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Oliver’s Custom Coffee

The Melodic Design of Oliver’s Custom Coffee

Oliver’s Cus­tom Cof­fee is a high-end cof­fee brand that curates a sym­pho­ny of unique and rare cof­fees from around the globe. As these exclu­sive cof­fees are released, cus­tomers can fine-tune their roast lev­els, trans­form­ing the tast­ing expe­ri­ence into an impro­vi­sa­tion­al dance of fla­vors. With Oliver’s Cus­tom Cof­fee, it’s more than just savor­ing a cup of cof­fee, it’s about embark­ing on a sen­so­ry jour­ney through the diverse world of cof­fee fla­vors, orches­trat­ed to your own rhythm and taste pref­er­ence, with Oliv­er as your trust­ed guide.

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Client

Olympia Coffee

Photography

Lori White via Oliver’s Custom Coffee, Needmore Designs

Jazzing Up Coffee Packaging: A Symphony of Colors & Typography

From the start, Oliver’s inter­ests in high­light­ing grow­ing regions and using unique cof­fee pro­cess­ing meth­ods to extract unique fla­vors caught our atten­tion. This led to the idea of cre­at­ing a unique bag design for each region, result­ing in a visu­al­ly impres­sive set of six dif­fer­ent cof­fee pack­ages rem­i­nis­cent of record releas­es. The uni­form struc­ture of the bag’s back cov­ers tells Oliver’s unique sto­ry, echo­ing the bold lines and metic­u­lous grid of vin­tage Jazz albums.

“I love the idea that when we drop a coffee it’s like a single hitting the airwaves.”
Oliver Stormshak
Oliver Stormshak
Olympia Coffee

Choosing a Typeface That Dances to Different Tunes

We select­ed a geo­met­ric sans-serif type­face that draws upon a rich, cen­tu­ry-long his­to­ry of glob­al design. The brand word­mark is set in a cus­tomized ver­sion of the type­face Dun­bar, a design by Hawai’i‑born CJ Dunn. The ethos of Dunn’s design har­mo­nized per­fect­ly with the brand’s iden­ti­ty, lead­ing to a remark­able result.

As Dunn explains, I real­ized that this real­ly tall ver­sion had a lot of inter­est­ing per­son­al­i­ty and ener­gy in it. I had seen a lot of designs in the mid­dle but not as much at these extremes. Instead of com­pro­mis­ing the most inter­est­ing designs, I kept both Tall and Low as dis­play vari­ants and designed a more mod­er­ate Text vari­ant to work for small­er sizes.”

tote bag with alternate logo

Brewing Up a Custom Website Experience

The Oliver’s Cus­tom Cof­fee brand stands as a bea­con for cof­fee lovers, releas­ing a series of unmiss­able cof­fee hits. In line with this, our web­site mir­rors the vibrant col­ors and ener­gy of each indi­vid­ual cof­fee release. Every cof­fee page show­cas­es the unique fla­vors and roast cus­tomiza­tions avail­able. As a web­site craft­ed specif­i­cal­ly for the dis­cern­ing cof­fee enthu­si­ast, it takes full advan­tage of Shopi­fy 2.0 theme capa­bil­i­ties with Agtron Scores, roast cus­tomiza­tions, fla­vor notes, and com­pre­hen­sive details about what sets each cof­fee release apart.

Bourbon Anaerobic Natural Dark roast on iPad with red background
bambino gessa dark roast on iPad
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Anaerobic Natural light roast on an iPad
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Anaerobic Natural darker roast on iPad
Two views of the subscription box, each with a background that matched the roast level

You Have a Sto­ry Worth Telling

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