Matash builds the brand, on paper, online and on camera. Studio Nalmé designs the space. Both work from your brief, so the cafe you picture is the one that opens.
Brand by MatashArchitecture by Studio Nalmé
The Gandabherunda, an ancient mythical two-headed creature, drawn by us in the brand's blue from an old stone carving.
Mysore Milk Bar came to us as just a name. We went looking for what Mysore already owns, and found the Gandabherunda, an ancient mythical two-headed creature that Mysore has carried for centuries. We redrew it as an old lithograph, among coffee leaves and cherries, and set it in a postage stamp. The colours, the pattern, the menus and the outlet all grew from there.
The same mark, in Kannada and in English.
A table menu and two standees, drawn in the same line as the mark.
Studio Nalmé is a premier earth architecture studio, specialising in unique, local and sustainable materials. Matash builds the brand from its positioning. Nalmé designs the place itself, drawing on the brand's identity and patterns, so the cafe reads as one, from the street to the counter.
See their work at studionalme.comScroll from the street through the door. Renders of the outlet's design.
Architectural design by Studio Nalmé.
Scalloped arches, the kind you see across old Mysore buildings, frame the windows, the door and the counter. The blue and cream of the stamp carry onto the walls, the tiles and the floor.
Most new outlets brief a branding agency, an architect, a printer, a photographer and someone for Instagram, one by one. Here, Studio Nalmé starts on the space as soon as the identity is set, while we write the menu, shoot the food and build the website. You're ready to build in six to eight weeks, and Studio Nalmé supervises the build on site.
Press a stamp to see what you get at that stage.
Cafes, bakeries, milk bars, darshinis and sweet shops.
For founders, roasters and estates
One brief instead of four vendors, from the name to the day you open. Roasters and estates opening their first cafe: the brand starts where your coffee does.
Ready to build in six to eight weeks.
For chains with a few outlets and plans for many
We design the format once: the brand, the master store, versions for different site sizes, and a build guide your contractors can follow. Every new outlet opens faster and feels like the same place.
Design once. Open again and again.
For family businesses on their second generation
We keep what your customers already recognise and design the rest for the next generation and the next outlet.
Same name. New reach.
Based in Bengaluru. Working across Karnataka.