Plant It Water
When one of your product designs reaches the market as a popular item one store shelves, it feels good. We’re happy to announce that Plant It Water has officially launched and will be being carried in a number of stores and supermarkets soon. They will be in all Whole Foods Markets and in other stores around the West Coast. Plant It Water is a fantastic purified water that offers an conscious alternative to plastic water bottles that are cramming up our landfills. These recyclable paper bottles are made from recycled materials. Furthermore with each bottle purchased a tree is planted in...
Read MoreRocknsocks.com: Retail & Wholesale Online Catalog
We’re happy to announce that we’ve recently launched a new full-service e-commerce website for our friends at RockNSocks. When they initially came to ZDCA, they wanted a full visual and functionality upgrade to their existing site. We brought their online sales and inventory management systems from a ZenCart application to Magento, and re-built their shipping and accounting process from the ground up. Creatively we built upon the funky fun theme started by their previous designer and added another level of dimension, form and interactivity. We chose to break free of the typical...
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 MoreHydroPacific’s New Look
One of our favorite new clients is HydroPacific – a gardening supply store in Ukiah and Cloverdale. They’ve been wonderful people to work with and I’m really enjoying the project. We’re currently working on a mid-sized online store with over 2,000 products. We’re photographing every one and building the e-commerce system for them now. The design is looking good and I look forward to sharing it with you all when it’s done. Very exciting. For now, I can share with you some other design work we just completed. HydroPacific has had strong branding from the...
Read MoreThe Penofin Rebranding Process
I completed these designs a while back, but wanted to share a process I enjoy where I polish up and give a facelift to an already existing logo. I’ve been working with Penofin since mid 1997 and would have to say they’re my oldest corporate client. Great company, great product, great people to work with. Here is what their logo looked like for many years: This is what the final logo looked like after the re-branding process: Nothing like some effects and polishing to bring out the beauty of an already-effective...
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