Studio Barnes

Lekker Lam

Brand identity, recipe website and campaign for a family business selling farm-direct Free State lamb.

Client
Lekker Lam
Sector
Farm-direct Food
Scope
Brand identity, website, campaign
Year
2026
The Lekker Lam stall under jacaranda trees at the Pretoria Boeremark

Lekker Lam sells premium lamb straight from a farm in the Free State, every Saturday at the Boeremark in Pretoria. The lamb was excellent. What customers were missing was the confidence to cook it.

A leg of lamb is an expensive thing to get wrong. So the brand sells more than the cut. Every pack, poster and page points the home cook to a simple recipe, and the promise sits at the centre of it all: confidence in every cut.

A home cook in her kitchen looking unsure over a raw leg of lamb and an open cookbook

The brief was to feel like the cleanest, most professional stall at the market. Modern butcher precision with real farm warmth, never too corporate and never too rustic.

The Lekker Lam logo in gold and cream on olive
Close crop of the gold sheep-face mark on cream
Canvas tote bag with the Lekker Lam logo hanging on a wall
Kraft paper parcel tied with string and stamped with the Lekker Lam logo
Open Lekker Lam box with vacuum-packed lamb cuts and a branded card

A sheep face in a softly rounded frame works like a stamp of quality. It sits on kraft paper, canvas and cardboard as easily as it sits on a screen.

Billboard reading 'n braai sonder lam is net 'n vuur, beside a raw lamb chop
Row of social ads inviting people to join the Lekker Lam WhatsApp list
Three Lekker Lam posters on a cream wall
Two Lekker Lam posters on an olive wall

The campaign speaks the way the family does at the stall, in English and Afrikaans, and sends people to a WhatsApp list for first access to each week's lamb, recipes and specials.

The Lekker Lam website on a desktop monitor and phone
Lekker Lam homepage on desktop and mobile, headed Stop guessing. Cook lamb properly.
Grid of Lekker Lam mobile recipe pages
Herb-crusted rack of lamb recipe page on desktop and mobile
Recipe on a phone beside a raw rack of lamb on a chopping board
Slow-roasted lamb shoulder recipe on a laptop in a sunny kitchen

Each recipe opens with time, difficulty and servings, so a cook knows what they're taking on before they start.

Friends serving slow-roasted lamb and potatoes at an outdoor table

Results

  • More than 1,200 WhatsApp subscribers and counting, giving the family a direct line to their customers every week.
  • 6,500 visitors to the site in a single month, three months after launch, more than triple the month before.
  • Customers took to the interactive menu straight away, and it quickly became the way people browse each week's lamb.
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