Designing a graphic system of free-flowing communications for Three, Ireland’s second largest telecoms company.
Three are a truly global brand with a foothold in markets across both Europe and Asia. That’s good for fast, reliable service and the latest technology but not so good if you want a consistent look and feel across multiple channels.
What the telecoms giant needed was a way to maintain the same visual style across all of their comms, so work made a half a world away looked like it belonged in the same room.
Designing a graphic system of free-flowing communications for Three, Ireland’s second largest telecoms company.
Three are a truly global brand with a foothold in markets across both Europe and Asia. That’s good for fast, reliable service and the latest technology but not so good if you want a consistent look and feel across multiple channels.
What the telecoms giant needed was a way to maintain the same visual style across all of their comms, so work made a half a world away looked like it belonged in the same room.
Designing a graphic system of free-flowing communications for Three, Ireland’s second largest telecoms company.
Three are a truly global brand with a foothold in markets across both Europe and Asia. That’s good for fast, reliable service and the latest technology but not so good if you want a consistent look and feel across multiple channels.
What the telecoms giant needed was a way to maintain the same visual style across all of their comms, so work made a half a world away looked like it belonged in the same room.
Designing a graphic system of free-flowing communications for Three, Ireland’s second largest telecoms company.
Three are a truly global brand with a foothold in markets across both Europe and Asia. That’s good for fast, reliable service and the latest technology but not so good if you want a consistent look and feel across multiple channels.
What the telecoms giant needed was a way to maintain the same visual style across all of their comms, so work made a half a world away looked like it belonged in the same room.
Role
Art Direction, Branding, Design
Deliverables
Brand System, Guidelines Portal
Produced while working at Boys+Girls
Role
Art Direction, Branding, Design
Deliverables
Brand Platform, Guidelines Portal
Produced while working at Boys+Girls
Role
Art Direction, Branding, Design
Deliverables
Brand System, Guidelines Portal
Produced while working at Boys+Girls
Role
Art Direction, Branding, Design
Deliverables
Brand System, Guidelines Portal
Produced while working at Boys+Girls
Role
Art Direction, Branding, Design
Deliverables
Brand System, Guidelines Portal
Produced while working at Boys+Girls
Three steps to unity.
With a rapidly-evolving global landscape of channels for brands to communicate through, the challenge was to develop a unique and contemporary design system to help unify Three’s messaging.
From social posts in Ireland to print ads in Hong Kong, everything needed to look like it belonged together. It also had to be flexible enough to adapt to the content, while still being unmistakably Three.
Seems straightforward enough. But it didn’t answer how to bring the brand to life in a creative and unexpected way.
Three steps to unity.
With a rapidly-evolving global landscape of channels for brands to communicate through, the challenge was to develop a unique and contemporary design system to help unify Three’s messaging.
From social posts in Ireland to print ads in Hong Kong, everything needed to look like it belonged together. It also had to be flexible enough to adapt to the content, while still being unmistakably Three.
Seems straightforward enough. But it didn’t answer how to bring the brand to life in a creative and unexpected way.
Three steps to unity
With a rapidly-evolving global landscape of channels for brands to communicate through, the challenge was to develop a unique and contemporary design system to help unify Three’s messaging.
From social posts in Ireland to print ads in Hong Kong, everything needed to look like it belonged together. It also had to be flexible enough to adapt to the content, while still being unmistakably Three.
Seems straightforward enough. But it didn’t answer how to bring the brand to life in a creative and unexpected way.
Introducing Threeality.
We wanted to capture the space where our real lives and our digital ones meet, to show the connections that Three make possible. It’s not quite real, not quite fantasy, but a blurring of the two called ‘Threeality’.
‘Threeality’ influences every visual element of the brand expression. You can see and feel it in everything from how images are created to how colour is used and even how brand experiences are shaped.
Trippy, right?
Introducing Threeality
We wanted to capture the space where our real lives and our digital ones meet, to show the connections that Three make possible. It’s not quite real, not quite fantasy, but a blurring of the two called ‘Threeality’.
