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 image. We successfully brought their visual look to a new level, yet still spoke to their audience with the same familiar voice of the previous design.

Additionally, informal user testing was conducted to better determine a final result that both accommodated the technical needs of the forum and the aesthetic needs of the long-term users who are passionate and outspoken about their WaccoBB experience.

After completion of the Wacco theme designs, we implemented the same look & feel to their digest email templates as well as their new Business Directory (currently still in development).

We really enjoyed the opportunity to work with such a powerful tool for the North Bay community.

Not only did we create the promotional artwork, but we’re also creating most of the other assets to the festival such as the program guide, apparel, the new site map illustration, advertisements, banners and the skin for their new website at www.earthdancelive.com . It’s a full marketing package that we truly enjoy the chance to create.

If you’re looking for a magical weekend of music, art, community, activism, spirituality, DJs, performance art… all centered around the global Prayer for Peace, we highly recommend you check out Earthdance Northern California 2011.

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 deforested areas with via Trees For The Future. As if that weren’t enough, when you buy a bottle they also make a donation to A Single Drop which helps impoverished people around the world have access to clean drinking water. It’s great to see new businesses taking a conscious role in helping our struggling planet and people.

We worked with them for many months to design a packaging that would be inviting and appealing when sitting on the busy shelves of the supermarket beverage aisle.

Click here to visit the ZDCA designed Algae Competition Website

Each year there’s an international algae competition in which global innovators in the world of algae submit their projects for consideration. A prize is awarded to the winner. While the competition serves as a good way to push development and research, it also acts as a platform in which algae education is in the spotlight.

I recently completed this year’s campaign design for Sea Of Dreams – an amazing New Year’s Eve event that happens every year in San Francisco. I did their graphics from 2003-2005 and they decided to have me back this year for their 10-year anniversary. Check out seaofdreamsnye.com for more information about the event. Once again I had the honor of working with one of my favorite artists on this design, Andrew Gonzalez. Be sure to check out his website at sublimatrix.com . I can’t wait to see these in print and all over the Bay Area!

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Here is the first print version of the poster design. We'll be running another one as more acts are added.

This is the front of the 4"x8" flyer.

Here is the back of the flyer. I particularly like the border and nautilus shells in this piece.