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eix

Branding

A brand identity for a neighborhood bakery that wanted to feel less like a shop and more like a family you happened to wander into. Eix needed an identity that could carry the warmth of "we loaf you like family" without tipping into the soft, forgettable sameness most bakery brands fall into.

the concept

That became the whole system. Not a mascot bolted onto packaging, but a face that's really just a magnified look at what good bread does naturally when it's given time and attention.

The starting point was the dough itself. When bread is scored and given real time to rise, it opens up, bakers call the little air pockets that form "eyes." The face was already there, hidden in every well-made loaf. I just stopped scraping it off.

That became the whole system. Not a mascot bolted onto packaging, but a face that's really just a magnified look at what good bread does naturally when it's given time and attention.

a face that means something

The name itself carries the same idea. Eix is Catalan for axis the fixed center everything else turns around. Every family has one: the table, the one who's always up first, the one everyone circles back to.

The face sits at that same center across every touchpoint, apron, packaging, wall, the one constant thing you see everywhere, the way a family has one steady point holding the rest together.

evolving the visual style

Running underneath the identity, a repeating face pattern shows up on wrapping paper, cups, and backgrounds, quiet, textural, never louder than the product itself.

scalability that matters

The system had to work as hard as a real bakery's marketing does: daily product posts, seasonal promos, event flyers, team hiring content, in-store signage. A flexible type-driven headline system (WE LOAF YOU) paired with the face and pattern gives the team a repeatable structure for every new post, without reinventing the format each time.

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