Andy's

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About

Client: Andy’s Pizza is a big restaurant chain in Moldova and Romania which totals about 50 restaurants. It positions itself as a family place for every day and specializes on serving popular dishes from all over the world at moderate prices.

Challenge: We had to reconsider all visual brand components. Starting from the name and logo and ending up with interior design, branded products and souvenirs. Our goal was to develop one strong and consistent visual brand identity for Andy’s Pizza.

This project was never brought to life.

Name and logo

Preconditions: The first Andy’s Pizza was opened in the year 1999 and served pizza and beer mostly. In future years, the amount

of new restaurants increased together with a variety of dishes served. In a while, some new sub-brands were born under the Andy’s Pizza trademark: Ciao-Cacao for self-made ice-cream and cookies, Alb & Rosu for wine, Andy’s Pizza Club loyalty program, etc.

A few separate zones were formed within each restaurant: trattoria (family zone), pub (sport events and beer), cafe (Ciao-Cacao desserts), and a playground for kids. In a row with already implemented innovations, there are few more, which are waiting for their

own implementation down the line. It is the organization of a store area in each restaurant to sell wine, pasta, jams, fruits, cookies

and souvenirs.

Name: In order to integrate everything together and to keep brand awareness we suggested to maintain the word “Andy’s”

and to exclude the word “Pizza”.

Concept and brand identity

Concept: We proposed a concept based on a likeness between Andy’s network and a city. Both of them make all in one impression, but contain diversity within themselves. Both of them have their unique atmosphere, consolidating different people with different characters, needs and necessities. Both have their history and news, unite people in various occasions whether it’s a romantic date, business lunch, family dinner,or hanging out with friends while watching football. Andy’s is a place that lives in a rhythm of a town.

Brand identity: As a key-reference we used a style of city news-papers and journals with its specific font compositions, headlines, layouts, and illustrations. Along with main logo, we developed a group of additional symbols and also added the year of foundation to some of them. We maintained the yellow color from previous brand identity version, replaced the brown one with natural wood texture and brought-in more expanded use of the black and whites colors.

We’ve made a special pattern with different people - the town dwellers. It is used on the place-mats, wrapping paper,

window blinds, and etc. Each place-mat easily becomes a coloring sheet for kids.

Interior design

In order to follow the town concept we decided to use exterior finishes and attributes within interior: paving stone, rough wood, clambering plants, street signs, and light. We aimed to organize main space as if it was a central square in a small town. Sales areas symbolically show street stalls and counters that face the square. They look similar, but offer different products - there is a bar counter for beer and drinks, pizza counter that shows pizza manufacturing process, ice-cream stall, pastry, fruit and souvenir zones.

We paid attention to details in interior design trying to make them work for our concept.

Table organizer and spices holder for pizza look like houses.

There is a special wall with mail boxes for different kinds of interplay between the customers and the restaurant service. There is a box for good comments and reviews, one for the bad feedback, “suggest-your-recipe” box, “a letter to a random visitor”, “lucky receipt lottery box” and etc. Info brochures and take-away menus are also in here.