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Brand Identity, Design & AI Guardrails for Growing Brands

Mazar Design Group is a creative consultancy based in Westchester County, New York, providing brand identity, design consulting, marketing communications, and contextual AI guardrail creation for brands and agencies. For more than 25 years, we've helped organizations (from startups to the Fortune 500) find clarity in how they present themselves.

Crayola Logo
Sports Illustrated Logo
Dr. Praeger's Logo
TSA Logo
Prudential Logo
ebay Logo
PayPal Logo
WB Home Entertainment Logo
Time Inc Logo
Subway Logo
JAMAICA wordmark logo in bold uppercase letters.
AON Logo
GAP KIDS logo
Aer Lingus Logo
Duncan Hines Logo
The Toy Association Logo
Farmers Logo
SFA Logo
Washington Examiner logo with a large gothic-style letter 'E' followed by the words 'WASHINGTON EXAMINER' in uppercase.
Microsoft logo with four colored squares and gray text.
Hearst logo
Dick's Sporting Goods Logo
Marin French logo with stylized golden text on a red rectangular background.
NHL Logo
Yellow stylized wing icon representing Sprint Corporation.
CBS network logo with a stylized eye symbol above the CBS text.
Colgate logo with white text and smile graphic on a red background.
Large purple capital letters A and B on a transparent background.
PeriActive Logo
AICPA logo
Bodum brand logo with white lowercase letters on a red background.
Kansas DOL Logo
NBCUniversal logo featuring a stylized multicolored peacock with six fanned tail feathers in blue, teal, green, yellow, orange, and red.
UPS
Birds Eye brand logo with a white bird on a blue oval background.
UNFCU logo with a stylized figure inside a blue square next to the letters UNFCU.
Ad Age logo
BNY Mellon Logo
The word TIME in bold red uppercase letters against a transparent background.
Logo of New York City Opera featuring stylized text in blue and orange.

Trusted by Leading Brands

Twenty-five-plus years and hundreds of projects across industries, scales, and contexts. The through-line has always been the same: closing the gap between what an organization intends to communicate and how the world actually receives it.

Mazar Design Group partners with startups launching their first brand impression and established organizations refining how they show up across channels. Our work spans identity systems, positioning, packaging, web design, display advertising, and increasingly helping brands develop AI guardrails that protect voice, tone, and accuracy (with Synthia) as AI-generated content becomes part of the marketing ecosystem.

How We Work

We're based in the Hudson Valley, just north of New York City, and work with clients locally in Westchester County and throughout the tri-state area, as well as nationally and internationally.

Every engagement is a partnership. We translate vision into visual language that connects with real audiences…whether that means developing a modular website for a plant-based food brand, creating a custom typeface for a global tourism campaign, or reinventing a set-top viewing experience for a major film studio. From initial strategy through final execution, we bring the same rigor to a startup's first logo as we do to an enterprise rebrand. The work is always the same: find clarity, build connection, measure impact.

What We Do

Brand Identity

Logo design, visual identity systems, brand guidelines, naming, and strategic positioning. We build the foundational elements that define how a brand looks, sounds, and feels.

Marketing Communications

Campaign development, advertising creative, content strategy, and print collateral design. We create the materials that move audiences from awareness to action.

Web Design & Digital Experience

Mobile-first websites, interactive experiences, and digital product design. Platforms built to convert, scale, and grow alongside your business.

AI Guardrail Development

Contextual AI guardrails that protect brand voice, accuracy, and values across AI-powered content generation. We define rules that keep AI outputs on-brand and on-message.

Our Work

The work showcased below represents projects led throughout my 25+ year career in design and brand marketing. Recent projects were completed as Mazar Design Group. Earlier work includes campaigns developed while serving as a Creative Lead at Accenture and as Partner at Tenthwave. All represent the strategic thinking, creative vision, and execution quality that define my approach.

Person browsing Dr. Praeger's website on a MacBook Pro displaying Black Bean Quinoa Veggie Burgers with the slogan 'Big taste with a little spicy kick.'
Tablet displaying Dr. Praeger's Black Bean Quinoa Veggie Burgers product page with nutrition facts, ingredients, and store locations to buy.
Person browsing Dr. Praeger's website products page featuring veggie burger options on a MacBook Pro laptop.

