# Mixed Media Collective

> The hospitality branding studio. We build brands people feel, turning concepts into cultures for restaurants, hotels, bars, hospitality groups, place brands, and cultural institutions. Based in Miami, working with hospitality clients across the country.

## Positioning

Mixed Media Collective (MMC) is **the hospitality branding studio**. We turn concepts into cultures, from the name on the door to every touchpoint inside it. We're a boutique studio with the strategic depth of a brand consultancy: purpose, vision, mission, audience psychographics, voice, messaging framework: the thinking that should exist before a single mark is made. Then we design every applied piece that brings it to life.

- **Tagline:** We build brands people feel.
- **Positioning statement:** The hospitality branding studio that turns concepts into cultures, building brands guests feel, remember, and return for, from the name on the door to every touchpoint in between.
- **Founded:** 2013 (industry roots since 2000)
- **Team:** 13+
- **Clients served:** 450+
- **Location:** Miami, FL, serving clients nationally; in-person across Miami, South Florida, Orlando, and Tampa Bay
- **Contact:** via the contact form at mixedmediacollective.com / 786.752.6620
- **Instagram:** @mixedmediacollective

## Services

1. **Brand Strategy & Discovery**: standalone strategic engagement. Brand purpose, vision, mission, values, audience psychographics, positioning, voice, messaging framework, and naming.
2. **Visual Identity Design**: logo, custom typography, color, supporting marks, photography direction, full brand guidelines.
3. **Custom Illustration**: in-house custom illustration for food, beverage, and lifestyle brands. Packaging art, patterns, menus, collateral, merchandise. Hand-built, not AI-generated.
4. **Packaging Design**: specialty food packaging (boxes, sleeves, tins, labels, bottles, kraft bags, wrapping tissue, gift sets) with full production coordination.
5. **Environmental Design, Signage & Wayfinding**: interior and exterior signage, environmental graphics, wayfinding, vehicle wraps, and pre-opening brand presence (construction hoardings, coming-soon collateral).
6. **Website Design & Consultation**: responsive sites, landing pages, custom WordPress development. Designed for hospitality direct-booking, gift cards, and menus.
7. **Brand Management Retainer**: ongoing creative partnership for brands that need a creative partner on call. Seasonal refreshes, new collateral, social templates, merch drops. From $2,500/month.

## Engagements

| Tier | Best for |
|---|---|
| Brand Strategy & Audit | Founders pre-design, or brands questioning their positioning |
| Brand Foundation | Emerging concepts, single-location restaurants, specialty food launches |
| **★ Hospitality Brand Launch** | New restaurants, hotels, bars, F&B concepts |
| Multi-Property / Enterprise | Hospitality groups, hotel portfolios, mixed-use, place brands, cultural institutions |
| Brand Management Retainer ($2,500/month) | Brands needing ongoing creative partnership |

All pricing is fixed-fee, transparent, and scoped after a free discovery call. Typical timeline 8 to 16 weeks.

## Industries we specialize in

Hospitality first: restaurants, bars, cafés, hotels, resorts, hospitality groups, gourmet markets, specialty food brands. From that base we also serve:

- **Mixed-use developments**: retail, residential, food halls, lifestyle centers
- **Place branding**: cities, districts, tourism campaigns, neighborhood wayfinding
- **Cultural & community organizations**: museums, festivals, nonprofits, cultural institutions
- **Entrepreneurs**: lifestyle and experience-driven founders

## Notable clients

**Hospitality groups:** 1 Hotels, SBE Hospitality, 50 Eggs Hospitality, Menin Hospitality, Riviera Dining Group, Noble 33, Gale Hotel.

**Restaurants, bars & specialty food:** Tala Beach (1Hotel South Beach), Casa Gianna (Gale Hotel), No Man's Land (Fort Lauderdale), Slim Charmer (St. Petersburg, FL), Golden Hour Wine Bar (Denver), Garcia Nevett Chocolatiers, GoldenGood, Sergio's Miami, Sanguich De Miami, The Salty Donut, Kiki on the River, Cafe La Trova, Ball & Chain Miami, Bodega Taqueria, Joia Beach, Meduza Mediterrania, SLS South Beach, Versailles.

**Place & civic:** City of Miami, City of Coral Gables, City of Hialeah.

**Cultural & arts:** ICA Miami, MOCA Miami, New World Symphony, Miami International Film Festival, TedX Miami, Latin Grammy Awards.

**Events:** Preakness Stakes 150th Anniversary (NBC national broadcast), Pegasus World Cup.

**National brands:** Bacardi, Heineken, Pepsi, Nestlé, Ford, Adobe, Airbnb, Uber, Volvo, Sony Music Latin, Pandora Jewelry, MTV, VH1, Fox Network, Nickelodeon.

## Press

Featured in: Forbes, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Michelin Guide, Eater, Miami Herald, Vogue, People, Ocean Drive, ABC 7, New York Post, USA Today, Business Insider, Thrillist, Univision, Latin Grammy, Time Out, New Times, U.S. News, Today Show, Despierta América, Yelp.

## What makes MMC different

1. **Hospitality specialization**: 25 years building brands in the most competitive hospitality market in the country (Miami)
2. **Strategic depth at the boutique level**: purpose / vision / mission frameworks, audience psychographics, voice systems, usually only seen at consultancies that don't design
3. **In-house custom illustration**: most boutique studios outsource. We don't.
4. **Production and install**: we stay through the press check, the install, the sign hanging off the wall at 6am on opening day
5. **Pre-opening brand presence**: construction hoardings, coming-soon collateral, anticipation marketing, the work hospitality concepts need 12 to 18 months before opening day

## How to start a project

1. **Project inquiry form**: https://mixedmediacollective.com/#contact
2. **Schedule a brand discovery call**: free 30 minutes
3. **Contact form:** mixedmediacollective.com/#contact
4. **Phone:** 786.752.6620

All inquiries get a response within one business day. Discovery calls are free, no obligation.

## Key pages

- Homepage: https://mixedmediacollective.com/
- Engagements & pricing: https://mixedmediacollective.com/#pricing
- All Work: https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/
- Filter work by sector: https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/?s=hotels (or restaurants, bars, retail, events, place)
- Filter work by discipline: https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/?d=naming (or identity, packaging, signage, menus, merch, web, strategy)
- Case studies:
  - Garcia Nevett Chocolatiers: https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/garcia-nevett-chocolatiers.html
  - Tala Beach (1Hotel South Beach): https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/tala-beach.html
  - No Man's Land (Fort Lauderdale): https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/no-mans-land.html
  - Preakness Stakes 150th Anniversary: https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/preakness-stakes-150.html
  - Casa Gianna (Gale Hotel, Miami): https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/casa-gianna.html
  - Golden Hour Wine Bar (Denver): https://mixedmediacollective.com/work/golden-hour-wine-bar.html