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Dazu Creative is a creative direction studio working with women who lead.

We partner on brand evolution, visual systems, and experience design, helping align your presence, story, and strategy with who you are now.

10/01/2026

What we intend to communicate and what someone else understands aren’t always the same thing.
There’s a space between the two.
We see it in buildings when people don’t know where to go. We see it on websites when we can’t find what we need. We see it in brands, presentations, conversations... pretty much everywhere.
Sometimes the problem isn’t the person who doesn’t understand.
Sometimes it’s the way the information was designed.
This little video grew out of my talk, The Space Between Us, and an idea that has become central to how I think about design:
Clarity creates confidence.

10/01/2026

What is your space saying?

Before someone reads a sign or asks for directions, they’re already looking for clues.

Where am I? Where do I go? What matters here?

That’s where environmental graphic design comes in.

Clarity creates confidence.

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09/14/2026

I’m super excited to be sharing The Impact Stage with these fabulous women on September 17!

There are twenty of us speaking, with a pretty amazing mix of women, experiences, ideas and perspectives. I’m really looking forward to hearing the rest of the crew and what everyone brings to the conversation.

I’m part of the Creativity, Story + Communication group with Rachel Gaia, Lynda Cathcart, Kathy Morley and Kim Speed.

My talk is The Space Between Us: What if misunderstanding isn’t a people problem? What if it’s a design problem?

It grew out of something I think about all the time in my work: how do we help people find their way? And what happens when we take some of those same ideas out of physical spaces and apply them to the way we communicate with each other?

I’m excited. A little nervous. And really looking forward to September 17. ❤️

09/09/2026

When someone asks what environmental graphic design is, I usually say "signage and wayfinding" because it's the quickest explanation. But every time I say it, I cringe a little.

Because that's like saying architecture is about walls. 😂

Yes, signage and wayfinding are part of environmental graphic design, but the work is much bigger than that. It's about how people experience and understand a place, how they move through it, what they notice, and how that place communicates who or what it is.

Sometimes that means a sign telling you where to turn. But sometimes it's color, lighting, typography, or a change in material that naturally draws you in a particular direction. It can be a mural that tells the story of a community, a sculpture that becomes a landmark, or graphics integrated into the architecture that make a space feel unmistakably like this place and nowhere else.

And sometimes a space is designed so intuitively that you simply know where to go without anyone having to tell you. That may be my favorite kind of wayfinding.

When we move through a place, we're constantly taking in information and answering little questions, often without even realizing it. Where am I? Where am I going? What is this place? What matters here? What should I notice? Do I belong here?

That's why "signs" has always felt like such an inadequate description of what I do. I'm interested in the whole experience and in creating enough clarity that people can understand a place, connect with it and confidently know what to do next.

Signs are sometimes part of the answer. They're just not the whole answer.

09/08/2026

Apparently, I can’t just organize a neighborhood yard sale. I have to design the experience. 😂

Earlier this summer, our neighborhood decided to hold a community yard sale. Multiple houses, different streets, different things for sale. Simple enough.

Except almost immediately my designer brain kicked in. How will people know which houses are participating? How will they know what’s at each one? How can they decide which stops they want to make? And how do we make a bunch of individual yard sales feel like one neighborhood event?

So, naturally, it became a little more than a yard sale.

I created a visual identity and graphics to promote it, signs throughout the neighborhood, and a QR code that connected the physical event to a digital map I built. On their phones, visitors could see all the participating homes, where they were located and what they could expect to find at each stop.

Looking back at it, what I find most interesting isn't any one of those things. It's how they worked together. The identity made the event recognizable. The advertising got people there. The signs connected the streets to the digital map, and the map helped people figure out where they wanted to go next.

None of it was particularly complicated. It just made the whole thing easier to understand and navigate.

And apparently this is what I do with EVERYTHING. 😂 Give me a bunch of information, places, people and competing priorities, and my brain immediately starts looking for the structure. What matters? What goes where? How do these things connect? How can I make this easier for someone else to understand?

Clarity creates confidence.

