Here is our gallery of people who have filled the pages of Q's story. Browse, sort, explore - we hope you enjoy getting to know them as much as we have. Thank you all for inspiring, challenging, and supporting us over the past 30 years. Here's to 30 more!


- 90s
- Friend
When my company shared space at Q world HQ (and I was still single), I'd often find myself working Xmas day. Sad and lonely? Nah; Tom was always working too. We'd get Chinese for lunch.

- Client
- Friend
- International
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Right Brain
I learned so much - about good client relationships, good design and good friendships - from my friends and colleagues at Q. Too many memories to capure in 200 characters!

- Client
- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
Enjoying our galactic web journey together with fellow passengers from Q.

- Client
- Friend
For the Ann Arbor Art Center's largest fundraising event, Alissa & Jocelyn took our theme, Paint the Town, and turned it into an artistic reality. They brought our ideas to life!

- Q Alum
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Dog Owner
I owe a lot to Q. It was where I started my career in the industry. While working at Q, I got a lot of first time experiences that pushed me forward in a successful career!
- Client
- Friend
- Educator
- Four Eyes
- Artist
- Scientist
- Musician
Congratulations to Q and all humans and non-humans involved in its stunning success!

- 90s
- Friend
- Mac
- PC
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Scientist
Unbelievably amazing people make Q the best! Again and again, we see the Q bright lights show us how it's done! Happy Birthday Q-people!

- 80s
- Client
- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Educator
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
Q represents to me an exceptional group of people in many ways...exceptionally creative, kind, fun, relaxed.

- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
- Dog Owner
Everyone at Q is Cool, Calm, and Perfect. How DO you do it?

- Vendor
- Cat Owner
- Right Brain
Thx to Q - early in my career met amazing people that continue to inspire me...Tom Rieke, Christine Golus, Peter Morville, Dan Klyn, Stephen Lapedis, Marta Strickland...and many more!!!

- 00s
- Client
- Friend
- PC
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
In the last seven years, you've helped us do it all – launch, update, rebrand, next gen – in all kinds of media! We couldn't have done it without Q, particularly Jocelyn.

- 00s
- Current Q Crew
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Artist
- Dancer
I created an org chart for Q one time. It was made up of overlapping circles and I loved that. Deep respect, openness, and smiles. Everyday.

- Vendor
- Friend
Adventures with Jocelyn, with strange folks interested in our shoot at an ethnic hospital on Long Island.
- 80s
- 90s
- Q Alum
- Friend
- International
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Left Brain
- Dancer
Many memorable things, but what made my jaw drop was when Tom threw himself on the ground and cried and thrashed around pretending to be a "baby" for a team building exercise for SIGGRAPH Asia.

- Current Q Crew
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Dog Owner
I will never forget (or remember the details of) The Great Pumpkin Heist of 2009.

- Vendor
- Curling Team
- Educator
I loved working on the NuStep video with the Q team but I'm still recovering from the trauma of curling for the 1st time. It was as exhilarating as it was humiliating. Can we do it again?

- Q Alum
- Friend
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Musician
Q's recognition and appreciation for the special talents of individuals, and a knack for combining these ingredients like a chef.

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Mac
- Educator
- Cat Owner
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Scientist
The most effective and most non-hierarchal, non-patriarchal organization I've ever had the gift of knowing and being a part of. I think those things are related <3 <3 Q

- 80s
- Q Alum
- Mac
- Educator
- Dog Owner
- Right Brain
My favorite memory is hearing Tom talk to solicitors on the phone!

- Vendor
- Mac
Q has always been great to work with.

- Client
- Friend
- Mac
- Educator
- Artist
- Dancer
I am forever grateful to Christine, Ben and Q for providing me with a window onto the world out there, and a format with which to stage my many new screendance performances! Thank you!

- Client
- Friend
- Cat Owner
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
Working with Rie, Jocelyn, Alissa, Christine, Todd, and the rest of the Q crew on our Ann Arbor Folk Festival designs is the highlight of my year. Oh, and Q - Ark lunches rock!

