We visualize clarity

Our mission is to create understanding.

“WOW, the visuals from XPLANE, including the phenomenal Web site, are already such a huge hit. We can’t thank XPLANE enough for continually going above and beyond.”
— Nicole Buie, Vice President of Operations, Cox Media

Founded in 1993 by Dave Gray, XPLANE is an information design consultancy that drives results for many of the world’s leading corporations by clarifying complex business issues through visual collaboration.

With an innovative visual, multidisciplinary methodology, XPLANE is unique because we apply left and right-brained approaches to develop fresh solutions to your most challenging problems. Our approach accelerates understanding, which drives actions and results to help our customers. Companies have hired XPLANE to motivate employees, drive sales, convince decision makers and improve processes.

We draw from a diverse set of backgrounds to do this. We combine information designers, journalists, comic book artists, management consultants, software developers, trainers, technologists and a diversity of other expertise in order to look at challenges in new ways and provide fresh ideas and insights.

Today XPLANE is proud to serve 40 of the FORTUNE 500 companies around the globe. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, XPLANE also operates offices in St. Louis and Madrid, facilitating 24/7 service for clients.

Have a look at some case studies on our Solution pages.