Volume Inc.

We are seriously bummed about the announcement that CCA will be closing after the 2026-27 academic year. Volume has always had a close connection to this amazing school: Both Adam and Eric have taught or are currently teaching there, a good chunk of our staff over the years has been CCA grads, and we’ve even been lucky to do various work for the school and the Wattis Gallery occasionally. This is a staggering loss on so many fronts. 😞😢😤

Volume partners and elate the crowd at the conference today with the news that visual surfaces are more important than spatial design when it comes to overall experience of a place. Huzzah! Thanks to for the invite (and photos) to speak.

Distraction banding works.

For Halloween, Eric’s students dressed up as a Volume project (and one as Eric). Well done, kids! 🔥And can you guess which projects they picked?

Come see Volume partners and November 15 at the upcoming 2025 conference. Lots of excellent speakers. Plus the event is in San Francisco this year!

Volume partner had a great time chatting with Sarah Kuehl about collaboration at the beautiful offices last night. Thanks to all who came out (and the great questions!) and our organizer triumvirate .norcal and .bayarea. (Last photo by the esteemed )

On Thursday, July 24, 5-7pm, Volume partner will be in conversation with partner (and new fellow!) Sarah Kuehl about fruitful collaboration across disciplines at EK’s beautiful new Oakland office. Registration link in profile.

The Volume-designed “The French Laundry, Per Se” book by made a cameo in episode 5 of the new season of . (Maybe had something to do with that?) The deep cut by Lou Reed and John Cale that kicked off the episode was a nice touch, too.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to visit us during the studio crawl last week. We enjoyed seeing all of you.

Wow, what a night! We were so jazzed by all the friends and family who came out for the “Past as Prologue” opening at the Transamerica Pyramid. This was a magical project and thanks to all the collaborators: and the rest of the team at the Eames Institute; Mike and his team at ; and and of that gave us an A+ brand foundation to help streamline the process. We’ll be floating on air from this one for a long time…(Thanks to for most of these great photos!)