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The Mean Tomato
Agency
Kuba & Friends
Client
Gopuff
Context

Take-out pizza: a category absolutely stuffed with competitors. To stand out, I worked with Kuba & Friends to create a brand that could slice through the noise. Enter The Mean Tomato — created exclusively for Gopuff.

We took the old-school NYC pizzeria vibe and flipped it on its head, with a mascot that was anything but a throwback. No cheesy cheerleader, this tomato has a no-BS swagger that (despite his best efforts) worked so much harder for the brand: increasing sales by 98% and nearly doubling the size of Gopuff’s pizza business.

  • The Mean Tomato logotype
  • The Mean Tomato logotype on green
    The Mean Tomato custom font letter R on red
  • The Mean Tomato pizza box with roundel logotype
    Man holding a stack of The Mean Tomato pizza boxes
  • Deep Pan Sans custom typeface for The Mean Tomato
    Deep Pan Sans custom typeface for The Mean Tomato
  • The Mean Tomato custom font variable a animation
    Deep Pan Sans custom font sample
  • Deep Pan Sans custom font sample
    The Mean Tomato custom font specimen animation
  • The Mean Tomato logotype with the brand mascot graffitiing BITE ME on top
  • The Mean Tomato menu opening
  • View the design project ←

Credits

Kuba & Friends
Agency
Lewis MacDonald
Type Designer
Alec Tear
Designer and Lettering Artist

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