Our Thoughts: Drawn Agency

A Mexican-American Home for 100 Co-workers

Get the skinny on our award-winning design for Siete’s custom trade show booth.

Brands can be fragile, so it’s important to anchor them with rock-solid foundations.

The story behind Sunnie's adorable, bite-sized (so to speak) snack packs.

Siete Small Batch is a place for trying new things, both when it comes to products and package design. Here’s some insider intel on our most recent Siete package design.

As the Porter platform continues to evolve and expand, it’s finding a foothold in new spaces like hotels and stadiums.

A peek at the process of designing the packaging for Siete Family Foods’ new product line, Kettle Cooked Potato Chips.

It's been a tough year for the foodservice industry and we're proud of our local partners, whose hard work and ingenuity helped them to evolve and thrive through it all.

Our process goes a little something like this: understand, create, evolve.

Designing packaging for Culina’s new product line that communicates the brand’s personality and values.

A year out from the start of the pandemic, we reflect on how we helped Wolcott navigate the COVID-19 climate as an essential home services business.

Siete’s award-winning, new packaging design is steeped in Mexican-American culture & family values.

ColdFire Brewing’s barrel-aged beers often spend two years on oak before they’re bottled up. So, the bottles? They needed to be worthy of such beers.

Using design to help a growing CPG brand, Culina, to give back to healthcare workers and others at the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.

Siete Family Foods is a family-owned and operated CPG company that does things a little differently, putting family first, family second, and business third. The results are pretty remarkable.

How the hunt for alignment led to a “quiet set of helping hands” for the restaurant industry.

Sometimes, you need an unbiased eye to tell you where your strengths and weaknesses are. With a brand audit, Drawn can help reveal things about your brand that you may not be able to see on your own.

From historical non-fiction to vintage brand standards to bedtime stories, here’s what we’re reading (and loving) at Drawn.

Getting tired of listening to those same old podcasts day after day? Here’s a list of the ones we’ve been loving recently to give your ears a little something new.

Nuggets of wisdom from successful, Oregon-based entrepreneurs and businesspeople at the Built Oregon Festival in Portland, Oregon.

Our job demands that we know our clients (and their products) (and where they fit into the world) really well. To gain this kind of expert knowledge, we throw ourselves headlong into their industries. And sometimes, we become beer snobs along the way.

Rapid prototyping allows you to get your hands on a version of your design ASAP, which, in turn, allows you to discover shortcomings in your initial concept — and brainstorm solutions.

How do we do the best job possible for our clients? By listening.

That awkward moment when you realize that there's no such thing as a design project that isn't human centered.

How designing brand experiences that are responsive rather than reactive helped one Oregon design agency create valuable opportunities

Our brands gain equity through smart investment. Sometimes, we're rewarded for risk while other times, it pays to err on the side of caution.

How we worked with Shopify to translate a traditionally analog business model to a digital interface.

When we think of traditions, we mostly think of the 10, 50, 100-year-old ones, but we're creating new traditions all the time. Here's a look at some successful marketing campaigns that society has adopted as traditions and why they work.

Whether created by time or intention, texture tells a story; it can reveal an object's true nature. So, can texture inspire better design?

Whether you're working with plenty of time and an unlimited budget or quite the opposite, there's a lot more to effective design than vectors.

The principles behind Drawn's philosophy of authenticity.

What really makes people feel valued at work and how to use employee satisfaction to your brand's advantage.

How your company handles the holidays sends a message to customers about your priorities, and you want to make sure that it's the right one.

A willingness to change is only one part of the equation.

We found that traditional focus groups have their limits, so we took our research methods outside the box.