Hospitality
A hospitality brand has to be felt before it's read.
Every surface in a hospitality property communicates — and 80% of that communication happens before the guest opens the website. The brand has to design the lobby, the welcome card, the in-room menu, and the breakfast voucher before the marketing team thinks about a social post.
Selected work
Key Bridge Marriott Site
Above the banks of the Potomac
3000M
Micro Units come to DC
McCormick Place Headquarters Hotel
4D Goes Vertical
Capital One Hall
The Magic of Theater
Hotel Merrydelle, a Marriott Tribute Portfolio hotel
Rebuilding the Ambassador Hotel
Dominion Public Market
New Food Hall and Public MarketHow we work in hospitality
Hospitality work at IFMM begins with the surfaces — the textures, the print pieces, the welcome moment. The brand spec sheet is a full surface inventory: room key, menu, signage, in-room TV welcome screen. Each item gets a brand decision before anyone designs a hero web image.
Digital follows physical. The website is a discovery tool and a closer; the booking flow has to feel like the same brand as the lobby. We photograph properties in operation — real staff, real guests when permission allows — so the visual story online matches the physical story when the guest arrives.
"The lobby trumps the social post. Every time."
Threshold-grade renderings
Imagery that earns the tour before the unit is open. The first three frames a prospect sees online — lobby, unit, amenity — are calibrated to the emotional bar the building will hit in person. The renderings set the expectation; the visit confirms it.
A CMS that outlives the launch
Webflow content model built to be inherited through an ownership change. Field names, collection structure, and editor guardrails written so the next operations team — yours or someone else's — can run the site without a design vendor on retainer. The hero animation gets replaced; the data model stays.
Full surface inventory
Every brand touchpoint from welcome card to booking flow accounted for. Room key, in-room menu, welcome card, breakfast voucher, lobby signage, and booking confirmation email — each surface gets a brand decision before any hero web image is designed. The guest experience is consistent across the property and the screen.
Wayfinding that scales
Sign systems that absorb new tenants without a redesign. Modular sign families, typographic systems, and material specs designed so a new lease can be added to the directory or a blade sign produced in a day — not a six-week design cycle. The system holds as the tenant mix changes.
Our services
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Brand Strategy Research-driven frameworks defining audience, purpose, messaging, and market differentiation to guide long-term brand growth and communication. arrow_forward -
Photography Professional photography capturing architecture, environments, and human experience to support branding, marketing, and digital storytelling initiatives. arrow_forward -
Film Cinematic storytelling combining interviews, aerial footage, and environmental narratives to communicate vision, identity, and project experience. arrow_forward -
Brand Identity Comprehensive visual systems including typography, color, imagery, and design language that express and reinforce brand personality consistently. arrow_forward