DOWN NORTH PIZZA RE-BRAND

Client
Down North Pizza

Year
01/2021

This is a rebranding of Down North Pizza, a Philadelphia pizza shop focused on reducing recidivism and promoting activism. I collaborated with a group called The Working Remotely on the store's launch. This group consists of Black and Brown professionals in the industry, and I served as the creative director for this project. We created new brand guidelines for the pizza shop, including the logo, packaging, merchandise, and uniforms. Since the rebranding and launch, Down North's Instagram followers have increased from a few thousand to 61.9 thousand, and it has been featured in many publications.

Collaborators: The Working Remotely

The brand started with the logo below, with the pizza slices pointed in up and down directions. Down North is a name that is used for the North side of Philly.

We proposed to update it, to fit a story that we felt better fit this shop. The new star that we implemented into the logo represents the North Star, which was a guiding light to many black people up towards Philadelphia, and we went for a more vintage diner direction.