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Branding with a healthy glow.
Brand strategy and identity design for physiotherapists, gyms, pilates studios and longevity clinics in Asheville, NC and beyond. For health businesses whose care is world-class, but whose logo still looks like it was made on a lunch break.
What it is
Brand strategy and identity design for health businesses: positioning, logo, visual identity, brand guidelines and templates.
Who makes it
Tessa Ruggle, the brand strategist and designer behind The Brand Bar. One person, from first call to final file.
Where
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, with Dutch roots. Working with health brands across the US and Europe.
Good branding is more than a pretty logo.
That trust starts long before the first appointment: on Instagram, on Google, on your website and at the front desk. Your brand is the feeling people get at every one of those moments.
I combine strategy with design to build health brands that look as professional as your care, feel unmistakably like you, and make the right clients choose you over the clinic down the road.
Sound familiar?
Studios nearby
Which is you?
You blend in
New clinics, coaches and studios open every week. When your brand looks like everyone else’s, people compare you on price instead of care.
Value gap
Your expertise
How your brand looks
Premium care, budget look
Your expertise is top tier, but your visuals don’t back up your prices. So raising them feels risky, when it really shouldn’t.
This month
3 versions
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Flyer
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Door
Your brand changes every Tuesday
A different font on Instagram, another colour on the flyer, a third logo on the door. Consistency builds trust, and right now nobody can find it.
Everything your brand needs to show up.
A complete brand, built on strategy and designed to last. Book it on its own, or pair it with a website for one smooth launch.
Brand strategy & positioning
Before anything looks good, we figure out what makes you different: who you help, what you stand for and what you want to be known for in your corner of health.
Positioning · Messaging · Ideal client · Brand story
Logo & visual identity
The visual ingredients that make you instantly recognizable: a logo system, colours, typography, photography direction and graphic elements that work together.
Logo system · Colour palette · Typography · Photo direction
Brand guidelines
A practical guide that keeps everything consistent, so your brand doesn’t fall apart the moment someone on your team opens Canva.
Logo usage · Colour & type · Tone of voice · Photo style
Templates & brand assets
Social templates, presentations, class schedules, intake documents and signage, so your brand shows up looking like itself everywhere.
Social media · Presentations · Documents · Signage
How we’ll work together.
One clear process, one point of contact, and zero guessing about what happens next.
Get curious
We start with a free brand & website audit. I ask about your clients, your care and what makes you different. Sometimes quite a few questions.
Find the direction
We define your positioning, ideal clients and story, then explore visual directions that bring that strategy to life.
Make it a whole thing
Once the direction clicks, I develop it into a cohesive identity: logo, colours, type, photography and graphic elements.
Set you up
You get your guidelines, files and templates, ready for your website, socials and studio. No more guessing which shade of red it was.
Good questions. Honest answers.
Still curious?
Ask me anything on your free audit call.