Mara Lind

Identity systems
that feel like objects.

Brand & Identity Designer — Copenhagen

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Kova
Nordvik
Static
Ferro
Tostado
Halden
Oaktide
Pellucid
Sono

(01) Approach

I build identity systems for brands that live on shelves, screens and street corners. Every mark starts as an object — something you could hold, turn and put under a light — and grows into a system of type, colour, motion and packaging that behaves the same everywhere.

(02) Selected Work

Four brands, four objects

(03) Process

From a sphere to a shelf

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  3. 03
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Discover

Two weeks inside the business: founders, shelves, competitors, the words customers actually use. The output is one sentence the whole identity has to prove.

01 / 04

Discover

Two weeks inside the business: founders, shelves, competitors, the words customers actually use. The output is one sentence the whole identity has to prove.

02 / 04

Define

Positioning, naming and the building blocks: a grid, a type pairing, a colour logic. Rules first, so every later decision has something to stand on.

03 / 04

Design

The mark is drawn on a construction grid until it holds at 16 pixels and on a six-metre sign. Then type, colour and motion are tuned around it.

04 / 04

Deliver

Packaging files, a living guideline site and a component kit for the team. The system ships as objects people can hold, not a PDF nobody opens.