Traveling Cow Creamery pieces
The Traveling Cow Creamery logo reflects the whimsical and fun nature of the ice cream industry. I illustrated this playful character to compliment the story about a cow who explores delicious soft–serve ice cream blends at different resorts. I wanted the typography to be lighthearted and to have a resemblance of nostalgic ice cream parlors.
Additionally, I created a responsive logo system, starting with the full logo implementation and ending with the cow character.
Once the logo was finalized, I came up with the direction, look and Art Directed the photoshoot. I wanted the photography to reflect three different styles.
Farm — to reflect milk as the main ingredient in ice cream.
Contemporary — to showcase a premium product sold in a modern location.
Nostalgia— to resemble playful ice cream parlors long forgotten.
I achieved this by utilizing rustic textures, clean/modern split color backgrounds and pastel colors.
After the photoshoot and foreseeing the expansion of the brand, I created a Toolkit to be utilized by vendors and other designers. It outlines the brand positioning as well as formatting and rules about colors, typography and so on. Instead of having a generic look, I designed it to look like the rest of the brand. Given the nature of the product and for consistency with the photography I complemented it by designing playful, colorful, modern backgrounds.
The first piece of advertising introducing Traveling Cow Creamery to the market were a series of posters. I designed them with a combination of the brand colors, original photography and a variety of textures to complement the typography and the products. All of the information and photography is displayed inside cow prints.
I also introduced a series of cow prints in different colors to be used on cups and apparel. I expanded the original color palette to match some of the logos shown below.
These three additional logos were originally created to represent different regions where the products were going to be sold. The current vision is to use them on different apparel and to match new color combinations on collateral. With that in mind I also designed additional versions as well as adding a mailing stamp to some of them to play off the "Traveling" in the name.
The merchandise started with the yellow hat being the one worn by the employees. From there I designed a variety of apparel to be sold on–site including tote bags, hats, tank tops and t-shirts.