Even when what you're confidently navigating toward is someone else's $5 lamp. 😊

09/07/2026

A little intergalactic wayfinding for your Monday morning. 😂

Sometimes whatever is sitting in front of us feels ENORMOUS because it's taking up our entire field of vision. Then something shifts our perspective and suddenly we can see where it actually sits in the hierarchy of things that matter.

That doesn't mean the problem isn't real or that we shouldn't deal with it. It just might not deserve quite as much real estate in our heads as we've given it.

So here's today's reminder from one tiny planet, tucked inside one of billions of galaxies in a ridiculously enormous universe: take the work seriously, take care of the people and things that matter, but maybe don't take yourself quite so seriously.

Happy Monday, fellow specks. 😊

08/12/2026

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 on September 17 is organized into five themed blocks, along with a live fireside conversation on innovation.

This is Block Two: The Creatives, and I’ll be sharing the stage with Rachel Gaia, Lynda Cathcart, Kathy Morley, and Kim Speed.

I love how different these talks are.

𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹 is looking at nature as our oldest creative intelligence. 𝗟𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗮 is talking about keeping the human in creative work. 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆 is making the case that beauty needs a better PR agent, and 𝗞𝗶𝗺 is talking about finding your voice.

I’ll be talking about 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗨𝘀 and asking whether misunderstanding might actually be a design problem.

Five very different perspectives on creativity, story, communication, and being seen. I’m looking forward to hearing what these women have to say.

𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳 | 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹

Join us: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-impact-stage-tickets-1995855984978?aff=oddtdtcreator

08/11/2026

𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗬

On September 17, I’ll be speaking at 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 alongside nineteen women whose work spans AI, leadership, design, innovation, and transformation.

What I love about this group is how different the paths to this stage have been. We’re founders, strategists, creatives, advisors, technologists, and leaders, all coming to the conversation from different places and experiences.

The twenty women taking the stage are:

Kinga Vajda, Birgit Gosejacob, Mary Gervais, Kim Speed, Lenise Kenney, Gayle Robbins, Kathy Morley, Carolina Migliaccio, Carolyn Mueller, Monika Mileva, Lynda Cathcart, Laurie Linn, Virginia Nava, Julie Anixter, Shannon Villalba, Jan Phelps, Deborah A, Andrea Angelo, Rachel Gaia, and Deanna Leonard.

The day is organized into five themed blocks, plus a live fireside conversation on innovation. Each of us will be sharing something we’ve learned from actually doing the work: an idea, an experience, a change in perspective, or something we understand differently now than we did before.

I know some of these women already. Others I’ll be meeting through their stories, and I’m genuinely curious to hear what each of them brings to the conversation.

If you are too, come join us.

𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳 | 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹

Registration is open.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-impact-stage-tickets-1995855984978?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/23/2026

Have you ever returned to a place you knew well, only to find yourself unexpectedly confused?

Maybe a familiar entrance had moved. A hallway was closed. Construction had rerouted the path you always took.

For the people managing the project, those changes are temporary and well understood.

For the person walking into the building, they're simply part of the experience.

One of the things I think about often is how temporary conditions shape the way people feel. A taped paper sign or an unexpected detour may seem like a small detail, but in a hospital or other complex environment, it can add uncertainty to a day that's already stressful.

Good temporary wayfinding isn't about making construction look beautiful.

It's about helping people feel confident while a building is changing around them.

Construction is temporary.

The experience isn't.

07/22/2026

He didn't ask for help. He simply stopped walking.

I noticed him standing in the hospital atrium, studying the directory as if it might suddenly make sense.

When I asked if he needed help, he looked relieved and a little embarrassed.

"The infusion center," he said. "I've been here before. I just can't find it today."

As we walked together, the reason became clear. A recent construction project had changed the route. The building had introduced new decision points, but the directory still reflected the old path.

Four minutes later, we arrived.

He looked at me and said, "I thought I was losing it."

He wasn't.

Moments like these are why I care so deeply about environmental graphic design. People rarely blame the building when it doesn't support them. More often, they assume they've done something wrong.

The best environments do something remarkable. They reduce stress without calling attention to themselves. They help people move with confidence, even during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.

Good design isn't just about helping people find their destination.

It's about helping them feel that they're still capable of getting there.

Have you ever experienced a place that left you feeling confused or overwhelmed? I'd love to hear your story.

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