‘Threeality’ influences every visual element of the brand expression. You can see and feel it in everything from how images are created to how colour is used and even how brand experiences are shaped.
Trippy, right?
Like colour, only living.
We had our big idea, but we still didn’t know what it looked like. And then we had a lightbulb moment...
Light touches absolutely everything everywhere, making it the perfect representation of our network. Three’s core brand colours of black and white represent opposing ends of the visible spectrum of light, which gives us licence to use the entire spectrum of colour in between.
It’s called ‘Living Colour’, the visual manifestation of ‘Threeality’, bringing emotion and vibrancy to our communications. To capture it, we created a shimmering, iridescent ribbon that’s always in motion.
Like colour, only living
We had our big idea, but we still didn’t know what it looked like. And then we had a lightbulb moment...
Light touches absolutely everything everywhere, making it the perfect representation of our network. Three’s core brand colours of black and white represent opposing ends of the visible spectrum of light, which gives us licence to use the entire spectrum of colour in between.
It’s called ‘Living Colour’, the visual manifestation of ‘Threeality’, bringing emotion and vibrancy to our communications. To capture it, we created a shimmering, iridescent ribbon that’s always in motion.
The Three Step System.
Our new visual language revolves around a simple three-step system, best imagined as layers of information, brand devices and imagery interacting with our iridescent material.
Breaking it down, brand elements, copy or imagery sit on the rear step. Our iridescent ribbon and tagline flow in to next before the third and final step is introduced to hold everything from messaging and icons to devices and images. While it may seem simple, it’s infinitely variable and distinctively clear, scaling easily to any size and translating to any platform.
The Three Step System.
Our new visual language revolves around a simple three-step system, best imagined as layers of information, brand devices and imagery interacting with our iridescent material.
Breaking it down, brand elements, copy or imagery sit on the rear step. Our iridescent ribbon and tagline flow in to next before the third and final step is introduced to hold everything from messaging and icons to devices and images. While it may seem simple, it’s infinitely variable and distinctively clear, scaling easily to any size and translating to any platform.
The Three Step System.
Our new visual language revolves around a simple three-step system, best imagined as layers of information, brand devices and imagery interacting with our iridescent material flowing through them.
Breaking it down, brand elements, copy or imagery sit on the rear step. Our iridescent ribbon and tagline flow in to next before the third and final step is introduced to hold everything from messaging and icons to devices and images. While it may seem simple, it’s infinitely variable and distinctively clear, scaling easily to any size and translating to any platform.
The Three Step System.
Our new visual language revolves around a simple three-step system, best imagined as layers of information, brand devices and imagery interacting with our iridescent material.
Breaking it down, brand elements, copy or imagery sit on the rear step. Our iridescent ribbon and tagline flow in to next before the third and final step is introduced to hold everything from messaging and icons to devices and images. While it may seem simple, it’s infinitely variable and distinctively clear, scaling easily to any size and translating to any platform.
The Three Step System
Our new visual language revolves around a simple three-step system, best imagined as layers of information, brand devices and imagery interacting with our iridescent material.
Breaking it down, brand elements, copy or imagery sit on the rear step. Our iridescent ribbon and tagline flow in to next before the third and final step is introduced to hold everything from messaging and icons to devices and images. While it may seem simple, it’s infinitely variable and distinctively clear, scaling easily to any size and translating to any platform.
Creating a living brand guidelines.
Three’s new brand system is a living, breathing thing so, it didn’t seem right to stick it up on a static page where it couldn’t do its thing.
Instead, we built a custom brand portal where the brand guidelines could work their magic. It’s a vital resource for ensuring consistent use of the new brand system across the business and even access to the suite of assets too.
A living brand guidelines
Three’s new brand system is a living, breathing thing — it’s not called ‘Living Colour’ for nothing! So, it didn’t seem right to stick it up on a static page where the system couldn’t do its thing.
Instead, we built a custom brand portal where the brand guidelines could work their magic. It’s a vital resource for ensuring consistent use of the new brand system across the business and even access to the suite of assets too.
