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Fully-baked Site with Sprinkles!

We’ve been working on this site for a little while now with San Francisco firm, Feldish Design and we’re pleased to announce that the official website for Fullbloom Baking Company is now live! This was a very fun collaboration with Creative Director, Debbie Glass of Feldish, who brings a refined eye and playful sense of color to all of her work. The Fullbloom branding developed by Feldish was indeed a pleasure to work with, and you can see for yourself how the design just makes you feel happy.

It’s also a nice reflection of the core values and progressive philosophy of the company. Fullbloom operates with good business principles, bakes with organic and sustainable ingredients, and has made their facility LEED-Platinum certified — the greenest you can get! Plus, their products taste really, really great!

Subtle and Sophisticated Website

DBD+A just completed a new WordPress-based website for Passive Investment Advisor Marketing expert, Wendy J. Cook Communications. The site nicely reflects the company’s sensibilities and no-nonsense approach to addressing their clients’ unique marketing challenges. Company founder, Wendy Cook is not just a great writer and marketer, but a very nice person to work with as well!

A Shout-out to our New Clients!

It’s nice to take a pause in our creative work every once-in-a-while and give a hearty “thank you” to our new and continuing clients! Obviously our business would be nothing without our clients, but we like to think of them as our partners–after all, we’re all in this together. We’ve been fortunate that almost all of our business comes from referrals — here’s some new clients we’d like you to meet:

Muffinhead Dog
Outerwear for dogs locally-made from sustainable and recycled materials (people clothes!) Website coming soon…

Wendy J. Cook Communications
Writing, editing and presentation services for passive investment advisors, and more!

Natural Posture Solutions
Books and products to help adults and children attain natural posture and healthier backs. Website coming soon…

Fiddlehead Software
A Platinum-certified Filemaker development company

Better Burnside Alliance
A neighborhood alliance presenting an alternate plan to Portland’s West Burnside + Couch Couplet

Welcome one and all!

On-target Communications

This is a new logo we just completed for Wendy J. Communications, a small marketing firm that specializes in writing, editing and presentation services for Passive Investment Advisors. The logo mark works on 3 levels (and maybe more): The concentric circles create the two “C”s of “Cook Communications”, the triangle space is a pencil tip with the type completing the shaft, and it’s also a target with an arrow hitting the bull’s eye. The typeface? Archer, of course. We’re also working on a cool new WordPress-based website for this business that is launching soon!

Your Real Estate Champ

We just revised the branding for Peter Champ, a Portland area realtor and long-time supporter of DBD+A. The updated brand is punchier (Pete was once an amateur boxer), greener (he’s Earth Advantage S.T.A.R. certified and a Trade Partner with the Energy Trust of Oregon), and just plain cooler (Pete’s very cool for a Brit). Now we just have to update his website to match! See the previous version of his logo here.

Lovely Deco Label Shot

Nothing new here, except some great new photography of the Deco Silver Rum label we helped design. You can pick-up Deco Silver and Deco Ginger Rum at many Oregon and most Portland liquor stores.

Better Burnside Website

The Better Burnside Alliance, a group of neighborhood citizens and businesses who are proposing a better plan for the West Burnside and NW Couch Couplet in Portland, wanted a new blog-based news website in a hurry. And, we delivered this cool little WordPress website that can grow as big as needed — conveying news, updates, links to other articles and studies, and more.

An Eggilicious Email Blast

Here’s an e-blast we created and coded for Feldish Design and FullBloom Baking Company. Got a message you need to get out to your email list? We can create an email that is cross-platform compatible, smart-sized, spam-compliant, and pretty too!

National Pickle Week Kicks Off!

May 15-24 is designated as International Pickle Week, though the days add up to 10 instead of the traditional seven. Maybe that’s because pickles are so darn flavorful, that they can be fully experienced in just one short week! International Pickle Week was first celebrated in 1948, but pickles date back so far that no one can say for sure when they first appeared. The estimate for the origin of cucumbers in vinegar dates back more than 4,000 years. The fact that Pickle Week is an international celebration may be due to the variety of cultures that endorse the tasty treat. From the days of Cleopatra to now, the pickle has been a treat for the ages.

Thomas Jefferson, one of our Founding Fathers, not only drafted the Declaration of Independence, he was a pickle lover as well. “On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally’s cellar.” At DBD+A we favor the spunky Dill Pickle, but we’ll settle for a Bread & Butter if no Dills are available.

Cascade AIDS Project Raffle

We just completed this quick pro-bono design project for the Cascade AIDS Project’s (CAP) Annual Art Evening and Auction. The 9×6 full-color postcard details the Raffle drawings and will be handed-out to all attendees.