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Beef shwarma in a pitta with tomato and cucumber, on worn timber beside a brass bowl of turmeric
ANAT logo with the tagline make it your way, on a white pennant
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Case study · ANAT & ANAT Bakery

A brand with appetite.

An established Middle Eastern food and bakery brand, refined and carried across its touchpoints. Then extended into a warmer, faster Bakery chapter.

Two chapters

ANAT was already a name people knew. We refined its identity, then carried it through everything a customer touches: menus, in-store posters, packaging, vehicles and social.

ANAT Bakery is a spin-off of that identity. It keeps the wordmark and the house reds, then brings in orange, yellow and loose brushwork for its retail and trade work. We show both chapters here because one grew out of the other.

Client
ANAT
Sector
Middle Eastern food & bakery
Chapter 01
Identity refinement, colour, typography, photography direction, menus, in-store posters, packaging, vehicle branding, social
Chapter 02
Bakery logo, palette, brushwork and illustration, trade brochure, packaging, exhibition stand, vehicles, outdoor

Chapter 01

ANAT, the core brand

A richer house red.

We moved ANAT from a bright primary red to a deeper Pantone, chosen to give the brand a more Middle Eastern feel. The reference board drew on velvet, brass, embroidered textiles and spice. Every application on this page sits on that one red.

Pantone 194 CC0 M100 Y64 K33R170 G10 B47

Colour reference board: deep red velvet, embossed dark textile, red feathers, a red interior with brass and cushions, and spiced dishes
Colour reference board.

Two weights, one voice.

Roboto carries the brand in two weights. The tagline sets Light against Bold, and the in-store posters repeat that move for product names, joining a bold word to a light one with no space between them.

make it your way

AaRoboto LightAaRoboto Bold
Detail of an ANAT poster: the product name shwarmasalad set in Roboto Bold and Light, with a dotted price list for chicken, beef and lamb

Authentic, detailed, close.

The photography direction in the guide comes down to five words: authentic, Middle Eastern, cultural, unique and detailed. In practice that means worn timber, brass, linen and spice, shot close enough to see the char on the meat and the oil pooling in the hummus.

Hummus topped with chickpeas, paprika, olive oil and rosemary in a brass-handled bowl, with torn pitta on linen
Shwarma salad of beef, tomato, peppers and tzatziki on a glass plate, with pitta and a bowl of chilli on worn timber
Chicken wrap with chips and coleslaw, cut out from the plentyfor poster

Photography from the in-store poster series. The wrap is the cut-out used on the plentyfor poster.

In people's hands

Posters, menus, packaging.

A white pennant carries the logo at the top of each A1 poster, the same device that frames the social posts. Prices sit in a white roundel or a dotted list, so the offer reads from across the store.

Thrifty fifty A1 poster: a beef shwarma pitta under the ANAT pennant, with an R50 price
A1 poster
shwarmasalad A1 poster: a shwarma salad in an oval photo frame, with chicken, beef and lamb prices
A1 poster
plentyfor A1 poster: a chicken wrap cut-out on the house red, with a 29.90 price roundel
A1 poster
Close-up of the white price roundel reading 29.90 on the plentyfor poster
Z-fold ANAT menu: the logo on the house red cover and photography of hummus inside, with salads, starters and light meals
Gatefold ANAT menu with a white feature panel and a photograph of saffron in a beaten metal bowl
ANAT stand-up pouch in the house red with the white logo and tagline

Two menu options, a z-fold and a gatefold, and a stand-up pouch, all presented in the guide as options. Each puts the house red outside and the food inside. The pouch is taken further in a concept near the end of this page.

On the feed

One red ground, every occasion.

Store openings, promotions and brand messages share one structure: the pennant top left, a photograph or a soft red field, and Roboto in two weights. On social, the pennant also carries a 25 Years mark.

Social post: hands holding a shwarma pitta, ANAT The Glen is now open
Social post: chicken shwarma pitta with chips, under the 25 Years pennant
Social post: shwarma pitta on an ornate red and brass plate, against red velvet
Social post: a stack of floured pitta breads on a silver tray
Social post: make it your way, set in Roboto on a soft red field
Social post: Youth Day Pop and Win, with red balloons and white line patterns

One device, everywhere

One white flag.

