Valhalla Tahoe is a historic lakefront arts venue in South Lake Tahoe, hosting music, theater, and cultural programming from spring through fall. While the setting and experience were beloved, the brand lacked consistency. Campaign creative shifted season to season, the festival naming varied, and the original 2012 hand-drawn logo was difficult to scale across modern formats.

Rather than reinvent the brand, we refined it.

We updated the existing logo to preserve its expressive character while improving balance, readability, and flexibility across print and digital. From there, we developed a modular, grid-based visual system inspired by neoplastic structure. Introducing clarity, hierarchy, and cohesion across posters, rack cards, and digital promotions.

The result is a scalable campaign framework that strengthens Valhalla’s identity as a spring-through-fall cultural institution, not just a “summer festival.” The brand now feels unified, timeless, and built for long-term growth. Designed not only to inspire, but to convert.

Vallaha Tahoe Logo
The Valhalla Logo and the multi-color bar on a black camping mug, sitting on a log in the woods
Valhalla festival of the arts poster with the boathouse graphic on a wooden a-frame sign, on a wooden walkway with a women walking away in the background
The Valhalla flyer design, containing information about their summer concert series, with an image of the boathouse on the upper left
The front and back views of Valhalla rack cards containing information about their Summer Concert series
First page of the Valhalla Tahoe Brand Guidelines & Graphic Standards for 2025. Contains an image of the boathouse in the upper left
A page from the Valhalla Graphic Standards Book, with the primary and secondary brand colors
Page from the Valhalla Brand Guidelines book with examples of the flexible layout system
A page from the Valhalla Brand Guidelines book explaining the use of the color bar on flyers and publications

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