Round one

The Graveyard

Here lie our favorite first-round directions: brilliant, beloved, and taken from us far too soon by a client meeting.

Modus

Heavy condensed type, for a stainless cookware brand.

EasyMind

A sunlit gradient ring in yellow and sky blue, for a mental performance brand.

Dr. Kaplan’s

Geometric pups on deep teal, for a line of dog supplements.

Hedyn

Shimmering gradient wrappers and a script wordmark, for a chocolatier.

Gyro Republic

Green cups and badge merch, for a build-your-own gyro restaurant.

Tonja King

Color-blocked reds, for an employment attorney’s personal brand.

OMNA Institute

Stacked shapes in five colors, for a career school.

Eno Capital Partners

A charging bull and engraved solar fields, for an energy transition investor.

Black Bolt

A roofline emblem on navy and sand, for roofing operations software.

Westside

A custom script wordmark, for a construction and design-build company.

Pumpkin Nights

A cast of 3D monsters, for a Halloween event in Dallas and Austin.

Travel Cultured

Periwinkle jars and a sunlit campaign, for a travel probiotic.

Telos

Teal blueprint grids and a ligature mark, for an architecture and build group.

FASE

A stencil-cut wordmark in concrete and light, for a temperature-control device.

Quinn

A high-contrast wordmark with a looping, calligraphic Q.