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Today the Adentity team went to Moderna Museet and the art exhibition displaying Hilma af Klint to get in an inspirational mood before the summer holidays.

Hilma af Klint

The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint born in 1862 was truly avantgarde! Her colours, ideas and abstract patterns were certainly before her time. She stipulated that her paintings not be shown for 20 years following her death, convinced the world was not ready for them. But now, more than 100 years later we are still stunned by her creativity and foresight.

Monumental formats and beautiful palettes

The exhibition presented the series “The Ten Largest” and “The Paintings for the Temple” – series in monumental format and beautiful colour palettes. The exhibition also touched on the artist’s own thoughts about her work and its various methods. We were breathless by her work and we really enjoyed the visit at Moderna Museet.

From Guggenheim in New York to Malmö

The previous exhibition displayed at Moderna Museet, became the most visited exhibition of a Swedish artist in the history at the museum. Since then, her work has travelled the world and also became Guggenheim’s most-visited exhibition ever. We can understand why, and we definitely recommend you go and see the exhibition.

Summer lunch at Atmosfär

After the visit to the museum we went for lunch at Atmosfär – a formal yet relaxed eatery with delicious small sharing plates. It was truly a day filled with inspiration that prepared us for the holidays that will leave us refreshed and ready to start off new exciting projects.

Links:

https://www.modernamuseet.se/malmo/en/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint/

https://artblart.com/tag/hilma-af-klint-the-swan-no-17/

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint-breaks-records-guggenheim-1522192 

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Why is one campaign more successful than another? A challenging part of working with campaign and product launches is landing in a strong concept. Both catching the attention of our target group as well as the point and benefit with the product or solution. A concept with a brand benefit.

Creativity within the brand frames

A successful campaign encompasses consistency with the brand, creativity and product benefits. If the homework is done with the communication plattform (read more about that here) you have the groundwork in place. The market strategy and brand position set the foundation of every product campaign. It is the red thread through all marketing activities and will create consistency and future proof your brand.

Go beyond and express a metaphor

When promoting a specific product, a common focus is to highlight a strong benefit with a thought-out key messaging, a focus that can all be well and effective. However, doing a concept out of that key messaging and benefit is to go beyond that and express it as a metaphor that will be etched into people’s minds. For whom is the campaign for, what do we want to achieve, what feeling do we want the target group to have, how do we add value to our customers – all these aspects should be considered.

 The magic team work

In search for a concept, the metaphor, you’ll need to work with many ideas. Make sketches, try out creative universes, and see how it works, try ideas, and abandon them. The idea process goes on night and day, even in your sleep. This process is a team process where everyone in the team has to contribute from creative director, account director, art direction to copy and project management. This is not a one man show, it is the best of team work. Each meeting takes you one step ahead, creative feedback is important also for killing ideas and steering the process forward. To have a strong creative process management towards a goal. What is presented to the client is then just the top of the iceberg.

The importance of the creative feedback loop

We also need to test the concept, internally and externally to see what road to take. We need to listen to this creative feedback and do some value-driven trial and error – what works and what doesn’t?  When these insights are combined with the product specifics, the brand essence and the team work magic is happening and a concept vividly imprinted is formed.

The essence of a concept – a good marketing investment

When you understand the brand essence, you also feel confident in how to create a value-based concept expressing a brand benefit, with a thought-out product specific content and strong key messaging that lasts over time. This is the essence of concept development.  A strong concept is a good tool for success and a brilliant marketing investment.

How could a more conceptual approach strengthen your brand?

Adentity has more than 15 years of experience as a full-service agency that strengthens brands through integrated media communication. We work closely with some of the world’s highest ranked global brands such as Sony Mobile, Alfa Laval, Axis, Brio, Kinder and Tetra Pak.

 Our passion is to strengthen companies by building consistent value-based communication in line with corporate ambitions. Adentity’s mission is to create business impact through attractive and intelligent communication, building strong market positions for our clients.

Bona Deep – With an eye for the extraordinary

The concept “Deep Floor Passion” captures the essence of the product by visualizing intensity and depth through a stunning eye in a dark wooden floor.

