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One mark. Every surface.

A technology brand lives in product UI, decks, docs, and code. We design identities that hold everywhere the company shows up: logo, typography, color, and motion built to survive a pitch deck, a product interface, and a conference stage.

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Fixed fee · One team · 8–16 weeks
Designers working on an identity system in the OSMOS studio
01 — Identity Systems

One mark, one system, every surface

An identity for a technology company has to work in places a consumer brand never goes: inside the product, in API docs, in a Series B deck, on a conference stage. We design the mark and the system around it so the brand holds at every size and on every surface, and so your engineers can implement it without asking.

An identity system applied across a wordmark, symbols and product surfaces
The identity system includes
01

Logo and wordmark

A mark built to survive a favicon, an app icon, and a billboard.

02

Typography and color

A type and color system calibrated for product UI and marketing alike, with contrast and hierarchy that hold in code.

03

Motion and interaction language

How the brand moves: transitions, loading states, and micro-interactions that make the product feel like the brand.

04

Brand guidelines and templates

Rules, templates, and assets your team can run at speed. Consistency without a committee.

Designed to be extended, not protected, so the brand keeps up with the product.
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02 — Art Direction

The world around the mark

Photography, illustration, and motion language make a brand recognizable before the logo appears. We define the visual world the identity lives in, so campaigns, product screenshots, and social all feel like they came from the same company.

Brand photography direction applied across product and place
001

Photography and imagery

A visual point of view for product, people, and place, with direction your team and vendors can follow.

An icon and symbol system explaining a complex product
002

Illustration and iconography

Systems for explaining complex products simply, from marketing to in-product UI.

Launch film and motion assets built from the brand system
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Motion and launch assets

Launch films, product motion, and social assets built from the same system.

The result is a brand people recognize in a feed, in a deck, and in the product itself, without a logo in sight.

03 — Built for Machines

Brands people love and machines understand.

Brands are now read by AI engines as often as by people. We design identities and the assets around them so both can understand you: structured brand data, machine-readable guidelines, and naming and language that AI models can attribute correctly.

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2–3 weeks · stands alone or opens the program
The identity is legible to
A buyer
scrolling on a phone

Contrast, hierarchy, and a mark that reads at 16 px.

An investor
opening a Series B deck

Typography and color that carry the story slide to slide.

The press
pulling assets under deadline

Guidelines and templates anyone can run.

An AI model
deciding whether to recommend you

Structured brand data and machine-readable guidelines.

04 — Positioning

Identity follows positioning

Positioning is the decision every other decision depends on, so we make it first and hold the identity to it. Category, audience, enemy: the identity system is designed to express what the company is, who it is for, and what it is against.

Before the identity, we lock
1

Category and competitive audit

Where the category is going and where the visual white space is.

2

Positioning and narrative

What the company is, who it is for, and what it is against.

3

Messaging architecture

Proof points and language calibrated for buyers, investors, and press.

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The identity

Built to express the position, then tested against the flagship.

Identity built on a sharp position ages well. Identity built on taste alone gets redesigned in eighteen months.

05 — Delivery

Delivered with the flagship, not before it

Most brand firms hand you guidelines and scope the site separately. We build the flagship inside the program, so the identity is tested against a real interface, real content, and real performance constraints before it launches.

How the program runs
Phase 1
Strategy locks
Positioning is decided before anything is designed.
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Phase 2
Run in parallel sprints
Identity
The brand system
Flagship
The site that proves it
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Phase 3
Launch
The brand launches with the site that proves it.
Throughout
You review working product the whole way, not a big reveal at the end.
8 to 16 weeks
One team, from strategy to launch
Fixed fee
Agreed before we start
One system
Identity and flagship, designed together
06 — Why OSMOS

The brand company for technology companies at their defining moments

Every engagement pairs brand strategy with the full flagship build, delivered by one team in 8 to 16 weeks at a fixed fee. Our work spans venture-backed startups and institutions including Hearst, Leica, and Marvel. Launching, repositioning, creating a category, entering the US market, raising, or scaling: we build the identity around the moment you are in, and hand your team a system they can run without us.

At a defining moment?

Fixed fee. One team. 8 to 16 weeks. Tell us about the moment you are in.

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