Client
The Coffee Merchant — Roasters & Café
Category
AIProductionSocial
Sector
Coffee

The Coffee Merchantmonthly content, brewed.

Monthly social content for The Coffee Merchant, a specialty roaster and café. Moodboards, campaigns and a full editorial and lifestyle feed, produced by ILLUSORR.

The Coffee Merchant / Monthly · 2025
Produced by ILLUSORR
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The Coffee MerchantCover
Client The Coffee Merchant
Roasters & Café
Year 2025
Services Moodboards, Campaigns, Editorial & Lifestyle Content
Method Moodboard, Curation, Cleanup, Direction
Output Monthly 9-Grid · 17 Images · 4 Videos
The Brief01
01 The Brief

A new story, every month.

The Coffee Merchant, a specialty roaster and café, needed a steady stream of social content with the polish of a campaign: moodboards, editorial stills and lifestyle, refreshed every month.

Each month starts with a moodboard. We pick the mood, feel, environment and direction: navy, sage and warm crema, the calm, crafted feel of a specialty café.

From there we gather the source files, clean them up, and put it all together to the brief, a full nine-post grid plus the supporting frames around it.

Seventeen images and four videos come out of each cycle. Not all of it ships at once. The strongest frames are scheduled and published across the month.

Everything is cleaned up and finished in-studio, on palette and on brand, so the feed stays consistent month over month.

02 Campaign Motion

The reels. Motion for the feed.

Vertical cuts built for the feed, from the July delivery.

Reel, July9:16
Reel, July9:16
03 The Moodboard

The moodboard. Palette, mood, reference.

Each month opens with a moodboard that locks the palette and direction before any content is made.

The Coffee Merchant, june moodboardJune moodboardMonthly moodboard
The Coffee Merchant, july moodboardJuly moodboardMonthly moodboard
04 The Grid

The nine-grid. One month, one feed.

A full nine-post grid composed to read as a single image on The Coffee Merchant feed.

The Coffee Merchant, June post 1JunePost 01
The Coffee Merchant, June post 2JunePost 02
The Coffee Merchant, June post 3JunePost 03
The Coffee Merchant, June post 4JunePost 04
The Coffee Merchant, June post 5JunePost 05
The Coffee Merchant, June post 6JunePost 06
The Coffee Merchant, June post 7JunePost 07
The Coffee Merchant, June post 8JunePost 08
The Coffee Merchant, June post 9JunePost 09
The Coffee Merchant, roastery lifestyle frameIn the roasteryLifestyle
05 The Approach

Moodboard. Campaign. Content.

A repeatable monthly pipeline, from palette to a published feed, on brand every cycle.

Phase 01 · Moodboard

Set the Direction

We pick the mood, feel, environment and direction, and assemble it all into a moodboard, navy, sage and warm crema, before anything is produced.

Phase 02 · Curate

Gather & Clean

We gather the source files the moodboard calls for, then clean them up so everything sits to one consistent standard.

Phase 03 · Produce

To the Brief

We put it all together and produce the content to the brief, a nine-post grid, supporting frames and reels, finished in-studio.

Consistency is the whole game in social. A moodboard up front is what lets a month of content feel like one campaign.
ILLUSORR
06 The Outcome

The Coffee Merchant's monthly feed. On palette, on brand.

17 Images produced each month for the feed
04 Short videos cut for social each cycle
09 Posts per grid, composed as one feed
100% On palette: navy, sage and warm crema, every month
07 Credits
Creative DirectionILLUSORR Labs
MoodboardsILLUSORR Studio
Art DirectionILLUSORR · AI Production
Curation · CleanupILLUSORR Studio
Retouch · FinishingPhotoshop, ILLUSORR
ClientThe Coffee Merchant · Café
CadenceMonthly
Year2025
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