During the first year of our studio, Angelique Yuen contacted us regarding her new venture: Daughters of the Empire. Coming from a retail background, Angelique had quite a lot of experience as well as ideas for her own clothing boutique. Her vision for Daughters of the Empire was to bring in up-and-coming, innovative and independent designers both local and international to create a well curated retail experience. The main focus for Daughters of the Empire were on women and children’s clothing.
Early on, Angelique had expressed her interest seeing a crown and antlers in the identity. We hesitated to dive into this direction right away at first but looked at other directions. Looking further into the abbreviation of the name, “DOE”, it did make sense for us to make some form of reference to a deer, seeing that a doe was a female deer. While understanding that a doe did not in fact have antlers, the antlers were the clearest symbol to reference a deer. We would redraw the antlers into the form of an organic crown. The final mark allowed us to create various use cases as well, such as the short form of the logo which features the antler crown as the “O” in DOE.
