News, Updates & Stories from DCMP

To kick off 2019, some girlfriends and I decided to head to my friend Liz Estrada’s family cabin in Pine Mountain Club, CA (about a 1.5 hour drive from LA). I received the first run of our merchandise right before we left and I thought it would be fun to bring it and shoot photos! We headed up on January 1st, our two cars packed to the brim with food, cozy clothes, and of course, wine! We arrived at night and the cold hit us harder than expected. As someone born and raised in Southern California, I always forget what...

Hi! I’m Sarah Nagel, the lead Graphic Designer and Creative Director for DCMP. I’m currently a student at UC Davis where I’m studying Design, with an emphasis in Graphic Design and Visual Communications. I’ve loved using art as a creative outlet since I was young, but only realized a few years ago that I wanted to center my career around it. Since making this decision, I’ve tried out many different types of art and design, including photography, music, 3d design, painting, digital illustration, and many more, before finally discovering my love for graphic design and choosing to focus on that....

I don’t often share why starting the #DONTCALLMEPRETTY Movement is so intertwined with my own life’s journey, but I thought that the first post here would be the perfect opportunity to do so. Flashback to 2015, I was struggling trying to finish my last semester of college and had to complete a nearly year long research project for my Interdisciplinary Studies Major that proved I had an expert understanding of my two disciplines: Fashion Marketing and Communications. My thesis assignment was to choose a phenomenon that was taking place and come up with a long-term solution to the problem. I...