Story by Insights & Strategy Director at AstroStudios — Andrew Casden. For this month’s Astro Intelligence blog post we’re opening up our wallets and putting money where our mouth is by taking a look at some emerging trends within the world of finance and money management. As with many of…

Story by Insights & Strategy Director at AstroStudios — Andrew Casden. Let’s Start with the Obvious: The Pandemic Changed Just About Everything in Education. Worldwide some 1.6 billion students have had their education disrupted by the pandemic (UN, 2020), provoking a dramatic uptake in e-learning and home-schooling methods. …

Our Brand and Industrial Design teams worked together to take on the 36 days of type challenge held annually by 36 Days of Type. Here you are given the chance to explore the many ways A-Z and 0–9 can be stylized as a whole alphabet or individual letters. Together we…

For this month’s Astro Intelligence dispatch we’ve decided it’s time get physical. This month we explore what the future of the fitness category looks like, and what we can expect to see in the future with respect to products, services, and consumer behaviors. — Story by Insight & Strategy Director at AstroStudios — Andrew Casden. We’ve also decided to try a slightly different format this time. …

Climate change seems to be on everyones mind and people are increasingly more conscious about what they are buying and where it’s from. Lately we’ve been seeing more and more companies that are making effort to solve waste issues. — Story by Associate Creative Director at AstroStudios— Joy Young. Adidas just launched Futurecraft Loop, a 100% recyclable performance running shoe. Taking it a step further, Adidas is also proposing a subscription base plan for the sneaker to ensure they can take over the responsibility of properly recycling the product. The…

Astro turned 25 this summer. From indoor skate ramps doubling as reception desks to the dotcom bubble and burst to a 3-story designer habitat, the Astro mothership continues to grow and evolve with each new crew member that comes on. — Founded in 1994, Brett has led a motley crew of designers (and those who love them) through many evolutions of the studio. In order to commemorate this momentous journey, we naturally threw a party. 100+ current and past employees and friends came out to celebrate in our gallery space. Art…

In honor of our anniversary, we took a walk down memory lane to compile all the fun, funny, and downright strange things that have happened in and around our studio over the last 25 years. — In no particular, we bring you the following… 1. Our first office in Palo Alto shared a parking lot with Steve Jobs. We’d often see him outside trying to park while we were having RC car races. Or staring out his window when he was working out on his Stairmaster!

2020 saw something of a ‘perfect storm’ in transportation terms: a significant reduction in public transportation, reduced automotive production, growing mobile work lifestyles among the professional class, and the obvious setback to domestic air travel. — Story by Insight & Strategy Director at AstroStudios — Andrew Casden.