Loading…




Bouffant

All puffed-out !

A change in leadership at production company Fresh Water Films resulted in a change in energy, and a change in name to Bouffant. REX was called in to translate this new energy in the form of a brand identity.

More details…


Branding / Design



Compass

In the right direction
Developing a brand identity is often about taking back power – the kind of power that defines your business and what it stands for. This was certainly the case for specialist insurance company Compass. While the company offered a highly specialised and professional service to the insurance industry, its brand was not enjoying the kind of recognition it deserved. A lack of brand equity created a gap where a strong, unified identity should have been. And as with many other things, when it comes to branding, you are better off defining yourself, before others do it for you.
Our starting point was to uncover the real value that the company was offering clients  – value that lay in expertise and partnership. Compass is the go-to point for brokers and clients looking for specialist insurance; they facilitate the end-game, acting less like an insurance company and more like a consultancy. So we dropped ‘Insurance’ from their name and developed the ‘Enabling Opportunity’ positioning.
Next, we designed an essential, sophisticated, yet contemporary identity that would reflect the company’s professionalism and quiet confidence. Subtle calibration marks on a luxurious white paper stock reflect the measured way in which Compass analyses risk in order to identify opportunity for its clients. The new identity presents an interesting new balance struck between something elegant, something ambitious, and something new. The word mark is contemporary yet understated, the colour palette is mono yet is moves – all of which reflect only what is essential. The bespoke identity elements speak for a company that has redefined itself and discovered how to use its quiet confidence to attract its relevant target market.

In the right direction

Developing a brand identity is often about taking back power – the kind of power that defines your business and what it stands for. This was certainly the case for specialist insurance company Compass. More details…


Branding / Design / New



Spectrum

Seeing solutions

The thing that most excites the people at Spectrum about what they do is their ability to unlock the potential of visual content. These are people who are moved by all things visual and whose expertise lies in harnessing the power of technology to add intelligence to visual solutions. Inspired by this passion for ‘visual stuff’, REX used it as a starting point to build a brand and design a new visual identity for Spectrum, which is a long-standing client of the company’s.

More details…


Branding / Design



M Design

Fashion-Inspired Facelift

M Design, an interior design outfit from the Middle East, has taken the regional market by storm with the work done for Wataniya Cellular, and so it happened that the business was soon outperforming its brand. So when the decision was made to revamp their brand identity, they turned to REX.

More details…


Branding



ECHO

H is for hope

An estimated 230 000 children under 15 are living with HIV in South Africa. Yet only about 10 000 children are currently on ARV treatment, meaning that about 50% of children with HIV/AIDS die before they reach the age of two.

More details…


Branding / Design



Merensky

Seeing the wood for the trees

When Merensky wanted to re-engineer their brand, they were looking for an identity that would reflect their vision for the future, while still retaining their links to a powerful legacy.

More details…


Branding



Nelson Mandela Foundation


Branding



Global Access

Starting something

Increasingly REX’ work involves helping businesses to define who they are and redesign their business offering, by using branding as a vehicle to catalyse change and unearth potential for new growth. This was the case when REX took on a re-branding project for Global Access, a business-to-business broadcast corporation looking for a new lease on life..

More details…


Branding / Design / Motion



Oil


Branding / Design



Hannover re


Branding / Design / New



Homemakers

The great Homemakers makeover

Homemakers needed their brand to work a lot harder for the business. They approached REX to help them align consumer perception with their offering. The challenge lay in the fact that while Homemakers’ divisional brands – Homemakers Fair, Homemakers Expo, HomeTalk and Complex Living – had the same client bases, there was no synergy between them. REX needed to reposition Homemakers as a great home improvement ideas provider instead of the DIY company consumers perceived it as, and change the outdated styling to one that was contemporary, credible and consumer-friendly.

More details…


Branding



Velocity

Hall of Fame

When top brands are looking for a safe pair of hands to create and produce an inspiring television commercial, they look to Velocity Films. A company that has won nearly every local and international advertising award for creativity and production excellence, the Velocity team includes the industry’s top creative talent and an unparalleled body of work.

More details…


Branding / Design



Coca-Cola M5

Coca-Cola, the biggest brand in the world, was beginning to lose its grip on its core consumer – the youth of today and more importantly the generation after them, who simply don’t share the same emotional bond with the brand as the ‘baby boomers’.

More details…


Branding / Design / Motion / Packaging



ACICO

Waking sleeping giants

Creating a brand architecture for construction conglomerate ACICO delivered not only a visual identity for this Kuwait-based company, but birthed a common sense of purpose and shaped an organisational structure that has created new business opportunities for the company, both in the Middle East and around the world.

