Kettle & Kiln
An identity for a café inside a ceramics studio: a potter’s stamp, a warm clay palette, stationery, packaging and menus.
- Concept project
- 2026
- Brand Identity
- Brand identity
The brief
Kettle & Kiln is a café inside a working ceramics studio on Dundas West. The owners wanted the brand to feel handmade without looking homemade.
Design direction
The main mark is a round stamp that the potters press into the base of every cup. A soft serif wordmark and a monospace for small text sit beside it, with four colours taken from the studio’s own glazes.
Production
Business cards and letterheads are letterpress-printed on cotton stock; coffee bags use a single-colour sticker so short runs stay cheap. Menus are printed on the café’s own laser printer from a simple template.
One stamp
The same mark on cups, bags, cards and menus, in clay and in ink.
If it works pressed into clay, it works everywhere.
Shae-Lynn McKenzie
Graphic design
