Cade Roach (he/they)
Owner & Designer | Public Speaker

Cade is an award-winning, Whidbey Island based designer, originally from Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 2015, they decided to step down from their role as Art Director for a marketing agency in Seattle to pursue their dream of working with businesses and organizations that were truly making a positive impact.

Cade has touched everything from illustration, print and web design, branding, social media strategy and design, event-driven campaigns, book and magazine layout, to creating tangible products for all major literary subscription boxes around the world. They have worked with a huge range of clients from local shops and organizations, to Harvard, Microsoft, Zillow and Google. Cade is a problem solver, a perfectionist, and is often used as a secret weapon within design teams because of their ability to brainstorm, connect and empathize; with a passion to bring heart to each brand’s mission.  

Cade has served as the President on the Coupeville Historic Waterfront Association Board of Directors, the co-chair of the Coupeville Creative District steering committee, and on the Diversity Advisory Council for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation.

Things Cade loves: Boxing, reading, road trips, writing, bookstores, treehouses, their partner Andrew and their amazing kiddo, Eliot. Cade also owns a creative community center and keeps an Instagram account dedicated to the books that they read.

Dylan Shippee (he/him)
Art Director and Designer

Dylan is a Seattle based designer originally from Rhode Island. He met Cade in 2005 and it wasn’t long before he realized they would make the perfect team. Dylan has worked on a wide variety of projects from directing video shoots and leading social media campaigns to running a small screen printing studio. 

Things Dylan loves: Volkswagens, finding new camping spots, rally racing, rollerblading, cooking on the ole’ Smokey Joe, being near water, Narragansett beer, and coffee milk.