We are dbox

dbox is a creative agency founded in 1996

by graduates of Cornell University’s
Department of Architecture. We have earned
a reputation for our ability to translate
the visions of our architectural clients into
marketing tools that speak directly to the
concerns of real estate developers, financial
institutions, and local community boards.
Our award-winning team of 3-D specialists,
photographers, designers and brand and
media professionals creates communications
that enable our clients to compete for new
business more successfully and to articulate
their design concepts clearly throughout the
development process.

Illustration
Animation & Film
Photography
Branding & Graphic Design
Interactive Design

USA
110 Leroy Street
New York NY 10014
212. 366. 7277
usa_information@dbox.com

NL
Keizersgracht 357
1016 EJ Amsterdam
+ 31 20.622.6570 
nl_information@dbox.com

TW
5F-1, No. 104, Sec. 2
Dunhua S. Rd.
Da-an District
Taipei City 106
+ 886 2.2705.9029 
tw_information@dbox.com

Photography and illustrations copyright dbox Inc.

Thomas Phifer and Partners

Federal Courthouse, Salt Lake City, Utah.
“When it is time to unveil significant development plans to the world we turn to dbox.
This ensures our visions are received the way they are intended.”
ILLUSTRATION
Larry Silverstein
President and CEO | Silverstein Properties, Inc.
Architectural renderings are the single
most powerful tool that can be used
to sell concepts and designs. Better than
any other medium, renderings can
offer a window into the future that
expresses conceptual vision in a language
understood by non-designers. In our
clients’ experience, their investment in
superior renderings is more than justified
by the positive impact the renderings
make throughout the financing, planning
and approval stages of development.
Over the past 15 years dbox has been
consistently recognized as the best in
the industry at illustrating the vision,
signature and unique value that architects
and interior designers are offering
their clients.

Photomontage | Design Development

Full CGI | Conceptual Imaging

SOM, Foster + Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners,

Robert A.M. Stern Architects and Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners
WTC Towers 2 and 3, 99 Church Street, Goldman Sachs, New York, NEW YORK.
 David Chipperfield Architects – DELLIS CAY, TURKS AND CAICOS.

Richard Meier & Partners Architects – Villa Bodrum, Turkey.

Studio Daniel Libeskind

One Madison Avenue, New York, NEW YORK.
Kohn Pederson Fox Associates – World Product Center, New York, NEW YORK.

Atelier Jean Nouvel – 100 Eleventh, New York, NEW YORK.

Foster + Partners
Project Honor, SC Johnson, RaCIne, Wisconsin.
 animation & FILM
Moving image has the potential to bring
viewers into the experience of architecture
unlike any other form of representation.
By taking a cinematic rather than linear – or
"fly-through" – approach to 3D animations
dbox successfully tells the conceptual story
of a project while also providing program
narratives and material details.

dbox scripts, produces and shoots HD films

that integrate architectural animations,
photography, interviews and helicopter
footage. We integrate art-house style with
a documentary approach to story telling,
delivering your key messages in a high-
impact and entertainment medium. Most
recently we have filmed David Chipperfield,
Norman Foster and Marcel Wanders.

Motion Tracking Integration

Full CGi | Design Development
Conceptual Animation

“dbox did a superb job at telling such a complex

story of our history, the site and the architecture.
Their film and website for 15 CPW was integral to
the success of the project.”

WILLIAM & ARTHUR ZECKENDORF

FOUNDERS | ZECKENDORF DEVELOPMENT

1.
ROBERT A. M. STERN
15 CENTRAL PARK WEST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK.

2.
ENRIQUE NORTEN
ONE YORK, NEW YORK, NEW YORK.

3.
PIERO LISSONI
DELLIS CAY, TURKS AND CAICOS.

4.
MARCEL WANDERS
MONDRIAN SOUTH BEACH, MIAMI, FLORIDA.

5.
FOSTER + PARTNERS
UNDISCLOSED, FAR EAST.
1 2 3 4 5
 PHOTOGRAPHY
dbox represents two photographers who
shoot exclusively for our architectural
and real estate development clients.
Additionally, we offer retouching and
enhancement services for existing photos
and portfolios. We have produced site
and architectural shoots from land, water
and sky worldwide. Our photographers
also do portraiture for architectural
luminaries including, most recently,
Richard Meier, Robert A.M. Stern,
Enrique Norten and Piero Lissoni.

Retouching | Site Photography

Architectural Photography
Model Photography | Interiors
portfolio enhancement

“Few realize that what they are seeing in some publications is their photography and
not one of their photorealistic renderings. dbox continues to blur the boundaries between
photography and representation with remarkable craft. There is a difference between
skillful execution and art. dbox are artists.”

Richard A. Cook
Partner | Cook + Fox Architects

Exposition pavilion by Stanley Brouwn, Utrecht, Holland. Cook + Fox Architects – One Bryant Park, New York, NEW YORK.
Richard Meier & Partners Architects – The Beach Houses, Lido di Jesolo, Italy.
 Branding &
GRAPHIC DESIGN
dbox’s award-winning publications,
corporate brochures, portfolios and
direct mail marketing pieces are created
in-house by creative directors with
deep expertise translating an architect’s
design language through printed collateral.
We first conduct extensive research of
the architect’s body of work and then use
this knowledge to inform our typographic,
material and layout selections. dbox’s
production professionals ensure that we
meet your budget and time constraints.
strategic positioning | Identity Design
monograph design | direct marketing
stationery | marketing Brochures
print management
“dbox's creative solutions for translating Shigeru Ban's work into
custom print pieces were outstanding. The pieces not only won
awards, but also played a critical role in successfully showcasing
the uniqueness of Ban to our target audience."
Jeff Spiritos
HEAA Development
Above:
Metal Shutter Houses
Shigeru Ban Architects + Dean Maltz Architect
HEEA Development
Type Directors Club Certificate of
Typographic Excellence 2007
Right:
Richard Meier On Prospect Park
Richard Meier & Partners
SDS Procida
INTERACTIVE
DESIGN
Successful web sites capture the attention
of prospective clients and give them
reasons to select your firm above all others.
The challenge with architectural web
sites – and interactive portfolios – is for
them to illustrate an architect’s signature
and practice expertise in a visual
language that is quickly understood
by businesspeople outside of the design
industry. dbox’s experience working
with real estate development teams
and our architectural roots enable us to
create interactive presentations that
successfully communicate the value that
your firm offers.
Interactive Presentations
Website Design | e-mail blasts
Content Management Systems
“We have worked with dbox continually since I started the practice in
1996. Their complete understanding of our design ideology enables
us to trust them in protecting our brand. This is especially true of
our website which has been very well received and is a dynamic
introduction to the way we create architecture.”
THOMAS PHIFER
PRINCIPAL | THOMAS PHIFER AND PARTNERS
Above:
Thomas Phifer and Partners
www.tphifer.com
Communication Arts highest award for
Interactive Design 2005
Right:
Front Inc.
www.frontinc.com