Mannings & Guardian Store

Creating a Flow of Healthy Beauty

Mannings & Guardian Store

Mannings & Guardian is a leading health & beauty drugstore brand in Southeast Asia, including Hong Kong and Singapore. Despite being the same drugstore subsidiaries, since Mannings is in Hong Kong and China and Guardian is in Singapore and Southeast Asia, they had dichotomized color systems and visual communication designs, so the store identity was not consistent.

YNL Design defines Mannings & Guardian's brand value, 'Healthy & Beauty' as 'Flow of a healthy lifestyle,' and integrates color systems, graphic motifs, store-wide signage, etc. to establish visual communication and strengthen the store's identity. To renew the existing store image, we have assigned each department's color to the store signage, which does not seem to stand out to consumers before; therefore created a design plan that can clearly distinguish the navigation. We have also integrated the graphic motif of Mannings' cat character and Guardian's sunflower.

The graphic motif of Mannings & Guardian represents beauty flow, which is inspired by the healthy beauty and simultaneously expresses the inner and outer beauty. The graphic motif represents the balance of feeling beautiful and looking beautiful, which refers to the brand's belief that outer beauty begins with inner wellbeing. Using the graphic motif in the form of a round curve that harmonizes planes and lines, we visualized Mannings & Guardian's concept of healthy beauty; managing health and beauty at the same time. The side that reveals the main brand color, orange, and the sub color, yellow, represents a new experience and satisfaction given to customers when they meet their inner beauty. Also, we assigned a key color to each area of the shop that was previously invisible to consumers and applied a consistent graphic motif, to set up a navigation for each category. By introducing the newly updated store guide ‘Tornado 2.0+,’ they needed a design strategy to enable consumers to navigate in the shop, we gave it an organized design system to each department signage and category.