Campus Course

Campus Course is a golf lifestyle brand out of Tampa, Florida, built where the traditions of the game meet the energy of college athletics. They came to The Fort with partnerships in motion and a product line taking shape. They needed an identity that could carry them from launch day forward.

It was one of our first big out-of-state clients, and a chance to take the way we work into a new market.

The job

Golf lifestyle is crowded, from legacy names to trend-driven newcomers. Campus Course needed its own lane: credible with golfers, right for a younger crowd, and proud enough to feel at home on campus. The mark had to hold up embroidered on a hat, printed on a hoodie, on retail signage, in social, and inside partner promotions.

The work

Dozens of sketches and type studies, chasing confident, approachable, and timeless. The final wordmark is a clean, connected script with collegiate undertones that works as well on a polo as in a digital ad. A secondary pennant logo carries the collegiate thread without crowding the primary mark.

The full system followed: a style guide covering logo use, color, type, pattern, and applications, with room for seasonal and campaign variations.

For the launch shoot we mixed candid lifestyle on the course with clean product work, so the brand launched with a library ready for e-commerce, social, advertising, and partners.

The results

Campus Course launched with an identity that held together everywhere it showed up. Partners put the new visuals straight into promotion, and the social channels finally matched the quality of the product. It also took The Fort beyond Texas.

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