Alfa Laval Solar – A cool campaign for reliability

Reliability installed conceptualised the benefits of easy installation, reliability and the robustness of the range of outdoor coolers for Alfa Laval. The concept with a safety hook conveys the message of reliability in a simple and convincing way and captures the essence of the product aiming right at the heart of the target group. Read more

Bona Mega – A hero for everyday challenges

No matter if it’s wine spill or scuff marks from shoes, the floor lacquer Bona Mega from Bona delivers all protection a floor needs against everyday use. Read more

Tetra Pak – Pets go green

Introducing Tetra Recart’s innovative carton package to the pet care industry required an eye-catching concept. With focus on the interaction between pet owners and their pets and with a clear focus on nature and sustainability our furry friends took a great leap into the Tetra Recart business. Read more

Renässans Plus – Däppt i Däsan

Inspired by phonetics, this campaign cleverly expresses the way we all sound with a blocked nose! Positioned as the natural and safe alternative, Renässans Plus is a soothing saline solution for relieving symptoms of nasal congestion. Read more

Bona Oil system – Create your own wood story

Bona oils brings out the uniqueness of a floor so by focusing on inspiration and the Bona features of design, craft, care the Bona Oil System campaign aimed to inspire floor owners and contractors to creating a floor from vision to reality, bringing out the unique character of each wooden floor. Read more

Bona Titan – A strong campaign

With exceptional strength the Bona adhesive Bona Titan is unique with its quadruple cross-linking technology. Conceptualising this by visualising the strength and iconising the technology created a strong campaign! Read more

This spring Majblomman took the stand to sell digital Majblommor. Beautifully executed through key visuals that encourage interaction and engagement in social media. Every single krona contributes to Majblomman’s work for children. 🌸

 

How to develop a brand & communication platform and make your brand future proof? In this article, we share some insights where to start, how to build a strong market position and how to keep all important marketing tools in place.  Let your brand journey begin!

Why a brand platform?

The brand and communication platform is about making the brand clear, relevant and attractive by finding the brand essence and defining your strategic value position. A successful communication platform lets you rest in your brand position and enables you to be agile yet keeping focus on doing the right thing. It lets you unleash creativity within the frames and helps you keep order in your marketing toolbox concerning the visual and key messaging of the brand. It is about creating clarity rather than haze – launch quality rather than quantity.

It’s not about the money, it’s about the process

The ambition steers the budget, but a good outcome is always the result of the process. How is this done then? It all starts with understanding your brand’s primary battlefield, consumer segments or simply the reason to exist. We need to answer the questions “What’s our point?” and “Why should anyone care?” as well as understand future trends and drivers influencing our industry. After that is in place, you can formulate a positioning statement that will be the key for the brand story.

Involving is the key

Our mantra is that implementation of a new brand platform starts at day one by involving key stakeholders in the process. To be successful in the brand building you need to have the organization behind you, or else the risk is obvious that you will have some know-it-all patronizing the whole idea and the implementation will be a much longer path to walk. We need to connect the internal values with the external and the key here is to involve stakeholders like market companies as well as sales, product managers and central management in the process through interviews and workshops.

Brand benefit conceptualized

When the brand position is in place and the organization is behind it, the conceptual outlines needs to be developed, tested and evaluated. You need to develop a concept that strikes the nerve with a unique essence of the identity of the organization that inspire to interact with your brand. Before launching it also has to be tested, with the stakeholders’ creative feedback taken into account, to create a concept that your company can feel passionate about and feel proud to drive for a long time. Good concepts last over time! This means being creative, but consistent. Customers tend to value relevance and consistency over originality.

Involve, interact and connect!

Last but not least, to communicate the new platform and concept we need a relevant campaign planning with a number of appealing integrated concept-guided campaigns and of course tracking the results. Find the most relevant window of opportunity based on the media consumption of the target group. To be successful, focus on a limited number of windows and dominate them, be it social media, fairs or outdoor campaigns, there are different windows to meet up with your target groups. Be clever and creative, create loops and partner up with related brands, influencers and target groups: Involve, interact and connect!

A strong branding and communication platform creates clarity to where you are heading. Its tools promote agility and saves cost when the key messages, key visuals and templates are all in place. In the end, it helps you keep the toolbox in order for you to create great marketing deeds.

