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Brand Transformation
Redefining the organization’s identity to bring clarity, consistency, and scalability to a growing organization.
❋ Role
Creative Director
❋ Scope
Brand Strategy · Visual Identity · Design Systems
❋ Team
Internal Creative and Global Workforce Teams
Overview
As the organization grew, its brand no longer reflected the scale or direction of the company. Visual styles, messaging, and design patterns had become fragmented across teams and platforms.
I led a comprehensive brand transformation to bring clarity and cohesion to the company’s identity. The goal was not just to refresh the visuals, but to build a flexible brand system capable of supporting long-term growth.
Working closely with executive leadership, marketing, and product teams, we developed a modernized identity that aligned the company’s story, design language, and digital presence under a unified vision.
The Challenge
Over time the brand had become inconsistent across departments and channels, making it difficult to present a cohesive identity to customers.
Key challenges included:
❋ Inconsistent Brand UsageMarketing and digital teams applied the brand differently, resulting in a fragmented experience across channels.
❋ Limited System ScalabilityExisting visual elements lacked the flexibility needed to support a growing range of platforms and content.
❋ Unclear Brand GovernanceTeams lacked clear standards and resources for applying the brand consistently across the organization.
❋ Outdated Brand PerceptionA brand identity thst no longer reflected the company’s scale, evolution, or long-term direction.
This created an opportunity to rethink the brand from the ground up.
My Role & Approach
As Creative Director, I led the transformation from early strategic alignment through identity development and rollout.
My responsibilities included:
❋ Defining the creative vision for the new brand
❋ Leading identity exploration and design direction
❋ Aligning executive stakeholders around the strategy
❋ Guiding internal designers and external partners
❋ Establishing scalable brand systems and governance
Rather than focusing on individual design assets, we approached the project as a brand system — creating a flexible visual language that teams could confidently apply across digital platforms, marketing, and internal communications.
The Work
The new identity established a cohesive visual system designed to work across marketing, digital platforms, and physical environments.
The system included a refined logo, updated typography, expanded color palette, and flexible graphic component system built for scale.
Designing the brand as a system allowed it to extend naturally across websites, campaigns, events, and internal communications while maintaining a consistent look and feel.
The original mark paired a rounded, condensed wordmark with a chunky five-point burst.
The refined system pairs a serif logotype with an eight-point starburst and trail, built for a wealthtech leader.
Logomark & Lockups
One starburst, recolored across the family. Orion anchors the system in Orion Blue; Brinker and Redtail keep the same mark and structure in their own color, so each reads as distinct while staying unmistakably "an Orion company."
Orion
Brinker
Redtail
Color System
Orbit, Onyx, and Ice carry daily use. A secondary accent set highlights data, a wider tertiary palette exists purely for dense visualization, and each brand in the family owns one signature hue.
Typography
Inter, used end to end and chosen for its tall x-height and readability at small sizes across dense product UI, proposals, and marketing alike. One typeface, five weights, and a clear hierarchy.
Onyx headlines, Orbit for eyebrows and emphasis, Onyx Light for captions.
Standard CTAIce Light headlines, Orbit Light for emphasis, Moon Rock for captions.
Standard CTAIconography
70+ product icons, all built on a single 128px grid with an 8px pad and 15° angle system. What's shown below is the actual production set, not placeholders.
Every icon is built on the same 128px grid, with an 8px padding boundary and a 15° angle system that keeps every mark, from a circle to a compound shape, feeling like it was drawn by the same hand.
The Impact
The transformation created a clearer and more cohesive brand across the organization while establishing a scalable foundation for future growth.
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A unified brand system adopted across departments
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Improved consistency across digital and marketing channels
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Clearer internal brand standards and governance
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A flexible framework capable of evolving with the company