LA FOULE PATISSERIE
THE BUSINESS
La Foule Patisserie is a french themed pastry shop based in the city of Oradea, it is a small business with great aspirations. Business wise it divides in two type of services, a small pastry shop and the custom pastry activity focused on special events.
THE COMPETITION
Most of the competitors were focused on one side of the business, it was either a street pastry shop or a tailored pastry service. Overall we had a strong and powerful competition in the street food sector and a different, but just as strong one in the tailored services department.
THE AUDIENCE
Just like the duality of the business, the customer base was divided in 2 main categories:
I. The street food customers
II. The special events customers
Like you can imagine, it is very difficult to find a common ground between the two and it was a big challenge to keep the high-standard event image and, at the same time, keep the accessible and easy-going characteristics of the pastry shop.
THE CHALLENGE
Addressing such a wide audience is more challenging than a niche because, despite what you might think, a general audience is very resistant and with a large relevance spectrum. As far as communication we had to change it all for the better, but visually we had to keep some connection to the original image.
THE STRATEGY
First of all we weren’t building a new brand, we were rebranding a business. The name was french and the business started with french pastry products and with a declared focus on these type of products. It had value, but we didn’t want to turn that against us, so we made a milder attempt to include the french inspiration into the solution.
THE SOLUTION
The initial explorations featured a few possible directions ranging from friendly and classy script solutions, to more elegant serifs. The chosen direction has tuscan inspired letterforms, and the its curved layout brings in even more the french feeling we were after.
THE OVERALL VISUAL IDENTITY
The color palette and patterns were inspired by various items found in the patisserie and its products: macaroons and their magnificent colors, cream, cocoa beans. The saturation of the colors if not very high to give a retro feeling, and the patterns move throughout the whole identity system and give it personality and make the products easy to identify.