Bona Brand Book – Taking a brand one step further

To take the Bona Brand one step further Adentity did a full analysis of the brand together with the Bona teams in Sweden and US. Target groups, conceptual expressions, colour analysis, and visual language discussions, were all thoroughly researched through interviews, workshops and material to find the optimal conceptual route which the new Brand Book was based upon. Read more

 

Brio Communication platform – Connecting generations

What is at the heart of the Brio Brand? To find that out we did in-depth interviews with consumers and trade partners across three continents landing in the insight that Brio connects generations. Read more

 

Tetra Recart – Open up to the 21^st century alternative to canned food

When Tetra Pak introduced Tetra Recart it was a complete new, innovative packaging and processing system for food. Analysing parameters of the core positioning for the company, customers and competition the value position was established which marked the basis for the brand and communication platform for Tetra Recart. Read more

 

Alfa Laval – Extending the Alfa Laval experience

To show the unique value and commitment of Alfa Laval’s aftersales support and service department, we connected the brand reason with the product benefit and created an umbrella strategy. Identifying customer profiles across different markets, together with identifying core characteristics that Alfa Laval value, a platform was developed. With a target group focus, a clear concept with reason why, a balance between brand and product and securing communication loops with theme campaigns on regular basis we brought the conceptual statement of Extending Performance alive. Read more

Adentity has more than 15 years of experience as a full-service agency that strengthens brands through integrated media communication. We work closely with some of the world’s highest ranked global brands such as Sony Mobile, Alfa Laval, Axis, Brio, Kinder and Tetra Pak.

Our passion is to strengthen companies by building consistent value-based communication in line with corporate ambitions. Adentity’s mission is to create business impact through attractive and intelligent communication, building strong market positions for our clients.

The company of the year

What does it take to become “The company of the year” in Malmö? Of course, having a flourishing business, but also perhaps being a client of ours…For the second time in 3 years one of our clients have received the finest business award at Malmö Business Gala.

The award goes to a company in Malmö, who for a couple of years, through their way of running and developing the company, serves as a role model for business in the city. Anyone in Malmö can nominate their favourite company and the winners are selected by a jury of former award winners, representatives from the city and other players in the business community.

 

The award winners

Two years ago, in 2018, the award went to our client Bona, which we have worked together throughout three brand platforms, an environmental platform and countless of successful campaigns. The win was based on the family-owned company’s focus on innovation, sustainability and the environment, combined with promoting diversity and CSR. A focus that runs through all the branding and marketing material developed during the years.

This year another family-owned business was awarded “The company of the year”. Larsa Foods, whom we developed a brand platform and packaging design concept for, are Sweden’s leading independent food wholesaler with a specialty in importing exotic foods from the Mediterranean and Middle East. In the re-design, the packaging was given a unique, graphical pattern where Scandinavia meets a taste of the orient.

 

Strong branding

With the launch of a new design, the range gained attention and increased in sales. The motivation for the award was based on Larsa Foods inspiring journey as a local player with a global perspective that has made an impressive growth over the years.

Building strong brands and developing strong concepts is done through a long-term and consistent work. Being true to its brand and heritage is crucial when developing a company and keeping to the brand essence is one key to success. A clear vision of what you want and having all the right tools to achieve it creates a solid base for great marketing communication.

Congratulations to Husam Meizar, the CEO and founder of Larsa Foods and his employees for the award and being a true role model as a company.

Adentity highlights from Packaging of the World:

Rebranding of Larsa Foods product packaging highlighted,

New design of Larsa Food’s “Strawberry Ayran” in focus

Refreshed look of Larsa Food’s “Natural yogurt” presented

 

Building strong brands and develop strong concepts is done through a long-term and consistent work, where quality is more important than quantity. Investing time to think and work through your brand will let you meet the competition long before it meets you.

Even in the smallest social media post your brand is communicated – in the message, the video, the hashtag, the concept. To be tactical and cease new opportunities can only be done if you know what you want with your brand and have a solid base for your marketing communication. We want to take you on a brand journey with tips on how to create a stronger brand communication.

To see the common thread through the marketing communication – that is mindfulness for marketing and communications people or what we call Brandfullness.

We will share tips, models, case examples and insights from our work with creating communication platforms and integrated campaigns for international clients and brands.

Be there, get inspired and start your day off with Brandfullness. Welcome.

Where: Quality Hotel The Mill, Amiralsgatan 19, 21155 Malmö
When: 07:00 – 08:30, February 7

Sign up here!

Now the annual calendar for Phyllis Memorial Children’s Home and Academy is finished and shipped off to their Swedish support organisation Kampi Ya Motos Barn, hopefully creating a rush to the store. The calendar is sold for the benefit of raising money for the Children’s Home in Kenya.

