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Two Olives & a Twist

Identity Design — Graphis Gold Winner

Client: Two Olives & A Twist (Clark Germain & Matthew Kajcienski)
Role: Identity Design, Art Direction
Type: Brand Identity, Awarded Logo
Award: Graphis Gold — 2025 Logo Annual

The objective was to create a unified signature for two industry titans—one a Grammy-winning record producer, the other a Juilliard-trained Emmy winner. The identity is inspired by their favorite cocktail: a martini with two olives and a twist. I translated this into the anatomy of an eighth note, where each olive represents one of the musicians and the lemon twist forms the note’s flag. The result is a rigorous geometric mark that bridges the worlds of classical notation and legendary record production through a personal tradition.

two olives logo

Section 01:

Process

The visual equation 01
The visual equation 02
two olives logo process2

Distilling 40 years of music history into one geometric signature.

Section 02:

Application

business card
studio door

Section 03:

Recognition

Winner of the Graphis Gold at the 2025 Design Awards in the Logo and Print categories. This award validates the technical precision and conceptual rigor of the mark within the international design community.

graphis gold trophy
graphis annual book

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