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Case Study — 01

La
Colina

Client Sofia Reyes Vásquez · Georgetown, TX
Category New Mexican Fusion Restaurant
Package The Imprint
Opening Winter 2027

A New Mexican fusion restaurant rooted in Central Texas — built around the kind of food that takes a Sunday to make and a reason to come back for.

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The Imprint · Starting at $2,400

A restaurant
with a story that
needed a voice.

4 Deliverable sets
3–4 Week timeline
1 Studio. One voice.
Formats delivered
The Situation

Sofia Reyes Vásquez came to Meridian with a name, a concept, and an opening date — but nothing in between. La Colina was a fully formed vision: a New Mexican fusion restaurant rooted in Central Texas, set to open in Georgetown in Winter 2027. What didn't exist yet was any visual or verbal identity to carry that vision into the world.

The Challenge

The restaurant had a distinct point of view — New Mexican cuisine grounded in Central Texas ingredients and sensibility — but nothing to show a potential guest, a landlord, or a press contact. The brand needed to communicate warmth and specificity without leaning on the tired visual language of Tex-Mex. It had to feel like a place worth driving to before a single plate had been served.

  • No visual identity to anchor the restaurant's New Mexican heritage in a Central Texas context
  • Brand had to work pre-opening — building anticipation before a single guest walked through the door
  • Tone needed to feel specific and rooted, not trend-chasing or generic "elevated Mexican"
What We Built

A complete brand foundation under The Imprint — logo system, color palette, typography, brand pattern, and brand voice guide — built to carry La Colina from pre-opening through launch and beyond. Every decision was rooted in the restaurant's New Mexican heritage and Central Texas context.

Every deliverable.
Explained.

Here's exactly what was built, what it includes, and what it does for the property. This is what you receive under The Imprint — and what every package tier adds on top.

La Colina wordmark
La Colina submark La Colina badge
01 Deliverable

Logo System
Primary + Variations

The La Colina logo draws from the typography and spatial restraint of the American Southwest — letterforms with weight and warmth, not ornament. It's built to work at every scale: a full lockup for signage and menus, a monogram for keycards and small-format use, and reversed versions for dark backgrounds throughout the brand system.

Primary logo — horizontal and stacked
Logomark / monogram for small-format use
Reversed / light versions for dark backgrounds
All formats: SVG, PNG, PDF (print-ready)
Usage guidelines included in brand guide
✦ Included in The Imprint
02 Deliverable

Color System
+ Typography

The palette is built from the land and the food — terracotta and clay from the desert Southwest, sage from the Texas Hill Country, midnight as the anchor, and sand as the breath between them. Typography pairs a warm serif display face with a clean body font and a mono accent for labels and UI elements, giving the brand range across print, digital, and environmental applications.

Primary + secondary color palette (5–7 colors)
HEX, RGB, and CMYK values for all colors
Display typeface (headlines + pull quotes)
Body typeface (long-form readable text)
Accent / mono typeface (labels, tags, UI)
Type scale + usage rules documented
✦ Included in The Imprint
La Colina color system
La Colina typography system
→ Add: la-colina-pattern.png when ready
03 Deliverable

Brand Pattern
+ Texture System

The La Colina pattern draws from the geometric tile work found throughout New Mexican architecture — repeating diamond forms with restrained ornamentation, built on a midnight ground with terracotta and sand accents. It tiles seamlessly across menus, packaging, digital headers, and any surface that needs brand presence without the full logo.

Primary repeating pattern (tile-based)
Color variations: dark, light, gold accent
SVG + high-res PNG at 300dpi (print-ready)
Usage guide: scale, application, do/don'ts
Seamless tile file for digital + print use
✦ Included in The Imprint
04 Deliverable

Brand Website
Live + Deployed

The La Colina site is a pre-opening brand statement — built to generate anticipation, collect waitlist signups, and give press and partners something credible to land on. The full brand identity translates directly: palette, typography, pattern, and voice all carry through from the guidelines into a fast, mobile-optimized site that feels like the restaurant before the restaurant exists.

Full custom HTML/CSS — no page builder
Mobile-optimized and fast-loading
Brand voice applied to all copy
Deployed to custom subdomain via Vercel
Full asset transfer + source files
View Live Site →
✦ Included in The Imprint (Kae note: move to Blueprint if needed)
lacolina.meridianstu.com
Georgetown, Texas · Opening Winter 2027

Where the
Hill Country
meets New Mexico.

Join the Waitlist → → lacolina.meridianstu.com
→ Swap: real website screenshot

What gets added
at the next tier.

The Imprint builds the foundation. The Property Blueprint adds the full guest-facing system — everything a guest touches from the moment they book to the moment they leave.

Welcome to La Colina
05 — Welcome Guide

Digital Guest
Compendium

Branded PDF or digital guide covering everything a guest needs before, during, and after their visit. House info, local recommendations, dining hours, policies — all in brand.

Blueprint Tier
06 — Menu Design

Dine-In + Takeout
Menu System

Print-ready menus designed in brand — dine-in, takeout, and bar formats. Delivered as print-ready PDFs with live-edit Canva files so updates don't require a designer.

Blueprint Tier
07 — Social Templates

Instagram + Facebook
Template System

Editable Canva templates for feed posts, Stories, and announcements. Batch-ready so the owner or staff can post consistently without a designer on call.

Blueprint Tier
The Outcome

What La Colina
walked away with.

I

A brand that could only be La Colina.

The identity is specific to the point of being unrepeatable — rooted in New Mexican tile geometry, Central Texas landscape, and the warmth of a restaurant that takes its food seriously without taking itself too seriously. A guest encountering it for the first time should feel like they already know the place.

II

Full ownership. Zero lock-in.

Every file, every format, every font — transferred in full. La Colina owns their brand outright and can work with any vendor, printer, or developer going forward without depending on us.

III

Ready for opening day — and beyond.

La Colina opened its brand to the world before it opened its doors — with a live site, a cohesive identity, and the full asset library needed to brief a printer, a signage vendor, or a social media manager without starting over. The foundation is built. The Blueprint is the next step when the opening date gets closer.

Ready to Start

Your property.
Built like this.

La Colina is Meridian's first portfolio piece — and we're building the next one now. If you're opening, relaunching, or just done apologizing for your brand, we'd like to talk.

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