We’re a flexible, creative team

About Us

Design Partners is powered by a flexible team of professionals. We provide creative services of all kinds — everything from logos and branding to website design to marketing and advocacy materials (print and electronic). Founded in 2002, our specialty is distinctive products and sustainable solutions. Our clients include national foundations, nonprofits, leaders in education and healthcare, associations, corporations, and government agencies.

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Management Bios

Cinda Debbink

Founding Partner
cd@dgdesignpartners.com

Cinda Debbink, a founding principal of Design Partners, has more than 20 years of design and management experience. Using the latest technologies, she creates multifaceted programs for clients in myriad fields. Her work has received more than 50 national design awards, including the Art Directors Clubs of New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco; appeared in CA, Print, Graphic Design and Inc. magazines; and been featured in touring exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. Previously, she was vice president for design at Creel Morrell Inc. and creative director at Design Link and the Rockbridge Group. Cinda graduated from Western Michigan University with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design.

Bill Glover

Founding Partner
bg@dgdesignpartners.com

Bill Glover, a founding principal of Design Partners, is experienced in all dimensions of design and communication work, including branding, corporate identity, exhibits, product launches and environmental graphics in print, multimedia and on the Web. Previously, he was vice president of environmental design for Creel Morrell Inc., where he specialized in design and project management for exhibits, environmental graphics and corporate identity. He was also a senior designer at Design Link and the Rockbridge Group, and a professor of graphic design at Marymount University. Bill graduated from Western Michigan University with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in graphic design and photography.

Valerie Wilmot

Senior Production Designer
vw@dgdesignpartners.com

Valerie Wilmot, senior production designer, has extensive experience in print, branding, multimedia and Web projects, as well as social media marketing, digital ads, editing and incorporating video and sound. Proficient in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, WordPress and HTML/CSS, she also has working knowledge of JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and stays current on emerging technologies. Valerie graduated from Coker College with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with a concentration in graphic design.

Designed the National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report on the original Mac’s tiny screen using tons of floppy disks

Revolutionized by plenty of super highway dot-com projects for the Web

Dodged Y2K, embraced the finger slide, tossed away our fax machine and experienced an amazing speed-up in business

The Mayans got it wrong, mobile got it right: responsive and flat are the current “it”

Perhaps our talented sons will join the firm and we’ll rebrand it as Design Partners & Sons