A cup that walks, for a small coffee and pastry shop in Munich.

2026 · Munich

Walkin' is the kind of place you pass every morning until one day you go in. It serves espresso, filter coffee and croissants still warm from the oven, and most people take their order with them. That is where the walking cup comes from. The logo already had one stride in it. The identity draws the rest of the step, four positions of the same cup, and uses them on everything the shop prints.

Walkin' Coffee in a Munich Altbau, the logo and a row of walking cups on the shop window.
The Walkin' Coffee logo in white on blue.
A barista in a blue apron with the cup printed small.
A blue takeaway cup with the walking cup printed small.

The lettering grew out of the logo. Walkin Hand, the shop's own alphabet, keeps its narrow marker letters, round stroke ends and the small bounce on the baseline. On the loyalty card the cup takes one more step with every coffee, and the ninth is on the house. The pictograms are drawn with the same pen, and on the price tags they sit next to the prices in blue and orange.

Walkin Hand, the shop's lettering, with the full alphabet.
A loyalty card with eight walking cups, five of them stamped, next to the rubber stamp.
Twelve line pictograms drawn with the same pen as the lettering.
Price tags for a croissant and a cinnamon bun at the counter.

Packaging stays plain white. One blue paper band closes every bag and box, with the cup printed small on it, so a stack of orders on the counter still reads as Walkin'. On the wrapping paper, where there is more room, the cups walk in rows between the pastries.

An open pastry box closed with the blue paper band.
Wrapping paper of walking cups and pastries.
A white takeaway bag closed with the blue band.

Posters stay simple: the shop's blue, one drawn pastry and a short German line, the way people talk at the counter. In the reel the cup walks for eleven seconds across different surfaces, one step per picture.

A blue poster with a drawn pretzel, taped to the café wall.
The menu card next to the espresso machine.