Q's History
Quantigent’s founder, Ronald Andrew Blodgett, is persistent full spirited
and ambitious. Inspired by three internationally respected creative
communicators, Michael Vanderbyl, Bill Zabit, and Kénichi Nishiwaki, the
later two being former employers, Blodgett developed his own
graphic design and production service.
Blodgett worked at Cymbic Interactive in 2000. While at Cymbic, the
renowned master of corporate identity and creative director of Cymbic,
Kénichi Nishiwaki, introduced Blodgett to the "ma" room, a special peaceful
place where everyone who entered removed their shoes, sat on the floor,
and let creativity happen. Blodgett maintained a visual chronology of each
project's development and all related correspondence. Working with a project team, he developed corporate identity systems, logos, and crafted the online image of all electronic products, including web sites, interactive media, and GUIs. Extra duties include organizing and managing the company library, trouble shooting Macintosh computers, digitally recording, and processing sound, and assisting with public relations efforts by using his artistic talents.
A designer at Zabit & Associates in the late 1990s, Blodgett teamed up with creative director Mark Schulman and design director Bunny Zaruba and other respected professionals to develop project winning proposals for Bill Zabit eg. Starbuck's, Dell Computers, and many more. Bill grew his business into a multimillion dollar creative communications enterprise which was eventually acquired by another firm. Bill Zabit was invited to the White House three times to advise the Clinton Administration on strategic communication issues. Under Bill's leadership, Blodgett and the entire Z&A family served many fortune 500 clients, including AT&T, Apple, Charles Schwab, CNF, FEDX, Fireman's Fund, Kaiser Permanente, Pepsi Co, Pitney Bowes, McKesson, MGM, Nordstrom, Oracle, Trust Company of the West,Transamerica, Xerox, and others. With essential web design skills, Blodgett also served as Z&A's resident web design guru.
While a student at the California College of the Arts in the late 1980's
Michael Vanderbyl was Blodgett's design instructor and he introduced Ronald to the systems approach. Vanderbyl encouraged Blodgett and other students to have fun as designers yet, he also encouraged them to have a serious attitude about the profession of graphic design which plays a role once filled by fine art. Vanderbyl is still an influential role model.
The name “Quantigent” was
derived by combining parts of two
words “Quantum” + “Intelligent.”
The four sides of the Q logomark
symbolize the four color printing
process and the dots going
outside the box symbolize the
RGB color spectrum of web design
and online work. The White square
represents the White light we
see on a computer screen. It is
made up from Red, Green, and
Blue pixels. The dots in the logo
also symbolize brand touchpoints
and can be used separately as a
branding element. The Quantigent
identity is a flexible system,
working in CMYK, RGB, spot
colors, or one color.
