( 05 / 05 ) — Brand

A look that compounds.

Identity, voice and system — recognisable at a glance, hard to copy, easy for your team to use.

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Painted studio wall pinned with orange-and-ink logo studies and color chips above a work table
Best forYou've outgrown the logo you started with.
The markEight spokes. One accent.
The typeAaaGrotesque for the punch, serif for the twist.
The voiceConfident, plain, a little playful.From homepage to support email.

The mark

Built, not picked.

Eight spokes, one accent, always turning. A mark with rules is a mark your team can never break.

8 SPOKES · 45° STEP
R = 16 × 28 · 1 ACCENT

The palette

Three colors. That's the trick.

GroundCream
Type & nightInk
The one accentOrange

Punch & twist.

BRICOLAGE GROTESQUE ✕ INSTRUMENT SERIF
TENSION, ON PURPOSE

Systems, not moodboards

Rules your team can actually use.

  • Do — One accent color, everywhere.
  • Do — Serif for the twist, grotesque for the punch.
  • Do — The rotor spins. It never sits still.
  • Don't — Stretch the mark. Ever.
  • Don't — Add a second accent "just this once".
  • Don't — Ship anything Gus wouldn't wave at.
Gus, the Simply Works robot: a cream-and-orange 3D character with a dark screen face and antenna
Gus · our 3D mascot, made in-house

The art department

Characters included.

Mascots, 3D and motion are in-house. You have met Gus — your brand can have a pulse too.

What you get

The deliverables.

01

Identity design

Logo, color, type — a system with rules, not just a mark and a mood board.

02

Brand strategy

Positioning and messaging that says one clear thing to one clear buyer.

03

Voice & tone

How you sound everywhere — from homepage to support email.

04

Design system

Tokens, components and templates so everything ships on-brand by default.

05

Mascots & motion

Characters and animation that give your brand a pulse. (You have met Gus.)

06

Brand book

One living document your whole team — and every future vendor — works from.

How it works

Three turns of the wheel.

Every brand rides the same line. Keep scrolling and the train pulls into each stop.

  1. 01Strategy

    Dig

    Workshops, customer interviews and a teardown of your market. Strategy before pixels.

  2. 02System

    Design

    Directions, refinement, and a system built for daily use — not a PDF that dies in a drawer.

  3. 03Rollout

    Deploy

    We roll it across your site, decks and channels, and train your team to keep it tight.

  4. Then it turns again. A look that compounds.

Questions

Fair questions.

Do we need a full rebrand?

Often no — a refresh that keeps your equity beats a rebrand that resets it. The audit tells us which.

How long does branding take?

Identity systems typically run 4–8 weeks; strategy-heavy engagements a bit longer.

Can you make us a mascot like Gus?

We would love to. Character design, 3D and animation are all in-house.

What do we get at the end?

A brand book, full asset library, design tokens and templates — everything a team needs to ship without us.

Next service

Web design next.

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Let’s make your marketing compound.

Tell us what you’re building. We reply the same day with a plan, not a pitch.

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