We are delighted to announce that the co-founders of award-winning design Volume Inc, Adam Brodsley and Eric Heiman, have agreed to judge cause/affect.

Adam Brodsley, Volume (above left)
While pasting up mechanicals at Islands magazine in Santa Barbara (and visiting all the publication-featured islets, atolls and archipelagos he could), Adam Brodsley decided the only way to afford such excursions was learning the lucrative art of graphic design. After clearing the salt water from his ears, Brodsley attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and eventually (in between fondue binges in the Swiss Alps and Parisian museum-hopping) rose to become the lowest (but tallest, at 6’4”) man on the totem pole at April Greiman’s studio, where he developed an appreciation for Charlie Parker’s music. He eventually headed north to San Francisco’s Mauk Design, where he mastered the art of large-scale exhibit design. Never one to be pigeonholed, though, Brodsley founded the multidisciplinary, award-winning firm Volume Inc. (with Eric Heiman) at the dawn of the new millennium’s first recession—and lived happily every after.

Eric Heiman, Volume (above right)
Starting in the hunter-filled woods of rural Pennsylvania, Eric Heiman embarked on a journey through the Carnegie Mellon architecture program, late nights of DJ spinning, record store employment and week-long vows of silence in the mountains of Maui that eventually led him to design school in the Bay Area. At the dawn of the new millennium he founded Volume (www.volumesf.com) with Adam Brodsley. Volume’s work has been extensively exhibited, honored and published around the world, and Heiman‘s writing on design has been published in Emigre, Letterspace and the AIGA’s online journal, Voice. Heiman is also a Professor of Design at the California College of the Arts and was awarded the college-wide Excellence in Teaching award in 2003.