In their own words
Bon wanted to create the skincare brand she’d been searching for herself – a line of high performance, easy-to-wear products that her patients would look forward to wearing, and a brand that finally felt relevant, deeply considered and carefully crafted in every way.
Creating a brand that felt just as trustworthy as the clinical products it would be competing with, but that equally felt like a fresh, contemporary and covetable luxury brand, was definitely the biggest challenge, but it was also the biggest opportunity — that essentially became our white space.
The final world we landed on together was this rather fun mash-up of Irving Penn meets Stanley Kubrick — executed with a level of restraint that aimed to feel timeless.
The parameters were mainly centred around ensuring that the festival felt inherently ‘MoMA,’ using the brand guidelines as a base to sketch from.
We kept shapes super geometric, colours restrained, and were careful to balance all the fun with readability and accessibility.
Bringing in ‘exploring eyes’ felt like a nice way to nod to children and the festival’s themes.
He’s really into make-believe right now. Our lounge room rug is often lava, he’s rebranded broccoli as ‘trees,’ and he can make portals to anywhere from a cardboard box.
We came up with a set of bold, graphic, otherworldly characters representing lifeforms of all kinds.
Bringing in a sense of playfulness was crucial – a big part of the festival’s purpose was to inspire kids to imagine their own natural worlds through play.
It had to avoid overly-cute smiling in place of wide-eyed wonder, and adopting rudimentary animation that felt understated in tone, rather than childish.
Articles & interviews
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