Bandit’s Rally

Brand + event design
The Bandits identity travels with the people taking part.
The idea

Give a community a shared identity.

Brand creation, event design and digital engagement for an automotive rally rooted in Detroit’s car culture.

Discipline
Brand & Digital
Our role
Brand + Digital interactions
Project
Brand + event design
Setting
Detroit, Michigan
01 / Bandit’s Rally

An identity with somewhere to go.

Typography, graphics and vehicle applications make the rally recognizable before the route begins.

The identity system connects typography, graphics and the rally’s visual language.
Vehicle graphics make the rally recognizable on the street.
02 / Bandit’s Rally

The route. In print.

The rally book connects the event’s schedule, destinations and graphic language. A useful object—and a souvenir of the weekend.

Print collateral / The rally book turns the route, schedule and event story into something to keep.
The route book connects editorial detail with the pace of the rally.
03 / Bandit’s Rally

Wear the weekend.

Apparel and lifestyle objects let the identity travel with the community long after the cars have parked.

Lifestyle / A cap carries the identity beyond the rally weekend.
Merchandise / The shirt connects a small front mark with a more expressive back graphic.
Lifestyle / Apparel brings the identity into the community around the event.
Merchandise / A second cap treatment gives the community another way to wear the brand.
You found Einstein.

A little brilliance.
A little mischief.

K5’s Einstein character working on a laptop

Einstein has a small but spirited place in the K5 world. For us, he stands for a simple idea: have fun while being brilliant.

Ask the unexpected question. Make a new connection. Enjoy figuring it out. That spirit belongs in the work, too.

The wild hair is optional.