Dr. Praeger's

Website Design & Development

CHALLENGE:
With 30 years as a trusted name in plant-based meals, Dr. Praeger's had recently updated their brand identity and packaging. Their digital presence needed to reflect the new direction while solving a core business problem: their products are sold in stores, not online, so the website needed to drive customers to retail locations.

APPROACH:
We designed and built a mobile-first, modular website structured to grow alongside an expanding product lineup. Accessibility was a core focus, with careful attention to WCAG color-contrast standards and inclusive design. We integrated a "Where to Buy" store locator directly into each product page, partnering with the Where to Buy platform to connect digital browsing with in-store purchasing.

RESULT:
A vibrant, accessible online experience that transforms individual product pages into conversion tools, helping customers find and buy Dr. Praeger's products at nearby grocery stores and online retailers, while bringing the energy of the refreshed brand to life.

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Green bottle of PeriActive Total Gum Care mouthwash on a bathroom counter near folded gray towels and a sink faucet.
PeriActive logo with bold navy text and a colorful 'c' combining red and teal, symbolizing gum care, above 'TOTAL GUM CARE' in teal capital letters, alongside brand color swatches and usage notes.
PeriActive logo with text Total Gum Care on a dark blue background.

PeriActive

Brand Identity & Packaging Design

CHALLENGE:
PeriActive, a botanical-based oral care brand in Israel, needed a complete brand refresh, starting from the ground up with a new logo, visual identity system, and product packaging that could compete on-shelf and across digital channels.

APPROACH:
We developed versatile logo marks optimized for both print and digital applications, including tailored versions for social media, an all-caps treatment, and a lighter-weight variation. Two distinct brand directions were explored and put through rigorous user testing before a final direction was selected and fully realized. From there, we designed bottle label comps that brought the new identity to life on-shelf, creating static mockups used in consumer testing with a third-party research partner. Once the winning direction was validated, we produced print-ready label files, working closely with the print vendor to meet exact production specifications.

RESULT:
A comprehensive new brand identity (from logo system through packaging and brand guidelines) validated by consumer research and production-ready for market. The final brand guidelines document ensures consistency across all future touchpoints as PeriActive grows.

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Person using a MacBook Pro displaying the Tee Bar & Grille restaurant website with an interior photo of the dining area.
Tablet screen showing a restaurant menu with three tacos topped with lettuce, tomato, and sauces, under the Starters section.
Tablet displaying a golf course website with images of golfers and course details for a par 3 course called The Links at Valley Fields.

Tee Bar & Grille

Website Design & Local Digital Presence

CHALLENGE:
Tee Bar & Grille, a charming American bistro nestled on the grounds of an Arnold Palmer-designed par 3 golf course in Shrub Oak, NY, needed a modern refresh of their online presence. The existing site didn't reflect the quality of the dining experience, and the adjacent golf course (The Links at Valley Fields) had no dedicated web presence at all.

APPROACH:
We rebuilt the restaurant's website on Squarespace, delivering a mobile-friendly, easily maintainable platform at an efficient price point. Key integrations included OpenTable for online reservations and DoorDash for delivery orders, alongside full dinner, catering, and event menus. Showcasing the food visually was a priority, so we incorporated a gallery with fresh photography to elevate menu offerings and highlight upcoming live events. We also created a companion site for The Links at Valley Fields, designed to showcase the beautiful grounds and keep essential course information accessible at a glance.

RESULT:
Two cohesive, inviting websites that give this unique Westchester County destination a unified digital presence, driving reservations, delivery orders, and foot traffic to both the restaurant and the revitalized 9-hole course.

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Smiling man swimming in clear turquoise water with a stone arch bridge and lush greenery in the background, overlaid with large text 'JAMAICA'.
Young girl jumping into a clear blue river surrounded by lush greenery with a woman sitting on a bamboo raft nearby.
Collage of Jamaica travel images promoting curiosity, playfulness, life, connection, and inviting scenes with people enjoying nature and water.

