Hostess City Dogs

Full brand identity for Savannah doggy daycare.

Brand Creative

The Brief

The founders of Hostess City Dogs came to us with full trust and a dream of a loving doggy daycare in Savannah. From moodboard to brand style guide, we developed an intentional logo and supporting assets to bring Hostess City Dogs to life. Comprehensive guidelines now set the standard as HCD opens their brick-and-mortar, ensuring consistency across numerous brand touchpoints.

The Hostess City Dogs primary logo brings a playful energy with a wagging dog tail integrated into the chunky, script logotype. The logo exists as a system with secondary versions ideal for smaller use cases.

 

Dog-related icons can be used at the center of the secondary logo to create badge-style lockups for apparel and merchandise. These lockups offer flexible options to showcase brand personality while maintaining consistency. When using icon-based designs, it’s recommended that the primary logo also appear elsewhere on the item to reinforce brand recognition.

TYPOGRAPHY

The headline font, PP Woodland, marries the seriousness of a serif with the playfulness of the logo. Exaggerated curves give it a playful energy.

FONT HEIRARCHY

The simplicity of Figtree as the body copy font makes it easy to read and balances out the playful elements of the brand.

These key pages from Hostess City Dogs’ comprehensive brand guidelines highlight messaging exploration, target audience insights, a cohesive visual identity system, and standards designed to set the company up for long-term success.

As always, East Taylor’s full brand style guide package includes a variety of in application mock-ups ready for print. For Hostess City Dogs, we primarily focused on apparel that would be used right away.

"We are so happy with the way Hostess City Dogs and Murphy’s Corner branding turned out. The East Taylor team blew our expectations out of the water!" - Marissa Asplen & Kelly Olson, Founders

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