A medical device that's been protecting patients for over a decade. A student-led dinner program where thousands of people co-host community meals each year. A robotics lab serving 634 kids a year. Every one built with the people it was for — and every one still running.






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We don't build things that look good in a portfolio. We build things that keep working after we leave.
Our portfolio spans healthcare, nonprofits, education, trades, and community organizations. The common thread isn't the industry — it's the approach. Every project started with the same question, the same curiosity, and the same commitment to building something the people involved are proud to own.
What we offer
Amada Senior Care — ON AIR
Full messaging strategy and on-set production management for a TV campaign on CBS that put a local home care agency in front of every family in Southern Maine.
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The National Park Art Bus
Before she was designing campaigns for healthcare organizations, Carly built a bus, drove it across the United States, and painted the national parks on canvas and on the side of the bus itself. NBC covered it. Now she brings that same creative vision to Partners in Design.
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The RoboHub
Design research that transformed a robotics tutoring company into a community institution — now serving 634 students per year, with 92% building their first robot in the first two sessions.
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The Bread Breakers
What started as a website project became a 12-month community design process for Boston's interfaith dinner community. We co-created their mission, vision, founding story, and brand — then built BreadBreakers.org so the whole thing runs without us.
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Revolution Fitness
Website and brand system for a Maine nonprofit serving veterans, military, and first responders — organizing a mountain of content into something that actually gets people through the door.
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Hillel Fresh
A student-designed Shabbat dinner program that started as a research project at UVM and became one of the largest events on campus. Six years later, it's still running — with its own farm plot, its own leadership pipeline, and 1,600 students co-hosting meals each year.
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The Ovarian X-Ray Shield
A patient safety invention born from research at Columbia University Medical Center — now standard of care, protecting young women for over a decade.
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Laura Friedmann & Wrapped Productions
Award-winning documentary filmmaking, now part of how we tell your story. Laura's studio has screened on CBC Gem, Prime Video, and at Hot Docs. When a project needs a camera, a room, and someone who knows how to listen, she's who we call.
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Recovery Robe
A six-year design research project that reimagined the hospital gown from the patient out. The result protects wheelchair users, preserves dignity, keeps IV lines connected, and won multiple innovation awards. Currently pursuing patents.
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Ohavi Zedek Synagogue
A community design project for a Burlington synagogue sitting on one of the city's largest undeveloped forest parcels. We delivered a three-zone vision called Project Bloom. They built the first piece — a yurt gathering space — within months.
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The Expanula
An arthroscopic cannula that expands inside the joint to anchor itself in place — solving a problem surgeons had fought for years. Manufactured by Arthrex and used in operating rooms globally.
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Logo Design — with Tye Newton
Three logos that show the range — from a research center at Massachusetts General Hospital to an anniversary campaign for the Asperger/Autism Network to a recording studio in Cincinnati. Each one built from dozens of directions down to a single mark that carries meaning in every curve.
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