Hinterland

A hospitality group that needed to mean something in three cities at once.

Client
Hinterland
Discipline
Brand Strategy · Brand Architecture · Creative Direction · Campaign Strategy
Location
Melbourne
Year
2025

The problem

Hinterland operated twelve venues across three cities. It was successful by most measures and unrecognisable as a single brand.

The insight

The problem was not inconsistency of taste — every venue looked considered on its own. It was the absence of a system that let them all be recognisably one company without being identical.

What we decided

We built a brand architecture and identity system that could flex across formats — restaurant, bar, event space — while remaining unmistakably the same company, then rolled it out across all twelve venues.

What happened

12venues, three cities, one brand

One brand across twelve venues, three cities, no confusion.