has been awarded by every major design competition, including One Show Design, the CLIO Awards, and six different times by Communication Arts Design Annual (the most exclusive major design competition in the world) — accolades unmatched by any other Omaha-based creative firm. Oxide owner Drew Davies is a national president emeritus for AIGA (the nation’s largest design organization), and was recently presented the AIGA Fellow Award. He is also is the only Nebraskan ever to have judged the Communication Arts Design Annual and has the honor of being named to Graphic Design: USA magazine‘s exclusive list of “People to Watch.”