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Closing the loop: brand strategy, creative direction and copywriting for a global investment venture
Brand strategy, naming, creative direction, visual identity, website and copywriting for Sirkel Ventures, an investment business working across renewable energy, mining and global markets.
THE STORY
Sirkel was built around a simple idea: seemingly separate opportunities are often part of something much bigger.
The business works across industries, markets and geographies, connecting capital, expertise and opportunity. I wanted the brand to make those connections visible.
That led naturally to the idea of the circle, and to Sirkel.
From there, I built the visual and verbal world around movement, connection and impact. Circles, ripples, loops and repeating forms became a way to show how one investment can create effects far beyond its starting point.
The language followed the same thinking. “Bridging continents. Connecting innovators.” “Embracing diversity and creating opportunity.” “Join our Sirkel of change and impact.”
The result was a bold, stripped-back identity that could move comfortably between mining, renewable energy and investment without belonging too obviously to any one of them.
WHAT IT TAUGHT ME
That a good brand idea can do more than hold a business together. It can help make sense of a business that operates across very different worlds.
And that sometimes the simplest shape gives you the biggest world to build from. 