- 00s
- 80s
- 90s
- Vendor
- Friend
- Multilingual
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Educator
- Cat Owner
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Musician
- Dancer
In the 90's, Q, AATA and I produced TV ads to promote public transport. Only one was misinterpreted - the "My Secret Spot" ad, which referred to one’s secret downtown parking spot. Days of innocence.

- 90s
- Q Alum
- International
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
Most is a blur, but I have hazy memories of transvestite lap dances, and a "man in Cuba," and one of my best jobs ever. Wait, I feel I might pass out again…
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- Client
- Friend
- Multilingual
- PC
- Left Brain
Q helped us figure out who we are as a company and, perhaps more importantly, where we want to go. They are wonderfully patient people, a trait that is reflected in their thoughtful, meticulous work.

- 90s
- Client
- Friend
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Right Brain
We had a great naming exercise with Q - coming up with Innoventures. Thanks!

- Friend
Q & Tom have been friends to Basin Street Records and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp since 2000's SIGGRAPH convention, and we appreciate the friendship greatly. Visit www.LouisArmstrongJazzCamp.com

- 80s
- Q Alum
- Dog Owner
- Right Brain
- Dancer
The most creative, talented, and caring colleagues I’ve ever had. I’m in Austin now (Ann Arbor with no snow). Journalist, beach lover, yoga enthusiast, and mom of four kids. Quorum alum 1985-1989

- Friend
- International
- Curling Team
- PC
- Educator
- Cat Owner
- Right Brain
- Scientist
Not the years in your life, rather the life in your years

- 00s
- 90s
- Client
- Friend
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Four Eyes
What a great group of people! Kind, creative, thoughtful, funny. Thank you for all of your hard work and your creativity and your friendship!

- Current Q Crew
- Friend
- International
- Mac
- Dancer
I appreciate our Q&Q friendship very much

- Friend
- Multilingual
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
- Educator
- Four Eyes
- Dancer
Will never forget sharing space, projects, and music at Q's headquarters! (or hearing Tom cursing the uncivilized winter outside). Love to all.

- 80s
- Friend
- Artist
It was really nice to get to know you! Unfortunately it was very short..... love greetings and more successful 30 years ;) !!!

- Client
- Mac
great folks great work

- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Cat Owner
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
So many connections to Q! My high school best friend got his first GD job there and still works there. I worked at the Q A2 HQ with Argus. And of course, I love playing v-ball with the Q crew.

- 00s
- 90s
- Q Alum
- Vendor
- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
- Mac
- PC
- Cat Owner
- Four Eyes
- Left Brain
- Artist
Lots of memories from the Q volleyball games. Especially the games held out at the Pleasant Lake Tavern on karaoke nights. Did we ever get Tom up there?

- Client
- Friend
- Multilingual
- Four Eyes
I've known the folks at Q since before I could tie my shoes and am proud that I've also now had the opportunity to be a client (3 times).

- Client
- Friend
- Mac
- Educator
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Scientist
Wow! Congrats to Q. It's always fun and exciting working with the Q team.

- Current Q Crew
- Mac
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Scientist
Someone may have needed a rest on the 7th day, but I was busy making Helvetica...

- Client
- Friend
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Four Eyes
- Left Brain
- Scientist
- Musician
My relationship with Q not only gives me GREAT designs it also gives me the opportunity to vent about politics with Tom.
- Client
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
If you dont agree with Tom when you start working with him, you will by the time your project is completed. Stay awake!

- Friend
- Four Eyes
Q Crew defines the word “team” for me.

- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Artist
- Dancer
The best fort I have ever had was in the Q attic. The only problem was I had to climb over Tom's computer to get in! A Q kid for life!

- 90s
- Vendor
- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- PC
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Musician
Their unique combination of creativity, thoughtfulness, humility and downright humanity never ceases to amaze me.

