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New Portland Magazines

There are a bunch of new magazines launching in the Portland, Oregon market right now. Mix and Homes + Gardens Northwest from The Oregonian are already launched and Portland Spaces from the publishers of Portland Monthly is coming soon. Here are 2 full-page ads we did for Madison Millinger and JD Madison for the launch of Homes + Gardens Northwest. Time will tell if this relatively small market can support so many design-focused magazines. As a hardcore magazine junkie, we hope it can!

Sign of things to come…

We’ve recently completed a new logo design for JD Madison‘s new showroom expansion. The new space showcases ten new, higher-end home furnishing lines and needed a sub-branded identity that was similar to JD Madison, but that could stand on its own as well. The new showroom opens to the public on June 15th and will include many more information graphics, displays and signage created by DBD+A. Here’s the logo on the new exterior signage:

And here’s the new logo next to the JD Madison logo:

Who knew…?!

We were pleasantly surprised to find that our Website, Huge Magazine was chosen by Commerce Magazine as one of the 26 Reasons Why Design Rules in Portland!

We remember the phone interview, but forgot about it entirely when we never received a copy in the mail. Well, luckily we stumbled upon the feature in a Blog post by local motion design firm, Kamp Grizzly that also had a link to Huge.

Thankfully, we now have a copy of the issue in our hot little hands and are happy to share it with you! Click on the images at left for a larger pic of the actual article. Yesiree … 26 Reasons from A through Z, and Huge was chosen for it’s particularly lovely use of the letter “H”.

Huge Magazine is billed as the “Internet’s Superchunky Arts and Leisure Magazine” and it’s where we used to go to let our creative hair down. Used to? Well, we’ve been so busy starting and growing DBD+A that we just don’t have any time left! But, thanks to this crazy new Blog technology, we’ll be resurrecting Huge sooner than you can say, “it’s bigger than big, it’s Huge!”

Everything’s Gone Green

And, that’s a good thing. Everywhere I turn these days people and companies are talking about green-building, green design, and green services — essentially about making green from going green. Hopefully this groundswell of green-thinking can carry out past local, regional and even industry boundaries and become a real national and global charge.

With so many people looking to minimize their own footprint on the planet through their purchases and lifestyle choices, it pays for businesses to let their customers know that they do indeed feature green products or options if they have them. One such company here in Portland is JD Madison, a modern home furnishings store. We developed this green logo for JD Madison to be used on their Web site and on in-store tags to let shoppers know which of their unique and stylish furniture pieces are made using sustainable, recycled, and in many cases, reclaimed materials.

New Clients…

DBD+A is pleased as punch to welcome four new clients to our happy family! We’ve just completed some animated web banner ads for Remote Control Mail, an email blast for Autism Asperger’s Digest Magazine, and in conjunction with LiquidBook (our web technology partner) we’ve begun new site designs for Thinstall and Real Intent.

We’d like to take this moment to thank our many fantastic friends and clients who have been nice enough to give us referrals. Try it yourself today–it’ll give you a nice warm and fuzzy feeling! Guaranteed.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Your friends at DBD+A (including our B9 Robot production assistant) all wish you the happiest of Valentine’s Days.

DBD+A Gets A Facelift

We’ve just completed Phase One of our own site’s re-design. Yes, we know that we still need to get our portfolio pages up, but in our defense we’d rather get our clients’ work done first before we spend any time on ourselves. So, here we are — take a look around, sit in the driver’s seat, kick the tires and let us know what you think…

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JDM Site Re-design

DBD+A has completed a re-design of the JD Madison Web site. The new site is bigger, cleaner and even easier to navigate as well as now being more efficient to update as well.

Located in the Pearl District, JD Madison is the place to shop for distinctive, modern home furnishings in Portland, Oregon. According to Northwest Home + Garden Magazine, “If there’s one furniture store that embodies the Pearl District’s sophistication, it’s JD Madsion Home Furnishings.”

And not just a super-cool store, but lovely people as well! DBD+A is proud to create all of the print advertising and marketing collateral for JD Madison as well. Our ads can be seen in Portland Monthly, the Oregonian, Oregon Home, Zupan’s Fresh Ideas, and Explore the Pearl.

www.jdmadison.com