Emily Phillips shares how she became a designer at Willoughby Design with The Kansas City Star.

Beth Zollars asked Willoughby to design and brand her retail store, Feng, in Overland Park. The result is a stylish boutique with dynamic visuals and the practical design to be changed easily. Joyce Smith from The Kansas City Star recently featured Feng and interviewed our very own Ann Willoughby for the article.

The best stores are more than just merchandise-for-money exchange. Ann Willoughby says the best stores offer “a deeper, more meaningful, more cultural experience.” In an article for The Kansas City Star, Joyce Smith writes that there is a great deal of strategy involved in designing a store citing Willoughby Design’s work on KCK9 Bakery. Relocated, re-branded and renamed Three Dog Bakery, it is now an international brand.

The Addys is the nation’s largest local advertising awards competition. At the 2009-2010 event, Willoughby Design was honored with awards in the categories of Elements of Advertising, Sales Promotion and Best of Design.

Willoughby Design led a visual and content overhaul to modernize Jet, starting with the February issue and timed to make its debut during Black History Month.

The first KC Design Week kicked off with a design challenge intended to solve a practical problem: how to most effectively stack and store the iconic blue food collection barrels used by Harvesters, the local community food network.

Ann Willoughby reviewed design concept solutions as a celebrity judge at Kansas City Design Week. The annual event is designed to raise awareness about the importance of architecture, urban planning and fashion, interior and graphic design.

Ann Willoughby was named one of the most influential brand designers in the country, and was among the selective list of international designers profiled in the recent book, Masters of Design Logos & Identity. In Walt Bodine’s radio profile, we find out how Willoughby has maintained her standards and visibility in a business that is continually evolving.

Local design and innovation firm, Willoughby Design, took home three design awards in Print magazine’s prestigious 2009 Regional Design Annual. In addition, Kansas City ranked sixth in the nation for total number of winning entries, landing just behind Seattle and Dallas.

Established in 1978, Willoughby Design is a brand design and innovation firm made up of strategists, designers and writers. Our commitment to design thinking, sustainable design and corporate social responsibility is reflected in our work, our studio in Westport and our Design Barn in Weston, Missouri.