Brand Strategy Playbook

Visit Buffalo

We took a beautiful, rugged Wyoming county that no longer resonated with their brand and wasn’t sure how to unify destination marketing efforts across cities and departments, and provided them with a full rebrand and actionable Brand Strategy Playbook to help them bring it to life and keep it thriving.

Client
Visit Buffalo
Industry
Tourism / Destination Marketing
Services
Brand Strategy · Brand Identity Design · Marketing Strategy
Deliverable
Brand Strategy Playbook
The Challenge

Johnson County, Wyoming’s tourism brand had been Visit Buffalo, but the local stakeholders didn’t care for the visual identity and weren’t unified around any specific, ownable position as a regional brand. They wanted something that local residents and business owners could rally around and adopt as their own, but needed help figuring out what that should be.

Visit Buffalo moodboard — Vintage-Historic direction
What We Did
01Brand Audit
02Strategy Workshop
03Target Persona Development
04Brand DNA
05Voice/Tone & Messaging Development
06Visual Identity Design
07Marketing Channel Strategy
The Result

Visit Buffalo has a unified idea about who they are as a regional brand, how it can be communicated and extended to local stakeholders, and an official document (Brand Playbook) that allows them to keep everyone “on brand.”

It’s more than just a new logo— now they have a shared way of talking about themselves, coming up with new media and campaigns, de-positioning themselves from other regional brands, and an invitation that resonates with locals and visitors alike.

Visit Buffalo is “The Way West”.

The Work
Visit Buffalo moodboard — Vintage-Historic direction
Moodboard — Vintage-Historic
Visit Buffalo moodboard — Refined Western Transition direction
Moodboard — Refined Western Transition
Visit Buffalo moodboard — Modern Rustic direction
Moodboard — Modern Rustic
Visit Buffalo brand playbook — the Visit Kaycee logo system
The Visit Kaycee logo system
Visit Buffalo brand imagery — wild horses running the Wyoming range
Where the dust never settles
Visit Buffalo brand imagery — savored from the saddle
Savored from the saddle
Visit Buffalo brand imagery — a young rider in Johnson County
Brand imagery — a young rider

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