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Runaway Grub Food Truck Service Side

Keep on Food Truckin’

In a fight, who wins between bread and waffles? Waffles every time. The minds behind Runaway Grub knew this and developed an entire food truck menu around it. Featuring breakfast and chicken sammies all wrapped in waffles, along with some unusual crunchy, always-tasty toppings, Runaway Grub tempts and satiates hungry filler-uppers exclusively at Sunoco-branded and -partner gas stations. Marlin was enlisted to develop the branding, food truck graphics, and messaging for this concept built around unexpected, possibly impossible combinations. 

Runaway Grub Brand GuidebookThe Runaway Grub Logo

Inspired by the one-of-kind flavor twists, the Runaway Grub logo takes an MC Escher-like turn. The surrounding typography is erratic and grungy, and the logo weaves into a winding backdrop creating an eye-catching visual that speaks to the creative culinary happening at this unexpected, yet downright delicious rolling restaurant.

Runaway: Anything that’s run away is a thing difficult to predict and nearly impossible to contain. With the twist of unexpected ingredients or combinations…The Runaway Grub Food Truck Three Quarter ViewThe Runaway Grub Food Truck Front ViewRunaway Grub Photography: Classic Chicken SandwichRunaway Grub Nashville Hot Chicken SandwichRunaway Grub Cold Brew & Hot Coffee CupsRunaway Grub Bacon & Fries Breakfast TacoRunaway Grub Breakfast Chicken SandwichGotham Type Specimen: Runaway Grub maximizes every possible unequivocally impossible juicy fried chicken sandwich.Comicrazy Specimen: Runaway Grub flavorists breakfast with exquisitely juicy waffle-wrapped meaty sandwiches.Stomper Specimen: Exceptive quick-fried crispy waffles are to juicy fresh-fried chicken what frothy fizzy foam is to great big bottles of birch beer.Runaway Grub Sticker / Applications TitleRunaway Grub T-shirt & Branded Plastic Cold CupRunaway Grub Facebook PageRunaway Grub Facebook PostsRunaway Grub Instagram PageRunaway Grub Instagram PostsRunaway Grub See Ya’round Signoff

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Yakima Chief Hops Boxing Cat Brewery This vs. That Cat Beer Battle Logo

Beer Flights Meet Cat Fights!

Yakima Chief Hops spotted an opportunity in China’s burgeoning craft beer market to highlight hops as the foundation to great craft beer flavor. With the recent investment in China’s Boxing Cat Brew Pub chain, Anheuser-Busch was the perfect partner to help lead a grassroots effort for educating a culture that has only known watery lagers.

The initiative to highlight hops had several tactics working together with a strategy to educate waitstaff through online training and patrons through on-premise promotions, events, table games, and a Boxing Cat Brewery mobile app.

Boxing Cat Brewery Logo Burst PosterBoxing Cat Brewery Hop & Brew School Landing Page

Converting customers from macros to craft starts by knowing what makes small batch craft beer better. Boxing Cat, China’s most celebrated craft brewery gets a user-authenticated online training portal built to train up the Boxing Cat staff to serve a better beer.

Boxing Cat Brewery Hop & Brew School Landing Page on a tablet

In support of a better trained staff and exceptional craft beer, the brew pub gets a rotating series of fight-like seasonal event and evergreen posters plastered from backwalls to bathrooms.

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The Boxing Cat app engages customers at the restaurant and away with menuing from the tap to the kitchen, brew pub locations, LTOs, trivia contest giveaways, and a frequent drinker beer club.

Yakima Chief Hops Boxing Cat Brewery This vs. That Cat Beer Battle SelfieBoxing Cat Brewery This vs. That Cat Beer Coaster Hop Factoids

In an effort to educate a new generation of Chinese beer lovers, in-booth games such as trivia and coaster hop factoids drive to discounts and giveaways.

Yakima Chief Hops Boxing Cat Brewery This vs. That Cat Beer Battle Hop Headed T-shirt TopYakima Chief Hops Boxing Cat Brewery This vs. That Cat Beer Battle Hop Headed T-shirt BottomYakima Chief Hops Boxing Cat Brewery This vs. That Cat Beer Battle Tin Box Trivia CardsYakima Chief Hops DiceBoxing Cat Brewery This vs. That Cat Beer Battle Marlin Company Cheers! Signoff

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Starbucks Branded Solutions

Solving for Foodservice E-commerce

We designed the Starbucks Branded Solutions (SBS) platform to combine several Starbucks sites into one cohesive branded experience. As a comprehensive online tool, segmented for each of the different SBS account types (there are 8, in case you were wondering), it provides Starbucks brand portfolio information, Starbucks associate and operator training, and an e-commerce shopping platform for each of the different types of accounts.

To help SBS operators transition to the new site, we created a clear and thorough how-to video.

Starbucks Holiday 2017 Seasonal Drinks

We also developed a comprehensive style guide to ensure consistency in all seasonal and evergreen promotional opportunities that drive operator’s choices from inspiration to checkout.

Starbucks Branded Solutions Style GuideStarbucks Branded Solutions Icons

To make this lovely site lovely across all devices, we developed flexible templating content through band stacking to make it seamlessly responsive.

Starbucks Branded Solutions Banded TemplateStarbucks Branded Solutions Promo

Best of all, it’s worked. Really well. Starbucks has led the way in B2B e-commerce product fulfillment and continues to do so in a way that serves operators successfully for every sip and season.

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Ocean Horizons Feature Image

New Opportunities on the Horizon

We were given the opportunity to work with UniPro once again to create a new logo for their existing brand: Ocean Horizons. A brand with more than 50 years of foodservice distribution experience, Ocean Horizons has knowledge and solutions as vast as the sea itself. Their expansive portfolio includes shrimp, scallops and a variety of fish—all flash frozen at sea for peak quality. From ocean to table, their products are sourced with intention to make fresh-tasting seafood a reality on operators’ menus.

Because their name was so iconic and their portfolio of products so vast, we wanted to create a logo to represent the place where water meets sky—and quality meets convenience—in order to help them express their commitment to deliver today’s favorites while diving deeper into the demands of tomorrow.

Ocean Horizons Brand GuidelinesOcean Horizons Primary Logo

The logo showcases a dynamic fishing trawler bringing the day’s catch to market, made iconic by breaking waves, and a setting sun. The stylized boat is complimented by typography capturing an oceanic tone, bringing mark and message together for a bold logo solution.

Our Lines Run DeeperOcean Horizons Leaping MackerelOcean Horizons Quality Assured SealOcean Horizons Red Snapper PackagingOcean Horizons Packaging GroupOcean Horizons Tiered LogosRed Snapper Engraved IllustrationGotham Type SpecimenEnchanted Type SpecimenCod Fish Engraved IllustrationFresh Frozen at Sea Red Snapper PosterFresh Frozen at Sea Yellowfin Tuna PosterFresh Frozen at Sea Atlantic Salmon PosterFrom Ocean to Table Our Lines Run Deeper