- Client
- Friend
Best creative work ever done for The Ark's Folk Festival and website!! Also remembering a crazy party at the Aut Bar a few years ago... Congratulations on all your accomplishments. xxoo

- Current Q Crew
- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Four Eyes
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- 80s
- 90s
- Q Alum
- Client
- Mac
- Dog Owner
Working with Quorum while at AATA I love the memory of the Happy New Year billboard Q designed using a real "Q" baby who is now a beautiful young woman!

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Left Brain
Best summer of my life was interning at Q. They showed me what it could be like to have fun at work.

- Friend
As someone who was there at the creation in August, 1981, it has been a real treat to work with such a creative and easy going group.

- Friend
- Dog Owner
- Artist
"Less is more" --Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

- Client
- Friend
My thought: We are deeply indebted and honored to be associated with the Q family and look forward to the next 30 years. ....All the best!

- 00s
- 90s
- Client
- Friend
- Mac
- Educator
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Scientist
3D co founder of WebScope ... fun working on the web site, visiting Q AA (my name is Brad...) ... been in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge at Insitu, just published 'the stars are mine' iBook

- Current Q Crew
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Musician
The retreat with Motown museum, dinner, and partying is an event some Qsters will never forget – we won't let them. It's great to work with a team that knows no limits or geographic boundaries.

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Mac
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Musician
Distinctively Q: positioning rooted in culture and people vs. trends and buzz words

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Friend
- International
- Multilingual
A Q tag is like that tattoo I always wanted. It really was just the perfect image, created by some really talented artists, and it will stay with me for ever.

- Friend
- Four Eyes
It's been a pleasure to have worked on a handful of projects with Jocelyn and Christine over the past few years. Truly, the folks at Q are a great asset to the Michigan design community.

- Current Q Crew
- Mac
- Artist
Currently interning at Q and getting the best experience fresh out of art school!

- Client
- International
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Four Eyes
- Artist
After meeting the Q crew I learned to always follow them to drinks, dinner, or music. Their graphic design is good and all, but when it comes to sniffing out cool places in a new town they're tops!

- Friend
- PC
Q LTD provides high-quality work, but they do not take themselves too seriously in the process.

- Q Alum
- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Dancer
I will always remember playing in the infamous Q volleyball games, grabbing a brew after and singing some karaoke!

- 00s
- Current Q Crew
- Vendor
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
My favorite memory of Q (so far) involves Jocelyn's van and a pumpkin. Q retreats are legendary!

- Friend
- PC
- Educator
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
As prior SIGGRAPH chair, Q's awesome work on marketing materials and other stuff for the conference. Hail to the Word Guy!

- Friend
- Mac
- Educator
- Dog Owner
- Artist
I met Tom serendipitously in Barbados, and then Christine and husband on their visit to the island. We have had many fantastic and engaging conversations. Always interesting, always refreshing!

- Q Alum
I worked at Q the summer after graduating from U of M. It was a great summer where I learned a lot from some very talented and fun people. It definitely helped shape me into the designer I am today.
- 00s
- Q Alum
- Multilingual
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Four Eyes
Worked five years for Q, Germany. Big up to both Q’s and a special hooray to your 30th birthday : ]

- 00s
- Vendor
Be prepared to walk several blocks if you schedule a meeting at Q's office on a Wednesday during the summer.

- Friend
- International
- Educator
Can't recall how I translated for Tom the title of the Chinese poem inscribed on a plaque that he bought at The Pottery in Singapore, but basically "It's good to 'act blur' at times".

- Friend
- PC
- Left Brain
- Scientist
Saving a woman in distress with Q and friends while catching waves in Puerto Rico.

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Friend
- Mac
- Four Eyes
Do you ever have trouble deciding whether to use an exclamation point or smiley face in your emails?

- 00s
- 80s
- Q Alum
- Friend
- Mac
- Cat Owner
Guzzling martinis @ Cracked Crab w/Doug; Jim Frenza whistling; Yelling at drunken painters; Michael Jackson, Liz, and Liza; watching 9/11 events on TV in upstairs apt w/Q crew

- 90s
- Current Q Crew
- Friend
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
Q is the letter for great people ;-)

- 00s
- Vendor
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Right Brain
- Artist
I've always been impressed with the Q design philosophy and the q-uality end results of sticking with said philosophy. Good people too.

