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THE GRID BRAND
BLAUVAX
Luxury Personal Shopping

How we gave a personal-shopping service the weight of a maison: a monogram, a full system, and a retail world to match.

“Own your style.”

Full identity
Mark · type · palette
Retail-ready
Print · packaging · apparel
One monogram
Across every surface
End to end
Concept to storefront

Blauvax curates and buys on behalf of clients who care about how they present themselves. The service is intimate; the promise is taste. Our job was to make an invisible service feel like an established house, one clients would trust with their wardrobe and their name.

Blauvax monogram hardware on a luxury handbag
Client
Blauvax
Scope
Brand identity · Collateral · Packaging · Apparel
Sector
Luxury retail / personal shopping
By
The Grid Brand

The Challenge

Sell taste: before a client has seen a single garment.

Personal shopping lives or dies on trust. A client is handing over budget, judgement and their own image to a stranger. With no shopfront and no product of its own, Blauvax had only one thing to prove that it belonged in luxury: its brand. Every touchpoint, a business card, a hang-tag, the tissue in the box, had to read as considered, discreet and expensive, so the service felt like a house that had always been there.

The Idea

Build the brand around a monogram: a single, ownable mark that carries the whole house, from a gold clasp to a storefront.

One mark, infinitely repeatable

The Blauvax "B" is drawn as a fluid, ligature-style monogram, part initial, part signature. It behaves the way heritage fashion marks do: it can be embossed small on hardware, tiled into a pattern, or stand alone three metres tall on a facade, and stay unmistakably Blauvax at every size.

The Blauvax B monogram
The Blauvax monogram: the anchor of the system

The Identity

A restrained system: deep olive, warm gold, and one clean typeface.

The palette leads with Dark Olive Green and Pale Salmon: moneyed and quiet rather than loud. Helvetica Now sets everything, so the type never competes with the mark. Wide letter-spacing on the wordmark does the work luxury type always does: it slows the eye down and signals calm confidence.

#215143Dark Olive Green
#D0AD69Pale Salmon
Helvetica NowPrimary typeface
Blauvax palette and typography system
Palette & type: the core system
Blauvax business cards
Business cards: gold mark on olive
Blauvax stationery and thank-you cards
Stationery & thank-you cards

The Retail Ritual

Packaging that makes receiving feel like an occasion.

For a personal shopper, the handover is the product experience. So we designed the whole ritual, the hang-tag, the carrier bag, the sealed box, as one continuous moment, each piece stamped with the monogram so the brand is the last thing a client touches before the clothes.

Blauvax hang-tag — Own Your Style
Hang-tag: “Own Your Style”
Blauvax carrier bag
Carrier bag: olive & gold
Blauvax packaging and monogram seal
Sealed box & monogram seal

Wearable Brand

The monogram becomes a pattern: and merch people actually want to wear.

Tiled into a monogram pattern, the mark turns into fabric: tees, a branded cap and stickers that let clients wear the house the way they'd wear any label they love. It extends Blauvax from a service into a lifestyle, the quiet flex of "I have someone for that."

Blauvax monogram tee and sticker
Monogram tee & sticker
Blauvax monogram pattern on apparel
Monogram pattern, applied
Blauvax cap in olive and gold
Cap: “Blauvax Luxury”

The Campaign

An editorial voice that treats the client as the subject.

The campaign imagery is styled like fashion editorial, not a service advert, architectural, poised, aspirational. It positions Blauvax alongside the houses it shops, and reminds the client that the point was never the clothes; it was them.

Blauvax editorial campaign imagery
Editorial campaign: aspirational, architectural

The Environment

The same monogram, three metres tall.

On signage, the system proves its final claim: the mark that embosses cleanly onto a clasp also commands a facade. Blauvax reads as a place you could walk into, the last piece that turns a personal service into a house with an address.

Blauvax storefront signage
Storefront signage: the monogram at scale

The Result

A service that now looks: and sells: like a house.

Ownable
A monogram that carries the brand from hardware to facade, no stock mark could stand in for it
Coherent
One olive-and-gold system across print, packaging, apparel and environment
Premium
Every touchpoint earns the trust a personal shopper trades on before a garment is seen

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