Science of Light Logo, Book Cover & Website Launch
Freedom Cole’s Science of Light book is a popular reference for Vedic Astrology and among those seeking higher paths in ancient traditions. ZDCA strategized a marketing approach that included a new book cover design, logo, and matching website for a complete package. Visit the new website
Read MoreGoji Kitchen Website Launch
Goji Kitchen is an exciting new Asian fusion cuisine restaurant that has quickly garnered a reputation for a variety of flavorful dishes at affordable prices. Like most restaurants, the menu changes often. The owners needed a simple CMS (Content Management System) website for easy and frequent access to content without the time and expense in hiring help each time. Additionally, Jade Turgel was contracted for fine food photography and easy publishing of high resolution gallery images was integrated to best display the amazing dishes Goji Kitchen produces. Visit the new website ...
Read Moredouble D Bass Generation Logo & Website Launch
double D Productions was ready to step up their game and create a professional website to promote their popular events. ZDCA designed a custom logo and skinned an events-optimized theme to capture both the look and feel of the double D style and keep content entry as simple as possible. In addition to simplified events entry, the system manages large-scale image galleries and video archives with ease. Most importantly, ticket sales are handled quickly through the service they’ve been using so little changes for them and their established past workflow. Of course, social network...
Read MoreSea of Dreams 2012 “Prophesea” Poster & Flyer
San Francisco event producers AnonEvents, Sunset Promotions and An-Ten-Nae came to ZDCA for original design of the renowned Sea of Dreams event poster and flyer. Titled “Prophesea” for 2012, Zack Darling’s established aesthetic of refined collage and dynamic layered effects, combined with a grounding in Burning Man, alt Cirque and cabaret graphic styles, is a perfect fit for the Mayan Calendar imagery and prophesy theme. ZDCA is honored to be included among a group of highly respected artists from past years’ designs, including Andrew Gonzales, Andrew Jones and The...
Read MoreHopmonk Tavern Website Launch
Hopmonk Tavern is one of the North SF Bay Area’s premier destinations for great beer, delicious food and stellar music. The business is the creation of Dean Biersch, co-founder of internationally renowned beer & restaurants, Gordon Biersch. Once the Hopmonk in Sebastopol was thriving, Dean recently expanded to open the new Hopmonk Sonoma, which quickly became the new wine country hot spot of Sonoma. With two booming locations, it was time to re-vamp their online presence. Time to bring on ZDCA for a complete makeover of the site! Although a beer tavern may seem like a light-weight...
Read MoreThe Prince of Uh Oh! Children’s Book Design
Photographer, writer, director and visionary, Jade Turgel, brought her children’s book project to ZDCA for a sensitive touch on book design and layout. The talented illustrator Max May worked closely with Jade to bright color and vision to her lovely children’s poetry. The collaboration of these two brilliant minds resulted in a team with a wide array of influences by highly creative people. Once the artwork was brought to ZDCA, we already had a beautiful story underway. ZDCA worked on digital imagery and color adjustment with all the illustrations. They were scanned, touched-up,...
Read MoreWaccoBB Forum Theme Designs
WaccoBB is a well-known and much-loved bastion of progressive conversations in the North Bay and beyond. WaccoBB directors came to ZDCA with a forum theme update project to bring the popular site into today’s design sensibility and functionality. The project scope was broad at three complete and unique theme designs including custom logos, interface graphics, icons, global color schemes and more, all to be easily selectable by users on this massive forum website. We also worked closely with the client to take their long-standing rising sun logo and re-develop the brand with a new iconic...
Read MoreMosaic Art Now Magazine
Mosaic Art Now magazine is a well-known publication focused on the art and craft of mosaic work and the fascinating artists who work in the unusual medium. The magazine directors came to ZDCA with a tall order: layout an entire magazine on a tight deadline and budget in a fresh style while maintaining the visual language of past issues for the existing audience. ZDCA delivered that and more by finishing the project early and within budget while surpassing the design expectations of the magazine directors. Additionally, Mosaic Art Now required a simple online purchasing solution for audience...
Read MoreHBG Scientific Waterpipes
HBG offers a wide variety finely crafted glass products. Their latest line required a branding update to highlight their technical process and superior designs. ZDCA was contracted to reboot the company logo and associated marketing materials for their entire line of products, including the complete catalog and posters. In contrast to the “high-tech” style of the chrome logo, our illustrator, Jimmy Hits, brought to life a series of unique drawings in colored smoke that tricks the eye and stands out in a market of crowded with similar companies and their utilitarian designs. In...