This year we are celebrating our 10^th year of supporting the Children’s Home in Kenya. The work with the calendar is part of our CSR work where we design and print the annual calendar as well as all Kampi Ya Moto’s marketing material pro bono. All the revenue from the calendrers goes directly to the children’s home. Read more about our work here

The Phyllis Memorial Children’s home is based in Kenya, in the village of Kampi Ya Moto, which is Swahili for “The village in the Sun”. They care for 59 orphan children, in ages ranging from pre-school up to high school, with different backgrounds. Some have been living on the streets, others with relatives, but all of them have had a very tough start in life. As well as providing a loving home, Phyllis Memorial also provides education for both its own pupils and children from the local villages.

When Ruth, the manager of the Children’s home aka the children’s “aunt”, visited Sweden, and Malmö, for the first time, she and her colleagues from Kampi Ya Motos Barn stopped by our office to give us an insight into the daily life of the children and how the home has developed over the years which we are truly grateful of the opportunity to contribute to contribute to this.

For more information about Kampi ya Motos Barn and how you can support Phyllis Memorial Children’s Home and Academy, visit kampiyamotosbarn.se.

We are happy to make a difference – From Malmö to Kenya!

 

Taking urban retail into the future

The headlines are dire. Retailers are worried. Physical shops are closing down. Consumers are seduced by quick, easy, and cheap solutions that are often negative to profit margins, growth and the environment. But is the era of city retail really dead?

That need not be the case. The customer journeys don’t have to be limited to the online ecosystem. Using an innovative mind to direct customers to physical stores is just as important. The future of retail is bright for forward-thinking brands that are willing to embrace new ways of doing business.

 

A new dimension of pop-up stores

The concept of pop-up stores has been with us for quite a while now and the advantages are many. The brand gets more flexibility, can offer their customers a unique experience and capitalize on this buzzy concept. Pop-ups can also create a sense of novelty and exclusivity as they are temporary. However, it is not the innovation of pop-up stores itself that is the prominent thing but rather the execution of it.

Alexander Wang x Adidas Originals collaboration, for example, created a buzz by combining social media with an innovative pop-up concept: a pop-up truck going from New York to London to Tokyo. Fans followed the pop-up mobile store on the Adidas Originals Snapchat and inside was the exclusive capsule collection.

Another example was the launch of Chanel’s “Red Coco” where they created the “Coco Game Club” in Galeries Lafayette in Paris. Combining the pop-up concept with virtual games around lip products, beauty and an electric atmosphere with DJ’s and influencers was a true success.

In Malmö, a micro-department store that embrace new ways of doing business recently opened, Beyond Us – the urban market. It combines pop-up sales with a new dimension of unique brands and workspace for rent. Furthermore, it has an insta-zone, coffee shop, a click and collect service with relaxed fitting rooms, so that you can try what you have ordered on arrival. This concept takes a full grip of the customer journey and make it personal and inspirational.

 

The new retail landscape – context and personalization

The key to getting ahead in the retail buzz is to meet the customers where they interact with the brand and explore how this interaction works. The days of broadcasting a marketing message to one monolithic group of customers have passed. Each customer is different and should be offered contextual interactions that are personalized to their particular situation. Our lives online, mirrors our real lives. Technology has allowed marketers to craft messages on a one-to-one basis between their brand, a single shopper and where they are in their customer journey. Context and personalization form a powerful tool to build strong customer attraction for brands and fulfil the enhanced customer journey consumers are seeking.

Trends shaping the future

Stores will still serve its purpose, but their prime function will be the customer experience and personalization. Tedious tasks, like logistics, will become more and more automated and simplified, but we have to keep in mind that the five human senses can only be stimulated in store. We predict following three trends that will shape retail in 2020:

1. The development of responsible consumption and sustainability.
2. Hybrid businesses, where physical and digital experience are combined
3. New ways of marketing and interacting with the customers, for example via Messenger and other chat based social media platforms that personalize the costumer journey.

At the end of the day, it is innovation and agility that we’re after and need to strive for. Innovation that is not only digital, functional, or creative – but, a combination of all three that bonds us together and allows growth.

Sources:
www.voguebusiness.com/companies/appear-here-luxury-retail-pop-ups-lvmh
www.thestorefront.com/mag/5-marques-de-luxe-qui-ont-mise-sur-le-pop-up-store/
www.beyondus.se
www.mynewsdesk.com/se/lagerhaus-ab/pressreleases/lagerhaus-plus-beyond-us-lika-med-sant-2929711
www.sydsvenskan.se/2019-10-24/pop-up-varuhuset-beyond-us-oppnar-med-kladuthyrning-och
www.emodno.com

A visit to Copenhagen, Denmark can surely be an inspiring and eye-opening experience. The city is filled with colourful buildings, a fabulous food scene, culture and laid-back atmosphere. The Adentity team decided to take the 30 min train over to the neighbouring country for an inspiring day to kick-off work after the summer holidays. Ready for a whistle-stop tour of the city’s best bits handpicked by Adentity? Let’s go!

