Campaign · Food & drink

summer menu.

Lunchtime trade dropped every summer as regulars headed outdoors.

Company
Food & drink
Discipline
Campaign
Studio team
Writer, designer, social lead
Status
Sample project

the brief

The problem. Lunchtime trade dropped every summer as regulars headed outdoors.

The audience. Office workers within a ten minute walk.

The deadline. Live for the first warm week of the season.

What success looks like. More weekday lunch tables filled, without discounting.

the idea

Make the menu the advert.

what we made

  • A seasonal menu design
  • Street posters and pavement boards
  • Six weeks of social content
  • Window graphics

what the next company gets

  • A poster template that works for any seasonal campaign.
  • Headline lines tested on the street before anything went to print.

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of the collectiveScroll to explore

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the in-house voice

We are the creative studio inside the collective: one team working for every company in the group, whatever industry it's in.

Most groups hire a new agency for every company they own, and each one starts from zero. We don't. We already know the brands, the people and what worked last time, so the best idea from one company can go straight to work for the next. Because the best lines are the ones worth repeating.

The companies we work for · and counting

Every brand keeps its own voice
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01 · Strategy

Strategy

Before anything gets designed, we work out what the company needs to say and who needs to hear it. Positioning, naming, audiences, and a plan everyone in the room agrees on.

02 · Design

Design

Identity, packaging, print and spaces. Each company in the collective gets a look that belongs to it alone, built as a system its own team can run with.

03 · Content

Content

Campaigns, photography, film and copy. The things people actually see, made for every channel the company lives on, from launch day to season four.

04 · Digital

Digital

Websites, storefronts, email and social. We build it, measure it and keep tuning it, so every brand keeps working long after the launch.

in other words

The kind of work that comes out of the studio, company by company.

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word on the street,
notes from the studio

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Guide · 3 min

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The problem, the audience, the deadline and what success looks like. Everything else can wait for the first meeting.
How we work · 4 min

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Small changes travel through files, printers and approvals. A short guide to asking for changes that stay small.

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