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You know how all IT Consultant brands and websites look alike, right? Infinite technology-savvy skills, the best place to work by miles and so on? Affinity wanted to be different and was ready to break the mold. With a good Glassdoor.com profile score and credibility among the Portuguese IT players, Affinity needed a new brand voice and website to match the company’s DNA. So we did it all: we designed a corporate typeface, aptly named Affina, and found a quirky and fun way to show they are the leading IT company around (no animals were harmed or robotized in the making of the website). Hoot.

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CMON, that's clearly an A

An IT brand should be all comfy on digital, so we crafted all the devices that allow the brand language to expand with ease. We started with a solid wordmark featuring 2 distinct ligatures — “ffi” and “ty” — to mirror the affinity between the company and clients/ collaborators, and an “A” outline symbol. Eventually, it evolved into the custom type family “Affina", designed particularly for the digital extension.

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    Affinity Logo

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    Typography: Cera

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    Flag

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    Notebook

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    Water Bottle

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    Affinity Cup

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    Tote Bag

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    T-shirt

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Identity application

Affinity Overview of the theater
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Identity application

Affinity Identity application
It's in your nature

For the brand imagery, we discarded the typical sleek buildings and looked for nature to provide a human feel. Nature was always in the plan (business is in our nature as stated by the brief). And what is more natural than animals? All-in. These elements rendered a refreshing take within the technology field and triggered the branding process for the next step: the website.

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Affina Display

The outline logo is a mutable element that gave us the direction for the whole Affinity brand universe: pictograms, website headers, image masks and so on. The outline “A” is the digital building block for the brand language and the first glyph in the custom typeface — all characters being set in an uninterrupted outline to the limit of legibility. The typeface was the graphical lexicon that allowed play with nearly everything: from organic shapes over images to email signature photo containers. The typeface also holds a 3D extension animated via webGL.

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Affina Display

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Affina Display application

Affina Display application
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Affina Display application

Affina Display application
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Identity application

Affina Display application
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E-mail signatures

Affina Display application
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Affinity Talks 2018 overview

Affinity Talks 2018 overview
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Motion produced for the Affinity Talks 2018

Motion produced for the Affinity Talks 2018
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Identity application

Affina Display application
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Affinity Talks 2018

Affinity Talks 2018
It’s evolution baby owl

Brands are ever-evolving and it's fundamental for the brand language to be compatible with digital. We like to think that Affinity's branding and website set a good example of how a logo can be timeless and work with a brand universe that is both versatile and functional for what's to come. Adaptability at its best. Darwin would be proud.

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