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Imprint Studio · Senior Care Branding

The brand families trust before they trust you.

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Selected Work · Award Record

A decade of work that
earned its reputation.

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AIGA Award2024
01 · Harborview Living · Newport, RI

Harborview Memory Care

The Challenge

A family-owned memory care network facing 34% occupancy decline needed a complete brand repositioning — shifting from clinical to deeply human, in a market where adult daughters were the primary decision-makers.

Brand IdentityWelcome SystemWayfinding
AIGA Award · 2024
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Webby Honoree2024
02 · Aldgate Senior Living · Sarasota, FL

The Aldgate Residences

The Challenge

A 200-unit assisted living development launching into a saturated Florida market. The brand had to signal "quiet luxury" without alienating adult children worried about institutional feel.

Brand SystemCollateral SuiteDigital Identity
Webby Honoree · 2024
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AIGA Gold2023
03 · Meadowbrook Health · Portland, OR

Meadowbrook Care Network

The Challenge

A 12-property portfolio with no cohesive brand architecture. Each community felt disconnected. The challenge: build a parent identity flexible enough for 12 distinct voices, unified by one trusted signature.

Brand ArchitectureSignage SystemStaff Uniforms
AIGA Gold · 2023
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04 · Crestwood Development · Scottsdale, AZ

Crestwood Independent Living

The Challenge

A luxury independent living launch targeting active retirees, not their children. The brand needed to speak to aspiration and vitality — not care — while still telegraphing the safety that adult children would Google.

Brand IdentityPhotography DirectionLaunch Campaign
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AIGA Best2025
05 · Blue Ridge Senior Partners · Asheville, NC

Stillwater at Blue Ridge

The Challenge

A regional developer entering memory care for the first time. No brand equity, no staff culture, no recognition. Built from zero — name, mark, voice, and the physical environments that made families feel seen on the hardest day.

NamingFull Brand SystemEnvironmental Design
AIGA Best · 2025
Proprietary Research · Imprint Studio

The numbers behind the work. Some of them.

Three data points from the Senior Care Brand Playbook. The full methodology is gated — and worth the trade.

Occupancy Lift
38%

Communities that deploy a Imprint brand system see measurable occupancy gains within the first 18 months of launch. The full methodology — and the ceiling — is in the Playbook.

Full range in the Playbook
Family Trust Score
4.1×

In post-tour family surveys, communities with a cohesive brand identity scored 4.1× higher on "I felt this community understood what we were going through." The survey instrument is free to download.

Survey instrument included
Brand Recall Benchmark
31%

Senior care brands built on a consistent identity system achieve recall lifts that outperform finance and insurance benchmarks. The full recall model — by community size and market — is gated.

Recall model by market size

The complete dataset — 14 benchmarks across occupancy, trust, and recall — is available in the Playbook. Two fields. No spam.

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Studio Approach
50+Communities branded
12 yrIn the vertical
100%Senior care focus

A brand for a senior community is not a logo. It's the first promise a daughter reads before she walks through the door.

Imprint is the only branding studio that works exclusively in senior care. We've spent twelve years learning the difference between a brand that fills units and a brand that earns trust — and we've built the research to prove it's not the same thing.

The 28 touchpoints a family encounters before move-in. The way a welcome folder feels in the hand. The typeface on a memory care wayfinding sign at 6 a.m. These are not aesthetic choices. They are trust decisions. We treat them that way.

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Brand guideline book opened on a table, embossed letterforms catching low studio light