Debra Cassa and David La Cava are the creative partners behind Bluecap Studio, a Los Angeles-based design studio founded in 2020. Taking a collaborative and hands-on approach, Bluecap has forged partnerships with clients ranging from enterprise-level industry leaders to mid-sized businesses to non-profits and small startups, including Informa, Questex, DENSO Health, Trifecta Collective, the Cancer Support Community Los Angeles, and Kept. Building upon a solid foundation from their combined knowledge and experience, Debra and David are taking Bluecap into the future with a commitment to crafting high-impact branding and collateral for their clients.
Debra, a School of Visual Arts graduate, started her career in annual report design, then progressed to media promotions and marketing design. She excels in creating complex materials like infographics, e-books, and presentations, as well as visual designs for conferences and tradeshows.
David, a proud alumnus of CSUN, has a diverse background, starting with creating corporate identities, style guides, literature, and destination marketing campaigns, later transitioning to designing key art campaigns in the entertainment industry, and then to experiential design at the world’s largest exhibit organizer.
Creating impactful visuals, nurturing strong client relationships and ensuring each project resonates effectively with its intended audience is part of what Debra and David refer to as “The Bluecap Experience™.” As Bluecap grows, they continue to focus on helping their clients communicate their message thoughtfully with clear, effective designs.visionary who believes in making things both beautiful and distinctive, a mantra she passes on to her team. And when she’s not shaking up the creative world, you’ll find her diving into garment construction and deconstruction, or bringing her creative spark into the classroom as a teacher for seven years.
What principles guide your design decisions?
Clarity and purpose. Not design for the sake of mere ornamentation, but to serve a need. And the guiding principle that design is a core part of a business or brand’s identity, and that reinforcing and enhancing that identity is always part of the objective. That last one is crucial in today’s world; we recently spoke at a conference on cybersecurity about how important brand consistency is to maintain trust and recognition to help your clients avoid being scammed by those who would do harm to your reputation, by hijacking your brand for nefarious purposes. Protecting, upholding and cultivating our client’s brand is always a “North Star” for us.
Between now and 2030, which specific skills, technologies, or priorities will matter most in shaping the future of graphic design?
The old-fashioned ones: interpretive skills, sensitivity to color and proportion and typography, and of course, communication, strategy and design direction. Technology can take you some fun places in design, but we feel like our best work is done when we get back to basics. We’d love to see the minimalism in design that there’s so much of currently to be transcended in favor of more uniqueness.
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