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Blue Martini
One flyer became the whole account.
The anchor account, and the one that taught this studio to build systems instead of pieces. It starts as a single flyer for a single Friday and ends as the content operation Blue Martini runs on in three cities.
- Client
- Blue Martini, with Lux Life & The Hub Miami
- Venues
- Brickell · Naples · Phoenix
- Running
- 2024 — 2026
- In this archive
- 59 productions · 17 moving
01 — Before
A flyer is a night. Then the night is over.
The first pieces were exactly what every venue in this city buys: one flyer, one event, briefed late, delivered overnight, finished by Sunday. Good work with no memory. When the same venue ran the same night a month later it started from a blank canvas again — new type, new grid, new everything — because nothing in the first one had been built to come back.
That is not a design problem. It is an operating problem, and it is why most venue feeds look like eleven different companies made them.
Two from 2024. Both good. Neither one knew the other existed.
02 — What changed
Three moves.
In the order they were made. Everything the account looks like today falls out of them.
- 01
One system, stamped
A single typographic frame with a hole in it for the only thing that changes — a fighter, a fixture, a holiday — and nothing else. A whole World Cup went through it across two cities, an NBA Finals, a season of UFC cards; the counts are in the ledger below. The build stays on file, so the next one in a run takes an hour instead of a day.
- 02
Both crops, delivered together
Feed and story of the same build, sent as a pair rather than asked for at nine the night before. It reads like a small thing until the Saturday the story never goes up because nobody cropped it.
- 03
Motion where there is a cover charge
Halloween, New Year, the fight nights, the takeovers. Not everything moves — the pieces carrying a ticket price do, and the rest hold still so the ones that move still mean something.
One tournament, one system
The 2026 World Cup run, in the order it was delivered. Brickell and Naples, same frame, different fixture — which is what a system looks like from the outside.
03 — After
Three venues, one desk.
What the account looks like now is not a folder of flyers. A date and a headliner come in; the whole set goes back — feed, story, and a cut if the night carries a cover — in the voice of whichever venue asked for it.
Naples is not Brickell and Phoenix is neither. The system is what turns that into a decision instead of an accident.
By room
- Brickell50
- Naples6
- Phoenix3
- Published here59
Recurring runs
- World Cup 20267
- UFC cards6
- NBA Finals3
- Of them, moving17
04 — What it proves
And what this page will not claim.
01Volume without drift
Three venues, three calendar years, one hand — and a Tuesday karaoke flyer in Phoenix held to the same standard as a New Year’s film in Brickell. The count is in the ledger; the consistency is the part you can see without counting.
02The venue stopped briefing designs
The brief is a date, a headliner and a venue. Nobody sends references any more, because the reference is the last one.
03It scaled sideways without being redrawn
Brickell to Naples to Phoenix, same system, one voice each. That is the entire argument for paying for a system once instead of a piece every week — and it is word for word the argument this studio now makes about a website.
Door numbers, ticket counts and reach belong to the venue, and this page does not invent any. What is countable here is counted; nothing else is claimed.
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