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Samantha and Owen’s design for the Hikaru Wine can and bottle line is selling better than I could have imagined. And it’s all about Design des Troy’s branding. Their design has been an irreplaceable aspect of Hikaru landing distribution.

Their work is elegant and bold and smart and beautiful. They listened to what our goals were and to what the brand story is, and then they delivered the goods, and it’s a home run.

I will be hiring them for my next project.

I LOVED working with Design des Troy. They made my wedding unique, stylish and classy. People were so impressed with all of their products that they designed and I got tons of compliments. They are also so easy to work with and very experienced in working with brides and grooms during this important time.

Even though we live on different coasts, we communicated well … Samantha and Owen really listened to our ideas but at the same time contributed their creativity and expertise. We knew we were in good hands and in the end our invitations were exactly what we didn’t know we were envisioning.

I wanted to thank you for the invitations. They are flat-out awesome. Everyone has raved about them. I was telling my mom about a guy in my department who said he wished he were getting married again so he could have invitations as cool as ours. Thank you for your patience and diligence; we’re very grateful to work with people of your professionalism and creativity.

Design des Troy created the perfect wedding invitation/announcement for our small wedding in San Francisco. The cards were distributed as collectibles to postcard collectors at our shows and the responses ranged from “beautiful’ to “I’m framing this.’ I couldn’t have imagined a more appropriate piece to reflect the both of us. Thanks again Owen and Samantha!

Design des Troy worked within our budget to create the most unique and beautiful invitation…EVER! Samantha went above and beyond to give me printing options and in the end we were even able to get letterpress! I couldn’t believe how great our invitations looked when they arrived. The design was timeless and everyone commented on how pretty they were. We were so happy with the level of service that we received and all of the support that we got along the way. I couldn’t imagine using another design team.

We loved working with Sam and Owen and were absolutely thrilled with the Save-the-Dates they created for us.

We loved working with Samantha and Owen. The pieces they designed were unique, personal and, most of all, visually stunning. It was like sending a piece of art into the homes of each of our wedding guests. We received so many compliments on the wedding invitations. Then to top it off, they worked with us to also create a personalized ketubah for our jewish wedding.

Everything was great! You made everything so easy, it all came together so well. I can’t imagine changing anything or doing anything differently if I had to do it all again.

Samantha and Owen were a dream to work with! Not only did they design our invitations, but they created our entire wedding suite from the save the dates to the programs and welcome letters to the table cards, place cards and menus! It was all simply stunning! Each of the 24 tables had a unique San Francisco icon and each place card had the guests name along with their table icon (so much more fun then tables 1, 2 and 3). Their work was the glue that tied our entire event together! THANK YOU SAMANTHA AND OWEN!

Incredibly talented and versatile designers. Samantha and Owen will translate your vaguest ideas into beautiful artwork. My invitations, programs and save-the-dates were perfect! Samantha created illustrated images of my husband & me for our save-the-dates and me that turned up on stamps, stickers, favors and gift bags. The graphics on our invites were totally sophisticated but still blended perfectly with the more whimsical aspects of the stationery suite. They also made us a ketubah in the style of our stationery. The most fun part of wedding planning was working with des Troy, and many of the pieces they created are now decorating our home.

Samantha has worked on numerous design projects for my company Eden Cubed, Inc. She first designed a beautiful logo by hand for Mama Art Cafe, and later completed the design for over a hundred labels for my distribution business. My requests were particular and she gracefully worked within my parameters, while still bringing her own style to the designs. She made our image and branding contemporary yet timeless and was able to create a very dynamic label design using only one color to keep our printing budget low. Samantha and Owen are professional, thorough, and efficient and I look forward to working on more projects with Design des Troy.

Since the first day my business Nightsound Studios was open, people have told me they were impressed by and attracted to the  Design des Troy designed. Soon after opening, clients were asking for shirts featuring the logo when we hadn’t even considered making any. Now, 20 years later, people I don’t know are wearing shirts with the studio’s logo all around town, and I’ve heard stories of clients being approached by strangers in airports telling them that they have a Nightsound logo t-shirt also.

Not only has the professional quality of the design allowed so many to recognize Nightsound, it’s even drawn people to find out more about us. That’s much more than I ever expected even a beautiful logo to be capable of, and I have Design des Troy to thank for that.

We loved that you used the architecture of the de Young to inspire the design of the invitation. Several friends came up to me at the de Young party and said “We always thought the invitations were pretty and now we get it!’ And everything for the bowling party was a huge hit. Everyone complimented the bride/groom bowling pin designs on our coasters and shirts. They were adorable 🙂 And, you guys were great to work with! Thanks for all your patience with our endless comments during the design process.