Read MoreEarthdance Festival 2011 Campaign Design
One of our favorite clients here at ZDCA is the international music festival, Earthdance. Each year we work with them to envision a new design theme and create a fresh visual identity to each festival. This year Earthdance moved from deep in the woods of Mendocino County to the Solano County Fairgrounds. While the fairgrounds have plenty of trees and greenery, we chose to take the design from it’s Earthy past into a cosmic direction. Earthscapes frame a celestial sky as a mandala of lotus flowers, dragons and sacred geometry swirl around the planetary Earthdance logo. We enjoyed...
Read MoreYoga Designs
We have had the opportunity to work with a number of fantastic yoga businesses over the past 15 years. Our designs have ranged from yoga apparel, CD’s, websites, promo materials and branding. We’ve continue to work with a number of yoga clientele and are always looking forward to future design work within this positive and healthy industry. Check out the ZDCA re-designed Mission Yoga website here. ...
Read MoreChristy’s On The Square
When restaurant entrepreneurs Amos Flint & Justin Pidgeon decided to renovate and re-launch one of the nicest spots in downtown Santa Rosa, they came to ZDCA for their new look. We worked with them to develop the Christy’s On The Square brand identity, original illustration (drawn by SR’s tattoo guru, Joe Leonard), custom leather-bound menus with embossed brass emblems and an iconic backlit sign above the entry. The idea behind the project was to return this historic downtown location to it’s elegant past as The Topaz Room – a sophisticated and fashionable bar...
Read MoreAdvanced Auto Group Website
When our friends at Advanced Auto Group in Santa Rosa needed a face lift to their outdated website, they came to us for help. We worked with them through the many steps of taking their online presence to the next level. We photographed their facilities, work and staff, re-worked their copy and took their unique purple design theme and worked it into the new design. This site is fully Web 2.0 integrated and features search engine optimization, dynamic content, blogging, social networking, widgets, interactive photo gallery, dynamic maps, animated home page, animated navigation and drop-down...
Read MoreRock art legend: Stanley Mouse
We’re happy to announce the launch of the newly re-designed MouseStudios.com where fans can connect with one of the most legendary artists in the history of rock music. This is currently the largest gallery of Stanley’s work and it’s truly only the beginning. We’re digging new art out of his studio every day and taking photos of each piece for the website as well as the brand new Rockin Roses Gallery. This is also a great place to see what Stanley is up to with his latest endeavors. He’ll be regularly adding new artwork and posting live events. Fans can...
Read MoreReggae Festival Guide features artist: Zack Darling
We were thrilled to discover that this summer’s issue of Reggae Festival Guide featured Zack Darling as a featured designer. The article is a flattering bio of Zack’s designs and ventures. Thanks Reggae Festival Guide! We’re honored to be in the pages of your great publication!
Read MoreEarthdance 2010 Graphics
We have a special place in our heart for the Earthdance Festival. Each year we are given a general theme and allowed to run with it. This is our 9th year doing graphics for this event devoted to world peace, and yet it’s the first one that we incorporated a dove image. The 2010 campaign is an excellent example of the merging of “visionary” art style design with commercial promotional materials. We like to engage the viewing artist on a level beyond that of a basic message. An event like Earthdance has a very special energy about it and the voice of the event is carried...
Read MoreThe 2010 Harmony Festival Campaign
Th 2010 Harmony Festival campaign was been a wild and wonderful ride as usual. We created a campaign that was the most positively received in their 32 year history, resulting in higher attendance than ever before. The evolution of this festival’s graphical presence is has been a long journey of re-identifying one of the oldest music festivals in Northern California as a fresh, relevant, hip event.
Read MoreBikram Yoga Brochure
Here’s a brochure design we created for Bikram Yoga of Santa Rosa. Great studio and really nice folks. Highly recommended! www.bikramyogasantarosa.com Outside of the tri-fold brochure.
Read MoreThe Hydro Pacific Web Campaign
In an effort to speak to the motivating influences of Hydro Pacific’s demographic, we needed to create an ad that was creative and edgy enough to draw new visitors to the web store. Many of today’s indoor gardner magazines are urban, grungy and punchy with a twist of organic hippie. With that in mind we designed this campaign. Be sure to check out www.hydropacific.com
Read MorePlant It Water… spotted!
I recently found my Plant It Water bottle product design in my local Community Market health food store the other day. What a cool surprise! If you see this on the shelf, try it out! It’s great water and every bottle you buy plants a tree. Plus, it’s made from recycled materials and is 100% recyclable. No more nasty plastic water bottles overflowing our landfills! If you see one, let me know what you think please! Please support ecologically and socially conscious businesses whenever you can! Go Plant It Water! www.plantitwater.com ...
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