Logo & Branding: Sellar
Posted: January 30, 2012 Filed under: Business, Banking & Finance, Logos & Branding | Tags: architecture, branding, Campbell Hay, design, development, graphic, logo, logo-type, London, review, Sellar, The Dieline 3 Comments »
Sellar Development is a privately owned property investment, development and management business based in London and responsible for such high profile projects as The Shard and London Bridge Place. The company approached brand design agency Campbell Hay to develop an identity that would reflect their ongoing partnerships, collaborative process and involvement with the architectural world.
They asked us to redesign and rethink their position within the property development sector. Through discussion with the client it became apparent that it was the partnership with talented teams of professionals and visionaries, that made these projects possible. To reflect this partnership led approach we created the new Sellar logo and graphic device and applied it across a beautiful range of printed stationary and communication.
- Taken from the Campbell Hay website
I am a great believer in simple but truthful identities that show restraint and avoid compounding too much into a single logo or logo-type. Sellar is a great example with a clear logo-type that is constructed with a sans serif simplicity and a wide monospaced execution that balances positive and negative space neatly resolving the company’s involvement with interior and exterior structures. A geometric pattern that blends two and three dimensional qualities furthers this theme but also hints at the wider network Sellar draws from and their collaborative approach to business. Applied as both a printed and embossed surface treatment alongside frosted substrates and a modernistic colour palette (that plays on the idea of light and shadow) delivers a distinctive architectural sensibility across the collaterals.
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Richard BairdRichard is a British freelance designer and writer who specialises in the development of logos, branding and packaging. He has written for Brand New and Design Week, is an editor for The Dieline, has featured in Computer Arts magazine and also runs the resource Design Survival. |
Very nice font. I agree, on a spin off of a famous Steve Jobs quote, simplicity is king. This simple, logo-type works extremely well and is very elegant.
Simple but not at the expense of communicating it’s position. It’s a great example of a broader identity system rather than trying to cram everything into one logo.
Simply simple