44GROUP
44GROUP is a Ukrainian product design bureau that manufactures reusable and recyclable furniture for offices, schools, and homes. The company nurtures the culture of conscious consumption, not only creating furniture from scratch, but also renovating and restoring outdated items. 44SCHOOL and 44HOME are the company's two sub-brands.
Capabilities
Logo & Visual Identity
Verbal Identity
Motion Design
Team
Communications Specialist
Art Director
Project Manager
Model of Cooperation
Industry
Location
Duration
In 2022, this project brought us the Red Dot: Best of the Best Award in Brands & Communication Design.
The client outreached us to create a distinct and conspicuous visual identity to use on physical objects, specifically furniture. Thus, we provided the solution of making the brand remarkable with sharp and bold graphics and typography. However, adapting the visual identity for digital usage was crucial. And the solution for 44GROUP allowed us to enrich and scale the identity by adding some movement for digital usage.
Adding In-Space Movement
A brand's corporate design needs a distinctive visual language, enabling it to be open to different contexts and realities but still preserving the brand's uniqueness. So our solution was a flexible logotype, patterns, and layouts, which outline the entire space and fill it to the maximum extent possible, thus easily used on physical and digital objects.
The brand's USP is working with smart space planning, and the logo displays it. Its elements — 44 and G, S, and H flexibly move within the set space, attaching the logo adaptability and multi-usage.
Making the Brand Speak
The italics O in the descriptor displays motion, thus enhancing a visual connection with the logo. And expressive graphics combine with light and concise fonts.
Both the visual & verbal identity are vivid and meaningful, revealing in their best light with the help of dynamic logo, striking brand book, and brand catalog.
To emerge as a winner is an excellent achievement. This distinction is synonymous with ground-breaking design par excellence.
Professor Dr. Peter Zec
