CRUMB
Café brand that wants its cake and eat it too

Case study
CRUMB is the brainchild of Ben Richardson from Autumn Rooms and Gareth William from Covered in Crumbs. It's a new cafe in Lambton that sells delicious pastries and coffee. We collaborated with them both in 2025 to deliver the brand, marketing and packaging design to help tell the world about how incredible their food and produce really is.
Photos in studio by Alex McIntyre, and at CRUMB by Sophie Tyler and Catharine Neilson
Read Hide the full case studyObjective
Help launch the new brand within the Newcastle LGA and gain ongoing interest in pastries and delicious coffee.
Target Audience
Foodies and those wanting to try something new.
Consumer Proposition
No crumbs left.
Desired Consumer Response
Coffee and cake.... I'm there!
Creative Solution
Feather-light minimalism meets the chaotic friend that can totally do your gig flyer. The most important aspect of this brand is maintaining balance, and creating strong layouts to manage this duality.
Part of the CRUMB brand utilises hand-drawn variations on the logo type. These provide a visual relief from the minimalism of the core identity, and inject some authentic personality. These are used sparingly, and work to complement minimalist layouts.
These also provide an opportunity for artist collaborations, spatial activations, and much more.
Evaluation
40-minute line-ups and sold-out produce before 12pm each day during the first few weeks after opening are just some of the successes. But the real winner here is the produce. The pastries have developed a cult following after the marketing campaign gave away boxes of delicious treats to Instagram followers during the lead-up to the opening. The strategy ensured we created over 1.3M organic views and hit 9K followers on Instagram within the first 30 days. Around 50 pieces of unique influencer content were created, ensuring lots of different demographics and circles of friends saw the CRUMB brand long before the café opened.
We continue to create limited edition screen-printed tees, if you'd like to learn more about this process, take a look at our screen-printing article.
Client
CRUMB
Project
Branding
Processes used in this project
Brand positioning, Product photography, Print management, Branding, Graphic design










Hand-printed, limited release upcycled tees — like a pastry, every single one is completely unique, and has love in every layer.




