Collective Equity

Projecting credibility for a new kind of equity fund
Animated guilloché on a vivid blue background

About the project

Collective Equity have introduced a novel way for founders to unlock the value of their equity. Their pioneering lender-supported structure gives exceptional founders of category-defining companies better liquidity without sacrificing upside or control.

With the launch of their third fund approaching, we partnered with the Collective Equity team to communicate their inventive approach with clarity and transparency, establishing their bona fides, and educating prospective participants on the benefits. We created a brand identity at the intersection of trustworthiness and innovation and developed a website that brings lightness and crispness to what may initially seem a complex product.

Impact

$500m AUM

The new identity and website supported the launch of a third fund with a target of $500 million assets under management.

Design services

Positioning and messaging, visual identity, website design, website development, illustration, collateral design, animation.

Symbols of a collective structure

Borrowing from the language of banknotes, we used guilloché patterns to communicate trust and as an expression of collective ownership. We developed a set of programmatically-generated ornaments with interwoven curves and brought them to life with subtle animation to make them current.

Team headshots with intricate engraved pattern effect.

A contemporary language of trust

The visual identity is rooted in the graphic heritage of finance, but reworked for the future. The headings are set in a serif typeface that reinterprets traditional forms through a brutalist sensibility. Photos are treated with a contemporary reinterpretation of intaglio engraving. Buttons and containers have scooped corners. And all this is presented in a palette that combines the salmon pink of the financial papers with vivid RGB blue.

Annual report book with blue fabric cover.Blue and purple business card stacks with intricate patternsSocial media mockup with vivid blue backgrounds