Jamaica Tourist Board

Global Advertising Campaign

CHALLENGE:
After years of reduced international travel, Jamaica needed a global advertising campaign that would reignite interest in the destination — not just as a place to visit, but as an experience that reconnects travelers with a sense of adventure, curiosity, and joy.

APPROACH:
We developed a campaign concept rooted in a simple, resonant idea: it's time to come back; not just to a destination, but to the best version of yourself. The campaign positions Jamaica as a place to rediscover what we lost during years of not traveling: adventure, curiosity, romance, and that feeling of being fully alive. Central to the creative was the development of a custom typeface we named "Curious," designed to evoke a sense of wonder and complement Jamaica's vibrant photography with the island's unmistakable personality and charm. We crafted lockups for 35 English headlines and translated them across eight additional languages for a truly global rollout. The campaign spanned display ads, commercials, posters, and more…the full gamut of touchpoints to reach travelers worldwide.

RESULT:
A warm, inviting global campaign that makes you feel something before you've even booked the trip. The custom "Curious" typeface gave Jamaica a distinctive visual voice across all markets, and the multi-language rollout ensured consistent brand presence across nine languages and dozens of international markets.

Project completed as Co-Creative Lead at Accenture

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Person holding a tablet showing a video of Superman and Lois Lane with actor Henry Cavill's biography and filmography.
Two tablets displaying scenes and features from the Man of Steel movie, including a pre-order option and actor information.
Person holding a tablet showing a Man of Steel scene locations map of Metropolis with marked sites and thumbnails including Chicago Union Station and The Daily Planet.

Warner Bros. Pictures

Tablet UX & Interactive Viewing Experience

CHALLENGE:
Warner Bros. had developed a set-top viewing experience that let users access bonus features tied to on-screen moments, but the interface was limiting and cumbersome. As the focus shifted to tablet, they needed a completely reimagined UX — and invited multiple agencies to compete for the project.

APPROACH:
The solution beat out five leading creative agencies by fundamentally rethinking how viewers interact with bonus content. By leveraging the tablet's gyroscope and accelerometer, we created an intuitive, behavior-based interaction model where simply rotating the device to portrait mode activated live in-scene extras — without ever pausing the movie. This eliminated the need for a second screen entirely, keeping viewers immersed in the film while exploring rich bonus content. The multifaceted extra materials were presented through a scalable design system built to accommodate a growing library of features across Warner Bros.' film catalog.

RESULT:
A streamlined, next-generation viewing experience that felt as natural as turning a page (selected over five competing agency proposals). The behavior-based interaction model set a new standard for how studios deliver bonus content on tablet, keeping viewers engaged with the film rather than pulling them out of it.

Project completed at Tenthwave

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Instagram post from Aer Lingus showing a person in a blue jacket standing on a green cliff overlooking the sea and rocky coastline.
Hand holding smartphone displaying an Instagram post with a photo of Tower Bridge in London and a travel promotion by Aer Lingus.

Aer Lingus

U.S. Advertising Campaigns

CHALLENGE:
Aer Lingus needed to drive brand awareness and bookings among American travelers for routes to Ireland and destinations across Europe; in a crowded airline advertising market where most messaging blends together.

APPROACH:
We developed two playful, concept-driven campaigns designed to break through the noise of typical airline advertising. "Go When Others Don't" spoke to the savvy traveler who craves authenticity over tourist traps — promising the Louvre without the lines, Barcelona without the bull, and Piccadilly without the circus. "Treat Yourself" took a cheeky, lighthearted approach, positioning a European getaway as a well-deserved reward — just popping out for Italian or a lovely cup of English tea, but on the other side of the Atlantic. Both concepts leaned into wit and personality to make Aer Lingus feel approachable and distinctly fun.

RESULT:
Two resonant campaigns that reinforced Aer Lingus as the smart, affordable gateway to Europe for American travelers. The playful tone and concept-driven creative carved out a distinctive brand personality in a market dominated by generic aspirational messaging.

Project completed as U.S. Creative Lead at Accenture with Rothco in Dublin

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