MIKEADV Marks 20th Year in Design Business

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

United States, 22nd Jul 2026 -- MIKEADV CORP, a leading Boston-based award-winning Integrated Marketing Communications agency known for handcrafted logo design, web development, and search engine optimization (SEO) services, today announced that it is marking its 20th year in business. The anniversary comes 110 years after agency founder Mike Mirandas great-uncles, Felix and Mike Miranda -- known as Mirando -- came to the United States from Italy and started the Imperial Knife Company. In a tribute to his great-uncle, MIKEADV CORPs Founder Mike Miranda was named after him, carrying not just his name, but it seems, his gift for design.

Like MIKEADV, Imperial Knife Co. was committed to design excellence. My great-uncle, after whom I was named, was a master of design and manufacturing craft, explained Mike. This talent with design runs in the family, apparently, and has been my inspiration in all my client work. As design increasingly gets absorbed into AI-driven processes, I feel the need for true design work is all the more urgent. Virtually every early-stage client concept at MIKEADV is drawn by hand. Were pencil and paper guys, Mike added. From my brain to the paper; thats really the only way to design something that stands out. The digitization comes later. My great-uncle understood this well, and the success he enjoyed with Imperial Knife Company bears it out.

Felix and Mike Mirando were immigrants from Frosolone in Italys 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 affordable folding pocket knives. The company grew to be the largest knife manufacturer in the United States, supplying knives to the U.S. Army during World War II.

Imperial Knife thrived even during the era of mass production, Mike reflected. "They were able to do this because they were obsessed with craft. Were going through a similar phase now with AI, which represents mass automated design. We respond with obsessive handcraft. Its the same family instinct, playing out in a new century."

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