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Available Position: Developer. Check it out.

Know your code?

We’re on the look for an additional Web Developer who will augment our crazy-talented team while serving up healthy code, maintainable code, efficient code, and most of all, beautiful code. Collaborating with our agency creative and planning teams, the Web Developer applies an understanding of User Experience (UX) to web or app designs that ensure the best overall experience. We are looking for someone with three or more years of web development and UI experience, who can work well within a team environment and coach and eventually lead others.

Marlin is part of Advantage Solutions, one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including foodservice, grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience etc. Our technology team bridges the gap between manufacturers, sales and restaurant operators with creative and customized technology products.

Contact Greg Melton, gmelton@marlinnetwork.com for more information.
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State Fair Crispitos Brand Guidelines

Crispitos® Brand Guidelines

We recently had the pleasure of working with Tyson® Foodservice to create brand guidelines for their delicious Crispitos® filled tortillas. After a lot (and we mean A LOT) of staring longingly at the tasty imagery, we dove in.

One of the things we love about Crispitos® products is the premium, hand-rolled look and the rich, indulgent flavors all wrapped in a delicious, crispy shell. We took this to heart and set out to create something that is just as visually appealing for operators as it is for those they serve. Because why should consumers get to have all the fun?

To start, we wanted to pay homage to the State Fair® brand roots, so we chose textures with a handmade, old-world feel like light distressed paper, scattered texture, and fun swirling elements. The brand colors utilize the original Crispitos® logo colors along with brighter ones to move the visuals into a more energetic space.

The fonts we use are a combination of an Americana-like slab-serif and a rounded condensed bold type, which can be used together or can stand alone in a creative headline treatment. We use an eye-catching accent font for conjunction and other applicable words and Gibson for body copy to keep layouts looking sturdy and cohesive.

The Crispitos® brand believes that no matter where consumers are or how fast their day is moving, they deserve a snack or meal that makes them feel like they’ve won the food lottery. We were delighted to be able to carry that belief forward into brand guidelines that convey that sense of fun, celebration, and a little bit of the unexpected.

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Excellence Everyday

Rangeline Brand Development

For voracious appetites nothing satisfies like beef and nothing fills out a menu like all-beef patties and grinds. Rangeline rounds out UniPro’s center-of-the-plate program by adding the opportunity for member foodservice distributors to leave nothing on the table when fulfilling demanding operator’s protein needs.

Marlin developed the Rangeline brand from identifying key competitors, the brand name, logo, and numerous applications, all delivering the promise of excellence everyday.

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Landshire® Brand Guidelines Case Study

Landshire® Brand Guidelines

The good folks at Landshire recently asked if we would create brand guidelines to help flesh out the look and feel of the brand that would work in combination with the new logo and packaging designs they had previously developed. Spoiler alert: We said yes.

The developed designs worked with cloth texture, a colorful palette and a clean design. We wanted to complement that, so we took the look and feel and brought it down to a simplified 3-color scheme with some subtle, yet comforting, textures.

For the photography direction we wanted to focus on the on-the-go lifestyle that grab-and-go sandwiches allow you to have in more realistic, non-staged settings. To better capture this direction, we decided to showcase people enjoying the food and how it could complement their lifestyle. Going to the lake? Grab a few sandwiches. Late for work? Sandwich it up. Can’t figure out your kid’s math homework? Well, okay, a sandwich wouldn’t help much there, but it would still be really tasty. This direction helps highlight the benefits of the product instead of trying to make a simple sandwich something that it’s not. It’s delicious, easy, and saves you time. It’s not artisanal cuisine with over-the-top, fancy ingredients.

The fonts we used are a combination of the clean slab-serif packaging display font with a complementary, slightly messy script. The contrast of the two gives it an impactful, personalized feel and further emphasizes the sandwich itself and the on-the-go lifestyle.

The Landshire® brand is fun, down-to-earth and provides on-the-go solutions that anyone can appreciate. We couldn’t be happier to be able to bring that tone to these brand guidelines.

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