2024-
Art Direction + Strategy: Eammon LaMonica, Sara Young
Design: Eammon LaMonica, Laura Shelton
Copywriting: Eammon LaMonica
Photography: Elysa Weitala, Ally Kroeckel, Brendan Garis
This season, we focused on integrating the referential geometric frame as a visual asset while grounding the campaign with pastels that evoke feelings of nostalgic summers’ past. Additionally, we hosted MIXT’s first-ever lifestyle photoshoot in Sonoma to refresh our assets to enhance the theme with a more editorial look and feel come midsummer.
For Cozy 2024, MIXT unveiled the Barbecue Bowl, the Smokey sandwich, and two brand new salads: the Brussie, and Jing’s Chili Crisp. With less classic food photography at our disposal this season, we coupled a checkerboard pattern with a set of vibrant primaries and leaned into lifestyle photography that spotlighted indoor group and catering scenarios. Strategically, this allowed us more flexibility to our asset package, integrating the beloved Blackened Chicken doodle as well as patterns from our new partner, Fly By Jing.
With a few seasons under our belt, however, we naturally increased our lead time this season, making way for a more holistic storytelling strategy. MIXT identified opportunities to lean further into the “in-house, from scratch” narrative and hone in on visual differentiators like our signature octagonal bowl. Picnic Season distinguished itself with a swirl pattern derived from our main logomark as well as a bright palette elevating the high-quality food and ingredient studio photography. Our approach for this season paid off with a renewed form factor for our print menus and a straightforward identity linking our Valkyries and new store opening campaigns altogether.