- Friend
- International
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Musician
Big fan of the Q Team and their Jukebox

- 90s
- Q Alum
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Educator
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Artist
- Musician
Blending work and play with awesome friends, volleyball at Dewey's, the SIGGRAPH identity projects, South Beach, Argus Inc. and Interconnect in the house. Dolly Parton, Miles Davis and Celia Cruz.

- 80s
- 90s
- Friend
- International
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Dancer
love you guys

- 00s
- 80s
- 90s
- Current Q Crew
- International
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
- Mac
- Four Eyes
The key ingredient in Q's inexorable quest for total world domination is our corporate motto: Stay awake!

- Friend
- Mac
- Dancer
A&D's connection to Q is incredible! We love having such talented people interested in our students. Long live Q!

- Current Q Crew
- Mac
- Educator
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Musician
Freshly squeezed grapefruit juice from JoJos, an eclectic mix of music on the stereo, and another day of fun with the Q crew. Loved my days in A2.

- Q Alum
- Educator
- Artist
Because of Q: I met my best German friend, Rieke!, traveled to LA and saw Watts Towers, went curling and feather bowling, learned about Information Architecture and what ESOP stands for. Thanks Q!

- 00s
- 80s
- 90s
- Client
- Vendor
- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
- Mac
- Educator
- Dog Owner
- Right Brain
"Business is about people. People are nuts. Act accordingly." nameless Q person

- 00s
- Current Q Crew
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Four Eyes
- Artist
- Musician
- Dancer
SPICY BEEEATS!!!!

- Current Q Crew
- International
- Multilingual
- Mac
Devoted to Q world domination.

- 90s
- Q Alum
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Dog Owner
I loved it when Tom would blast Prince's Purple Rain so loud that the people in the 2 other businesses in the building would come out and slam their doors shut. Oh and volleyball & the Miami retreat.

- Client
- PC
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Left Brain
- Scientist
Q helped launch our transformational camp project - the shared journey was an unforgettable experience - thank you, thank you, Thank YOU! Looking forward to future collaborations.

- Q Alum
The song could be from Backstreet Boys or Tito Puentes. You could be a player or spectator at a volleyball match, everybody got a chance to play and share Q's collective passions.

- Friend
- Multilingual
- Cat Owner
Reaching the 30-year mark is quite an amazing feat. Congratulations to all who have contributed to Q's phenomenal success over the past three decades.

- Vendor
- Dog Owner
Walking in to the 4th street building some 25 YEARS ago for a first meeting with Christine.... I still had hair and deep thoughts back then!
- 00s
- 80s
- 90s
- Current Q Crew
- Friend
- Multilingual
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Musician
Which one of you last borrowed my Rapidograph?

- Client
Working with Q, especially Jocelyn and Ben, is among the highlights of my professional life. I vividly recall late-night (early morning) Skype chats w/Ben as we neared launch of our website.

- Friend
- International
- Mac
- Educator
- Artist
Go Hawkeyes! Go Germany! Go SEO!

- 80s
- Q Alum
- Friend
- Mac
- Educator
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
First president and founder of Q. Left in 1990 to direct marketing at St. Joe's. What I loved and still miss the most was being around so many creative people.

- 00s
Thank you for loving music with me to the point that you would work day and night to see (hear) it flourish. The Ark took a brave step forward in your capable hands.

- 00s
- Friend
- Mac
- Educator
- Right Brain
Every year, Q designs our spring fundraising dinner materials, and every year, they are stunning. Thanks for keeping people talking about 826michigan with your beautiful design work.

- Current Q Crew
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Four Eyes
- Artist
- Scientist
- Musician
Thinking helps.
- Client
- Multilingual
- Educator
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
"Don’t you love it when your client loves the design first time around? No revisions! How about that?"

- Friend
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Scientist
Wonderful dinners with Tom in exotic cities (OK - LOS Angeles) Great brainstorming session during SIGGRAPH planning.

