Rooted in community.
Designed for connection.
Madrone Creative was built on the belief that small businesses deserve big-brand brilliance. The kind of thoughtful strategy and beautiful design that usually sits behind agency doors, made accessible, personal, and rooted in the Pacific Northwest.
For years, I ran a full design studio while raising my children and trying my best to hold everything together. Eventually, I stepped back to create space for my family and to find a healthier pace. In the quiet of that season, something shifted in me. I realized I didn’t want to build a life shaped by hustle culture. I wanted a business that felt calm, purposeful, and deeply connected to the people right here in my community.
When I returned to design, I returned with a new sense of direction.
Madrone now serves the small businesses that help this place feel like home. I work with the café owners, stylists, bakers, therapists, makers, and service providers who show up day after day. They are the ones who welcome people in, who remember names, who bring comfort and familiarity, and who make their neighborhoods feel known and cared for.
How I Work
The best design begins with connection.
A brief is helpful, but sitting with the owner, learning their story, visiting their space, and holding what they create brings an entirely different depth. That is where the work starts to feel alive. That is where it becomes something memorable and true to who you are.
My goal is to blend design, development, and thoughtful business strategy to support your larger goals and help you draw in the people you want to serve. Your work matters, and your digital presence should reflect that with clarity and beauty.
A Company Designed to Give Back
From the beginning, I wanted Madrone to be more than a design studio. I wanted it to be a small force for good. That is why ten percent of every project or shop sale is donated to one of these four organizations I believe in and support. This doesn’t add to the cost of your project, but helps the impact of it immediately extend beyond your business. These are places doing meaningful work that aligns with my convictions and my hope for the world.
When we work together, you can choose which of these organizations your project supports.
With Love Oregon
Caring for foster children and their resource families with practical support and dignity.
Portland Rescue Mission
Providing meals, shelter, recovery care, and long-term pathways for people experiencing homelessness and hardship in our city.
International Justice Mission
Providing rescue and restoration for victims of human trafficking and violence around the world and bringing perpetrators to justice.
World Help
Offering immediate relief, community development, education, and long-term solutions that bring help for today and hope for tomorrow.
Giving in this way reminds me that our work reaches farther than we can see.
It becomes part of someone else’s stability, safety, and story.
A bit more about me
I’m Bethany. I am married to my wonderful husband, Tyler, and we are raising four big kids in a small town just outside Portland. We are building a home on a few acres of land, and it has been a meaningful adventure for our family. I love wandering through the woods, exploring the forests near us, and finding quiet moments in our full life. Sometimes our dogs tag along, and sometimes I sneak out alone with a notebook and a cup of coffee.
Alongside design, I write at Bravely Inspired, a space where I share thoughts on family, home, life, business, faith, and community. It is a slower, intentional corner of the internet where I explore the things that shape who we are and how we live.