More details…


Branding



MiBar

Since its inception in 2003, Liquid Chefs pioneered a new brand of bar culture in South Africa as well as in other parts of the world. Now this cult-cum-company has embarked on a daring initiative to launch an exclusive digital network of like-minded people. Tailor-made for young tech savvy trendsetters, the online network, “MiWorld”, will connect members both physically and digitally and steer them to various MiWorld locations.
Liquid Chefs engaged with us to bring the online platform to life and create the virtual and physical spaces. The first step was to conceive an overarching brand identity-mechanism for the “Mi”-brand trilogy that is derived from the term ‘multimedia interactivity’. The MiWorld concept was brought to life as an interactive website with a contemporary brand identity – and the experience was extended further into the interior design of each of the venues, as well as in the various marketing materials.
With three different MiWorld venues in the making – MiBar, MiLounge and MiCafé – we experimented with ways to differentiate the locations but still connect them under the MiWorld brand. Using the subtleties of visual language, we established continuity through the use of a wordmark – a logo which doesn’t have a symbol. The wordmark creates a visual link between the venues, while still identifying each as a separate and uniquely-themed entity.
The design team created a multi-coloured logo which is made up of vivid splashes of colour that look as if they’ve been spontaneously thrown onto a canvass. The splashes of colour represent a connected network of people and the vibrancy of MiWorld nightlife. The primary brand mark and avant garde colour palette are defining features of the website (mi-world.co.za), and will be replicated in various forms on all the marketing materials such as invitation cards, email invitations, food and cocktail menus, etc.
As designers, we are not only creating the look and feel of the tangible elements of a brand – we are engineering perceptions and establishing an emotional connection between the brand and the end consumer.  MiWorld is both a sophisticated and seductive concept, and these are the qualities that we sought to convey through creative brand design.

Since its inception in 2003, Liquid Chefs pioneered a new brand of bar culture in South Africa as well as in other parts of the world. More details…


Branding / Design / New



Xealll.com


Branding



The Yas Hotel Pitch


Branding / Design



Zuri

The business of beautiful

We revel in projects that stretch us – and there can be few things more challenging than bringing harmony to polar opposites, and then expressing this in an identity that is at once professional and visually powerful.

More details…


Branding / Design



Boubyan Bank

Essentials for a life less ordinary

There are those who believe that to establish a global presence, a brand should position itself as being all things to all people, a hold-all solution that cuts across diverse target groups. But when Boubyan Bank embarked on a journey with us to revamp their brand for the world market, they discovered that it was their inherently unique qualities as an Islamic bank that would, at once, give them mass appeal and yet allow them to stand out on the global financial stage.

More details…


Branding



Going Back to the Future

When Motor Underwriting Agencies (MUA) began it was the first specialist underwriting agency for the motor insurance industry. In 1988, this was very significant, as no-one had ventured into the territory of insuring niches before. And so it was that MUA made its name almost exclusively from providing classic and executive motor vehicle insurance to a highly affluent niche market. But times change, and with new leadership and an expanded product offering, MUA was ready for a purposeful make-over.
In partnership with us, MUA embarked on a journey to discover, or rather re-discover, a new brand character which more accurately reflected their services, their operating model and their vision. The challenge was twofold: firstly, MUA needed to change the perception that it only offers executive and classic vehicle insurance; and secondly, it had to challenge the notion that it only serves wealthy male customers. The new brand identity had to attract a new target market, while not alienating the existing one. Further to this, the new brand had to deliver breakthrough with brokers, who play an integral part in the business’ process.
To redefine a brand, one has to go back to its origins and make a contemporary translation of the existing or pre-existing values, and to make it relevant in its current context. Through this process the company character and culture was defined, which will take the brand into the future. The individual now becomes central to MUA’s philosophy – and in adopting this philosophy, MUA has gained a competitive edge, offering a concierge service in the insurance sector.
Having crystallized MUA’s new brand image, we set out to implement the new visual identity for the company at various important touchpoints. This involved re-designing everything from stationery, calendars, brochures, to the newsletter email and website.
Translating a company’s vision into a unique and tangible brand is an exciting and rewarding process – it is a substantial but simple process. Substantial, because without understanding the core fundamentals, no brand promise can be made with integrity. Simple, because providing a new lease on life shouldn’t be made more complex than is necessary.

When Motor Underwriting Agencies (MUA) began it was the first specialist underwriting agency for the motor insurance industry. More details…


Branding / Design / New