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When wanting something special remember we're [thb_highlight]the funkiest German sausages caterers[/thb_highlight] for dinner parties at home!
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[thb_message type="notice"]**The reason I'm publishing our story on the website is because I want to re-live what's happened since the moment Katja told me about her 'baby', as I call it. Katja and I have been friends for many years.
With our ups and downs, our war stories to tell, our past present and future meeting in many similar places, it isn't a mystery we have ended up working together in what has been a dream for her.
By recording our adventures in the street food business from day one I get the pleasure to live the story again as I write... Like a film or a book you love to revisit every now and then.[/thb_message]
I met Katja many years ago when she first started her "business ventures". At the time (and still) she was passionate about salsa and her dream was to have her own salsa venue in different areas around London. For reasons I'm not going to get into here, it didn't work out; but I saw a business woman at work: passionate, determent, focused.
She had been born to succeed turning ideas into working businesses.
Looking back I can see how I was always somehow involved in her business ventures. Not the first time (the salsa venue) but that's when I met her. So, in a way, I was indirectly involved I suppose.
Many years later, our friendship had grown stronger and so did her ideas. I can't remember the first time she told me about Bish Bash Bangers (without a name at the time) but it must have been a good few years before the idea saw legs.
Time went by and she didn't mention it regularly, but I know the buzzer was in the back of her mind. One day - again, can't remember exactly when - she came to mine and said (determent, as usual): "I want you to do the website for the business".
[thb_message type="notice"]"We've got the name!" A good friend of Katja's thought of the name. "Bish Bash Bangers" was born under the idea of German fast food (sausages) sold in the UK (bangers).[/thb_message]
Katja trusted me. She knew I would do a good job - she trusted me to do the logo, website and overall design of her concept. "I want to bring a corner of Berlin to London" (or something similar) she said. Then she started talking about the currywurst and various other elements around Berlin's famous fast food - it felt as if she really loved the feeling this fast food had given her when living back home.
I was thrilled by both the idea and helping my friend. I'm no professional designer, but I can get a few things together and make it look cool. At first I thought of using Sadie (Katja's beloved dog) as part of the logo. I thought I'd like to see Sadie's face with two long drools (like shoelaces) looking at a sausage. I have no idea what that sounds like, but I really loved the concept.
You can see why.
Not conviced, I moved onto having a long logo with lots of words using the colours of the German flag. The feedback was mixed - I used the word "f*c*i*n*" as part of the logo but I was told it would be appealing to family and kids - and rightly so.
Next, I kept the idea of using the German flag colours and thought of something simple: traditional type and logo.
Bish Bash Bangers is a long-ish name and so I had to break it so it would look visually appealing (compact). I can't remember when I thought of an actual logo; but I do remember thinking that something memorable, cute, cool, etc would attract a younger audience as well as make it funky and vibrant.
I had used the word "f*c*i*n*" before because I had heard how people from Berlin can be a little 'rude' and they can also seem angry. The idea stuck to my head and I remember thinking about a Spanish logo with a bull and how the concept of an angry animal could work well.
As the sausages are made of pork, creating an angry pig made 100% sense. Who would want to be turned into sausage meat? It tied in together nicely with the concept of the attitude Berliners have. And so by bringing various elements together (it was created as cutouts from other shapes) and working the rest in photoshop and illustrator...
Saucey was born! 🙂
OUR BELOVED LOGO ICON
Name: Saucey!
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