Our story
DQ and Partners is a Chicago based marketing and communications agency founded by Derrius Quarles We believe that honesty is a marketing superpower. Since our first client in 2015, we have assisted over 50 brands in reaching new milestones for income and impact in their communities.
19 years of insights
19 years of insights
The Founder of DQ and Partners grew up learning the business of barbering and grooming as the lead cleaner in Final Kutz Barbershop on Chicago’s 79th Street Corridor. He understands through experience the impact that small businesses and community based organizations have in catalyzing positive change and resilience in communities. The United States could not be what it is, without these vibrant small businesses and organizations. That’s why DQ and Partners is dedicated to providing leaders and business owners with the honesty they deserve when seeking marketing and design services. We separate ourselves by promising a privileged client relationship and fusing our world-class business knowledge with high-quality work.
Our founder
Derrius Quarles is a multidisciplinary designer and award-winning social innovator. His design insights and artifacts can be seen quietly across the world in different formats – web, social, physical spaces, books, and music. Having triumphed against poverty, physical abuse, and foster care – Derrius is now an advocate and innovator for the overlooked and disinvested communities. The business and public interest ventures Derrius has either led or contributed to have positively impacted the lives of over 25,000 people across the globe and generated over $30 million dollars in local economic impact. His work has been covered and honored by prominent media outlets including Black Enterprise Face 2 Face Africa The Chicago Tribune American Banker The Associated Press, and CNN.
Our capabilities
Business Advice
Providing you an additional resource to assess important marketing decisions within your business and beyond.
Business Storytelling
Your supporters are not just buying your product, they are buying the story infused within your company and products.
Marketing Strategy
Helping you constantly improve and implement a plan to win new business and invest your marketing budget wisely.
Presentations & Sales
Extending your logo and visual system into digital and physical collateral that helps land new revenue. launch products, and create additional impact.
Website Design
Custom websites and e-commerce experiences built with a strategic process that centers your brand story and the unique value of your offering.
Logo and Brand Identity
We create new and redesign existing logos and visual systems to help your business shape its market perception and communicate core values.
Our client portfolio
Universities & Nonprofits
The University of Illinois
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The University of Pennsylvania
Profound Gentlemen
Wharton School of Business Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial Conference
Revolutionary Love Books