Brand design and application

Our approach

A brand only comes alive the moment someone sees it. All the strategic thinking in the world means nothing if the idea behind it doesn’t survive contact with a boardroom discussion, an exhibition floor or an infinite scroll.

This is where the Big Idea happens. We brainstorm and design it through systems, environments and executions bold enough to be unmistakable wherever they show up.

We push for ideas that are quick to grasp but slow to fade, then build them out with enough craft and rigour to work at scale.

G42

G42’s Intelligence Grid needed to feel as big as its ambition: AI as ubiquitous, and as essential, as electricity. For GITEX GLOBAL, we built a dynamic, AI-powered storytelling experience, evolving an award-winning 3D cityscape into a sleek, web-native execution that translated complex technology into real human impact. It won Platinum at the Hermes Awards, Gold at the MUSE Creative Awards and two Telly Awards.

Twelve screens from The Intelligence Grid experience for G42, covering health, sustainability, smart services and G42's partner companies

Yokogawa

Yokogawa’s engineers had every reason for confidence, and almost none of the swagger to match it. Our original thinking gave the business a new way to describe itself: Precision Makers – a simple, bold idea that turned quiet, understated engineering excellence into a genuine point of pride, and helped shift a whole company culture in the process. More than a decade on, the idea still holds, having grown to carry the sustainability-led story Yokogawa tells today.

A laptop on a metal cabinet showing the Yokogawa Test & Measurement website, with the headline Precision made by Akari beside a portrait on yellow

Tata Technologies

Engineering a better world was already Tata Technologies’ promise when we arrived – the ambition just wasn’t matched by the identity carrying it. Perception skewed toward a traditional automotive engineering firm, with not enough weight on “better world.” We rebuilt the visual and verbal identity and worked with the executive leadership team to redefine what engineering could mean – shifting Tata Technologies toward a future-focused, human-centric story, and giving an idea that already existed the creative charge to travel.

Our latest thinking

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The Prompt: Strategy can go bigger with AI

Strategists Sophie and Ellie take on today’s tools without compromising on quality or integrity.

Sophie Meadows, Creative Strategist

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I am challenging: Sophie

Meet the challenging people who own The Frameworks. Sophie Meadows ponders the future of creative roles and gets stuck into one job AI could never do: gardening.

Sophie Meadows, Creative Strategist

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