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Brand identity for Practix, a UK-based supplementary learning centre helping students deepen their academic knowledge while building the character and confidence to thrive beyond the classroom. The challenge was to build a brand that could hold two ideas at once, rigorous enough to produce real academic results, warm enough that students actually want to be there, without one undermining the other. I was commissioned to develop the full identity, built around a central concept: Future Ready. Every element of the system was designed to carry both registers simultaneously. The logotype uses weight to signal academic seriousness, paired with a staggered arrangement that introduces deliberate playfulness. The dot above the "i" was designed as a small device encoding the brand's core belief, that learning should be enjoyable. Two typefaces work in tandem, one carrying professionalism and authority, the other adding warmth and energy, so the identity never tips into purely corporate or purely informal. The palette of orange and blue, creativity and trust, is extended with a set of vibrant secondary colours, giving the system room to flex across applications without losing coherence. The result is a brand as ambitious as the students it serves, one that communicates seriousness and joy in equal measure.
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