Archive for the ‘Branding’ Category

Business cards with metallic ink and spot varnish.

Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Business Cards with Metallic Ink and Spot Varnish

Business Cards with Metallic Ink and Spot Varnish

We recently rebranded J&B Build – a construction and development company. We just received their business cards from press, which we designed along with their new identity.

And for all the Graphic Designers out there who may be wondering how a Spot Varnish over Metallic Ink looks, we’ve done that on the front face of the cards. It adds a very subtle sheen, which jumps out when it hits light at the appropriate angle.

Business Cards with Metallic Ink and Spot Varnish

Business Cards with Metallic Ink and Spot Varnish

Beauty salon – Identity, signage & print.

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Toast are nearing completion of another branding project, for a Melbourne Beauty and Tanning Salon. We’ve rebranded – creating a purely typographic new identity, storefront signage, street signage and print collateral.

Looking forward to sharing this one in the not too distant future.

We could probably do with a trip to Melbourne to pretty-up..

Packaging Design

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

We’ve been flat out, with a shelf-full of packaging design jobs keeping us on our toes and on the coffee.

We’re pretty excited to be on the verge of launching an exciting new brand too. The project has involved the creation of a Corporate Identity, Packaging Designs, signage and more. Not much can be said about this mens fashion project yet, but as soon as we can we’ll be showing it off.

Packaging Design & Illustration – Homegrown Kidz Punnet Inserts

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Our creative brief was to design a brand and packaging, aimed at kids aged 4-10, for a brand new range of growing six-packs – One for vegies, the other for flowers.

The punnet inserts are lively and bright to gain attention of the product’s young target audience (and their parents) and featuring custom illustrated characters.

Packaging Design & Illustration - Homegrown Kidz Punnet Inserts

Packaging Design & Illustration - Homegrown Kidz Punnet Inserts

Packaging Design – Ray Hadley Coffee

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Roda Marketing approached Toast Design to design a brand for the voice of celebrity radio, Ray Hadley. Being the first product Ray Hadley had put his face on, the brand had to target a specific market of coffee lovers. Beginning with the Hadley stamp of approval, we wanted to create an organic presence for the brand that would continue through to the coffee packaging creation and eventually flow onto other products. The concept design of a stamp was created and communicated the right message in the packaging designs.

What were the desired goals for Ray Hadley?
• Design a new coffee brand that was easily identifiable as Ray Hadley’s home brand.
• Target a specific market of coffee lovers and enthusiasts.
• Create an original organic look and feel in the packaging designs making it stand out from its competitors on supermarket shelves.
• New identity including Ray Hadley’s face that could be used on other new future products.

How did Toast achieve these results?
• Extensive competitor research in coffee packaging design and branding.
• Target market research, Toast identified what design elements created the most impact through interviewing a selection of coffee lovers. The results recorded were adapted into the designs.
• Product environment research. Once the design was in the final development stages, toast conducted further research into the coffee packaging environment and its competition which the product would be located on shelves with.
• By creating a Ray Hadley stamp of approval it enabled the logo to be used on future product packagings as well as give the organic presence that the client wanted.

Packaging Design - Hadley's Morning Roast Coffee

Packaging Design - Hadley's Morning Roast Coffee