DockTail approached me with a fun idea: make us look nothing like what we do.
As strange as it sounds, I think this is one of the most exciting creative challenges. When branding a business, the primary objective is usually to communicate what it does. But what happens when you deliberately take that away?
After a few days of brainstorming, experimentation, and using Curative Intelligence, I arrived at these two concepts.
One is ALL CAPS, the other is all lowercase. Both carry the same personality, but express it through two entirely different approaches.
That is the motto of Colégio Altiora, and the whole identity starts from it. Altiora is Latin for "higher things", so the symbol is a small "a" built from two pieces, an arch that rises and a yellow ball.
From those two pieces came everything else. The patterns, the brand elements, the icons for the school app, the classroom signs and the uniform all share the same arch and the same ball.