A good start of the day

Our first tip is for the early birds. About 10 min stroll from Copenhagen H, through the heart of the city, you find the coffee bar Kompa’ 9, located on Strædet. There we started off with some of their organic coffee and a proper Danish breakfast in a cosy surrounding.

 

A colourful museum visit

With filled stomachs and energy, we continued to Copenhagen’s waterfront to the Danish Architecture Center (DAC). The exhibitions at DAC showcase architectural wonders, international trends and design history. We went to see the exhibition of the world-renowned Danish architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group on an architectural journey across time from Big Bang to Singularity. A truly inspiring and colourful exhibition showingBIG’s borderless creativity and how they give form to our future.

Don’t forget to visit the DAC Café, where you are able to experience Copenhagen’s vibrant city life from high above at the large rooftop terraces. To one side, you have spectacular views of the vibrant waterfront, and to the other, the Copenhagen Cultural District. We decided for a cold beverage on their comfortable sunbeds before we continued our day.

 

Doing lunch

After a walk from DAC we arrived for some lunch at the meat packing district Kødbyen, a creative cluster with a broad range of high-quality restaurants. We decided to try out the hip brewpub WarPigs – an experience out of the ordinary. Besides from offering freshly made American-Danish style craft beer, WarPigs also serves authentic Texas barbecue.

 

Street art tour

Next up on the agenda was a street art tour in the districts of Vesterbro. Although graffiti is omnipresent in Copenhagen, street art is something entirely different. The street art in Copenhagen usually covers an entire side of a building in an artistic manner and adds significant value to the neighbourhood. We went to see some iconic pieces, one just by our lunch place, then we continued to one at Oehlenschlægersgade, Sankelmarksgade and lastly Saxogade.

 

Afternoon adventures

A bus ride later we arrived at our final destination, Reffen. An urban playground for co-creation, innovation, food and creativity – and last but not least – the largest street food market in the Nordics. The Adentity team tried some interesting food and enjoyed the beautiful surrounding before heading back to Malmö, filled with inspiration, feeling refreshed and ready to start off new exciting projects.

 

During summertime we tend to meet people that encounter Sweden for the first time and are curious on “typical Swedish things”. First that comes to mind may be Swedish corporations like IKEA, Volvo and H&M that undeniably made a significant international splash together with superstars like Zlatan and ABBA. But below the surface there is much more to be said about Sweden’s creative landscape. We decided to shine a light on Swedish brands that might not be the most the typical respond. Let’s take a look at some really exciting brands influencing the image of Sweden.

Oatly

The oat drink Oatly is changing consumption patterns in urban cities. It was founded back in the 1990s and is based on Swedish research from Lund University. The company’s patented enzyme technology copies nature’s own process and turns fiber rich oats into nutritional liquid food that is perfectly designed for humans. Today, the Swedish company remains independent and dedicated to upgrading the lives of individuals and the general well being of the planet through a lineup of original oat drinks. Oatly has positioned themselves as an independent, funny, provocative and sympathetic alternative for diary products which has been a true success.

 

Fjällräven – Kånken

Kånken is growing its position as the urban backpack. With the Swedish mantra in mind, “Straight backs are happy backs,” Fjällräven created the first Kånken in 1978 to spare the backs of school children, as back problems had begun to appear in increasingly younger age groups. Simple, stylish and functional, the Kånken backpack soon became a common sight in schools around the country, quickly spreading to cities around the world as an iconic Swedish export. Take a look at the most recent competition and hashtag #kankenart for some beautiful personalised Kånken made by its bearers.

 

Spotify

Spotify has totally redefined the music industry and transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Today Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming subscription service with 232m users, including 108m subscribers, across 79 markets. Spotify is the largest driver of revenue to the music business. They have sure managed to provide a legal online music streaming services as an alternative to pirated music file-sharing sites.

 

Hövding

Hövding is the world’s first airbag for urban cyclists and it breaks new ground in cities around the world. It all started with the insight: “Why force people to wear something they don’t like? There must be another way”. The resulting innovation was the collarworn; Hövding (meaning ’Chief’ in Swedish). Through the advanced sensors and unique algorithm Hövding detects the cyclist’s movement patterns and reacts and inflates in 0,1 second in case of an accident. The specialized airbag inflates to cover your head and fixates the neck to provide you with the best protection on the market, up to 8 times better than a traditional helmet. The headoffice is actually not far from ours, in Malmö, Sweden.