- Friend
I remember the beginning and thinking these guys are super talented but they have too much fun to make it.

- 80s
- Friend
- PC
- Cat Owner
- Four Eyes
Daughter of former Q'er Jim Frenza. Fond memories of Christine letting me use her drafting table to draw with my crayons at Quorum's original office. Ever so fond of the amazing Q team.

- Friend
Feather Bowling at Cadieux Cafe

- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- PC
Never a client-proper. But my role as a member of non-profit boards continuously brought me into contact with Tom and the crew as they stepped up to give back to the community they live in.

- 80s
- Curling Team
- PC
Great people! Great place!

- 00s
- 90s
- Q Alum
- Mac
I thank Q for the life lessons, creative experiences, and lifelong friendships. Who knew business trips could be so cultural! I still miss the travels, music, and wisdom that are a part of Q.

- Friend
- International
- Mac
- PC
- Cat Owner
- Artist
- Scientist
The satisfaction of a job half done!

- 00s
- 80s
- 90s
- Current Q Crew
- Volleyball Team
- Curling Team
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Dancer
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to Q's success. We wouldn't be here without you. Onward and upward!

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Mac
- Four Eyes
- Artist
I'm eternally grateful for Q because without them, my transition from art school out to the real world would have been a disaster-zone.

- 00s
- Friend
- International
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Artist
Post-Q winter party (2010), congregating in the office to clean off a massive mirror that Cafe Zola had used to serve food on! Everyone was still all dressed up and bagging up left overs.

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Mac
- Artist
My son first encountered a record player when he was visiting Q. The explanation that worked for him is that it is "like an old fashioned ipod".

- 00s
- 90s
- Volleyball Team
- Dog Owner
Today, I sit in a room at a desk by a window where I first sat fifteen years ago. I stay, not for the view, but because it's a room within Q.

- 90s
- Q Alum
- Cat Owner
- Dancer
Loved the Q retreat in South Beach; how many companies would do something that cool?

- Current Q Crew
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Dancer
Greatest lesson learned: Lock the door!

- 90s
- Client
- Friend
- Mac
- PC
- Educator
- Four Eyes
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Scientist
Having enjoyed the Cajun culture with Q's finest in 1996, I share their passion for discovery, delight, and always something extra - lagniappe!

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Artist
We're told that a million monkeys banging away on a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that it is not true.

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Four Eyes
- Left Brain
“Blaine got a few drinks in me and took me upstairs.” For the next few years, I repeatedly told Ben that no, I did not take Alissa upstairs. Well, we did but it was a just a tour of the apartment.

- Q Alum
- International
- Mac
we know how to enjoy life ;)

- 00s
- Friend
- Volleyball Team
- Mac
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
Q was my first job out of college and I didn't know how good I had it until I moved away and worked for other employers. These are some of the best people I know!
- Client
- Friend
- International
- Multilingual
I've been working with Q for SIGGRAPH since the mid 90's

- 00s
- Q Alum
- Cat Owner
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
Barking Crab, Sabor Latino, reviewing vacation pictures and hosting movie nights. Good food, good times, good work, but best of all great people!!

- 80s
- Q Alum
- Mac
1st one in the office after an electrical storm, I discovered a fried stat machine. It was blinking, buzzing & smelled like ozone. I was afraid it would attack me before I could unplug it.

- Friend
Q = "cool", but that so poorly describes them. Q is tops on the "think outside of the box" scale. I love how you can put a face with the name at Q. You can also put a song, a poem, or a catch phrase.

- Friend
- Mac
- Dog Owner
- Right Brain
- Left Brain
- Artist
- Dancer
Q came into my life a million years ago when Jocelyn came up with a design plan for the Ann Arbor Film Festival — which was done pro bono because Q is so cool and Tom is so generous.

- Current Q Crew
- Friend
- International
- Multilingual
- Mac
- Cat Owner
- Left Brain
- Dancer
This year I had a great trip to Q LTD and it was awesome!

- Friend
- Cat Owner
Wer später bremst, ist länger schneller.