MIKEADV Celebrates 20 Years in Design Business

Firm represents the latest in the Mirando family's 110-year tradition of design innovation

United States, 15th Jul 2026 -- MIKEADV, a leading Boston-based design agency known for logo design, web design, and search engine optimization (SEO), today announced that it is marking its 20th year in business. The anniversary comes 110 years after agency founder Mike Mirando's great-uncles, Felix and Michael Mirando, came to the United States from Italy and started the Empire Knife Company. Like MIKEADV, Imperial Knife was committed to design excellence.

"My great-uncles, one of whom I'm named after, were masters of design and manufacturing craft," explained Mirando. "This talent with design runs in the family, apparently, as it has been my inspiration in all my client design work. As design increasingly gets absorbed into AI-driven processes, I feel the need for true design work is all the more urgent."

To this point, virtually every early-stage client concept at MIKEADV is drawn by hand. "We're pencil and paper guys," Mirando added. "From my brain to the paper. That's really the only way to design something that stands out. The digitization comes later. My great uncle understood this well. The success he enjoyed with Imperial Knife Company bears this out."

Felix and Michael Mirando were immigrants from Frosolone in Italy's Molise region. In 1916, they founded the Imperial Knife Company, originally making skeletons for "Waldemar," or pocket watch chain knives, for nearby jewelry businesses in Rhode Island. They also developed a number of successful innovations in the manufacture of commercial value-priced folding pocket knives. With their friend Domenic Fazzano as manager, the company grew to be the largest knife manufacturer in the United States--supplying knives to the U.S. Army during World War II.

Mirando added, "Imperial Knife thrived even during the era of mass production of knives. They were able to do this because they were obsessed with craft. We're going through a similar phase now with AI, which represents mass automated design. We respond with obsessive handcraft. It's the same family and design instinct playing out in a new century."

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