Sweden sure is creative and filled with passionate thinkers and exciting brands that stretch beyond its most famous brands, and the list can definitely be made longer.What brands are typically Swedish for you?

Sources:
https://www.oatly.com/, https://www.spotify.com, https://www.fjallraven.us, https://hovding.com/,
http://www.tryswedish.com/company/oatly/, https://medium.com/@inprintatdavis/the-price-of-aesthetics-fjallraven-kånken-backpack-8d5035025c32,
https://www.terracesmenswear.co.uk/fjällräven-kånken-pink

Two young guys from Malmö will opt out of sitting at home this summer. Instead they will take to their tandem and go on a cycling adventure to show how beautiful Sweden is and to inspire others to skip the car and take the bike instead. The2roadtrippers will embark on a challenge to cycle 1800 km in 3 weeks to show that a sustainable way of experiencing our planet is possible.

Adentity supported The2roadtrippers with a newly designed logo and we wish them the best of luck on their adventure!

During this year’s Milan Design Week over 386,000 visitors packed into the Salone del Mobile. In the city, there were more. Creatives and design aficionados from around the globe filled the streets during the world’s biggest annual design event.

The subject that has dominated Milan Design Week in recent years is undoubtedly sustainability. Environmental impact was the overriding feature among designers and brands from around the globe, but the highlight of the week was the fantastic Broken Nature exhibition at the Triennale di Milano, curated by MoMA’s Paola Antonelli. It highlighted the concept of restorative design in an effort to fix some of the destruction of the natural world caused by humans. From the Capsula Mundi, a beautifully poetic approach to death, to insect architecture and marine cleansing solutions created from wool destined for landfill, it presented just innovative and rediscovered solutions that could literally, make a world of difference.

Elsewhere, organic new materials and plastic recycling initiatives were just some of the ways that the design world is trying to reduce our impact.

 

Estrima, in collaboration with Mandalaki Studio, presented Birò 02, “the first electric concept car made with 80% recycled plastics.”

 

As part of the Broken Nature exhibition, Aki Inomata recreated the shell of the prehistoric ammonite out of resin using 3D scanning and printing techniques, and placed it in an aquarium with a small octopus to explore the evolutionary knowledge of the species.

 

Capsula Mundi is an egg-shaped pod made of biodegradable material, containing the bodies or ashes of the dead. A tree, planted on top, serves as a memorial, while the egg is buried as a seed, in the earth. This cultural and broad-based project addresses death and burial in a poetic way and aims to convert graveyards into forests.

 

The Newsroom Office by StorageMilano. Four design studios converted rooms within the offices of Vogue Italia. The Newsroom highlighted the continued trend for soft pink, rose gold and gold tones, as well as a resurgence in the Art Deco style.

 

Art deco style meets 80s aesthetics at Armani Casa.

 

As part of a creative concept we created for the latest product launch of one of our clients, we organised a photoshoot. The aim was to create a natural atmosphere that would highlight the natural beauty of wood floors. Although we came prepared with plenty of lighting equipment, mother nature provided the ideal light source as the spring daylight flooded in through the windows of our location. We couldn’t have asked for a better result. Many thanks to our fantastic team for a great shoot!

Fluid forms and organic hues herald a soft creative mood
Spring is here. After the bleakness of winter, the sunlight has returned and colours begin to pop out around us.  Although the cycle of graphic design trends extend beyond the seasons, a softer, more colourful creative direction has caught our eye. Organic shapes, soft pastels and simple fluid forms are bringing a softer edge to logos and graphic identities. From The Branding Collective’s minimal, Japanese inspired business cards for Life Goes On to Everland’s graphical concept for Danone’s new water brand, Blüm.

Colours also manipulate photography in the form of colour filters. They add a fantasy element and offer a striking contrast on a dark background, as seen in our recent Sony campaigns.

These directions lend themselves to the overriding creative trend for Instagram worthy imagery that applies to everything from products and packaging, to interior design and architecture.

Let’s go behind the scene to see the action at one of our photoshoots for a new brand platform. As part of the new platform, we organised a series of photoshoots based on our concept, to communicate the brand essence visually. Many thanks to the team for their fantastic creative work!