Burke Fitness, LLC

Personal brand/business developed in 2012

Background

Began business in 2012 as a way to market my personal training and strength coaching services.

Created brand design system to include logos, color palette, type fonts and web design for desktop and mobile.

  • Started in 2012 after graduating from Ohio State

  • Started training clients at their home and progressed to having clients at multiple gyms across Columbus, OH

  • Designed and marketed Burke Fitness merchandise

  • Developed partnerships to increase brand awareness and fundraise for causes that are meaningful to me

About the business

Marketing

  • Logos and Branding

  • Apparel

  • Partnerships

Main logo

Began as a sketch idea to merge the B and F into one logo

Sketch

Digitized Logo

Colors

Burned orange, black and shades of grey became the brand color palette

Apparel

After coming up with some designs that people liked, I decided to start marketing my brand of apparel on the website!

To expand brand awareness, I developed three key partnerships

  1. 614fitness

  2. Pelotonia

  3. Run Down the Demons

Partnerships

614fitness

  • 614fitness.com

  • Began in 2014

  • Promoted fitness classes and workshops

  • Assisted in expansion and growth of 614fitness brand

  • Designed "614Garage" personal training addition

  • Held fundraisers

Pelotonia

  • Pelotonia.org

  • Pelotonia is a community that is determined to see an end to cancer.

  • Designed t-shirts as fundraisers with 100% of proceeds going to the Pelotonia organization to fund cancer research

  • Held fundraisers and rode in 5 Pelotonia's

Run Down the Demons

  • Official Strength Sponsor- 2017

  • RDTD was a nonprofit to raise awareness about mental health issues that veterans and their families face, such as suicide and PTSD.

  • Prepared athletes for competing in the Run Down the Demons obstacle race

  • Link to Obstacle Course Race