Zack Darling Creative Associates » Graphics

GeoPlanter Graphics & Illustrations

Zack — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:15:18 +0000

ZDCA worked extensively with GeoPlanter company to create striking illustrated marketing materials for their GeoPot, GeoPlanter and . Designs have included logo re-branding, product illustrations, billboards, vehicle wraps and other custom assets. We found the digital illustration portion of this project to be particularly exciting as the process of creating vector illustrations of a product that mostly consisted of black fabric challenging and rewarding. Take a look at some of these materials we’ve created for their various products; GeoPot, GeoPlanter and Flow Systems.

Rocknsocks.com: Retail & Wholesale Online Catalog

Zack Darling — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:32:30 +0000

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 e-commerce shopping site template style and re-created the site architecture by bringing the shopping cart, search, wishlist, account and other useful shopping tools into the top nav bar. This allows a convenient way for the visitors to see what’s in the cart at any time without stepping on the design or carrying you to another page.

This is a good example of our fully customized database-driven e-commerce website products. If you’re looking to take your products online and dazzle your customers with a beautiful shopping experience, let’sget started!

The winter time is coming! What better time of year to treat yourself to some “Eco-Fabulous” environmentally friendly regenerated cotton blend socks! Please drop by and shop around!

Check out the site at: www.rocknsocks.com

Advanced Auto Group Website

Zack Darling — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:42:31 +0000

When our friends at Advanced Auto Group in Santa Rosa needed a face lift to their outdated website, they came to us for help.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 menus, site-wide search, custom HDR photography and mobile device compatibility.

This is a fantastic example of one of our easy and affordable site designs that we offer our clients. If you’re looking for a new look to your online business, let us know!

Check it out at: www.advancedautogroup.biz

The 2010 Harmony Festival Campaign

Zack Darling — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:51:31 +0000

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.

Bikram Yoga Brochure

Zack Darling — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:45:39 +0000

Here’s a brochure design we created for Bikram Yoga of Santa Rosa. Great studio and really nice folks. Highly recommended!

www.bikramyogasantarosa.com

The Hydro Pacific Web Campaign

Zack Darling — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:31:22 +0000

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

Plant It Water… spotted!

Zack Darling — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:22:05 +0000

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

Nomads World Gallery

Zack Darling — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:58:41 +0000

Today Zack Darling Creative Associates launched Nomads World Gallery . Nomad’s World is a beautiful import store and gallery based in downtown Ukiah, California. The owners, Rita & Chance, are two charismatic globetrotters with impeccable taste in art, design, color and craftwork. Their beautiful store clearly shows their quality taste, and their website needed to as well.

The challenge with this project was to present an enormous amount of visual imagery within a relatively small website. We accomplished this through dynamic interactive galleries that exist throughout the site. Also, we needed to help them present their message of global-mindedness and “true fair-trade” with a unified voice. We interviewed them and created site copy based on the information and our own experience with their store. The result: a colorful and well expressed website that offers a true journey through their gallery, their lives and the world.

Visit the site here:
http://www.nomadsworldgallery.com

Emerald Cup Poster

Zack Darling — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:36:09 +0000

The Emerald Cup is a benefit event in the northern hills of Mendocino County where they celebrate herbal living. Northern California definitely has it’s own idea of what it means to “go green.” This was a fun project to design as I was able to integrate ganja imagery into a stoic, competitive, championship trophy design. It’s not often you’re asked to surround your designs with pot leaves and I enjoyed the opportunity.

The Penofin Rebranding Process

Zack Darling — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:49:45 +0000

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 brand!