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Case Study

Brand Identity

RoleVisual Designer
Year2019–2020
TypeBrand Identity · Visual System

Building a brand around the idea of a patent: something proprietary, engineered, and exclusively Sulvo's.

Sulvo is an advertising technology platform for publishers, built on patented technology. The brand needed to communicate that distinctiveness visually, not just through language, but through a design language that felt invented rather than assembled.

01 · Brief

The challenge

The challenge was to build a brand system for a patented advertising technology platform that needed to communicate exclusivity, technical precision, and innovation. The website was the primary touchpoint. It had to carry the brand while also functioning as a product marketing vehicle for a technical audience.

We needed a visual language that felt like it came from the inside of an invention. Something that signaled intellectual ownership without relying on generic tech clichés.

Sulvo website

02 · Ideation

What does a patent look like as a brand?

The ideation phase started with one question: what does a patent look like as a brand? We explored technical drawing conventions, engineering blueprints, and industrial schematics, not as decoration, but as the foundational visual grammar. Early concepts moved between flat line art and dimensional 3D forms before landing on the combination that felt right: isometric geometry rendered in blueprint blue, suggesting both innovation and precision.

Visual references

Sulvo's patent was at the core of the brand's identity. The design language needed to communicate that this was something proprietary, engineered, and exclusively theirs. Generic branding wouldn't do it. We needed a visual system that felt like it came from the inside of an invention.

The answer was a blueprint aesthetic: technical line work, isometric 3D geometry, and the precision of engineering documentation, reinterpreted as brand expression. The result positions Sulvo not just as a software product, but as a protected, original piece of intellectual infrastructure.

Blueprint style
3D visual

03 · Color & Typography

Visual system

The palette is anchored in deep navy and electric blue: technical, precise, and unmistakably digital. The lighter blues extend the system into UI contexts and illustration without losing cohesion. Typography uses a clean geometric sans-serif across three weights, letting the visual elements carry the personality.

Dark Blue #002256
Blue #0045FF
Medium Blue #4D8AFF
Light Blue #A8C4FF
Dark Teal #4A5568
Off White #E2E8F0
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Light · 300
Aa
Regular · 400
Aa
Bold · 700

04 · Illustration System

Icon & 3D visual language

The illustration system extends the blueprint concept into two registers: a flat line icon set for UI and documentation contexts, and a library of isometric 3D scenes for marketing and hero visuals. Both share the same geometry and palette, creating a coherent visual world across every surface.

Illustration system
Sulvo 3D illustration
Sulvo 3D illustration
Sulvo 3D illustration

05 · Website

The brand, live on the website

The website brought every piece together: the blueprint backgrounds in the hero, the isometric illustrations next to each product message, and the blue palette carrying the whole page. It was the first place publishers met the brand, so it had to feel as engineered as the technology behind it.

sulvo.com

Scrolling through the Sulvo website