Dead MonkeyDesign Studio

//Case study

Alpha Grizzly Fit

Brand identity for a fitness program and community: badge system, palette, type, business cards, social posts and brand guidelines.

Status
Client work
Type
Brand identity
Delivered
Brand identity, Social posts, Website concept
The Alpha Grizzly Fit website
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: Release your inner beast
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: Discipline beats motivation
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: Stronger together
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: Personal training

01Overview

Alpha Grizzly Fit is a fitness program and community. The studio turned its badge and its own social posts into a complete identity system: a palette and type, brand elements, a photo style, business cards with a session card back, a set of social posts and brand guidelines.

02Alpha Grizzly Fit

The badge

The Alpha Grizzly Fit badge: a muscular grizzly pressing a loaded barbell inside a ring reading ALPHA and GRIZZLY FIT, printed in distressed off-white
One badge, stamped like a plate on the floor

A grizzly pressing a loaded bar inside a ring that reads ALPHA and GRIZZLY FIT, printed with a worn, distressed texture. It is always one flat color: off-white on dark, ink or oxblood on light.

03Alpha Grizzly Fit

The palette

  • Oxblood#331111
  • Charcoal#191818
  • Bone#F3EFEA
  • Signal#C8281E
  • Ember#F0503C

Oxblood comes straight from the badge files and leads every layout. Charcoal and bone keep it heavy and warm, like rubber floors and old iron. Red is the spark: signal red for buttons, a lighter ember for red words on dark, where signal red is too faint to read.

04Alpha Grizzly Fit

The type

Montserrat Black in all caps matches the headlines the client was already posting. Barlow keeps class details easy to read, and Barlow Condensed handles labels, times and buttons.

Type specimen on oxblood: Montserrat Black setting AA and the line Discipline beats motivation, with motivation in red
Type specimen on bone: Barlow setting Aa and a line about classes every weekday, above a red Included with membership tag in Barlow Condensed

05Alpha Grizzly Fit

Brand elements

All pulled from the badge and the client's posts: the badge blown up as a faint watermark behind photos, a fine grit over flat color with the badge's star as a divider, and tight stacked headlines with one word in red. Each piece uses one or two of them.

An athlete on battle ropes in a dark gym, tinted oxblood, with the badge huge and faint behind him
Watermark
A gritty oxblood field crossed by a thin line with a red five-point star in the middle
Grit and star
The words Show up for yourself stacked in heavy capitals on black, with up in red
The stack

06Alpha Grizzly Fit

Business cards

An oxblood front with the badge, a bone contact back with a signal red edge, and a second back for the front desk: a session card with ten stamp slots for check-ins. The name and contact details are sample text.

Alpha Grizzly Fit business cards on a dark surface: the oxblood front with the badge beside the bone back with sample contact details
Front and back
A fan of three cards: the session card with stamped badges, the contact back and the oxblood front
With the session card
The card front, contact back and session card back laid flat, with the trim size of 3.5 by 2 inches
Print spec, two backs

07Alpha Grizzly Fit

In use

Six social posts built on the client's own lines. Each one takes a real gym photo through the same grade (less color, more contrast, an oxblood tint), sets one stacked headline and signs off with the badge.

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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: a man setting up a trap bar deadlift beside the words Discipline beats motivation. Show up for yourself
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: a bodybuilder on the cable machine with the words You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: a coach guiding a member, headlined Personal training, included with membership
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: a class squatting with medicine balls under the words Stronger together. Classes available every weekday
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: an athlete on battle ropes in black and white with the words Release your inner beast
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    Alpha Grizzly Fit post: friends laughing after a workout beside the word Community running up the edge

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