Isolation Nation

How is everyone hanging in there? These times are weird, but we hope everyone has found an outlet to stay healthy and happy. If you’re out in the world working in a public-facing way, we hope you’re able to stay safe.

At Curious 7, we’re 42 days into quarantine. Six weeks. On day 2, it felt like this was impossible. Now that we’ve adjusted, it seems impossible to think about reentering the world responsibly. Not sure what that will look like, but want to make sure we reenter with personal boundaries in mind.

Keep on keepin’ on. You’re doing great. We’re in this together. Rather than worry about branding and mission statements and backend code and color studies, let’s focus on getting each other through this.

Cheers,
Erin

Low- or No-Cost Design Relief

Small businesses are getting crushed right now. We’re 5 days into this mess and we’ve already taken a hit. Any small business that isn’t providing an absolute necessity will feel it, whether mandated (in CO, gyms, restaurants, and theaters have to stay closed until April 30, minimum) or just because who is thinking of hiring creatives right now? Who even has the cashflow for it?

Which is why Curious 7 has decided to help small businesses out. While we’re tightening up on our own end, we know that we’ll get through this better if we support our community, so we’re offering low- or no-cost design help to small businesses for the next two weeks.

What does that mean? For existing clients and new clients alike, if you come to us in the next two weeks with a reasonable design need (picture something that would take less than 20 hours to complete, not a rebranding of your company or a website from scratch), we’ll take it on at whatever cost you can afford, until we reach capacity (of designerpower).

This is important to us, to help in the way we know how - by designing. We’re still staying quarantined. We plead that you do as well.

Stay safe out there.

COVID-19

We will not be taking any in-person meetings until further notice. We fully support the decision to isolate and distance socially, and since nearly everything we do can be done virtually, that’s what we’re doing.

Curious 7 would like to send out full appreciation for those who are unable to do this because they’re providing necessary services to their communities; medical professionals, grocers, utility service people, emergency response people, etc. You are the heroes in this.

If you can be remote, be remote, PLEASE. The science metes this out, that by isolating household groups in this specific week, we can limit the spread of Coronavirus the most RIGHT NOW. Because people are asymptomatic, we have no idea who may have it, and those people may never show symptoms. Stay home.

There are math charts everywhere, find the ones done by scientists, mathematicians, medical professionals. This one is interactive and succinct. As a mathematician myself, I fully understand the exponential growth of us not isolating vs — not isolating. Just do it if you can. You will miss deadlines. You will miss fun events. And you may save lives doing it. Our grandparents were called to war. We’re being called to sit on a couch.

Hang in there for two weeks when we’ll know much more. Much peace and love and healing.

Erin