Graphic Design & Creative Direction
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Tuft The World

Tuft The World

A brand that’s as vibrant as the community it serves

Tuft the World is an online shop largely responsible for the boom in custom tufted rugs over the last few years. Along with their top-selling items—rug tufting machines—they offer a full line of sustainable and recycled yarn in their Reflect Yarn Co. line. Not only do they sell the tools and materials needed to create tufted rugs, they facilitate an active online community of tufting artists, hobbyists, and enthusiasts.

 
 
Image of bright red Tuft postcards scattered and overlapping, with one postcard in focus. Postcard has the Tuft logo repeated and cropped off the top and bottom, on a bright red background.
 

In partnership with Melissa McFeeters, we created a logo suite that reflects the spirit of the tufting community and can be used in endless applications. The process of tufting was an underlying inspiration for the brand—from the custom, wavy typemark, to the repeating name pattern and grid graphic. A vibrant color palette was influenced directly from the yarn colors within the Reflect line, while the logo badges represent the wide variety of rug shapes. Hand-drawn doodles and annotations take inspiration from the creative process itself, as many rug tufters tend to be multidisciplinary artists.

In addition to custom print materials, user guides and packaging, the t-shirts and enamel pins allow the Tuft the World customers to show off their tufting pride.

 
 
Photograph of a Tufting machine, on a green and pink background, with scissors, yarn, fabric and a ruler.
 
Photograph of the Tuft the World Tufting Machine packaging on a blue background
 
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Photography of brown cardboard box on a light green background, with Tuft branded packaging tape and various Tuft logo stickers in red, yellow and blue.
 
Graphic of Tuft logo badges, in various shapes and colors, overlayed over a cream background with black square grid lines.
 
Split image with the Tuft User Manual on the left, and an image of tufted rugs with a Tuft logo overlayed on the right.
 
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Photography of the front and back of the Tuft Postcard on a gray background. The front of the postcard displays a repeating white logo on a red background, and the back says Join Our Online Community.
 
Grid of pages from the Tufting Machine User Manual. Manual is on a green paper stock with blue ink and includes table of contents, machine specifications, troubleshooting, a machine diagram, and maintenance information.
 
Split image with detail photo of warm colored yarns on left and graphic of Reflect Yarn Co. branding on right.
 
Image of various yarn spools from the Reflect yarn line
 
Split image of rug with overlaid pink Tuft logo on top, and single spool of gold colored Reflect yarn on a lilac background
 
Graphic showcasing the color palette for the Tuft the World branding
 
Grid of graphics showcasing various social media images used for the Tuft the World instagram account
 
Overhead photograph of Tuft the World enamel pins on a card.
 
Split image of a black Tuft tshirt on a lilac background and a Tuft tote bag, with enamel pins adhered, on a gold background
 
Graphic of a large white Tuft nested logo on a black background
 
Gride of pages from the Tuft the World Brand Guidelines document on a bright blue background
 

Design Partner: Melissa McFeeters