All workBrand identity / Snack kiosk, Dubai

Go Bananas

A loud, hand-drawn identity for a Dubai kiosk selling chocolate-dipped frozen bananas. One idea runs all of it: a snack you photograph before you eat it.

Go Bananas chocolate-dipped frozen banana product photography
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Go Bananas brand identity cover, hand-drawn illustration of a family eating chocolate-dipped frozen bananas

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Kiosk, built to be photographed

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Words that run the brand

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Colours, no more needed

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Pages in the brand book

The brief

A simple snack that needed to be impossible to scroll past

Go Bananas sells one thing brilliantly: frozen bananas dipped in chocolate and rolled in whatever you want. It is cheap, it is fun, and in a city full of dessert concepts fighting for the same Instagram feed, it needed a brand that could shout.

The brief was not subtle. Make it look like more fun than the kiosk next door. Make it work on a phone screen first. And give a small team a kit they can actually run on their own, every day, without calling an agency for a single post.

The mark

Drawn by hand, on purpose

A wonky wordmark in a paint-splat circle, with a banana and a spoon. There are rules underneath the chaos, so it stays recognisable wherever it lands.

Go Bananas logo construction and clear space
Logo / measured under the mess
Go Bananas logo prohibited usage examples
Usage / how not to wreck it
Colour

Four colours, turned up to full

Banana Green

#87C231

Golden Yellow

#EEB50B

Ink Black

#000000

Paper White

#FFFFFF

Go Bananas illustrated brand world of characters and frozen treats
The world / characters built to fill a feed
What we shipped

A brand built to be posted

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A hand-lettered logo

The wordmark is drawn, not typed. Wonky, friendly letters sitting in a paint-splat circle with a banana and a spoon. It looks like the product tastes: messy, fun, and impossible to take too seriously.

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An illustrated world

A cast of black-line characters, flowers and frozen treats that can stretch across a wall, a cup, a sticker or a story. It gives the kiosk far more to play with than a logo alone, which matters when you post every day.

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A social-first system

Built for the phone before the shopfront. Post templates, story layouts, sticker packs and a content rhythm around Snack. Snap. Repeat., so the brand is as strong in a feed as it is on the street.

Go Bananas social media post templates
Social / Dip it. Top it. Love it.
Go Bananas website design mockup
Website / Life’s short, eat bananas in chocolate
Go Bananas sticker pack on a laptop
Stickers / the brand, gone wild
Out in the wild

Where the brand actually lands

A kiosk you can read from across the food court, a truck that doubles as a billboard, and packaging built to end up in someone’s hand on camera.

Go Bananas kiosk shopfront with menu board and counter
Kiosk / built to read across a food court
Go Bananas branded food truck
Food truck / a billboard on wheels
Go Bananas printed carry bags in green and kraft
Carry bags / the brand walks home
Go Bananas snack packaging and a Yummy Yum social post
Packaging / Dip it. Top it. Love it.
Go Bananas behind-the-scenes Instagram post and story
Social / see how the treats are made
Merch and crew

Stuff the team wears, stuff fans stick

The kit reaches past the counter. Aprons and tees for the crew, caps and stickers for everyone else, and a cast of characters that holds the whole thing together.

Go Bananas staff apron worn by a team member
Apron / on the crew
Go Bananas staff tees in black and green
Tees / two colourways
Go Bananas embroidered cap with banana badges
Cap / badge it up
Go Bananas sticker pack applied to a laptop
Sticker pack / slap them anywhere
Go Bananas app icon shown on a phone home screen
App icon / brand on the home screen
Go Bananas illustrated characters holding chocolate-dipped frozen bananas
Characters / the cast that holds it together
Rolled out across

From the kiosk to the camera roll

Kiosk shopfront and signageCups and packagingSticker packsInstagram grid and storiesWebsiteLaptop and merch decalsMenu boardsStaff aprons and tees
How we approached it

Four calls that shaped the whole thing

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Built for the photo, not the brochure

Frozen bananas live or die on how they look in a story. Every brand decision, the colour, the splat, the characters, was made to frame the product and make someone want to post it. The kiosk is the set, the phone is the channel.

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Loud on purpose

In a Dubai food court full of polished, samey logos, the fastest way to stand out is to look hand-made and a bit unhinged. The acid green and the wobbly lettering are a deliberate refusal to look corporate.

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Three words do the heavy lifting

Snack. Snap. Repeat. is the whole strategy in three beats. Eat it, photograph it, come back. Every template and caption is built to push someone through that loop, not just to look pretty.

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A kit a small team can run alone

No agency on retainer to make a Tuesday post. The illustrated assets, templates and rules are simple enough that one person at the kiosk can keep the brand consistent and keep posting.

Snack. Snap. Repeat.

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