Africatown

A unified visual identity system for one of Seattle's most vital Black-led community organizations, built to match the scale of the work they have always been doing.

  • Brand Identity
  • Web Design
  • Art Direction
  • Interactive Prototyping
  • Client: Africatown Community Land Trust
  • Collaborators: Photon Factory
  • Website: africatownlandtrust.org

Creating a Unified Voice

Africatown operates across several distinct entities in Seattle's Central District: a community land trust, individual properties, Africatown Plaza, and Africatown Marketplace. Each had grown its own visual identity organically over time. As a maturing organization ready to scale its communications and elevate its public presence, Africatown needed a unified system that reflected the visionary work they have always been doing and created the organization-wide design standards to carry it forward.