The white pennant hangs the logo over the food. It is the most portable part of the system: the same flag tops the posters and every social post, carries the 25 Years mark when it needs to, and turns into an angled tag on the billboard.

  1. The white pennant at the top of an A1 poster
    A1 poster
  2. The pennant on a social post, carrying the 25 Years mark
    Social · 25 Years
  3. The pennant on a seasonal social post, hung from the right edge
    Social · seasonal
  4. The logo on an angled white tag in the corner of the billboard
    Outdoor · billboard tag

Pantone 194 C

Same family.
Warmer tempo.

Scroll through the ANAT Bakery palette, from the house red to Pantone 1495 C.

Chapter 02

ANAT Bakery

Anat Bakery logo is a spin off of the original and express logos and emanates the feeling of speed, for when a quick, make it at home meal is what you need.

From the ANAT Bakery brand boards

The wordmark stays exactly as it is. BAKERY is written underneath in a brushed hand, tilted up under the T, which gives the mark its forward lean. The palette keeps the ANAT reds and adds four warm steps through to orange.

  • Pantone 194 C
  • Pantone 200 C
  • Pantone 179 C
  • Pantone 1645 C
  • Pantone 159 C
  • Pantone 1495 C
ANAT Bakery logo in white on the house red: the ANAT wordmark with BAKERY brush-lettered beneath
ANAT Bakery logo on its construction grid
Construction grid.

Loose hands on a tight system.

Brush strokes, crosses, dotted clusters and sun-rays give the Bakery its energy. Each mark above is lifted from the original artwork and drawn in sequence. Around them, the pattern system repeats product photography on orange, scatters halftone suns across burgundy and wraps a pitta in a brushed circle.

ANAT Bakery pattern system: a pitta inside a brushed red circle, halftone suns on burgundy and red, and rows of wraps and pittas repeated on orange

For retail and trade

From the brochure to the stand.

Much of the Bakery work speaks to retailers and distributors. The trade brochure stacks logistics, production and marketing in burgundy, orange and yellow bands, set off with brushed circles and halftone suns. The same orange repeat wraps the boxes and the exhibition stand.

ANAT Bakery Retail trade brochures laid out in a grid in burgundy, orange and yellow bands, beside the back page standing against a red wall: logistics and production, strategic marketing and contact details
ANAT Bakery boxes: one wrapped in the orange product repeat, one in burgundy with halftone suns, beside a close-up of baked pittas
Two exhibition stand designs wrapped in the orange product repeat, with ANAT Bakery logos and FRESH & DELICIOUS panels
Instagram post on a phone: a folded wrap on orange halftone, tagged MakeItYourWay

Across touchpoints

On the road and on the street.

Side by side, the two fleets show how far the system stretches. The ANAT vans are quiet: the house red, and at most a single photograph. The Bakery trucks bring in the orange product repeat and the brushed wrap. The wordmark doesn't change.

Chapter 01 · ANAT

ANAT delivery van in the house red with the white logo and tagline ANAT delivery van with a hummus photograph above a red band carrying the logo

Chapter 02 · ANAT Bakery

Two ANAT Bakery trucks: one with a folded wrap on red, one wrapped in the orange product repeat
ANAT Bakery poster in a city bus shelter: a folded wrap on red, FRESH AND DELICIOUS
Billboard on the house red: a chicken wrap with chips beside the ANAT logo

IDÉE concept · not a produced ANAT product

Make it your way, at home.

The original guide only went as far as a plain stand-up pouch. ANAT's tagline already invites people to build their own meal, so we sketched the pack that would let them: a pitta kit for the shelf. It is drawn entirely from the existing system, with the photo window and white pennant from the posters, the name set bold and light, and nothing but the house red.

A speculative exploration by IDÉE, presented separately from the documented project work. Product names and contents are illustrative.

Concept mockup: an ANAT pittakit carton, a paper pitta bag with a window and three sachets for shwarma spice, garlic sauce and tahini, on a pale stone surface
Concept mockup. The blank packs and set were generated with AI (Artlist); the ANAT artwork was applied by IDÉE from the original vectors and photography.

One house red, two tempos.

ANAT was already a name people knew. Our job was to make every expression of it feel deliberate, from the weight of a word on a poster to the colour of a delivery van. Then we gave the Bakery room to move faster without leaving the family.

Ideas engineered
to move people.

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