![]() ![]() “But luckily, the very lovely team at .nz offered to waive the licensing costs which allowed us to go with Founders Grotesk,” Koto says. That’s why we went with a Google font for all body copy.” The scale of Ecosia’s audience – so far, over 20 million users have helped the platform plant over 150 million trees – would have made licensing costs an issue for the brand. Typography was also a key challenge for the team. “With so many page views, loading time was important. ![]() This illustration style, developed with Adrian, though not super detailed, delivers “complex ideas in a wonderfully clever way” with motion design used to breathe life into the graphics. Sloping and smooth are the best way to describe the graphics now utilised across the brand, with singular illustrations often merging into entire interlocking forest scenes. “We avoided straight lines in the illustrations,” the team confirms. "They had to be vectors and scalable to small sizes, so adding textures wasn’t going to work.” The solution arises in a soft-formed identity, which just so happens to mirror the natural look and feel Koto wanted. “Ecosia helps plant hundreds of species of trees, so we couldn’t actually represent them all – instead our approach was to show the diversity around the world,” says the design leads. Though, for Koto, the approach came with its own set of difficulties. Ecosia’s new look is wonderfully easy on the eye with a multitude of growing trees – a concept that also played out brilliantly on another tree planting app brand from How&How this year. With no strict remit on what could change, and after looking at competitors to see “where the visual equity lied for Ecosia”, Koto landed on two interlinking ideas to guide the work: “Power the regeneration” and “Never Neutral”. Working with Adrian Johnson to produce illustrations that visualise the ecological regeneration the brand focuses on, Koto’s creative director Tim Williams and managing director Johann Laeschke tell us about the ins and outs of the work.įrom the get-go, the aim behind the project was to broaden Ecosia’s brand from search engine to a more “holistic offer” as the brand is branching out into new areas, Johann and Tim explain. Koto has launched a rebrand of Ecosia, a search engine harnessing the profit from web searches to plant trees. ![]()
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